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Quotes About Perfection

A sculptor can tap-tap-tap all day and night, he often said, and remain lazy.
~ Donald Hall
Every snowflake is unique, yet they are each perfect.
~ Donald L. Hicks
Some trees grow straight, while others grow gnarled and twisted. Yet none are imperfect. Perfection is merely a perception.
~ Donald L. Hicks
The great accomplishment of Jobs's life is how effectively he put his idiosyncrasies - his petulance, his narcissism, and his rudeness - in the service of perfection.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
When you look back on your life, it looks as though it were a plot, but when you are into it, it's a mess: just one surprise after another. Then, later, you see it was perfect.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Every video I'm in, every magazine cover, they stretch you; they make you perfect. It's not real life.
~ Lady Gaga
When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection.
~ Agnes Martin
The rule of life for a perfect person is to be in the image and likeness of God.
~ Clement of Alexandria
If I wait until I become perfect before I love myself, I will waste my whole life. I am already perfect right here and right now. I am perfect exactly as I am.
~ Louise Hay
I have a belief that life isn't about balance, because balance is perfection Rather, it's about catching the ball before it hits the floor.
~ Carol Bartz
Your life within God's arms, Your dance within God's arms, Is already Perfect!
~ Hafez
The perfect borscht is what life should be but never is.
~ Aleksandar Hemon
Nobody has a perfect life. What you see on the screen is the best of the artist.
~ Rene Angelil
Be intent upon the perfection of the present day.
~ William Law
Art is a criticism of society and life, and I believe that if life became perfect, art would be meaningless and cease to exist.
~ Naguib Mahfouz
A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.
~ Albert Einstein
The perfect blossom is a rare thing. You could spend your life looking for one and it would not be a wasted life.
~ Ken Watanabe
Remember that, however patient your study, you will never in adult life learn any language perfectly; the best you can hope for is to be a bore.
~ Evelyn Waugh
Let no one be like another, yet everyone like the highest. How is this done? Be each one perfect in himself.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Throughout your life advance daily, becoming more skilful than yesterday, more skilful than today. This is never-ending.
~ Nabeshima Naoshige
Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up because you will lose the ability to learn new things. Move forward with your life.
~ Unknown
Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
~ Walter Scott
Nine lives added to my one life makes a perfect 10.
~ Susy Clemens
The life of a Christian is nothing but a perpetual struggle against self; there is no flowering of the soul to the beauty of its perfection except at the price of pain.
~ Pio of Pietrelcina