Quotes on Perfection

On this sacred path of Radical Acceptance, rather than striving for perfection, we discover how to love ourselves into wholeness.

Young friends, do not hesitate to follow the example of Pedro, who 'pleased God and was loved by him' and who, having come to perfection in so short a time, lived a full life.

The perfection of Tawheed is found when there remains nothing in the heart except Allaah

From the perfection of Allah's ihsan is that He allows His slave to taste the bitterness of the break before the sweetness of the mend. So He does not break his believing slave, except to mend him. And He does not withhold from him, except to give him. And He does not test him (with hardship), except to cure him.

Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.

There's no perfection in family life, and certainly we aren't perfect, but we're probably about as close as we can be.

The perfection of art is to conceal art.

Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason - the law which is perfection of reason.

I believe that perfection handicaps cinema.

The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.

If the love object is divine perfection, then one's own self is elevated by joining one's destiny to it... All our guilt, fear, and even our mortality itself can be purged in a perfect consummation with perfection itself.

Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.

As soon as I have got flying to perfection, I have got a scheme about a steam engine.

We curate our lives around this perceived sense of perfection, because we get rewarded in these short term signals: Hearts, likes, thumbs up. We conflate that with value, and we conflate it with truth, and instead, what it really is is fake, brittle popularity that's short term and leaves you even more vacant and empty before you did it.

I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.

We need not despair even in our worst, for our failures are forgiven. The only fatal thing is to sit down content with anything less than perfection.

He is the half part of a blessed man, Left to be finished by such as she; And she a fair divided excellence, Whose fullness of perfection lies in him.

From 1970 onwards, our culture told both sexes that individual expression was paramount. And for women, that was defined as the right to choose an interesting a career, a high-status mate, the desirable handbag or vacation, the perfect family size, and a definitionally fruitless quest for 'perfection.'

I'm a perfectionist. I'm pretty much insatiable. I feel there's so many things I can improve on.