To make one good action succeed another, is the perfection of goodness.
Ali ibn Abi Talib

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.
Michelangelo

Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.
Samuel McChord Crothers

Vegetarianism is a link to perfection and peace.
River Phoenix

We all suffer from the preoccupation that there exists... in the loved one, perfection.
Sidney Poitier

We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness.
Pierre Corneille

Well, you know, I mean, she was so wonderful, and she really played the role to perfection.
Julianne Moore

When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection.
Agnes Martin

When you're passionate about something, you want it to be all it can be. But in the endgame of life, I fundamentally believe the key to happiness is letting go of that idea of perfection.
Debra Messing

Whence it follows that God is absolutely perfect, since perfection is nothing but magnitude of positive reality, in the strict sense, setting aside the limits or bounds in things which are limited.
Gottfried Leibniz

With four perfectionists in the band, we have a hard time reaching perfection.
Adam Jones

Working mothers are just as likely to want to conform to a standard of perfection and just as likely to suffer from their failure to meet it as their stay-at-home counterparts.
Melinda M. Marshall

You know one of the causes of modern despair is the fact that we have had proposed to us, from various quarters, an impossible perfection.
Morris West