One rarely falls in love without being as much attracted to what is interestingly wrong with someone as what is objectively healthy.
—Alain de Botton
Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection, we can catch excellence.
—Kathryn Vance-Perez in Love and Truth
Have no fear of perfection—you'll never reach it.
—Salvador Dali
If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.
—Ted Turner
Do not expect Plato's ideal republic; be satisfied with even the smallest step forward, and consider this no small achievement.
—Marcus Aurelius
Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.
—Samuel McChord Crothers
I do what most women do. I meet someone and some of it's right, maybe he looks right, or has the right job, or the right background, and, instead of sitting back and waiting for him to reveal his other bits, I make them up. I decide how he thinks, how he's going to treat me, and, sure enough, every time I conclude that this time he's definitely my perfect man, and all of a sudden, well, not so suddenly perhaps, usually around six months after we've split up, I see that he wasn't the person I thought he was at all.
—Jane Green in Mr. Maybe
The perfection of art is to conceal art.
—Quintilian
And I knew I would remember this night, in the same misty way I'd remembered all the good things, as a time when things were as perfect as they could be.
—Sarah Dessen in That Summer
I never expect to see a perfect work from imperfect man.
—Alexander Hamilton
The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
—Anna Quindlen
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Perfection is a road, not a destination. Every time I live, I get an education.
—Burk Hudson
Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life.
—Dr. David M. Burns
I do think imperfection's underrated.
—Herbert Spencer