Anne Ford Quotes


Perfection is our goal, excellence will be tolerated. J. Yahl Perfection 584
Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null, dead perfection; no more. Alfred Lord Tennyson Perfection 351
Perfection is not a destination its a neverending process...Enjoy Jim Bouchard Perfection 157
This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections. Saint Augustine of Hippo Perfection 154
Finality is death. Perfection is finality. Nothing is perfect. There are lumps in it, said the Philosopher. James Stephens Perfection 152
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. Edgar Allan Poe Perfection 146
Easy is right. Begin right, and you will be easy. Continue easy and you are right... The right way to go easy is to forget the right way, and forget that the going is easy. Chuang Tzu Perfection 132
The pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement. George Will Perfection 123
Everything is perfect in the universe -- even your desire to improve it. Wayne Dyer Perfection 118
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 Perfection 117
Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time. Voltaire Perfection 111
Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks. Johann von Goethe Perfection 106
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 Perfection 105
Perfection consists not in doing extraordinary things, but in doing ordinary things extraordinarily well. Angelique Arnauld Perfection 104
The only nice thing about being imperfect is the joy it brings to others. Doug Larson Perfection 104
Too late I found you cant wait to become perfect you got to go out and fall down and get up with everybody else. Ray Bradbury Perfection 102
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials. Chinese Proverb Perfection 102
The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it is. Dante Alighieri Perfection 99
One minute was enough Tyler said A person had to work hard for it but a minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection. Chuck Palahniuk Perfection 99
The perfect normal person is rare in our civilization. Karen Horney Perfection 98
It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch each other, and find sympathy. It is in our follies that we are one. Jerome K. Jerome Perfection 94
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. William Butler Yeats Perfection 93
It is no crime not to be perfect Source Unknown Perfection 91
Dont mistake activity with achievement. John Wooden Perfection 87
If you are pleased at finding faults, you are displeased at finding perfections. Johann Lavater Perfection 87
Perfection has one grave defect. It is apt to be dull. W. Somerset Maugham Perfection 84
When you stop expecting people to be perfect you can like them for who they are. Donald Miller Perfection 83
Perfection is not attainable. But if we chase perfection, we can catch excellence. Vince Lombardi Perfection 83
Trifles make perfection and perfection is not trifle. Michelangelo Perfection 82
The nearest to perfection that most people come is when filling out an employment application. Source Unknown Perfection 81
In the works of man, everything is as poor as its author; vision is confined, means are limited, scope is restricted, movements are labored, and results are humdrum. Joseph De Maistre Perfection 77
There is still that singular perfection and its perfect in part because it seemed at the time so clearly to promise more. Michael Cunningham Perfection 76
One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent. Epictetus Perfection 76
To say that one waits a lifetime for his soulmate to come around is a paradox. People eventually get sick of waiting take a chance on someone and by the art of commitment become soulmates which takes a lifetime to perfect. Criss Jami Perfection 72
American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers. W. Somerset Maugham Perfection 72
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 Perfection 72
Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only hope to find in their butlers. W. Somerset Maugham Perfection 72
If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself. Josh Billings Perfection 70
Nobodys perfect. Were all just one step up from the beasts and one step down from the angels. Jeannette Walls Perfection 70
The humorous man recognizes that absolute purity, absolute justice, absolute logic and perfection are beyond human achievement and that men have been able to live happily for thousands of years in a state of genial frailty. Brooks Atkinson Perfection 70
Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm. G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg Perfection 69
Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can paradoxically make you a far happier and more productive person. David M. Burns Perfection 69
Perfection is the child of time. Joseph Hall Perfection 66
Imperfection means perfection hid. Robert Browning Perfection 63
The first faults are theirs that commit them, the second theirs that permit them. English Proverbs Perfection 63
We are none of us infallible -- not even the youngest of us. William Hepworth Thompson Perfection 62
Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco. Unknown Perfection 62
Measure not by the scale of perfection the meager product of reality. Friedrich von Schiller Perfection 61
No good work whatever can be perfect, and the demand for perfection is always a sign of a misunderstanding of the ends of art. John Ruskin Perfection 60
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. Morris West Perfection 60

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