Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco.

I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity.

I don't believe in perfection. I don't think there is such a thing. But the energy of wanting things to be great is a perfectionist energy.

But quality of work can be expected only through personal satisfaction, dedication and enjoyment. In our profession, precision and perfection are not a dispensible luxury, but a simple necessity.

Love is the bond of perfection.

That is what great athletes can do: they give us a model of striving for human perfection.

The pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement.

It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.

To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good; the very perfection of manners is not to think about yourself.

You know one of the causes of modern despair is the fact that we have had proposed to us, from various quarters, an impossible perfection.

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

I'm in pursuit of what cannot be achieved: perfection.

The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how they might rise, not, indeed to perfection, but one step first, and then another on the ladder.

The Word of God well understood and religiously obeyed is the shortest route to spiritual perfection. And we must not select a few favorite passages to the exclusion of others. Nothing less than a whole Bible can make a whole Christian.

But democracy isn't a state of perfection. It has to be improved, and that means constant vigilance.