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Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Author: Antoine de Saint Exupery
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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.
Author: Joseph Addison
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Perfection consists not in doing extraordinary things, but in doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
Author: Angelique Arnauld
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If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself.
Author: Josh Billings
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Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.
Author: William Ellery Channing
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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.
Author: Lord Chesterfield
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The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it is.
Author: Dante
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Everything is perfect in the universe -- even your desire to improve it.
Author: Wayne Dyer
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You can spend a lifetime, and, if you're honest with yourself, never once was your work perfect.
Author: Charlton Heston
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The only nice thing about being imperfect is the joy it brings to others.
Author: Doug Larson
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Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only hope to find in their butlers.
Author: W. Somerset Maugham
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The closest to perfection a person ever comes is when he fills out a job application form.
Author: Stanely J. Randall
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Striving to better, oft we mar what's well.
Author: William Shakespeare
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No one becomes perfect, but some become great.
Author: Anonymous
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Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self-solitude is the enemy of well-being.
Author: John Updike
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So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.
Author: Beatrice Potter Webb
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The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth.
Author: Oscar Wilde
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Perfection is our goal, excellence will be tolerated.
Author: J. Yahl
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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.
Author: William Butler Yeats
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This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfection.
Author: St Augustine
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Trifles go to make perfection, And perfection is no trifle.
Author: Michaelangelo
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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.
Author: Dr David M Burns
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I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
Author: Michael J Fox
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Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing.
Author: Harriet Braiker
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This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.
Author: Saint Augustine
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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
Author: Benedict Spinoza
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Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.
Author: Michelangelo
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Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null, dead perfection; no more.
Author: Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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No good work whatever can be perfect, and the demand for perfection is always a sign of a misunderstanding of the ends of art.
Author: John Ruskin
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One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.
Author: Epictetus
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Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.
Author: Voltaire
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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.
Author: Samuel Johnson
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If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself.
Author: Josh Billings
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Perfect is determined in shortened measures of time, not over long periods of time or lifetimes. It would be unnatural.
Author: Paul Acquasanta
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