Perfection Quotes

It is important to understand where to draw a line between progress and perfection.

~ Abhishek Ratna

My life hasn't been perfect, yet I've never wasted my time envying anyone else. If something wasn't the best it could be - I made it better.

~ Aleatha Romig

Hey, you know I might not be perfect! But I'm a wonderful work in progress!

~ D.c. Akers

The baby was warm against my chest. I knew I was broken too. I wasn't like other people. I was scared and weird and anxious and sad lots of the time, and I didn't know why. My parents thought I was abnormal, I was pretty sure. They said I wasn't, but you don't get sent to a therapist if you're normal.Sometimes we really aren't supposed to be the way we are. It's not good for us. And people don't like it. You've got to change. You've got to try harder and do deep breathing and maybe one day take pills and learn tricks so you can pretend to be more like other people. Normal people. But maybe Vanessa was right, and all those other people were broken too in their own ways. Maybe we all spent too much time pretending we weren't.

~ Kenneth Oppel

Perfection is an opinion not a fact.

~ Julian Ross Quintero

The perfection of yoga, therefore, does not terminate in voidness or impersonalism; on the contrary, the perfection of yoga is attained when one actually sees the Personality of Godhead in His eternal form.

~ A.c. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda

You are perfect, right now, as you are. You are perfect, but incomplete. You are exactly who you had to be, to create the life you have right now, and there is absolutely nothing wrong with you or your life. But, if you want to be, do, or have, something different, you will need to change.

~ B. Dave Walters

Perfection of effort is not required, by the way. It is the consistency of attempting to work these tools that brings the progress. It’s like anything else. If I want to tone muscle, lifting a ten-pound weight a few times every day will move me toward my goal much quicker than hoisting a fifty-pound barbell once a week. Yes, it really is true: “Slow and steady wins the race.” Just try a little, every day. You’ll see.

~ Holly Mosier

Your treasure - your perfection - is within you already. But to claim it, you must leave the busy commotion of the mind and abandon the desires of the ego and enter into the silence of the heart. The kundalini shakti - the supreme energy of the divine - will take you there.

~ Elizabeth Gilbert

Nobody's perfect. We're all just one step up from the beasts and one step down from the angels.

~ Jeannette Walls

There isn't anything you can't make run a little better, a little faster, a little smoother, if you take the time to analyse it and component-split the processes.

~ Alex Scarrow

The idea of Christian perfection, which began in the ancient monasteries and spread to the world as an ideal, is one of the most appealing, demanding and ultimately hopeless notions of the spiritual life. By definition, only God is perfect—that is, complete and independent unto [God’s] self. Humans, on the other hand, are radically imperfect, and that, paradoxically, is welcome news, for the recognition of our incompleteness throws us on the mercy of God and enables us, as Saint Paul stressed, to put up with one another’s faults.

~ Donald Spoto

Don't be so hard on yourself, don't put pressure on yourself, life is just a chain of experiments and results, and you'll be perfect when you're dead.

~ Dan Harmon

If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.

~ Leo Tolstoy

I abhor the idea of a perfect world. It would bore me to tears.

~ Shelby Foote

Beauty and ingenuity beat perfection hands down, every time.

~ Nalo Hopkinson

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

~ Antoine De Saint-Exupéry

One minute was enough, Tyler said, A person had to work hard for it, but a minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.

~ Chuck Palahniuk

I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.

~ Michael J. Fox

Perfection is a promise, and a reassurance that we are not wrong.

~ Lauren Oliver

Love hard when there is love to be had. Because perfect guys don’t exist, but there’s always one guy that is perfect for you.

~ Bob Marley

It took a lot of work to be perfect. If you didn’t want to break a sweat, there was no point in even bothering.

~ Sarah Dessen

I hope, Cecily, I shall not offend you if I state quite frankly and openly that you seem to me to be in every way the visible personification of absolute perfection.

~ Oscar Wilde

Do it again.Play it again. Sing it again. Read it again. Write it again. Sketch it again. Rehearse it again. Run it again. Try it

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

In a cruel and imperfect world, she was living proof that God could still create perfection.

~ Rex Reed

If I can do things right, I don't see why everyone else can't.

~ Courtney Summers

There is still that singular perfection, and it's perfect in part because it seemed, at the time, so clearly to promise more.

~ Michael Cunningham

You say that I'm nobody, and you agree that nobody's perfect.Based on logic, I'm a perfect person according to your opinion.

~ Toba Beta

I’m not perfect. And I don’t have to be. I can figure it out as I go, and as long as I do the best I can, it’s okay if I still screw up.

~ Melissa Darnell

No person is completely wicked, just as no person is perfect. We are all grey

~ Sweety Shinde

So from now on, screw perfect. Forget for a while about what kind of person you want to be, and just be the best version of the person you are. Figure out which of your classmates you genuinely like (not who you want to like you), and get to know them by telling your own stories and listening to theirs. Hang out with the people you think are cool, not the people you'd like to be considered cool by. Do things because they interest you, not because they make you look interesting... and then, take stock in a month and see whether you're not happier, healthier, and working on some actual friendships with other imperfect-but-lovely humans.

~ Kat Rosenfield

Perfection is a stick with which to beat the possible.

~ Rebecca Solnit

We have all been expelled from the Garden, but the ones who suffer most in exile are those who are still permitted to dream of perfection.

~ Stanley Kunitz

Perfect was my only option.

~ Kiera Cass

This guy.This fucking guy.

~ Matt Fraction

Every person has lots of ingredients to make them what is always a one-in-a-kind creation. We are all imperfect genetic stews.

~ Holly Goldberg Sloan

Perfection’s unattainable but it isn’t unapproachable.

~ Peter Watts

I love my enemies for two reasons: they inspire me to recognise my weakness. They also inspire me to perfect my imperfect nature.

~ Sri Chinmoy

Sometimes I think evil is a tangible thing - with wave lengths, just as sound and light have.

~ Richard Connell

The eye always fills in the imperfections.

~ Rabih Alameddine