Free perfection sayings, quotes and quotations
Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing.
~perfection sayings by Harriet Braiker
Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny.
~inspirational sayings about Perfection quotes by Carl Schurz, address, Faneuil Hall, Boston, 1859
History balances the frustration of how far we have to go with the satisfaction of how far we have come. It teaches us tolerance for the human shortcomings and imperfections which are not uniquely of our generation, but of all time.
~perfection quotes by Lewis F. Powell, Jr.
Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.
~famous quotes about Perfection by Confucius, Analects
Like every good man, I strive for perfection, and, like every ordinary man, I have found that perfection is out of reach - but not the perfect suit.
~perfection sayings by Edward Tivnan
It would not be at all strange if history came to the conclusion that the perfection of the bicycle was the greatest incident of the nineteenth century.
~perfection sayings by Author Unknown
Striving to better, oft we mar what's well.
~inspirational sayings about Perfection quotes by William Shakespeare, King Lear, 1605
Only in grammar can you be more than perfect.
~perfection quotes by William Safire
Nothing that is complete breathes.
~famous quotes about Perfection by Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
He who hath not a dram of folly in his mixture hath pounds of much worse matter in his composition.
~perfection sayings by Charles Lamb
The most difficult part of attaining perfection is finding something to do for an encore.
~perfection sayings by Author Unknown
I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center.
~inspirational sayings about Perfection quotes by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Player Piano
Ninety feet between home plate and first base may be the closest man has ever come to perfection.
~perfection quotes by Red Smith
Tough and funny and a little bit kind: that is as near to perfection as a human being can be.
~famous quotes about Wise Words by Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks.
~perfection sayings by Goethe
We are quite rich enough to defend ourselves, whatever the cost. We must now learn that we are quite rich enough to educate ourselves as we need to be educated.
~perfection sayings by Walter Lippmann
Nothing begins, and nothing ends, that is not paid with moan; for we are born in other's pain, and perish in our own.
~good sayings about Curmudgeons by Francis Thompson
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops
~perfection quotes by Henry Adams
Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.
~motivational quotes about Humor sayings by Christopher Morley
A man who is of sound mind is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key.
~perfection sayings by Paul Valéry, Mauvaises pensées et autres, 1942
Education is not filling a pail but the lighting of a fire.
~perfection sayings by William Butler Yeats
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
~good sayings about Attitude by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein, 1818
Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.
~perfection quotes by Billy Wilder
I am different from Washington; I have a higher, grander standard of principle. Washington could not lie. I can lie, but I won't.
~motivational quotes about Honesty sayings by Mark Twain
We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.
~perfection sayings by Albert Camus
Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.
~perfection sayings by Spanish Proverb
There is in every village a torch - the teacher; and an extinguisher - the clergyman.
~good sayings about Religion by Victor Hugo
Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn't know that so it goes on flying anyway.
~perfection quotes by Mary Kay Ash
We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education
~motivational quotes about Birth sayings by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
It's so exciting to visit my son's cubicle! I worked hard to put you through college. Now I'll see the results of my investment. Um...You did attend classes, right
~perfection sayings by Dilbert
I refuse to think of them as chin hairsI think of them as stray eyebrows
~perfection sayings by Janette Barber
Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.
~good sayings about Anger by George Eliot
The troubles deep in the pot are known only by the spoon
~perfection quotes by Italian
In Latin America the border between soccer and politics is vague. There is a long list of governments that have fallen or been overthrown after the defeat of the national team.
~motivational quotes about Soccer sayings by Luis Suarez
The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them
~perfection sayings by Karl Marx
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