(1848 quotes found)
“There is such a thing as perfection...and our purpose for living is to find that perfection and show it forth....Each of us is in truth an unlimited idea of freedom. Everything that limits us we have to put aside.”
Richard Bach
“If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live.”
Lyn Yutang
“The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“If you chase perfection, you often catch excellence.”
William Fowble
“Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing”
Harriet Beryl Braiker
“The perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambitions to our capacities, we will then be a happy and a virtuous people.”
Mark Twain
“The pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement.”
George F. Will
“Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.”
Salvador Dalí
“I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.”
Edgar Allan Poe
“I have said nothing because there is nothing I can say that would describe how I feel as perfectly as you deserve it.”
Kyle Schmidt