Perfection Quotes

• Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  President Robert Robbins' Installation Speech, president.arizona.edu. November 29, 2017.

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• THE BODY SHOULD be triangular, the mind circular. The triangle represents the generation of energy and is the most stable physical posture. The circle symbolizes serenity and perfection, the source of unlimited techniques. The square stands for solidity, the basis of applied control.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Circles, Squares, Serenity

  Morihei Ueshiba, John Stevens (2010). “The Art of Peace”, p.115, Shambhala Publications

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• Progressive improvement beats delayed perfection.

  Mark Twain

  Excellence, Improvement, Progressive

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  Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Expression, Perfect, Silence

  Back to Methuselah (1921) pt. 5

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  Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.

  Ann Landers

  Love, Friendship, Forgiveness

  Ann Landers (1978). “The Ann Landers encyclopedia, A to Z: improve your life emotionally, medically, sexually, socially, spiritually”, Galahad Books

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• 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

  Giving, Laziness, Unattainable

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Eugenia Stanhope (1827). “Letters Written by the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son”, p.185

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• The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Lying, Men

  "The Soul of Man Under Socialism" (1891)

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• Perfection consists not in doing extraordinary things, but in doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

  Marie Angelique Arnauld

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Ordinary Extraordinary

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• Done is better than perfect.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Perfect, Self Improvement, Done

  Sheryl Sandberg (2014). “Lean In for Graduates”, p.139, Knopf

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

  Voltaire

  Time, Hands, Goal

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• If you'll not settle for anything less than your best, you will be amazed at what you can accomplish in your lives.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Vince Lombardi (1998). “Seeing the Win: Why I Believe Vision Coaching is Vital to Winning Business Teams in the 21st Century”

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• Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Life, Motivational, Positive

  Robert H. Schuller (1996). “Your Positive Plan for Love and Happiness”, Bbs Publishing Corporation

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  Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.

  Salvador Dali

  Funny, Music, Sarcastic

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• The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.

  George Eliot

  Inspirational, Motivational, Work

  "Janet's Repentance". Story by George Eliot, Chapter 25. "Scenes of Clerical Life". Book by George Eliot, 1857.

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• If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Life, Perfect, Looks

  Leo Tolstoy, The Secret Libraries (2016). “Leo Tolstoy Quotes... Vol. 5: Motivational and Inspirational Life Quotes by Leo Tolstoy”

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

  William Hazlitt

  Stealth, Approach

  William Hazlitt (1839). “Sketches and Essays by W. H. Now first collected [and edited] by his son”, p.255

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• I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence I can reach for; perfection is God's business.

  Michael J. Fox

  Work, Inspirational Life, Self Esteem

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they'd make up their minds.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Motivational, Basketball

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• Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor.

  Anne Lamott

  Inspirational, Motivational, Voice

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.28, Anchor

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• So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.

  Beatrix Potter

  Arguing

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• The more perfect the approximation to truth, the more perfect is art.

  Maria Montessori

  Art, Perfect, Approximation

  Maria Montessori, F. Simmonds (trans.) (2008). “Spontaneous Activity in Education”, p.197, Lulu.com

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• All perfection is melancholy.

  Margaret Oliphant

  Melancholy

  Margaret Oliphant (2015). “Delphi Works of Margaret Oliphant with Complete Stories of the Seen and Unseen”, p.3695, Delphi Classics

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• The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.

  Michelangelo

  Christian, Art, Shadow Work

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

  George Orwell

  Life, Wisdom, Believe

  Shooting an Elephant 'Reflections on Gandhi'

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