Quotes on Perfection

"Perfection cannot be defined or seen; it can only be found in your heart"
-Kelly Millar

"Vegetarianism is a link to perfection and peace"
-River Phoenix

"Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them"
-Owen Felltham

There are no secrets to success. Don't waste your time looking for them. Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty to those for whom you work, and persistence.
-Colin Powell

To arrive at perfection, a man should have very sincere friends or inveterate enemies; because he would be made sensible of his good or ill conduct, either by the censures of the one or the admonitions of the other.
-Diogenes

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

"Once you accept the fact that you're not perfect, then you develop some confidence"
~Rosalynn Carter


“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 quotes (British Statesman, Diplomat and Wit, 1694-1773)



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

Saint Augustine quotes (Ancient Roman Christian Theologian and Bishop of Hippo from 396 to 430. One of the Latin Fathers of the Church. 354-430)


The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing it exactly right.
-Edward Simmons

Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.
-William Ellery Channing


I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself.
-Mikhail Baryshnikov

Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives.
-William A. Foster

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-Aristotle


Perfection consists not in doing extraordinary things, but in doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
-Angelique Arnauld

“A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.”
Buddha quotes (Hindu Prince Gautama Siddharta, the founder of Buddhism, 563-483 B.C.)



“Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time”
Voltaire quotes (French Philosopher and Writer. One of the greatest of all French authors, 1694-1778)