Perfection Quotes - Page 11

Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable.

Let the soul who is desirous of advancing in perfection hasten to My Sacred Heart.

Perfectionism, no less than isolationism or imperialism or power politics, may obstruct the paths to international peace. Let us not forget that the retreat to isolationism a quarter of a century ago was started not by a direct attack against international cooperation but against the alleged imperfections of the peace.

Be intent upon the perfection of the present day.

Perfection is unattainable, so I like to live in imperfection.

I'm on my way to a place where I'd never dreamed I'd be, and that's perfection.

Practice makes perfect, but nobody's perfect, so why practice?

Perfectionism is not a quest for the best. It is a pursuit of the worst in ourselves, the part that tells us that nothing we do will ever be good enough - that we should try again.

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.

[...] allowing only ordinary ability and opportunity, we may explain success mainly by one word and that word is WORK! WORK!! WORK!!! WORK!!!! Not transient and fitful effort, but patient, enduring, honest, unremitting and indefatigable work into which the whole heart is put[...] There is no royal road to perfection.

If you're going to go through hell... I suggest you come back learning something.

Everyone should be sacked at least once in their career because perfection doesn't exist. It's important to have setbacks, because that is the reality of life.

In my eyes, perfection is imperfection

Now nature is not at variance with art, nor art with nature; they being both the servants of his providence. Art is the perfection of nature. Were the world now as it was the sixth day, there were yet a chaos. Nat, are unconscious of the harmony of creation.

Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult.

I'm obsessed with perfection. I want to work. I don't want to stop. I want to take advantage and make myself the best possible me that I can be.

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

Nothing is invented and brought to perfection all at once.

The renowned seventh-century Zen master Seng-tsan taught that true freedom is being "without anxiety about imperfection.

There’s a lot of work being done today that doesn’t have any soul in it. The technique may be the utmost perfection, yet it is lifeless. It doesn’t have a soul. I hope my furniture has a soul to it.

Perfection is impossibility but striving for perfection is not. Do the best you can. That is what counts.

To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.

Imperfections define perfection

Life calls not for perfection, but for completeness.

Order - Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.