Perfection is achieved, not when there
is nothing more to add, but when
there is nothing left to take away.
?Antoine de Saint Exupery
It is only imperfection that complains of what
is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle
and quiet we become towards the defects of others.
?Joseph Addison
Perfection consists not in doing extraordinary things,
but in doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
?Angelique Arnauld
If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world,
he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself.
?Josh Billings
Fix your eyes on perfection and you make
almost everything speed towards it.
?William Ellery Channing
Aim at perfection in everything,
though in most things it is unattainable.
However, they who aim at it, and persevere,
will come much nearer to it than those whose
laziness and despondency make them
give it up as unattainable.
?Lord Chesterfield
The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible
to good and bad treatment it is.
?Dante
Everything is perfect in the universe --
even your desire to improve it.
?Wayne Dyer
You can spend a lifetime, and,
if you're honest with yourself,
never once was your work perfect.
?Charlton Heston
The only nice thing about being imperfect
is the joy it brings to others.
?Doug Larson
Perfection is what American women expect
to find in their husbands... but English
women only hope to find in their butlers.
?W. Somerset Maugham
The closest to perfection a person ever comes
is when he fills out a job application form.
?Stanely J. Randall
Striving to better, oft we mar what's well.
?William Shakespeare
No one becomes perfect,
but some become great.
?Anonymous
Perfectionism is the enemy of
creation, as extreme self-solitude
is the enemy of well-being.
?John Updike
So much perfection argues
rottenness somewhere.
?Beatrice Potter Webb
The condition of perfection is idleness:
the aim of perfection is youth.
?Oscar Wilde
Perfection is our goal,
excellence will be tolerated.
?J. Yahl
The intellect of man is forced to choose
perfection of the life, or of the work, and if
it take the second must refuse a heavenly
mansion, raging in the dark.
?William Butler Yeats
This is the very perfection of a man,
to find out his own imperfection.
?St Augustine
Trifles go to make perfection,
And perfection is no trifle.
?Michaelangelo
Remember that fear always lurks behind
perfectionism. Confronting your fears and
allowing yourself the right to be human can,
paradoxically, make you a far happier
and more productive person.
?Dr David M Burns
I am careful not to confuse excellence with
perfection. Excellence, I can reach for;
perfection is God's business.
?Michael J Fox
Striving for excellence motivates you;
striving for perfection is demoralizing.
?Harriet Braiker
