Quotes about Perfection

One should never think that man can reach perfection, he can only aim at completion — not to be perfect but to be complete. That would be the necessity and the indispensable condition if there were any question of perfection at all. For how can you perfect a thing if it is not complete?

The God of justice, goodness, righteousness, and beauty created a world that is perfectly designed to reflect who he is.

To live each day as though one's last, never flustered, never apathetic, never attitudinizing-here is perfection of character.

It is the function of perfection to make one know one's imperfection.

The maxim "Nothing avails but perfection" may be spelled "Paralysis."

There is always a best way of doing everything, if it be only to boil an egg. Manners are the happy ways of doing things.

Everything is perfect on the street again, the world is permeated with roses of happiness all the time, but none of us know it. The happiness consists in realizing that it is all a great strange dream.

The deal is that I hold myself to an extremely high standard, and it's a standard that can never be... it's unattainable. But it drives me to be the very best in everything I do.

Christ is the most perfect image of God, into which we are so renewed as to bear the image of God, in knowledge, purity, righteousness, and true holiness.

The human person finds his perfection "in seeking and loving what is true and good.

To take no account of oneself, but always to think well and highly of others is the highest wisdom and perfection.

God's response is simple. Anything that is made well is made slowly.