Perfection Quotes
These are some of the best 'Perfection' quotations and sayings.
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A finished person is a boring person.
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A good garden may have some weeds.
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A man cannot have an idea of perfection in another, which he was never sensible of in himself.
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A new idea is rarely born like Venus attended by graces. More commonly it's modeled of baling wire and acne. More commonly it wheezes and tips over.
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Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable.
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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.
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Among the other excellencies of man, this is one, that he can form the image of perfection much beyond what he has experience of in himself, and is not limited in his conception of wisdom and virtue.
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At times failure is very necessary for the artist. It reminds him that failure is not the ultimate disaster. And this reminder liberates him from the mean fussing of perfectionism.
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Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.
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Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null, dead perfection; no more.
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Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections, but instantly set about remedying them-every day begin the task anew.
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He is all fault who hath no fault at all. For who loves me must have a touch of earth.
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He is lifeless that is faultless.
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He who boasts of being perfect is perfect in folly. I never saw a perfect man. Every rose has its thorns, and every day its night. Even the sun shows spots, and the skies are darkened with clouds. And faults of some kind nestle in every bosom.
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I don't like a man to be too efficient. He's likely to be not human enough.
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If we pretend to have reached either perfection or satisfaction, we have degraded ourselves and our work. God's work only may express that, but ours may never have that sentence written upon it, "Behold it was very good."
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If you're looking for perfection, look in the mirror. If you find it there, expect it elsewhere.
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It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.
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It is the function of perfection to make one know one's imperfection.
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Nothing you write, if you hope to be any good, will ever come out as you first hoped.
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