Perfection Quotes - Page 43

Don't imagine that your perfection lies in accumulating or possessing external things. Your affection is inside of you.

Would you be in any way offended if I said that you seem to me to be in every way the visible personification of absolute perfection?

The very pink of perfection.

To talk about the need for perfection in man is to talk about the need for another species.

Women of no beauty may yet be flattered to believe they possess some; others of a moderate share that they have a great deal; but those of elegance and charm generally know the perfection of their external graces so well, that they seem to covet that flattery most which heightens the opinion of their wit and judgment.

True perfection has to be imperfect. I know that sounds foolish, but it's true.

You will not dishonor the divine perfections by judgments unworthy of them, provided you never judge of Him by yourself, provided you do not ascribe to the Creator the imperfections and limitations of created beings.

Perfection is no more a requisite to art than to heroes.

It is very easy to accuse a government of imperfection, for all mortal things are full of it.

My mother's wonderful. To me she's perfection.

Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.

Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in an inward condition of the mind and spirit, not in an outward set of circumstances.

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

The secret to happiness, at Thanksgiving or any time, is to find pleasure in imperfection.

God has set the type of marriage through creation. Each creature seeks its perfection in another.

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring. When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I'm already better than them anyways.

All perfection is melancholy.

I see that there will be no end to imperfection, or to doing things the wrong way. Even if you grow up, no matter how hard you scrub, whatever you do, there will always be some other stain or spot on your face or stupid act, somebody frowning.

Nothing quite new is perfect.

Mathematics is an obscure field, an abstruse science, complicated and exact; yet so many have attained perfection in it that we might conclude almost anyone who seriously applied himself would achieve a measure of success.

Adopt the standard of perfection, because it is a perfect universe.

Perfection irritates as well as it attracts, in fiction as in life.

Demand perfection of yourself and you'll seldom attain it. Fear of making a mistake is the biggest single cause of making one. Relax - pursue excellence, not perfection.

Wearing a veneer of perfection never did me any good.

Utopias rest on the fallacy that perfection is a legitimate goal of human existence.