1,286 Quotes About Perfection

Perfection is always infinite.

Perfection does not come from belief or faith. Talk does not count for anything. Parrots can do that. Perfection comes through the disinterested performance of action.

Perfection can never be attained by work.

Perfection can be had by everybody.

The abuse of grace is affectation, as the abuse of the sublime is absurdity; all perfection is nearly a fault.

He that would have the perfection of pleasure must be moderate in the use of it.

The pursuit of perfection prevents achievement of the satisfactory.

Nothing endures, nothing is precise and certain (except the mind of a pedant), perfection is the mere repudiation of that ineluctable marginal inexactitude which is the mysterious inmost quality of Being

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