Quotes for Perfection

I'm constantly looking for perfection.

Yves Saint Laurent

The goodness of a thing created is the perfection of its fitness for the use which it serves. Now that use is either particular or universal.

William Ames

Everything is perfect in the universe – even your desire to improve it.

Wayne Dyer

Our erected wit maketh us to know what perfection is.

Philip Sidney

Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.

Ann Landers

My ambition is peace and perfection.

DeForest Kelley

Even I don't always come up to my own standards of perfection.

Paul Hollywood

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

Pierre Corneille

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

Jeremy Bentham

My mother's wonderful. To me she's perfection.

Michael Jackson

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.

Khalil Gibran

I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence I can reach for; perfection is God's business.

Michael J. Fox

By creating so many illusory images of physical perfection, whether on store aisles or storefront ads, magazine covers or TV shows, we speak more to the profit margins of companies than the self-esteem of today's girls.

Adora Svitak

Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.

Martha Graham

The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.

Arthur Koestler

Whence it follows that God is absolutely perfect, since perfection is nothing but magnitude of positive reality, in the strict sense, setting aside the limits or bounds in things which are limited.

Gottfried Leibniz

Every particular in nature, a leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time is related to the whole, and partakes of the perfection of the whole.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.

Colin Powell

Pursuit of perfection is futile. Instead, I prioritize and often realize goals or tasks I've been aiming for just aren't that important.

Aisha Tyler

It's the quest for perfection that makes athletes great.

Karch Kiraly