Perfection Sayings and Quotes
Being perfect is a lofty goal, and some would argue, an unattainable one. Everyone has a different opinion about what perfection looks like for them. Strive to be and achieve the best with the wise and insightful perfection quotes below.
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Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.
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Looking for perfection is the only way to motivate yourself.
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The pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement.
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If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.
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Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness.
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When you aim for perfection, you discover it's a moving target.
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The closest to perfection a person ever comes is when he fills out a job application form.
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Always live up to your standards—by lowering them, if necessary.
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It's not that perfection cannot be achieved. It's that it's so hard to stop there.
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I beat myself up every day, without so much as a scratch.
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To accomplish the perfect perfection, a little imperfection helps.
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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.
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Perfection is not just about control. It's also about letting go. Surprise yourself so you can surprise the audience.
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Perfection irritates as well as it attracts, in fiction as in life.
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Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.
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Perfection cannot be defined or seen; it can only be found in your heart.
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Perfection is a road, not a destination. Every time I live, I get an education.
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Perfectionism is not a quest for the best. It is a pursuit of the worst in ourselves, the part that tells us that nothing we do will ever be good enough ? that we should try again.
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To demand perfection is a sure way to be disappointed in everybody, for you will be bound to think ill of others.
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Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
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The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth.
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Instead of waiting for perfection, run with what you do, and fix it along the way...
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Perfection is boring. If a face doesn't have mistakes, it's nothing.
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If you chase perfection, you often catch excellence.
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Perfection doesn't exist in anyone. Striving for perfection in any part of our lives is a recipe for failure, since it can never be attained.
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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.
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Out of perfection nothing can be made. Every process involves breaking something up.
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Perfection is a trifle dull. It is not the least of life's ironies that this, which we all aim at, is better not quite achieved.
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Perfection consists not in doing extraordinary things, but in doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
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Perfect is determined in shortened measures of time, not over long periods of time or lifetimes. It would be unnatural.
