Quotes About Perfection

I sort of locked into the idea that if I could be the perfect son to both of my parents, well maybe that would be enough to keep them together. And ultimately, obviously, it wasn't. Regardless of what I tried to do. That was a lesson about limitations.

The way I see it, an umpire must be perfect on the first day of the season and then get better every day.

I think social media is painting an unattainable picture of perfection.

Flawless' is an unattainable thing.

Perfection is an unattainable goal. It isn't going to be perfect. Just get words down on paper, and when you stumble to what you think is the end of the book, you will have hundreds of pages of words that came out of your head. It may not be perfect, but it looks like a book.

The deal is that I hold myself to an extremely high standard, and it's a standard that can never be... it's unattainable. But it drives me to be the very best in everything I do.

I do feel like, especially nowadays, we are inundated with the message that, 'Oh my God, you aren't making your own clothes? You didn't make your own bread? And you also don't have a career, and you don't look unbelievable, and you have 5 pounds on your frame? Where is your book that you haven't published yet?'

'Secretariat' was such a magnificent animal, unbelievably beautiful and powerful. It's always nice to see something that close to perfection, a reason to celebrate.

Writers don't always know what they mean - that's why they write. Their work stands in for them. On the page, the reader meets the authoritative, perfected self; in life, the writer is lumbered with the uncertain, imperfect one.

Book cover, 'Reefer Club' Totalitarianism is when people believe they can punish their way to perfection.

He is the half part of a blessed man, Left to be finished by such as she; And she a fair divided excellence, Whose fullness of perfection lies in him.

I used the Deep Cleansing Masque on my wedding day because I wanted everything - including my complexion - to be perfect!

What's happened to marriage? The wedding-industrial complex. Brides get swept up in this world of obsession - it has to be your perfect day.

The relationship was perfect, but I hated everything about the person I became.

I relax and cast aside all mental burdens, allowing God to express through me His perfect love, peace, and wisdom.

Wisdom is looking back at your life and realising that every single event, person, place and idea was part of the perfected experience you needed to build your dream. Not one was a mistake.

When wisdom reaches the acme of perfection, it will suppress the vicious instincts and injurious desires.

I could not accept from wisdom what love taught, woman is perfect.

Christ is the most perfect image of God, into which we are so renewed as to bear the image of God, in knowledge, purity, righteousness, and true holiness.

Everything that looks too perfect is too perfect to be perfect.

Wisdom is not a question of learning facts with the mind; it can only be acquired through perfection of living.

Time perfects all living beings as well as kills them; it alone is awake when all others are asleep. Time is insurmountable.

why can't we control our anger? because we love perfection. make a little room for imperfection in our lives.

You know one of the causes of modern despair is the fact that we have had proposed to us, from various quarters, an impossible perfection.