To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection... →
Thomas Aquinas
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
Aristotle
The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
Matthew Arnold
If I waited for perfection... I would never write a word.
Margaret Atwood
Perfection irritates as well as it attracts, in fiction as in life.
Louis Auchincloss
This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.
Saint Augustine
In our western civilization we have the glorious example, the great standard of perfection and the teachings of the Christ to guide us. He acts for... →
Edward Bach
I don't see in myself any perfection.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.
Thomas Carlyle
Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.
William Ellery Channing