Strive for progress, not perfection.

I never competed against athletes. I competed against perfection.

Perfection is a disease of a nation.

So, to detract from the perfection of creatures is to detract from the perfection of divine power

To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin

Now the maximum in any genus is the cause of all in that genus; as fire, which is the maximum heat, is the cause of all hot things. Therefore there must also be something which is to all beings the cause of their being, goodness, and every other perfection; and this we call God

Original sin is that thing about man which makes him capable of conceiving of his own perfection and incapable of achieving it.

It is necessary for the perfection of human society that there should be men who devote their lives to contemplation

And pictures of perfection, as you know, make me sick and wicked.

O Lord, self-renunciation is not the work of one day, nor children’s sport; yea, rather in this word is included all perfection

Men shouldn’t try too hard, or think about what they wear too much. I like when there’s something about a look that throws it off a little – perfection is really imperfect.

Our lack of perfection should remind us that no one has the right to judge other’s worth

When I came into Test cricket, I was good but not as good as I am now.

When It Comes To The Perfection Of My Shit I Know You Smell The RECTUM

I am not a perfectionist, but still I seek perfection. I am not a great romantic, but yet I yearn for affection.

Turn around, Piglet. Step lightly, Pooh. This silly ol’ dance is perfect for two.

Humble people can do great things with uncommon perfection because they are no longer concerned about their own interests and their own reputation, and therefore they no longer need to waste their efforts in defending them

If you’re always aiming for perfection, you won’t make anything at all.

I’d rather have quality over quantity. It’s about perfecting each song and making sure it’s what you want to do. And then even with what I share it’s all very strategic.

Perfection is the natural consequence of eternity: wait long enough, and anything will realize its potential. Coal becomes diamonds, sand becomes pearls, apes become men. It’s simply not given to us, in one lifetime, to see those consummations, and so every failure becomes a reminder of death.

In any profession, you should think positively. That’s the driver of your mind. If your mind is really thinking positive then you are on the right track. ‘Pleasure in what you’re doing puts perfection in your work.

Before modern times there was Walking, but not the perfection of Walking, because there was no tea.

Don’t wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

I am not a perfectionist, but I like to feel that things are done well. More important than that, I feel an endless need to learn, to improve, to evolve, not only to please the coach and the fans, but also to feel satisfied with myself. It is my conviction that here are no limits to learning, and that it can never stop, no matter what our age.

None of us will become perfect in a day or a month or a year. We will not accomplish it in a lifetime, but we can begin now, starting with our more obvious weaknesses and gradually converting them into strengths.

If perfection is stagnation, then Heaven is a swamp.

Numbers are limits, and perfection doesn’t have limits.

I’m not perfect but I’ll be the creator of perfection.

This world of ours was not created to be the testing ground for the perfection of weapons to wipe us out .

I pay for perfection, not accidents and mistakes.

Perhaps the crescent moon smiles in doubt at being told that it is a fragment awaiting perfection.

The secret is to make sure the business is running to perfection, with or without me.

Not hammer-strokes, but dance of the water, sings the pebbles into perfection.

When you cook under pressure, you trade perfection.

People don’t have ideas. Ideas have people.

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.

We will develop and cultivate the liberation of mind by lovingkindness, make it our vehicle, make it our basis, stabilize it, exercise ourselves in it, and fully perfect it.

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.

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

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

Nobody wants to watch perfection.

Perfection is like chasing the horizon. Keep moving.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work

Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty—a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal to any part of our weaker nature, without the gorgeous trappings of painting or music, yet sublimely pure, and capable of a stern perfection such as only the greatest art can show.

An extra-terrestrial philosopher, who had watched a single youth up to the age of twenty-one and had never come across any other human being, might conclude that it is the nature of human beings to grow continually taller and wiser in an indefinite progress towards perfection; and this generalization would be just as well founded as the generalization which evolutionists base upon the previous history of this planet.

Perfection does not exist — you can always do better and you can always grow.

By reality and perfection I mean the same thing.

Reality and perfection are synonymous.

Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.

A poet knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

There is always something taboo, something repressed, un-admitted, or just glimpsed quickly out of the corner of one’s eye because a direct look is too unsettling. Taboos lie within taboos, like the skin of an onion.

If you look for perfection, you will never be satisfied.

If you look for perfection, you’ll never be content.

You stand your ground and you perform your art. That’s what the artist does. The artist is about perfection.

I’m addicted to perfection. Problem with my life is I was always also addicted to chaos. Perfect chaos.