My ambition is peace and perfection.
DeForest Kelley

My intention here is to make it clear that not a single cell of my composition, here in regard to The Raven, is found by chance or intuition, that the composition moved towards perfection with the precision and inevitability of a mathematical equation.
Maurice Ravel

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

Nature is a collective idea, and, though its essence exist in each individual of the species, can never in its perfection inhabit a single object.
Henry Fuseli

No one ever approaches perfection except by stealth, and unknown to themselves.
William Hazlitt

Not a having and a resting, but a growing and becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.
Matthew Arnold

Nothing like being visible, publishing one's work, and speaking openly about one's life, to disabuse the world of the illusion of one's perfection and purity.
Joyce Maynard

Original sin is that thing about man which makes him capable of conceiving of his own perfection and incapable of achieving it.
Reinhold Niebuhr

Our erected wit maketh us to know what perfection is.
Philip Sidney

People often called us perfectionists, but we were not looking for perfection. We were looking for some kind of magic in the music.
Paul Simon

People throw away what they could have by insisting on perfection, which they cannot have, and looking for it where they will never find it.
Edith Schaeffer

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

Perfection does not consist in any singular state or condition of life, or in any particular set of duties, but in holy and religious conduct of ourselves in every state of Life.
William Law

Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull.
W. Somerset Maugham

Perfection has to do with the end product, but excellence has to do with the process.
Jerry Moran

Perfection irritates as well as it attracts, in fiction as in life.
Louis Auchincloss

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

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Perfection is an unattainable goal. It isn't going to be perfect. Just get words down on paper, and when you stumble to what you think is the end of the book, you will have hundreds of pages of words that came out of your head. It may not be perfect, but it looks like a book.
Laurell K. Hamilton

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