perfection Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

43 perfection Quotes
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“The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth.”
Oscar Wilde Quotes
“Perfection is our goal, excellence will be tolerated.”
J. Yahl Quotes
“The intellect of man is forced to choose perfection of the life, or of the work, and if it take the second must refuse a heavenly mansion, raging in the dark.”
William Butler Yeats Quotes
“This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfection.”
St Augustine Quotes
“Trifles go to make perfection, And perfection is no trifle.”
Michaelangelo Quotes
“Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.”
Dr David M Burns Quotes
“I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.”
Michael J Fox Quotes
“Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing.”
Harriet Braiker Quotes
“This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.”
Saint Augustine Quotes
“All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.”
Benedict Spinoza Quotes
“Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.”
Michelangelo Quotes
“Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null, dead perfection; no more.”
Alfred, Lord Tennyson Quotes
“No good work whatever can be perfect, and the demand for perfection is always a sign of a misunderstanding of the ends of art.”
John Ruskin Quotes
“One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.”
Epictetus Quotes
“Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.”
Voltaire Quotes
“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 Quotes
“If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself.”
Josh Billings Quotes
“Perfect is determined in shortened measures of time, not over long periods of time or lifetimes. It would be unnatural.”
Paul Acquasanta Quotes