Quotes about Perfection

“Perfection is the child of time.”

“Striving to better, oft we mar what's well.”

“So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.”

“Have no fear of perfection-you'll never reach it.”

“The pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement.”

“No barber shaves so close but another finds his work.”

“Perfection is our goal, excellence will be tolerated.”

“The perfect normal person is rare in our civilization.”

“Perfection has one grave defect. It is apt to be dull.”

“All excellent things are as difficult as they are rare.”

“Perfecting is our destiny, but perfection never our lot.”

“When you aim for perfection, you discover it's a moving target.”

“Measure not by the scale of perfection the meager product of reality.”

“Perfection is perfectly simple; fouling things up requires true skill.”

“The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.”

“This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.”

“Everything is perfect in the universe -- even your desire to improve it.”

“The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth.”

“The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.”

“The only nice thing about being imperfect is the joy it brings to others.”

“Every time, all the time, I'm a perfectionist. I feel I should never lose.”

“Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.”

“Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null, dead perfection; no more.”

“No one ever approaches perfection except by stealth, and unknown to themselves.”

“If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do.”

“The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it is.”

“The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.”

“The closest to perfection a person ever comes is when he fills out a job application form.”

“We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness.”

“Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self-solitude is the enemy of well-being.”