Perfection Quotes

San Francisco is a mad city - inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are of a remarkable beauty.
Rudyard Kipling

A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.

Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
Bette Davis

A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.

Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.

I like thinking big. If you're going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big.
Donald Trump

It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.

I am incredibly happy. I may well be the luckiest man alive. To be so in love with someone who is so perfect for me. It's just hard to imagine that I'm not going to wake up.
Kenny Chesney

It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.

The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.
John Dewey

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.
Marie Curie

Failure happens all the time. It happens every day in practice. What makes you better is how you react to it.

We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.
Tom Robbins

To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.

There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making any excuses, that's the day you start to the top.
O. J. Simpson

Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem - in my opinion - to characterize our age.

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know.

Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.

Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance.

It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people's lives.
Clint Eastwood

We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.
Richard P. Feynman

All religions must be tolerated... for every man must get to heaven in his own way.

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

I can trust my friends These people force me to examine myself, encourage me to grow.
Cher

He whom the gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.
Titus

Americans are not a perfect people, but we are called to a perfect mission.

I'm on the patch right now. Where it releases small dosages of approval until I no longer crave it, and then I'm gonna rip it off.
Ellen DeGeneres

The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything.
Maria Montessori

It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.
Rainer Maria Rilke

Tell me I'm clever, Tell me I'm kind, Tell me I'm talented, Tell me I'm cute, Tell me I'm sensitive, Graceful and wise, Tell me I'm perfect - But tell me the truth.
Shel Silverstein

No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.
James Allen

Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.
John Donne

Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.
Colin Powell

True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

There is a trade off - as you grow older you gain wisdom but you lose spontaneity.
Kenny Rogers

The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults.

Don't call me a saint. I don't want to be dismissed so easily.

A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.

In the beginning I used to make one terrible play a game. Then I got so I'd make one a week and finally I'd pull a bad one about once a month. Now, I'm trying to keep it down to one a season.
Lou Gehrig

The thing about kids is that they express emotion. They don't hold back. If they want to cry, they cry, and if they are in a good mood, they're in a good mood.
Eddie Murphy

If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want to grow up to be like you.
Ray Bradbury

The universe is an intelligence test.
Timothy Leary

All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.

I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.
Abigail Adams

Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
Martha Graham

Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.