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The first faults are theirs that commit them, the second theirs that permit them.
-English Proverb
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No barber shaves so close but another finds his work.
-English Proverb
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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.
-Joseph Addison
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Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for control, makes men prefer reason's imagination to the imagination of the senses. And yet it is always the imagination alone which is at work.
-Louis Aragon
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Perfection consists not in doing extraordinary things, but in doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
-Angelique Arnauld
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I don't like these cold, precise, perfect people who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and in order not to do wrong, never do anything.
-Henry Ward Beecher
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Be ye therefore perfect, eve as your Father who is in heaven is perfect.
-Bible
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If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself.
-Josh Billings
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Both men and women are fallible. The difference is, women know it.
-Eleanor Bron
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From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.
-Samuel Butler
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We all carry within us our places of exile, our crimes, and our ravages. But our task is not to unleash them on the world; it is to fight them in ourselves and in others.
-Albert Camus
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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.
-Thomas Carlyle
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Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.
-William Ellery Channing
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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.
-Vicomte De Chateaubriand
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The organizations of men, like men themselves, seem subject to deafness, near-sightedness, lameness, and involuntary cruelty. We seem tragically unable to help one another, to understand one another.
-John Cheever
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The leaves did not stir on the trees, grasshoppers chirruped, and the monotonous hollow sound of the sea rising up from below, spoke of the peace, of the eternal sleep awaiting us. So it must have sounded when there was no Yalta, no Oreanda here; so it sounds now, and it will sound as indifferently and monotonously when we are all no more. And in this constancy, in this complete indifference to the life and death of each of us, there lies hid, perhaps, a pledge of our eternal salvation, of the unceasing movement of life upon earth, of unceasing progress towards perfection.
-Anton Chekhov
The Lady with the Dog (or, sometimes, Lady with Lap Dog)
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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.
-Lord Chesterfield
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We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness.
-Pierre Corneille
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Have no fear of perfection-you'll never reach it.
-Salvador Dali
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The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it is.
-Dante Alighieri
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The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.
-Eugene Delacroix
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Everything is perfect in the universe -- even your desire to improve it.
-Wayne Dyer
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The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
-George Eliot
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One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.
-Epictetus
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Every time, all the time, I'm a perfectionist. I feel I should never lose.
-Chris Evert
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Books about Perfection
