Perfection Quotes

A lot of teenagers today are influenced by the media’s depiction of perfection. I want readers to understand they don’t have to follow the unofficial laws society creates, to be liked by others.

~ Erica Sehyun Song

His only fault is that he has no fault.

~ Pliny

He is all fault who hath no fault at all. For who loves me must have a touch of earth.

~ Alfred

I came back to performing with a different attitude about performing and myself. I wasn't expecting perfection any more, just hoping for an occasional inspiration.

~ Neil Diamond

Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.

~ Thomas Carlyle

You're not looking for perfection in your partner. Perfection is all about the ego. With soulmate love, you know that true love is what happens when disappointment sets in - and you're willing to deal maturely with these disappointments.

~ Karen Salmansohn

There would be no need for love if perfection were possible. Love arises from our imperfection, from our being different and always in need of the forgiveness, encouragement and that missing half of ourselves that we are searching for, as the Greek myth tells us, in order to complete ourselves.

~ Eugene Kennedy

You are loved just for being who you are, just for existing. You don't have to do anything to earn it. Your shortcomings, your lack of self-esteem, physical perfection, or social and economic success - none of that matters. No one can take this love away from you, and it will always be here.

~ Ram Dass

Asian American success is often presented as something of a horror - robotic, unfeeling machines psychotically hellbent on excelling, products of abusive tiger parenting who care only about test scores and perfection, driven to succeed without even knowing why.

~ Jenny Zhang

The intuition of the moral sentiment is an insight of the perfection of the laws of the soul. These laws execute themselves. They are out of time, out of space, and not subject to circumstance.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Be intent upon the perfection of the present day.

~ William Law

The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.

~ Michelangelo

Every particular in nature, a leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time is related to the whole, and partakes of the perfection of the whole.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.

~ Adam Smith

Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

~ Robert South

To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin.

~ Thomas Aquinas

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

~ Henri-Frédéric Amiel

I strive for perfection, but I'm not perfect. But what I can say is my morals are totally different than any other 24-year-old rapper my age now. I look at life totally different. A whole other aspect. I have different views and morals on life in general. And opinions.

~ Asap Rocky

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.

~ Albert Einstein

We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness.

~ Pierre Corneille

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.

~ Debra Messing

If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.

~ Epictetus

Philosophy is a kind of journey, ever learning yet never arriving at the ideal perfection of truth.

~ Albert Pike

Learning to give up on perfection may be just about the most romantic move any of us could make.

~ Alain De Botton

In a time not distant, it will be possible to flash any image formed in thought on a screen and render it visible at any place desired. The perfection of this means of reading thought will create a revolution for the better in all our social relations.

~ Nikola Tesla

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

~ Voltaire

Perfection is the child of time.

~ Joseph Hall

Every woman is sexy in her own way. It is up to men to step up and make women feel like they are No. 1 on that list. There is no such thing as perfection.

~ Kendra Wilkinson

Perfection is impossible just strive to do your best.

~ Angela Watson

Anything salty and crunch is a world of perfection to me. Put chips in front of me, and I will eat to the bottom of the bag. Because I have the tendency to do this, I found these amazing Eden Brown Rice Chips. They're the perfect amount of salt and crunch, and there's nothing in them.

~ Tamara Taylor

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.

~ Maurice Ravel

The age we live in is a busy age in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection.

~ Jeremy Bentham

Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood.

~ Khalil Gibran

Like many people, most Libertarians feel empathy and sympathy for less fortunate people. But they know you can't have perfection in a world of limited resources.

~ Harry Browne

Whence it follows that God is absolutely perfect, since perfection is nothing but magnitude of positive reality, in the strict sense, setting aside the limits or bounds in things which are limited.

~ Gottfried Leibniz

Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.

~ Martha Graham

Successful design is not the achievement of perfection but the minimization and accommodation of imperfection.

~ Henry Petroski

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

~ Antoine De Saint-Exupéry

I've seen the majestic beauty of nature and the overwhelming perfection of it. To me, there's nothing closer to God than that.

~ Cote De Pablo

I don't love Photoshop; I like imperfection. It doesn't mean ugly. I love a girl with a gap between her teeth, versus perfect white veneers. Perfection is just... boring. Perfect is what's natural or real; that is beauty.

~ Marc Jacobs