Perfection Quotes

Education is the manifestation of perfection already existing in man.

Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear.

Man will ever remain imperfect, and it will always be his part to try to be perfect.

Everything that depends on the action of nature is by nature as good as it can be.

The way to achieve happiness is to try for perfection that is impossible to achieve, and spend the rest of your life trying to achieve it.

Life is an aspiration. Its mission is to strive after perfection, which is self-realization. The ideal must not be lowered because of our weaknesses or imperfections.

Every thing that grows / Holds in perfection but a little moment.

Beauty was not everything. Beauty had this penalty — it came too readily, came too completely. It stilled life — froze it.

Love is created and preserved by intellectual analysis, for we love only that which is unique, and it belongs to contemplation, not to action, for we would not change that which we love.

To be premature is to be perfect

I think the perfection of love is that it's not perfect.

Good, as it ripens, becomes continually more different not only from evil but from other good.

Let no one be like another, yet everyone like the highest. How is this done? Be each one perfect in himself.

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection, that one is sometimes willing to commit sins for the sake of loyalty, that one does not push asceticism to the point where it makes friendly intercourse impossible, and that one is prepared in the end to be defeated and broken up by life, which is the inevitable price of fastening one's love upon other human individuals.

How great is the path proper to the Sage! Like overflowing water, it sends forth and nourishes all things, and rises up to the height of heaven. All-complete is its greatness! It embraces the three hundred rules of ceremony, and the three thousand rules of demeanor. It waits for the proper man, and then it is trodden. Hence it is said, 'Only by perfect virtue can the perfect path, in all its courses, be made a fact.'

Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations. The only sin is limitation. As soon as you once come up with a man's limitations, it is all over with him.

Cease to be a disobedient child in the school of experience, and begin to learn, with humility and patience, the lessons that are set for your ultimate perfection.

I find it harder and harder every day to live up to my blue china.

We have to practice to become perfect.

It is the witness still of excellency to put a strange face on his own perfection.

We aim above the mark, to hit the mark. Every act hath some falsehood of exaggeration in it.

Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality.

O heaven! were man, But constant, he were perfect.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

The most complete seems lacking. Yet in use it is not exhausted.

There is nothing so annoying as a good example!!

No one can write perfect English and keep it up through a stretch of ten chapters. It has never been done.

No man is charming all of the time. Even Cary Grant is on record saying he wished he could be Cary Grant.

Children will still die unjustly even in a perfect society. Even by his greatest effort, man can only propose to diminish, arithmetically, the sufferings of the world.

If you would perfect your body, guard your mind.

Nothing quite new is perfect.

We will be relentless in our pursuit for perfection. We won't ever be perfect - but in the process we will achieve greatness.

True perfection is a bold quest to seek. Only the willing and true of heart will seek the betterment of many.

Relentlessly pursue perfection knowing we won't catch it, but in the process we'll achieve excellence.

Gentlemen, we are going to relentlessly chase perfection, knowing full well we will not catch it, because nothing is perfect. But we are going to relentlessly chase it, because in the process we will catch excellence. I am not remotely interested in just being good.

It's certain there is no fine thing Since Adam's fall but needs much laboring.

Take pains. Be perfect.

Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection.

I am a superior form of human and I have absolutely no quirks or irrational impulses of any kind.

We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which is the mean of many extremes.

The perfect square lacks corners.

Life calls not for perfection, but for completeness.

Matisse makes a drawing, then he makes a copy of it. He copies it five times, ten times, always clarifying the line. He’s convinced that the last, the most stripped down, is the best, the purest, the definitive one; and in fact, most of the time, it was the first. In drawing, nothing is better than the first attempt.

You must have a cigarette. A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?

There is no such thing as a perfect flawless attitude.

He is exactly the poem I wanted to write.

[Perfection] is only possible if the mind of man is changed, if he, of his own sweet will, changes his mind; and the great difficulty is, neither can he force his own mind.

It is nature that is driving us towards perfection, and eventually she will bring everyone there.

By his father he is English, by his mother he is Americanto my mind the blend which makes the perfect man.

There is nothing known as "Perfect". Its only those imperfections which we choose not to see!!

If a thing happens once, it can happen again. If any human being has ever realised perfection, we too can do so. If we cannot become perfect here and now, we never can in any state or heaven or condition we may imagine.

With respect to physical existence, one needs little, and to the degree that one needs less, the more perfect one is.

A friend of mine says that perfection is a road, not a destination.

This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.

Life is your deepest inner Being. It is already whole, complete, perfect.

But he had been in love once, that he knew. Once and only once, and a long time ago. And it had changed him forever. Perfect love did that to a person and this had been perfect.

Perfect love did that to a person, and this had been perfect.

The potentiality of perfection outweighs actual contradictions... Existence in itself is here to prove that it cannot be an evil.

It is not the perfect, but the imperfect, who have need of love.

One woman is fair, yet I am well; another is wise, yet I am well; another virtuous, yet I am well; but till all graces be in one woman, one woman shall not come in my grace.