Perfection Quotes

A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.
Albert Einstein

Problem, Confusion, Means

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.
Albert Einstein

Age, Confusion, Opinion

Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age.
Albert Einstein

Age, Confusion, Means

Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.
Ann Landers

Love, Friendship, Good

March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.
Khalil Gibran

Life, Fear, Forward

A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.
Mahatma Gandhi

Cannot, Moment, Compromise

Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.
Vince Lombardi

Excellence, Chase, Catch

Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood.
Khalil Gibran

Fear, Path, Blood

It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.
Oscar Wilde

Art, Through, Realise

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
Aristotle

Work, Job, Pleasure

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

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

Success, Work, Failure

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

Nothing, Away, Left

You'll see more and more perfection of that - computer as servant. But the next thing is going to be computer as a guide or agent.
Steve Jobs

Next, Computer, Servant

The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Enough, Admit, Insight

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.
Lord Chesterfield

Everything, Give, Laziness

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

Time, Hand, Slow

My mother's wonderful. To me she's perfection.
Michael Jackson

Mother, Wonderful, She

The Word of God well understood and religiously obeyed is the shortest route to spiritual perfection. And we must not select a few favorite passages to the exclusion of others. Nothing less than a whole Bible can make a whole Christian.
Aiden Wilson Tozer

God, Spiritual, Nothing

God who is eternally complete, who directs the stars, who is the master of fates, who elevates man from his lowliness to Himself, who speaks from the cosmos to every single human soul, is the most brilliant manifestation of the goal of perfection.
Alfred Adler

God, Human, Single

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

Nature, Human, Others

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
George Orwell

Human, Seek, Essence

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Perfection is the child of time.
Joseph Hall

The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.
Michelangelo

Work, Art, True

I'm chasing perfection.
Kobe Bryant

If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.
Epictetus

Peace, Happiness, Whatever

This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.
Saint Augustine

Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.
Thomas Carlyle

Humor, Genius, Poetic

Jonathan is that brilliant little fire that burns within us all, that lives only for those moments when we reach perfection.
Richard Bach

Fire, Lives, Within

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.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Down, Away, Body

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