(1847 quotes found)
“Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing”
Harriet Beryl Braiker
“Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.”
Alice Walker
“This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.”
Saint Augustine
“Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time”
Voltaire
“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
“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
“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
“Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.”
Salvador Dalí
