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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.

Earl of Chesterfield

Perfection
2

All excellent things are as difficult as they are rare.

Baruch Spinoza

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3

American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers.

W. Somerset Maugham

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4

Be ye therefore perfect, eve as your Father who is in heaven is perfect.

Perfection
5

Everything is perfect in the universe -- even your desire to improve it.

Wayne Dyer

Perfection
6

Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null, dead perfection; no more.

Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson

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7

Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.

William Ellery Channing

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8

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

Salvador Dalí

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9

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

Salvador Dalí

Perfection
10

I don't like these cold, precise, perfect people who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and in order not to do wrong, never do anything.

Henry Ward Beecher

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11

I have no faith in human perfectibility. 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

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12

If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself.

Josh Billings

Perfection
13

If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do.

George Bernard Shaw

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14

Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere.

Thomas Carlyle

Perfection
15

It is no crime not to be perfect

Perfection
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It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.

Joseph Addison

Perfection
17

Measure not by the scale of perfection the meager product of reality.

Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller

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18

No barber shaves so close but another finds his work.

Perfection
19

No good work whatever can be perfect, and the demand for perfection is always a sign of a misunderstanding of the ends of art.

John Ruskin

Perfection
20

No one becomes perfect, but some become great.

Perfection
21

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

William Hazlitt

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22

One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.

Epictetus

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23

Perfection has one grave defect. It is apt to be dull.

W. Somerset Maugham

Perfection
24

Perfection is a trifle dull. It is not the least of life's ironies that this, which we all aim at, is better not quite achieved.

W. Somerset Maugham

Perfection
25

Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Perfection
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Perfection is perfectly simple; fouling things up requires true skill.

Doug Horton

Perfection
27

Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only hope to find in their butlers.

W. Somerset Maugham

Perfection
28

Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self-solitude is the enemy of well-being.

John Updike

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29

Striving to better, oft we mar what's well.

William Shakespeare

Perfection
30

The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.

Eugène Delacroix

Perfection
31

The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth.

Oscar Wilde

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32

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection, that one is sometimes willing to commit sins for the sake of loyalty, that one does not push asceticism to the point where it makes friendly intercourse impossible, and that one is prepared in the end to be defeated and broken up by life, which is the inevitable price of fastening one's love upon other human individuals.

George Orwell

Perfection
33

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

George Eliot

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34

The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection --even though nothing more than the pounding of an old piano --is what alone gives a meaning to our life on this unavailing star.

Logan Pearsall Smith

Perfection
35

The intellect of man is forced to choose perfection of the life, or of the work, and if it take the second must refuse a heavenly mansion, raging in the dark.

William Butler Yeats

Perfection
36

The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret.

Henri-Frédéric Amiel

Perfection
37

The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it is.

Dante Alighieri

Perfection
38

The nearest to perfection that most people come is when filling out an employment application.

Perfection
39

The pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement.

George Will

Perfection
40

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

Oscar Wilde

Perfection
41

This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.

Augustine of Hippo

Perfection
42

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

Pierre Corneille

Perfection

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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.

All excellent things are as difficult as they are rare.

American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers.

Be ye therefore perfect, eve as your Father who is in heaven is perfect.

Everything is perfect in the universe -- even your desire to improve it.

Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null, dead perfection; no more.

Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.

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

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

I don't like these cold, precise, perfect people who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and in order not to do wrong, never do anything.

I have no faith in human perfectibility. 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.

If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself.

If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do.

Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere.

It is no crime not to be perfect

It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.

Measure not by the scale of perfection the meager product of reality.

No barber shaves so close but another finds his work.

No good work whatever can be perfect, and the demand for perfection is always a sign of a misunderstanding of the ends of art.

No one becomes perfect, but some become great.

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

One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.

Perfection has one grave defect. It is apt to be dull.

Perfection is a trifle dull. It is not the least of life's ironies that this, which we all aim at, is better not quite achieved.

Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness.

Perfection is perfectly simple; fouling things up requires true skill.

Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only hope to find in their butlers.

Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self-solitude is the enemy of well-being.

Striving to better, oft we mar what's well.

The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.

The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth.

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

The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection --even though nothing more than the pounding of an old piano --is what alone gives a meaning to our life on this unavailing star.

The intellect of man is forced to choose perfection of the life, or of the work, and if it take the second must refuse a heavenly mansion, raging in the dark.

The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret.

The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it is.

The nearest to perfection that most people come is when filling out an employment application.

The pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement.

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

This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.

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