We always strive to be perfect in whatever we do but I think no one really is.Here are some quotes on perfection
Were I to await perfection, my book would never be finished.
~Chinese Proverbs
Even the best needles are not sharp at both ends.
~Chinese Proverb
Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.
~William Ellery Channing
Always live up to your standards – by lowering them, if necessary.
~Mignon McLaughlin
Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.
~Salvador Dalí
There are no perfect men in this world, only perfect intentions.
~Pen Densham
In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they’re still beautiful.
~Alice Walker
Once you accept the fact that you’re not perfect, then you develop some confidence. ~Rosalynn Carter
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
~Antoine de Saint-Exupery
When you aim for perfection, you discover it’s a moving target.
~George Fisher
The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
~George Orwell
The most difficult part of attaining perfection is finding something to do for an encore.
~Author Unknown
People throw away what they could have by insisting on perfection, which they cannot have, and looking for it where they will never find it.
~Edith Schaeffer
Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.
~Confucius
Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.
~Voltaire
Gold cannot be pure, and people cannot be perfect.
~Chinese Proverb
The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.
~Eugene Delacroix
Only in grammar can you be more than perfect.
~William Safire
A beautiful thing is never perfect.
~Proverb
A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.
~John Henry Newman
A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.
~Buddha
Nothing that is complete breathes.
~Antonio Porchia
You can spend a lifetime, and, if you’re honest with yourself, never once was your work perfect.
~Charlton Heston
They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they’d make up their minds.
~Winston Churchill
No one is perfect… that’s why pencils have erasers.
~Author Unknown
This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.
~Saint Augustine
Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks.
~Goethe
The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
~Anna Quindlen
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
Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing. ~Harriet Braiker