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Perfection Quotes

Perfection Definition  
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Strive for continuous improvement, instead of perfection.
Kim Collins

Style is the perfection of a point of view.
Richard Eberhart

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

Tech Jacket shares the same tone as Invincible, but the subject matter is very different. Where Invincible is about perfection, Tech Jacket is about flaws.
Robert Kirkman

That is what great athletes can do: they give us a model of striving for human perfection.
Armstrong Williams

That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
Marcus Fabius Quintilian

The absence of the heavy boot of Europe has preserved to these people the agile walk of the wild animal, while the general simplicity of their lives has given them many other points of physical perfection.
John Millington Synge

The age we live in is a busy age; in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection.
Jeremy Bentham

The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.
Eugene Delacroix

The attractive idea that we can now have a parliament of man with authority to control the conduct of nations by legislation or an international police force with power to enforce national conformity to rules of right conduct is a counsel of perfection.
Elihu Root

The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection.
David Herbert Lawrence

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

The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where there is perfection there is no story to tell.
Ben Okri

The goodness of a thing created is the perfection of its fitness for the use which it serves. Now that use is either particular or universal.
William Ames

The human race is intoxicated with narrow victories, for life is a string of them like pearls that hit the floor when the rope breaks, and roll away in perfection and anarchy.
Mark Helprin

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

The object of man's worship, whatever it be, will naturally be his standard of perfection. He clothes it with every attribute, belonging, in his view, to a perfect character; and this character he himself endeavors to attain.
Simon Greenleaf

The perfection in theater is that it's over the second it's done.
William Hurt

The perfection of art is to conceal art.
Marcus Fabius Quintilian

The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler

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