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Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

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.

Perfection consists not in doing extraordinary things, but in doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself.

Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.

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.

The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it is.

Everything is perfect in the universe -- even your desire to improve it.

You can spend a lifetime, and, if you're honest with yourself, never once was your work perfect.

The only nice thing about being imperfect is the joy it brings to others.

Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only hope to find in their butlers.

The closest to perfection a person ever comes is when he fills out a job application form.

Striving to better, oft we mar what's well.

No one becomes perfect, but some become great.

Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self-solitude is the enemy of well-being.

So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.

The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth.

Perfection is our goal, excellence will be tolerated.

The intellect of man is forced to choose perfection of the life, or of the work, and if it take the second must refuse a heavenly mansion, raging in the dark.

This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfection.