Perfection Quotes, Sayings about being perfect

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The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
- Anonymous

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The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth.
- Anonymous

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The only nice thing about being imperfect is the joy it brings to others.
- Anonymous

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Perfection is the child of time.
- Anonymous

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It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.
- Anonymous

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True love does not come by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
- Anonymous

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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.
- Robert Schuller

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All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
- Anonymous

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The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
- Anonymous

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Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.
- Anonymous

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Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere.
- Anonymous

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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
- Anonymous

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Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
- Anonymous

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No one is perfect… that’s why pencils have erasers.
- Anonymous

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A designer knows he has achieved perfection, not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
- Anonymous

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No one becomes perfect, but some become great.
- Anonymous

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Everything is perfect in the universe –even your desire to improve it.
- Anonymous

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Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem-in my opinion-to characterize our age.
- Anonymous

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If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself.
- Anonymous

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Perfection is our goal, excellence will be tolerated.
- Anonymous

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No good work whatever can be perfect, and the demand for perfection is always a sign of a misunderstanding of the ends of art.
- Anonymous

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Striving to better, oft we mar what’s well.
- William Shakespeare

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No one becomes perfect, but some become great.
- Anonymous

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So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.
- Beatrice Potter Webb

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Be intent on the perfection of the present day.
- William Law

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Perfection is our goal, excellence will be tolerated.
- J. Yahl

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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
- Benedict Spinoza

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Trifles go to make perfection, And perfection is no trifle.
- Michaelangelo

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Everything is perfect in the universe, even your desire to improve it.
- Wayne W. Dyer

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The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth.
- Oscar Wilde

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The only nice thing about being imperfect is the joy it brings to others.
- Doug Larson

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A beautiful thing is never perfect.
- Proverb

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Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.
- William Ellery Channing

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Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null, dead perfection; no more.
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson

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The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it is.
- Dante

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Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.
- Eugene Delacroix

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I just try to be the best I can be and hope that is the best ever.would be unnatural.
- Tiger Woods

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I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself.
- Mikhail Baryshnikov

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Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing.
- Harriet Braiker

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The closest to perfection a person ever comes is when he fills out a job application form.
- Stanely J. Randall

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