Top 235 Perfection Quotes

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.

But quality of work can be expected only through personal satisfaction, dedication and enjoyment. In our profession, precision and perfection are not a dispensible luxury, but a simple necessity.

I know as soon as a game is finished if I have done well. I don’t need people to tell me. I want to achieve perfection.

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.

A lot of people from my generation of music are so focused on playing things correctly or to perfection that they’re stuck in that safe place.

I believe that ideal character in its perfection is potentially in every man who is born into the world.

The bottom line is that I’m not putting my life at risk in my quest for perfection. However, I ‘m not endorsing cosmetic surgeries. At the same time I don’t condemn them either.

Nobody wants to watch perfection.

Perfection is worth striving for, even if it is ultimately unattainable in this life.

I’m ultimately a perfectionist who doesn’t believe in perfection.

There was a point when I was so sick of this physical perfection thing that I thought it would be good for all young girls to eat burgers and sweets as a rebellion but I don’t think that anymore because it’s not healthy.

What people don’t realize is that I’ve been trying to get to Bethlehem since I was four years old. By that, I mean I’ve been trying to attain perfection since I was kid. And it took me more than 40 years to learn that it wasn’t going to happen.

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

That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.

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.

Perfection is really boring!

These airplanes we have today are no more than a perfection of a child’s toy made of paper.

As soon as I have got flying to perfection, I have got a scheme about a steam engine.

Every body is a perfect body. Perfection doesn’t exist. Perfection is whoever you are because however you were made was perfect. You don’t need to change for anyone.

Husbands, be patient with your wives; and wives, be patient with your husbands. Don’t expect perfection. Find agreeable ways to work out the differences that arise.

I am not a perfectionist. Perfection doesn’t exist in real life. It’s a wrong title for me.

The fundamentals of your business are like free throws: emphasize and practice them to perfection.

It took me so long to find the perfection foundation shade.

It surprises me that criticism on social media is worst than ever… more and more people tend to seek perfection in others.

You can’t reach perfection unless you reach zero seconds – it’s just the constant chase for perfection.

‘Perfection’ to me is, I walk away from a situation and say, ‘I did everything I could do right there. There was nothing more that I could do.’ I was a hundred percent, like the meter was at the top. There was nothing else I could have done. You know? Like, I worked as hard as I possibly could have. That’s perfection.

When you go to a show, Americans in New York are very proper, much more so than the French. Everything is perfect. Their hair, the nails, everything. The look. Everything is perfection.

You can tell when someone on TV who’s supposed to be struggling to pay back loans is clearly wearing a Gucci suit or tailored to perfection.

Character development is what I value most as a reader of fiction. If an author can manage to create the sort of characters who feel fully real, who I find myself worrying about while I’m walking through the grocery store aisles a week later, that to me is as close to perfection as it gets.

I probably do have an obsessive personality, but striving for perfection has served me well.

What I love most about makeup is that you can’t get attached to one thing, one idea, or one approach – and once you’ve achieved perfection, you have to wipe it all off and start over the next day.

I really had a great time shooting for Dabboo Ratnani. He is such an experienced photographer and works in perfection.

I think the perfection of love is that it’s not perfect.

I don’t want everything to be flowery perfection. I like it there to be a charge behind it, you know?

I’ve seen the majestic beauty of nature and the overwhelming perfection of it. To me, there’s nothing closer to God than that.

New York City is home to some of the most talented individuals anywhere, and whether you are born here or a transplant, the city has always had a tendency to breed perfection.

The world is not imperfect or slowly evolving along a path to perfection. No, it is perfect at every moment, every sin already carries grace in it.

How do you try to play ‘Captain Hook’ better than, or as well as, Dustin Hoffman? You can’t. It’s perfection.

I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don’t care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity.

The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.

Playing a superhero isn’t interesting because then you personify perfection, which is boring!

Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man’s nature.

I don’t strive for perfection, because it doesn’t exist.

Perfection, to me ,means you spend much too much time trying to be perfect.

The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.

We strivin’ for perfection.

Strive for perfection. Nobody’s going to be perfect on this earth. But strive for perfection.

You are loved just for being who you are, just for existing. You don’t have to do anything to earn it. Your shortcomings, your lack of self-esteem, physical perfection, or social and economic success – none of that matters. No one can take this love away from you, and it will always be here.

Ignorance is the first requisite of the historian – ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.

My favourite programme of all time is ‘Weeds’; the first three or four series are perfection.

Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical – and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult.

My ambition is peace and perfection.

I’m always looking for perfection. Even after training and my coaches say I did good, I always think I could have done more.

I’m pretty aware that the pursuit of perfection is, inherently, a flawed concept.

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.

Father was the eldest son and the heir apparent, and he set the standard for being a Rockefeller very high, so every achievement was taken for granted and perfection was the norm.

Complete and total perfection will come about only when we feel that our perfection is no perfections as long as the rest of humanity remains imperfect.

It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists.

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

I’m very comfortable working with my brother. There are no ego hassles. Also, we all strive for perfection; so there is no compromise on creativity. I found my niche while working with Rakesh.

I grew up in the theatre. It’s where I got my start. Writing a television drama with theatrical dialogue about the theatre is beyond perfection.

I’ve really just had to learn and adapt more than ever before, because there’s so much to do in F1. There’s so much to be on top of as a driver. It really requires perfection just to walk out of a weekend with a decent result.

Pursuit of perfection is futile. Instead, I prioritize and often realize goals or tasks I’ve been aiming for just aren’t that important.

There’s a huge part of me that’s thinking about perfection. I have to fight that urge, to try to live in the moment, reach for something that I might be hearing, and not second-guess myself.

Learning to give up on perfection may be just about the most romantic move any of us could make.

The pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement.

I prefer cooking to baking. Baking, to me, is very precise, and it’s about perfection.

I like the ideology of there being no such thing as perfection. But I’m of the opinion that I have witnessed perfection at various times, especially in art.