Perfection Quotes

Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.

So we strive for perfection in the areas in which we can control, and that isn't necessarily what provides contentment and joy for ourselves and, more importantly, for our children.

God who is eternally complete, who directs the stars, who is the master of fates, who elevates man from his lowliness to Himself, who speaks from the cosmos to every single human soul, is the most brilliant manifestation of the goal of perfection.

Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven.

The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.

People often called us perfectionists, but we were not looking for perfection. We were looking for some kind of magic in the music.

Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.

My intention here is to make it clear that not a single cell of my composition, here in regard to The Raven, is found by chance or intuition, that the composition moved towards perfection with the precision and inevitability of a mathematical equation.

Not a having and a resting, but a growing and becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.

It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.

If you think you've already made it, that's when you can fall short and go backwards. I'm constantly pushing forward and chasing the element of perfection.

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.

There is a danger of changing too much in the search for perfection.

The Word of God well understood and religiously obeyed is the shortest route to spiritual perfection. And we must not select a few favorite passages to the exclusion of others. Nothing less than a whole Bible can make a whole Christian.

Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco.

I think what makes people fascinating is conflict, it's drama, it's the human condition. Nobody wants to watch perfection.

The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.

When you're passionate about something, you want it to be all it can be. But in the endgame of life, I fundamentally believe the key to happiness is letting go of that idea of perfection.

Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason - the law which is perfection of reason.

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

I don't believe in perfection. I don't think there is such a thing. But the energy of wanting things to be great is a perfectionist energy.

However, the fact that the tanks had now been raised to such a pitch of technical perfection that they could cross our undamaged trenches and obstacles did not fail to have a marked effect on our troops.

The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.

Human nature must have come much nearer perfection than it is now, or will be in many generations, to exclude from such a control prejudice, selfishness, ambition, and injustice.

To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.

For love is a willful stirring of our thoughts unto God, so that it receive nothing that is against the love of Jesus Christ, and therewith that it be lasting in sweetness of devotion; and that is the perfection of this life.

A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.

In a few decades of reconstruction, even the mathematical natural sciences, the ancient archetypes of theoretical perfection, have changed habit completely!

Perfection itself is imperfection.

The pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement.