PERFECTION

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(935 votes)  Striving to better, oft we mar what's well.

William Shakespeare
1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

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(840 votes)  The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(677 votes)  It is no crime not to be perfect

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(672 votes)  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
1900-1944, French Aviator, Writer

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(670 votes)  Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere.

Thomas Carlyle
1795-1881, Scottish Philosopher, Author

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(664 votes)  The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret.

Henri Frederic Amiel
1821-1881, Swiss Philosopher, Poet, Critic

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(630 votes)  This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.

St. Augustine
354-430, Numidian-born Bishop of Hippo, Theologian

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(622 votes)  Perfection consists not in doing extraordinary things, but in doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Angelique Arnauld

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(621 votes)  The nearest to perfection that most people come is when filling out an employment application.

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(618 votes)  All excellent things are as difficult as they are rare.

Baruch (Benedict de) Spinoza
1632-1677, Dutch Philosopher and Theologian

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(616 votes)  Even perfect people use pencils with erasers.

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(610 votes)  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.

Joseph Addison
1672-1719, British Essayist, Poet, Statesman

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(604 votes)  No one becomes perfect, but some become great.

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(581 votes)  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.

W. Somerset Maugham
1874-1965, British Novelist, Playwright

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(550 votes)  Be ye therefore perfect, eve as your Father who is in heaven is perfect.

Bible
Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism

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(550 votes)  The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection, that one is sometimes willing to commit sins for the sake of loyalty, that one does not push asceticism to the point where it makes friendly intercourse impossible, and that one is prepared in the end to be defeated and broken up by life, which is the inevitable price of fastening one's love upon other human individuals.

George Orwell
1903-1950, British Author, ''Animal Farm''

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(549 votes)  Every time, all the time, I'm a perfectionist. I feel I should never lose.

Chris Evert
1954-, American Tennis Player

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(543 votes)  The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it is.

Dante (Alighieri)
1265-1321, Italian Philosopher, Poet

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(539 votes)  The intellect of man is forced to choose perfection of the life, or of the work, and if it take the second must refuse a heavenly mansion, raging in the dark.

William Butler Yeats
1865-1939, Irish Poet, Playwright.

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(532 votes)  Measure not by the scale of perfection the meager product of reality.

Johann Friedrich Von Schiller
1759-1805, German Dramatist, Poet, Historian

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(520 votes)  The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.

George Eliot
1819-1880, British Novelist

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(516 votes)  Have no fear of perfection-you'll never reach it.

Salvador Dali
1904-1989, Spanish Painter

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(515 votes)  If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do.

George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(509 votes)  Perfection is perfectly simple; fouling things up requires true skill.

Doug Horton

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(509 votes)  American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers.

W. Somerset Maugham
1874-1965, British Novelist, Playwright

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(501 votes)  Nothing would be done at all if one waited until one could do it so well that no one could find fault with it.

Cardinal J. Newman
1801-1890, British Preacher

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(498 votes)  Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self-solitude is the enemy of well-being.

John Updike
1932-, American Novelist, Critic

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(497 votes)  The only nice thing about being imperfect is the joy it brings to others.

Doug Larson

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(494 votes)  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
1694-1773, British Statesman, Author

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(493 votes)  The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection --even though nothing more than the pounding of an old piano --is what alone gives a meaning to our life on this unavailing star.

Logan Pearsall Smith
1865-1946, Anglo-American Essayist, Aphorist

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(491 votes)  The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.

EugFne Delacroix
1798-1863, French Artist

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(490 votes)  No one ever approaches perfection except by stealth, and unknown to themselves.

William Hazlitt
1778-1830, British Essayist

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(490 votes)  Perfection is our goal, excellence will be tolerated.

J. Yahl

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(489 votes)  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.

Edgar Allan Poe
1809-1845, American Poet, Critic, short-story Writer

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(487 votes)  Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.

William Ellery Channing
1780-1842, American Unitarian Minister, Author

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(484 votes)  Perfection is the child of time.

Joseph Hall
1574-1656, British Clergyman, Writer

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(482 votes)  So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.

Beatrice Potter Webb

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(478 votes)  Perfecting is our destiny, but perfection never our lot.

C. J. Weber

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(476 votes)  We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness.

Pierre Corneille
1606-1684, French Dramatist

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(472 votes)  Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only hope to find in their butlers.

W. Somerset Maugham
1874-1965, British Novelist, Playwright

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(471 votes)  The closest to perfection a person ever comes is when he fills out a job application form.

Stanely J. Randall

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(470 votes)  One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.

Epictetus
50-120, Stoic Philosopher

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(469 votes)  Perfect works are rare, because they must be produced at the happy moment when taste and genius unite; and this rare conjuncture, like that of certain planets, appears to occur only after the revolution of several cycles, and only lasts for an instant.

Vicomte De Chateaubriand
1768-1848, French Politician, Writer

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(469 votes)  The pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement.

George F. Will
1941-, American Political Columnist

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(468 votes)  No barber shaves so close but another finds his work.

English Proverb
Sayings of British Origin

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(462 votes)  The perfect normal person is rare in our civilization.

Karen Horney
1885-1952, American Psychiatrist

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(461 votes)  Everything is perfect in the universe -- even your desire to improve it.

Wayne Dyer
1940-, American Psychotherapist, Author, Lecturer

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(460 votes)  You can spend a lifetime, and, if you're honest with yourself, never once was your work perfect.

Charlton Heston
American actor

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(458 votes)  When you aim for perfection, you discover it's a moving target.

Geoffrey F. Fisher
1887-1972, British Archbishop of Canterbury

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(443 votes)  It's the little imperfections that make each of us perfect.

Brandon Schitka

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