Quotes and Sayings

Gold cannot be pure, and people cannot be perfect.
- Chinese Proverb

Perfect women are always found in dreams but never in reality.

Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing.
- Harriet Braiker

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

A beautiful thing is never perfect.

Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.
- Confucius

Like Perfect Numbers , Perfect men are very rare.

Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.
- Voltaire

Once you accept the fact that you’re not perfect, then you develop some confidence.
- Rosalynn Carter

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
- George Orwell

Even the best needles are not sharp at both ends.
- Chinese Proverb

All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection.
- William Faulkner

No one becomes perfect, but only few become great.

Out of perfection nothing can be made. Every process involves breaking something up.
- Joseph Campbell

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.

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

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

The greater the emphasis on perfection, the further it recedes.
- Haridas Chaudhuri

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