Quotes: Perfection

With four perfectionists in the band, we have a hard time reaching perfection.

If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.

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

Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.

To make one good action succeed another, is the perfection of goodness.

I had given up magic, because it had reached a state of perfection. I felt that I was able to transform men into animals. I did not make use of this capability, because I believed I could not justify an intervention of this kind in the life of another person.

Golf is a search for perfection, for balance. It’s about meditation and concentration. You have to use hand and brain.

To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.

Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.