Perfection Quotes

Perfection!
Almost everyone will like to attain perfection, but we all know how hard it is to be there. See what some wise people have said about perfection.

A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing.
Harriet Braiker

Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.
François Voltaire

No one is perfect… that’s why pencils have erasers.
Unknown

Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.
Eugene Delacroix

When you aim for perfection, you discover it’s a moving target.
Geoffrey F. Fisher

The most difficult part of attaining perfection is finding something to do for an encore.
Unknown

Perfectionism is slow death.
Hugh Prather

Nobody is perfect and I am nobody, so I am perfect.
Unknown

Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
Matthew Arnold

A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.
John Henry Newman

Actually, I can’t imagine anything more tedious than a perfect person, especially if it was someone who also demanded perfection from me.
Hugh Mackay

Complete and total perfection will come about only when we feel that our perfection is no perfections as long as the rest of humanity remains imperfect.
Sri Chinmoy

An artist’s only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else’s.
J. D. Salinger

Only in grammar can you be more than perfect.
William Safire

But democracy isn’t a state of perfection. It has to be improved, and that means constant vigilance.
Antonio Tabucchi

And in fact, I think the more we start to worship perfection the more soul leaks out of art.
Kathy Mattea

Gold cannot be pure, and people cannot be perfect.
Chinese Proverb

Falling short of perfection is a process that just never stops.
William Shawn

Golf is a search for perfection, for balance. It’s about meditation and concentration. You have to use hand and brain.
Celine Dion

Perfection cannot be defined or seen; it can only be found in your heart.
Kelly Millar

Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.
Salvador Dali

My mother’s wonderful. To me she’s perfection.
Michael Jackson

Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.
Thomas Carlyle

In films, the fact that you can always do a scene again takes a load off your mind, enabling you to strive for perfection, which I always wanted.
Jessie Matthews

I don’t believe in perfection. I don’t think there is such a thing. But the energy of wanting things to be great is a perfectionist energy.
Reese Witherspoon

It is absurd to look for perfection.
Camille Pissarro

My ambition is peace and perfection.
DeForest Kelley

Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull.
W. Somerset Maugham

Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.
Voltaire

Perfection is boring. If a face doesn’t have mistakes, it’s nothing.
Kevyn Aucoin

The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection.
David Herbert Lawrence

Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.
Owen Feltham

The age we live in is a busy age; in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection.
Jeremy Bentham

Perfection is perfectly simple; fouling things up requires true skill.
Douglas Horton

That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
Marcus Fabius Quintilian

Perfection is the child of time.
Joseph Hall

Strive for continuous improvement, instead of perfection.
Kim Collins

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
Aristotle

The pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement.
George Will

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.
Winston Churchill

The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.
Michelangelo

Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life.
Dr. David M. Burns

There is a danger of changing too much in the search for perfection.
Agnetha Faltskog

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

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

You know one of the causes of modern despair is the fact that we have had proposed to us, from various quarters, an impossible perfection.
Morris West

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.
Robert Schuller

The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde

March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life’s path.
Kahlil Gibran

The freedom to be your best means nothing unless you are willing to do your best.
Colin Powell