best quotations about
Perfection |
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Quotations
 | To improve is to change, so to be perfect is to change often. — Winston Churchill, 1874-1965, British Prime Minister, Nobel 1953 10 likes |
 | Only in books has mankind known perfect truth, love and beauty. — George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950, Irish writer, Nobel 1925 7 likes |
 | Achieve some perfection yourself, so that you may not fall into sorrow by seeing the perfection in others. — Rumi, 1207-1273, Persian mystic & poet 7 likes |
 | Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence. — Vince Lombardi, 1913-1970, American football coach 6 likes |
 | Don't be afraid of perfection, you will never achieve it. — Salvador Dali, 1904-1989, Spanish painter 6 likes |
 | The height of perfection is mediocrity. — Pitigrilli (Dino Segre), 1893-1975, Italian writer 6 likes |
 | Perfection is the willingness to be imperfect. — Lao-Tzu, 6th cent. BC, Chinese philosopher 4 likes |
| The maxim “Nothing avails but perfection” may be spelt shorter: “Paralysis.” — Winston Churchill, 1874-1965, British Prime Minister, Nobel 1953 4 likes |
 | We adore perfection because we can't have it; it would disgust us if we had it. Perfect is inhuman, because human is imperfect. — Fernando Pessoa, 1888-1935, Portuguese poet & writer 4 likes |
 | It is impossible to design a system so perfect that no one needs to be good. — T. S. Eliot, 1888-1965, British poet, Nobel 1948 3 likes |
 | It seems that perfection is attained not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing more to remove. — Antoin de Saint-Exupéry, 1900-1940, French writer 3 likes |
 | The only nice thing about being imperfect is the joy it brings to others. — Doug Larson, 1926-2017, American columnist 3 likes |
 | As the thing more perfect is, the more it feels of pleasure and of pain. — Dante, 1265-1321, Italian poet 3 likes |
 | The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men. — George Eliot, 1819-1880, English writer 1 likes |
 | A work is perfectly finished only when nothing can be added to it and nothing taken away. — Joseph Joubert, 1754-1824, French author of maxims 1 likes |
 | And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good. — John Steinbeck, 1902-1968, American writer, Nobel 1962 1 likes |
 | Those who aim at faultless regularity will only produce mediocrity, and no one ever approaches perfection except by stealth, and unknown to themselves. — William Hazlitt , 1778-1830, English essayist & critic 1 likes |
 | Perfection can be achieved only through devotion, for devotion is the basis of all success. — Chanakya, 370-280 π.X., Indian teacher & philosopher 1 likes |
 | A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security. — Henry Kissinger, 1923-2023, American politician 1 likes |
 | You want to know how to paint a perfect painting? It's easy. Make yourself perfect and then just paint naturally. — Robert M. Pirsig, 1928-2017, American writer 1 likes |
 | Only gods can safely risk perfection ... it's a dangerous thing for a man. — Frank Herbert, 1920-1986, American sci-fi writer 1 likes |
 | There is no perfection, only life. — Milan Kundera, 1929-2023, Czech writer 1 likes |
 | I call “crystallization” that action of the mind that discovers fresh perfections in its beloved at every turn of events. — Stendhal, 1783-1842, French writer 1 likes |
 | Details make perfection, and perfection is not a detail. — Leonardo da Vinci, 1452-1519, Italian polymath & painter 1 likes |
Funny Quotes
 | In school they told me “Practice makes perfect.” And then they told me “Nobody's perfect,” so then I stopped practicing. — Steven Wright, 1955-, American comedian 6 likes |
 | If the world were perfect, it wouldn’t be. — Yogi Berra, 1925-2015, American baseball player & humorist 3 likes |
Ancient Greek
 | Three things support the perfection of a man: character, learning and practice. Εις τελειότητα του ανθρώπου τρία δει συνδράμειν: φύσιν, μάθησιν και άσκησιν. — Plato, 427-347 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 11 likes |
Proverbs
 | Nobody is perfect. 5 likes |
