Perfection Quotes

Chosen soul, how will you bring this about? What steps will you take to reach the high level to which God is calling you? The means of holiness and salvation are known to everybody, since they are found in the Gospel; the masters of the spiritual life have explained them; the Saints have practiced them...These means are: sincere humility, unceasing prayer, complete self-denial, abandonment to Divine Providence, and obedience to the will of God.

A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.

Perfectionism is almost an illness with me, but sometimes I have moments where everything is absolutely clear and you can feel, rather than think.

Our imperfections is what makes us perfect.

Perfection is for losers.

There are such beings in the World perhaps... Where Grace & Spirit are united to Worth, where the Manners are equal to the Heart & Understanding, but such a person may not come in your way, or if he does, he may not be the eldest son of a Man of Fortune, the Brother of your particular friend & belonging to your own Country.

I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.

The maxim ‘Nothing avails but perfection’ may be spelt shorter: ‘Paralysis.’

Have no fear for perfection. You'll never reach it.

Fame is a pearl many dive for and only a few bring up. Even when they do, it is not perfect, and they sigh for more, and lose better things in struggling for them.

Being a perfectionist doesn't offer you the amazing benefits of failure.

You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.

I don't confuse greatness with perfection. To be great anyhow is the higher achievement.

Perfection is attained by slow degrees; she requires the hand of time.

True love does not come by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.

A real girl isn't perfect; a perfect girl isn't real.

Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means you've decided to look beyond the imperfections.

Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means you've decided to look beyond the imperfections.

Perfection is like the speed of light. You go the distance, you put in the time. You may even come close, but it's never attainable.

A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.