Perfection Quotes

• Perfection is the child of time.
  
• Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
  
• The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
  
• Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere.
  
• Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare.
  
• The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth.
  
• All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
  
• 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.
  
• True love does not come by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
  
• Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem-in my opinion-to characterize our age.
  
• No one becomes perfect, but some become great.
  
• If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself.
  
• The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
  
• The only nice thing about being imperfect is the joy it brings to others.
  
• No one is perfect… that’s why pencils have erasers.
  
• A designer knows he has achieved perfection, not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
  
• Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.
  
• The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
  
• Assert your right to make a few mistakes. If people can’t accept your imperfections, that’s their fault.
  
• The principal mark of a genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
  
• Everything is perfect in the universe –even your desire to improve it.
  
• No good work whatever can be perfect, and the demand for perfection is always a sign of a misunderstanding of the ends of art.
  
• Perfection is our goal, excellence will be tolerated.
  
• A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.
  
• Perfect is determined in shortened measures of time, not over long periods of time or lifetimes. It would be unnatural.
  
• The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
  
• Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best.
  
• This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfection.
  
• Be intent on the perfection of the present day.
  
• The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it is.
  
• I don’t confuse greatness with perfection. To be great anyhow is…the higher achievement.
  
• All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
  
• Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.
  
• Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.