Famous Quotes & Sayings

Neale Donald Walsch

Do not confuse excellence with perfection. The first is possible to achieve, the second is probably not.

Milan Kundera

There is no perfection only life

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Perfection is worth striving for, even if it is ultimately unattainable in this life.

Joseph Addison

The soul, considered with its Creator, is like one of those mathematical lines that may draw nearer to another for all eternity without a possibility of touching it; and can there be a thought so transporting as to consider ourselves in these perpetual approaches to Him, who is not only the standard of perfection, but of happiness?

Joseph Addison

Charity is the perfection and ornament of religion.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Imagine for a moment that each one of us takes only a little more care for each hour of his days, that he demands in it a little more of elegance and intensity; then, multiplying all these minute pressures toward the perfecting and deepening of each life by all the others, calculate for yourselves the gigantic enrichment, the fabulous ennobling which this process would create for human society.

Jonny Wilkinson

I'm pretty aware that the pursuit of perfection is, inherently, a flawed concept.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We often feel that we lack something, and seem to see that very quality in someone else, promptly attributing all our own qualities to him too, and a kind of ideal contentment as well. And so the happy mortal is a model of complete perfection--which we have ourselves created.

Mahatma Gandhi

The Krishna of the Gita is perfection and right knowledge personified, but the picture is imaginary.

Epictetus

If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.

Emily Carr

Sometimes I could quit paint and take to charring. It must be fine to clean perfectly, to shine and polish and know that it could not be done better. In painting that never occurs.

Hermann Hesse

Each of us is merely one human being, merely an experiment, a way station. But each of us should be on the way toward perfection, should be striving to reach the center, not the periphery.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

You would attain to the divine perfection.

Henry James

Excellence does not require perfection.

Helena Bonham Carter

Imperfection is underrated. Perfection is overrated.

Jonathan Swift

Simplicity, without which no human performance can arrive at perfection.

Mason Cooley

Few things are worth doing perfectly.

Michael Gove

In this fallen world, I suspect we will never achieve perfection. But that won't stop me trying.

Mia Wasikowska

I used to love ballet and I did it really, really intensely. But it came so much about achieving physical perfection, which when I was 14 was a big deal.

Mencius

All things are complete within ourselves.

Martha Stewart

I'm a maniacal perfectionist.

Louise Erdrich

To love another another human in all of her splendor and imperfect perfection , it is a magnificent task...tremendous and foolish and human.

Emma Thompson

Film is so much to do with perfection and how differently you can feel about someone at the beginning of the film and the end of the film.

Emma Watson

I'm a perfectionist, so my bossiness definitely comes out.

John Galsworthy

The Forsytes were resentful of something, not individually, but as a family; this resentment expressed itself in an added perfection of raiment, an exuberance of family cordiality, an exaggeration of family importance, and the sniff. Danger so indispensable in bringing out the fundamental quality of any society, group, or individual was what the Forsytes scented; the premonition of danger put a burnish on their armour. For the first time, as a family, they appeared to have an instinct of being in contact, with some strange and unsafe thing.

John Milton

The end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him, as we may the nearest by possessing our souls of true virtue, which being united to the heavenly grace of faith makes up the highest perfection.

John Calipari

You want perfection, go to a bowling alley!

John Calvin

Whoever is not satisfied with Christ alone, strives after something beyond absolute perfection.

Garrison Keillor

Possessing the ideal makes a person nervous: you sense the inevitable decline just ahead.

Louise Hay

My body represents perfection. I am vibrantly healthy.

Lisa Gerrard

There's fatigue but also a deliberate desire to want to reach absolute perfection at every concert.

Lindsay Lohan

No one is perfect. It's not interesting to be perfect.

Leo Tolstoy

Happiness consists in always aspiring perfection, the pause in any level in perfection is the pause of happiness