Top perfection Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of perfection quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Kiera Cass
I can’t help it." I sighed. "One can never help being born into perfection.
- Kiera Cass
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Image of Michelangelo
Perfection is no small thing, but it is made up of small things.
- Michelangelo
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Image of Benjamin Tucker
The Anarchists never have claimed that liberty will bring perfection; they simply say that its results are vastly preferable to those that follow authority.
- Benjamin Tucker
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Image of Nikki Sixx
Perfection is unattainable, so I like to live in imperfection.
- Nikki Sixx
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Image of Keith Urban
There's no soul in perfection.
- Keith Urban
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Image of John of the Cross
If you do not learn to deny yourself, you can make no progress in perfection.
- John of the Cross
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Image of Boyd Rice
Embrace nature's brutal perfection.
- Boyd Rice
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Image of Beatrix Potter
So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.
- Beatrix Potter
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Image of George Will
The pursuit of perfection prevents achievement of the satisfactory.
- George Will
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Image of L.E. Modesitt Jr.
Deities are invented by fallible and finite beings in the hope and desire to create immortal perfection; unfortunately, such deities only reflect their creators and inspire their followers to similar imperfections.
- L.E. Modesitt Jr.
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Image of Walter Pater
The way to perfection is through a series of disgusts
- Walter Pater
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Image of Allen Tate
Culture is the study of perfection, and the constant effort to achieve it.
- Allen Tate
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Image of Irenaeus of Lyons
But we do now receive a certain portion of His Spirit, tending towards perfection, and preparing us for incorruption, being little by little accustomed to receive and bear God
- Irenaeus of Lyons
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Image of Edna O'Brien
When something has been perfect, there is a tendency to try hard to repeat it.
- Edna O'Brien
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Image of Richard Baxter
This life was not intended to be the place of our perfection, but the preparation for it.
- Richard Baxter
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Image of Richard Connell
There is no greater bore than perfection.
- Richard Connell
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Image of Alfred de Musset
Perfection does not exist; to understand it is the triumph of human intelligence; to expect to possess it is the most dangerous kind of madness.
- Alfred de Musset
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Image of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
1-Don't analyze. 2-Don't complain. 3-Don't compare yourself to others. 4-Don't expect things to be done for you. 5-Don't expect perfection in the relative. 6-Look to the knowledge aspect daily. 7-Own the movement. 8-Problems are all in your head. 9-Hold yourself together.
- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
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Image of Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Perfection is attained, not when no more can be added, but when no more can be removed.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Image of Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Perfection is not when there is no more to add, but no more to take away.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Image of Mstislav Rostropovich
There is too much emphasis on technical perfection nowadays, and not enough on what music is actually about - irony, joy, human suffering, love.
- Mstislav Rostropovich
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Image of Baroness Orczy
I take it, sir, that you do not approve of our new society." "Approval, sir, in my opinion, demands the attainment of perfection. And in that sense, you rather overrate the charms of your society. I'faith, for one thing, it does seem monstrous ill-dressed for any society, even a new one.
- Baroness Orczy
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Image of Edith Schaeffer
In a fallen world, if you demand perfection or nothing, you will always get nothing.
- Edith Schaeffer
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Image of Tullian Tchividjian
The grace of God sets us free from a life of perfection, performing, and pretending.
- Tullian Tchividjian
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Image of Robert Schumann
The principal mark of genius is not perfection, but originality.
- Robert Schumann
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Image of Jerry Spinelli
Peace and harmony do not require perfection. Thank goodness for that—because life so often seems to be an itch here, a glitch there, a mess waiting to happen. Harmony is flexible. It bends with imperfection. So should you.
- Jerry Spinelli
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Image of Ed Parker
To live is to change, and to obtain perfection is to change often.
- Ed Parker
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Image of Laurence Olivier
Don't waste your time striving for perfection; instead, strive for excellence - doing your best.
- Laurence Olivier
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Image of Laurence Olivier
Striving for perfection is the greatest stopper there is. You'll be afraid you can't achieve it. It's your excuse to yourself for not doing anything. Instead, strive for excellence, doing your best.
- Laurence Olivier
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Image of Okakura Kakuzo
Perfection is everywhere if we only choose to recognise it.
- Okakura Kakuzo
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Image of Baird T. Spalding
The person seeing perfection is the Master.
- Baird T. Spalding
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Image of Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling
Has creation a final purpose at all, and if so why is it not attained immediately, why does perfection not exist from the very beginning?
- Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling
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Image of Benedict of Nursia
Whenever you begin any good work you should first of all make a most pressing appeal to Christ our Lord to bring it to perfection.
- Benedict of Nursia
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Image of John Calvin
Whoever is not satisfied with Christ alone, strives after something beyond absolute perfection.
- John Calvin
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Image of Carl Joachim Friedrich
The history of totalitarian regimes is reflected in the evolution and perfection of the instruments of terror and more especially the police.
- Carl Joachim Friedrich
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Image of Stephen Potter
Talk of the imperial decay of your invalid port. Its gracious withdrawal from perfection, keeping a hint of former majesty withal, as it hovers between oblivion and the divine Untergang of infinite recession.
- Stephen Potter
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Image of Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune
The whole mass of humanity . . . marches constantly, though slowly, toward greater perfection.
- Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune
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Image of J. Willard Marriott
Entrepreneurs are never satisfied. They want to do things better. They strive for perfection and use all the ingenuity to their command to achieve it.
- J. Willard Marriott
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Image of Nouman Ali Khan
Our religion doesn't demand perfection but instead a manageable strive to better ourselves.
- Nouman Ali Khan
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Image of Morton Feldman
The tragedy of music is that it begins with perfection.
- Morton Feldman
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Image of Margaret Oliphant
All perfection is melancholy.
- Margaret Oliphant
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Image of Helena Bonham Carter
Imperfection is underrated. Perfection is overrated.
- Helena Bonham Carter
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Image of Talisa Soto
Perfection does not exist. It's more important to be happy with the human being you are.
- Talisa Soto
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Image of Fernand Point
Perfection is lots of little things done well.
- Fernand Point
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Image of Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne
Why do we discover faults so much more readily than perfection.
- Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne
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Image of Giuseppe Verdi
I have striven for perfection, it has always eluded me, but I surely had an obligation to make one more try.
- Giuseppe Verdi
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Image of Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon
To rob God of nothing; to refuse Him nothing; to require of Him nothing; this is great perfection.
- Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon
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Image of Ed Bliss
The pursuit of excellence is gratifying and healthy. The pursuit of perfection is frustrating, neurotic, and a terrible waste of time.
- Ed Bliss
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Image of Ed Bliss
Perfection, fortunately, is not the only alternative to mediocrity. A more sensible alternative is excellence. Striving for excellence is stimulating and rewarding; striving for perfection--in practically anything--is both neurotic and futile.
- Ed Bliss
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Image of Bryan Kest
Everything is unfolding perfectly. As this perfection unfolds, I learn and grow and become all I'm becoming.
- Bryan Kest
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