Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.

Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.

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

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

Perfection is the child of time.

Perfection is the child of time.

The intellect of man is forced to choose perfection of the life, or of the work, and if it take read more

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.

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

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

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.

Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, read more

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.

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

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

Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null, dead perfection; no more.

Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null, dead perfection; no more.