I cling to my imperfection, as the very essence of my being. – Anatole France, The Garden of Epicurus, 1894
He that will have a perfect brother must resign himself to remain brotherless. – Italian Proverb
You see, when weaving a blanket, an Indian woman leaves a flaw in the weaving of that blanket to let the soul out. – Martha Graham
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, Fight Club
Living up to ideals is like doing everyday work with your Sunday clothes on. – Ed Howe
The first faults are theirs that commit them, the second theirs that permit them. – English Proverb
No barber shaves so close but another finds his work. – English Proverb
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. – Joseph Addison
Perfection consists not in doing extraordinary things, but in doing ordinary things extraordinarily well. – Angelique Arnauld
I dont like these cold, precise, perfect people who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and in order not to do wrong, never do anything. – Henry Ward Beecher
Be ye therefore perfect, eve as your Father who is in heaven is perfect. – Bible
If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself. – Josh Billings
Both men and women are fallible. The difference is, women know it. – Eleanor Bron
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
Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere. – Thomas Carlyle
Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it. – William Ellery Channing
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
The organizations of men, like men themselves, seem subject to deafness, near-sightedness, lameness, and involuntary cruelty. We seem tragically unable to help one another, to understand one another. – John Cheever
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
The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it is. – Dante Alighieri
