Quotes About Perfection

It's impossible to have zero defects.

You can't reach perfection unless you reach zero seconds - it's just the constant chase for perfection.

If I say I've got two versions of Word - that old one from 1982 that's perfect, with zero defects; or the new one that's got all this cool new stuff, but there might be a few bugs in it - people always want the new one. But I wouldn't want them to operate a plane I was on with software that happened to be the latest greatest release!

No one is perfect. Your ERA is not zero. You're not going to have 30 wins. And your batting average isn't going to be 1.000. So you don't have the right to verbally talk out about somebody. Look at yourself. Did you do everything you could do? Did you start your day off right? Are you perfect?

One of the things I found as a dancer is that you're trying to perfect your body but also protect it and keep it injury-free. When you work against your own weight, you're still building lean muscle and bone density, but you're in a safer zone.

The best is the enemy of the good.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

"Good enough never is" has become the motto of this company.

Competition is about passion for perfection, and passion for other people who join in this impossible quest.

God alone can finish.

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

Beauty - the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole.

To live is to change, and to be perfect is to change often.

Character is perfectly educated will.

The difference in men does not lie in the size of their hands, nor in the perfection of their bodies, but in this one sublime ability of concentration: to throw the weight with the blow, to live an eternity in an hour.

For mem'ry has painted this perfect day. With colors that never fade, And we find at the end of a perfect day, The soul of a friend we've made

Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.

There is a passion for perfection which you rarely see fully developed, but... in successful lives it is never wholly lacking.

A good marksman may miss.

The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.

Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.

Unless in one thing or another we are straining toward perfection, we have forfeited our manhood.

The world is more exacting than God himself.

If a man wants to be of the greatest possible value to his fellow-creatures, let him begin the long, solitary task of perfecting himself.