Perfection is an undiscovered jewel.
-Edward Counsel
Everything, by an impulse of its own nature,
tends toward perfection.
-Dante Alighieri
When a thing is true to itself we call it perfect.
-A. K. Mozumdar
Everyone is following a pattern;
and when that pattern is fully expressed,
one reaches perfection.
-Ashokananda
Everything is at its best and most perfect
when in the condition intended for it by the First Cause.
-Dante Alighieri
Perfection is reached
not when there is no longer anything to add,
but when there is no longer anything to take away,
when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness.
-Antoine de Saint-Exupery
To be perfect is to be pure, unadulterated.
-George W. Carey
Perfection is immutable.
But for things imperfect,
change is the way to perfect them.
-Owen Feltham
Perfection is a costly flower
and is cultured only by an uncompromising strict husbandry.
-Burton Rascoe
Perfection is attained by slow degrees;
it requires the hand of time.
-Voltaire
Trifles make perfection,
and perfection is no trifle.
-Michelangelo
Perfection consists not in doing extraordinary things,
but in doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
-Angelique Arnauld
Fix your eyes on perfection
and you make almost everything speed towards it.
-William Ellery Channing
To imagine oneself perfect
fixes the idea of perfection in the invisible mind substance,
and the mind forces at once begin the work of bringing forth perfection.
-Charles Fillmore
An imaginary perfection
is automatically at the same level as I who imagine it -
neither higher nor lower.
-Simone Weil
Everything has its own perfection,
be it higher or lower in the scale of things;
and the perfection of one is not perfection of the other.
-John Henry Newman
All perfection of which the outer man is capable
is only a realization of the eternal perfection of the Spirit within himself.
-Aurobindo Ghose
My dreams of perfection
are the bridges that carry me into the realm of pure ideas.
-Yogananda
Perfection supposes the ideally balanced development
of the three factors: mind, heart and will.
-Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov
Perfection means a state in which...
you are absolute master of your own self.
-Abhedananda
Purity is perfection.
-Sivananda
The very pink of perfection.
-Oliver Goldsmith
We thirst for perfection...
that one perfection which has the power
to manifest upon the Earth the Eternal Truth.
-Mirra Alfassa, "The Mother"
The divine nature is perfection;
and to be nearest to the divine nature
is to be nearest to perfection.
-Xenophon
The closer a human being comes to perfection,
the more his emanations resemble light.
-Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov
The pursuit of perfection, then,
is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
-Matthew Arnold
The perfection of man is his perfectibility.
-Andre Neher
I never expect to see a perfect work
from an imperfect man.
-Alexander Hamilton
When man has risen to the stage of development
where he can be the perfect instrument of God,
when nothing of his own being
stands in the way of the direct impulse that comes from within -
that spirit may be called perfect.
-Hazrat Inayat Khan
Perfection means not perfect actions in a perfect world,
but appropriate actions in an imperfect world.
-R. H. Blyth
It is functioning just as it should be
in a perfect balance of adjusting forces.
-Subramuniya
Perfection is never found in the object.
It is found in the attitude of the one who looks.
-Paul Ferrini
Perfection is relative -
an ideal dependent on individual perception.
-Tsung-Hwa Jou
To make the imperfect perfect
It is enough to love it.
-Kathleen Raine
Everything is perfect in the universe,
even your desire to improve it.
-Wayne Dyer
What is called 'good' is perfect,
and what is called 'bad' is just as perfect.
-Walt Whitman
Perhaps in the Divine Plan, which is perfect,
a dusting of human imperfection
is absolutely perfect for the moment.
-Pat Rodegast "Emmanuel"
Each of you is perfect the way you are...
and you can use a little improvement.
-D. T. Suzuki
In and with all your imperfections,
YOU are perfect.
-Sunyata
There is perfection and there is imperfection
and that is perfect.
-T'ao-shan
Don't you see that it's all perfect?
-Neem Karoli Baba
Yes. You're right.
Life isn't perfect.
But can you see it is also perfect?
-Timothy Freke and Peter Gandy
There is not even one thing in this world
that is not perfect.
-Yogaswami
Adopt the standard of perfection,
because it is a perfect universe.
-Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
That is perfect.
This is perfect.
Perfect comes from perfect.
When perfection is taken from the perfect,
Perfect alone remains.
-Isha Upanishad
