Quotes on Perfection

Enjoy these inspirational quotes on perfection. If you strive to be perfect, you may end up being frustrated. Rather than be perfect be the best you can be. Remember this old proverb, "A beautiful thing is never perfect."

The thing that is really hard, and really amazing,
is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
Anna Quindlen

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

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

Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing.
Harriet Braiker

Certain flaws are necessary for the whole.
It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks.
Goethe

No one is perfect... that's why pencils have erasers.
Author Unknown

To escape criticism - do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubbard

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

The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.
Michelangelo

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.
Winston Churchill

How hard we have to work to make perfection,
and yet when it happens, the truth is that it falls on us like grace.
Adam Gopnik



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