perfection quotes

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You may never get to that perfect world that you’re waiting for where everything’s going to be perfect and you got that much money and your house paid off.

Joel Osteen

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

The intuition of the moral sentiment is an insight of the perfection of the laws of the soul. These laws execute themselves. They are out of time, out of space, and not subject to circumstance.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every video I’m in, every magazine cover, they stretch you; they make you perfect. It’s not real life.

Lady Gaga

We welcome the scrutiny of the world – because what you see in America is a country that has steadily worked to address our problems and make our union more perfect.

Barack Obama

The Bible tells us to be perfect. This is likely a scary thought for many people. It used to scare me. I didn’t think I could ever get there, no matter how hard I tried.

Joyce Meyer

It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists.

John Ruskin

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

Colin Powell

The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it.

Hunter S. Thompson

There’s no such thing as perfect writing, just like there’s no such thing as perfect despair.

Haruki Murakami

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

Winston Churchill

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

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

Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions.

John Ruskin

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

Wayne Dyer

I think the perfection of love is that it’s not perfect.

Taylor Swift

Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood.

Khalil Gibran

‚Perfection‘ to me is, I walk away from a situation and say, ‚I did everything I could do right there. There was nothing more that I could do.‘ I was a hundred percent, like the meter was at the top. There was nothing else I could have done. You know? Like, I worked as hard as I possibly could have. That’s perfection.

Drake

I’m a big believer than a great bit is a great bit – if I go and see someone I love, like Robert Klein. I want to hear some classics and some new stuff. But a great stand-up bit takes a long time to really polish and perfect, and they’re beautiful things when they’re done.

Jerry Seinfeld

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

Salvador Dali

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 never expect to see a perfect work from an imperfect man.

Alexander Hamilton

Men of lofty genius sometimes accomplish the most when they work least, for their minds are occupied with their ideas and the perfection of their conceptions, to which they afterwards give form.

Leonardo da Vinci

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

Thomas Carlyle

Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

Francis Bacon

Dancers are always striving for perfection. A great dancer never achieves it: you always want to do another turn, a higher jump,a more difficult acrobatic jump.

Abby Lee Miller

If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.

Epictetus

The world is not imperfect or slowly evolving along a path to perfection. No, it is perfect at every moment, every sin already carries grace in it.

Hermann Hesse

Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne’er was, nor is, nor e’er shall be.

Alexander Pope

In the ideal world, if I was perfect, I’d be able to beat every teammate that I have, in every race.

Lando Norris

Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.

Plato

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

Voltaire

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.

Albert Einstein

If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven.

Jesus Christ

It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.

Oscar Wilde