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Quotes About Perfection

The way to achieve happiness is to try for perfection that is impossible to achieve, and spend the rest of your life trying to achieve it.
~ Winston Churchill
Sometimes it felt as if all happiness came at a price. You could never, ever, have perfection. Life gave you beauty so you could bear the pain.
~ Ann Aguirre
I can imagine few worse fates than walking around for the rest of one's life wearing a typo.
~ Anne Fadiman
If you strive to be perfect in everything, whether it's possible or not, you will always live a more fulfilled life.
~ Behdad Sami
Most people I know feel that life would be complete if they could just lose ten pounds.
~ Betty Jane Wylie
Hence there must not only be something by virtue of which the thing you've drawn is triangular, but also something by virtue of which it is triangular in precisely the imperfect way that it is. There must also be something by virtue of which triangularity exists in this particular point in time and space.
~ Edward Feser
It was a perfect day For sowing.... Nothing undone Remained; the early seeds All safely sown. And now, hark at the rain, Windless and light, Half a kiss, half a tear, Saying good-night.
~ Edward Thomas
Like every good man, I strive for perfection, and, like every ordinary man, I have found that perfection is out of reach - but not the perfect suit.
~ Edward Tivnan
Pleasure in whatever subject shows the willingness and accuracy, not perfection since human is incapable of that.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
A tea bowl that has no imperfections is said to be lacking in beauty
~ Eiji Yoshikawa
Looking at him now, she saw a study in contrasts. Someone who was kind and loyal but who could also be stubborn and intractable; who was his own man but also your typical man from Mars; who was always there for her but who had a tendency to hold back when showing his own emotions; who was forgetful at times but who never forgot was was most important. In short, someone who wasn't perfect but perfect for her, because of rather than in spite of his flaws.
~ Eileen Goudge
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness.
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
We cannot in any better manner glorify the Lord and Creator of the universe than that in all things, how small soever they appear to our naked eyes, but which have yet received the gift of life and power of increase, we contemplate the display of his omnificence and perfections with the utmost admiration.
~ Anton van Leeuwenhoek
In a big family the first child is kind of like the first pancake. If it's not perfect, that's okay, there are a lot more coming along.
~ Antonin Scalia
Cuatro principios a tener en cuenta: Lo contrario es también frecuente. No basta mover para renovar. No basta renovar para mejorar. No hay nada que sea absolutamente empeorable
~ Antonio Machado
Sometimes even a richly deserving person can be also made to win just to prove the people in audience that everything is perfect in judgement in the programme controlled by monetarily rich.
~ Anuj Somany
God don't make no mistakes. That's how He got to be God.
~ Archie Bunker
Trying to be Supermom is as futile as trying to be Perfect Mom. Not going to happen.
~ Arianna Huffington
Man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all.
~ Aristotle
In proportion as labor is divided, arts are perfected.
~ Aristotle
Kings ought to differ from their subjects, not in kind, but in perfection.
~ Aristotle
Nature makes nothing incomplete, and nothing in vain.
~ Aristotle
The heart is the perfection of the whole organism. Therefore the principles of the power of perception and the soul's ability to nourish itself must lie in the heart.
~ Aristotle