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Quotes about perfection
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It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others. (Knightley Keira)
The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret. (Knightley Keira)
Perfection consists not in doing extraordinary things, but in doing ordinary things extraordinarily well. (Knightley Keira)
This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections. (Knightley Keira)
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If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself. (Knightley Keira)
Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere. (Knightley Keira)
Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it. (Knightley Keira)
Perfect works are rare, because they must be produced at the happy moment when taste and genius unite; and this rare conjuncture, like that of certain planets, appears to occur only after the revolution of several cycles, and only lasts for an instant. (Knightley Keira)
Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable. (Knightley Keira)
We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness. (Knightley Keira)
The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it is. (Knightley Keira)
The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing. (Knightley Keira)
Everything is perfect in the universe -- even your desire to improve it. (Knightley Keira)
The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men. (Knightley Keira)
One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent. (Knightley Keira)
Perfection is the child of time. (Knightley Keira)
No one ever approaches perfection except by stealth, and unknown to themselves. (Knightley Keira)
The perfect normal person is rare in our civilization. (Knightley Keira)
Perfection is perfectly simple; fouling things up requires true skill. (Knightley Keira)
The only nice thing about being imperfect is the joy it brings to others. (Knightley Keira)
Perfection has one grave defect. It is apt to be dull. (Knightley Keira)
Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only hope to find in their butlers. (Knightley Keira)
American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers. (Knightley Keira)
Nothing would be done at all if one waited until one could do it so well that no one could find fault with it. (Knightley Keira)
I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active --not more happy --nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago. (Knightley Keira)
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