Quotes About Perfection

Life is an aspiration. Its mission is to strive after perfection, which is self-realization. The ideal must not be lowered because of our weaknesses or imperfections.

Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life.

Gentlemen, we will chase perfection, and we will chase it relentlessly, knowing all the while we can never attain it. But along the way, we shall catch excellence.

You need not feel guilty about not being able to keep your life perfectly balanced. Juggling everything is too difficult. All you really need to do is catch it before it hits the floor.

Time ripens the substance of a life as the seasons mellow and perfect its fruits. The best apples fall latest and keep longest.

I wanted to let the world know that no one had a perfect life, that even the people who seemed to have it all had their secrets.

Your life is perfect, it is a perfect plan; it is a spontaneous miracle. It is both every moment.

Perfection is a trifle dull. It is not the least of life's ironies that this, which we all aim at, is better not quite achieved.

I don't want children. Why should I let some strange little monster into my life to destroy what to me is a perfect set-up?

Know that life, which does everything perfectly, is now moving you in a new direction. The chess piece of your existence is being moved to a new square on the board of life.

The concept of life and perfection is incompatible. BUT so is death and perfection

as you begin to eliminate your need for perfection in all areas of your life, you'll begin to discover the perfection in life itself

Don't waste your life waiting until everything is perfect before you start enjoying it.

If one's life depends on doing something right, as in the case of the tightrope walker, one will practice on a much deeper level.

Life may not be perfect, at least it offered moments that were perfect enough.

Maar, lieve mensen, u zult toch een beetje moeten denken, dat geeft een hele steun. Het is immers duidelijk dat de hele geschiedenis der mensheid voor zover wij die kennen, de geschiedenis is van de overgang van nomadische levensvormen naar een al meer gezeten levenswijze. Volgt daar niet uit dat de meest gezeten levenswijze (de onze) tevens de meest volmaakte (de onze) is?

The most important thing she'd learned over the years was that there was no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.

I've said for years — ever since I figured out how to write Goblin Hero — that it's important to give yourself permission to write crap. Perfection is the destroyer of art. It's paralyzing. Art, whether it's writing or painting or anything else, requires risk. And risk means you're going to make mistakes. Sometimes you're going to fail.

Golf without mistakes is like watching haircuts. A dinner without wine.

The 10's(2010) are a baby kangaroo, a bill overdue, a coal chute for staggering millions, a bowl of camphor punch, the fast-dissolving afterimages of a long night's exhausting dreams. Boys and girls, take off those space suits; the boot is lifted from your chest and you can safely resume the search for perfection.

There is no perfection in human things, only in the world of Forms.

The only fully ordered things are like, which are always perfect explanations.

Very good. Couldn't be better. We'll put some ginger in the good lady's gravy.

I don't want you to leap into another relationship without thinking. Looking for perfect is a big, fat myth because perfect isn't out there.