Quotes for Perfection

When you are in a sport, there is a plan to reach for perfection in a certain week in August and it gives you a focus in life and in everything you do around it.

Denise Lewis

I understand reform to mean the perfection of what previous generations have already done. I'm not an advocate of destroying, 'kroshat,' and then selling like they do in Russia. That's how we can prevent the wild corruption in our state like they have in the other post-Soviet states.

Alexander Lukashenko

Rajinikanth is a man of perfection and he knows what to give his audiences.

P. Vasu

It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.

Samuel Johnson

In our western civilization we have the glorious example, the great standard of perfection and the teachings of the Christ to guide us. He acts for us as Mediator between our personality and our Soul.

Edward Bach

A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.

Mahatma Gandhi

I'm trying to be more organized, put together, and be more kind to myself. I'm really hard on myself and really just self-critical and always striving for this perfection which doesn't exist.

Taylour Paige

I used to think everything had to be perfect, but now I know perfection doesn't exist - life comes with bumps and grazes.

Andrea McLean

The older we women grow, the more clearly we see what men really are: hypocrites, boasters, he-goats. The older men grow, the more they doll us up with every perfection.

Jean Giraudoux

Some people strive for perfection, but I often find perfection boring.

Mario Testino

People throw away what they could have by insisting on perfection, which they cannot have, and looking for it where they will never find it.

Edith Schaeffer

The thing with perfection is that it's never perfect.

A. J. Pritchard

Nothing like being visible, publishing one's work, and speaking openly about one's life, to disabuse the world of the illusion of one's perfection and purity.

Joyce Maynard

The world is becoming very black and white. People are striving for perfection where only the best is acceptable. If we continue down this road, then we will lose everything that is human.

Madeline Stuart