Perfection Quotes

• Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  President Robert Robbins' Installation Speech, president.arizona.edu. November 29, 2017.

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  Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.

  Ann Landers

  Love, Friendship, Forgiveness

  Ann Landers (1978). “The Ann Landers encyclopedia, A to Z: improve your life emotionally, medically, sexually, socially, spiritually”, Galahad Books

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• Done is better than perfect.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Perfect, Self Improvement, Done

  Sheryl Sandberg (2014). “Lean In for Graduates”, p.139, Knopf

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• It's not about perfection; it's about the joy of striving.

  Thomas Keller

  Joy, Strive

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

  Salvador Dali

  Funny, Music, Sarcastic

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• Truth is so great a perfection, that if God would render himself visible to men, he would choose light for his body and truth for his soul

  Pythagoras

  Men, Light, Soul

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• No one is perfect. It's not interesting to be perfect.

  Lindsay Lohan

  Perfect, Interesting

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• Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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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.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Giving, Laziness, Unattainable

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Eugenia Stanhope (1827). “Letters Written by the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son”, p.185

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• This is moral perfection: to live each day as though it were the last; to be tranquil, sincere, yet not indifferent to one's fate.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Fate, Each Day, Lasts

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

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Lying, Men

  "The Soul of Man Under Socialism" (1891)

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• If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Life, Perfect, Looks

  Leo Tolstoy, The Secret Libraries (2016). “Leo Tolstoy Quotes... Vol. 5: Motivational and Inspirational Life Quotes by Leo Tolstoy”

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• Perfection consists not in doing extraordinary things, but in doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

  Marie Angelique Arnauld

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Ordinary Extraordinary

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• Producing perfection from imperfection is, after all, the highest of art forms.

  Frank Herbert

  Art, Form, Highest

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, p.86, Penguin

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• Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.

  Voltaire

  Time, Hands, Goal

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• I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence I can reach for; perfection is God's business.

  Michael J. Fox

  Work, Inspirational Life, Self Esteem

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Life, Motivational, Positive

  Robert H. Schuller (1996). “Your Positive Plan for Love and Happiness”, Bbs Publishing Corporation

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

  Jerry Moran

  Excellence, Ends, Process

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• A certain type of perfection can only be realized through a limitless accumulation of the imperfect.

  Haruki Murakami

  Imperfect, Limitless, Type

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Dec 20, 2010

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

  William Ellery Channing

  Eye, Excellence, Speed

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• The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Vince Lombardi, Balance Design (1998). “Motivation Lombardi Style”

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• They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they'd make up their minds.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Motivational, Basketball

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• The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Men, Can Do

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• All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection.

  William Faulkner

  Dream, Possible And Impossible, Achieving The Impossible

  1956 On his generation of writers. Interview in Paris Review, Spring.

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• Mediocre men work at their best; men seeking excellence strive to do better.

  Edwin Louis Cole

  Men, Excellence, Literature

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