Quotes About Perfection

I myself am my only obstacle to perfection," wrote Kierkegaard.

We sainted St. Tammany (King Tamanend III) because he embodied moral perfection and every divine qualification that a deity could possess. I hold him in higher esteem than the saints of the Roman Catholic Church. He'll forever be the patron saint of America.

Even from the Cross, when Our Lord in His agony found the perfection of His Sacred Humanity—even then He did not own Himself a victim of injustice: They know not what they do.

RE: Lake George from a book by Lord. That's all I know. "There is something so perfect about the mountains and the lake and the trees.... sometimes I want to tear it all to pieces

The intellect of man is forced to choose Perfection of the life or of the work.

My sister says she never seems to get it together . . . either her rear looks good or her face does.

There never was such beauty in another man. Nature made him, and then broke the mould.

Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright.

To live each day as though one's last, never flustered, never apathetic, never attitudinizing-here is perfection of character.

Thanks for the nice introduction. Next to my resume, that's the closest I'll ever come to perfection.

Perfection does not exist. To understand this is the triumph of human intelligence; to expect to possess it is the most dangerous kind of madness.

So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.

He is lifeless that is faultless.

His only fault is that he has no fault.

A perfect poem is impossible. Once it has been written, the world would end.

It is the function of perfection to make one know one's imperfection.

All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection.

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

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

When everything has to be right, something isn't.

The maxim "Nothing avails but perfection" may be spelled "Paralysis."

Perfect order is the forerunner of perfect horror.

The more a human being feels himself a self, tries to intensify this self and reach a never-attainable perfection, the more drastically he steps out of the center of being.

When something has been perfect, there is a tendency to try hard to repeat it.