#perfection

To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good; the very perfection of manners is not to think about yourself. ↗

— Richard Whately

#always #good #make #manners #perfection

The pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement. ↗

— George Will

#improvement #often #perfection #pursuit

I'm a perfectionist. I'm pretty much insatiable. I feel there's so many things I can improve on. ↗

— Serena Williams

#i #i can #i feel #improve #insatiable

But quality of work can be expected only through personal satisfaction, dedication and enjoyment. In our profession, precision and perfection are not a dispensible luxury, but a simple necessity. ↗

— Niklaus Wirth

#enjoyment #expected #luxury #necessity #only

I don't believe in perfection. I don't think there is such a thing. But the energy of wanting things to be great is a perfectionist energy. ↗

— Reese Witherspoon

#energy #great #i #perfection #perfectionist

March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#forward #go #life #march #move

The world record will come to me when I run the world record race. I'm just trying to perfect my race. I'm looking for perfection. ↗

— Maurice Greene

#i #just #looking #me #perfect

The object of man's worship, whatever it be, will naturally be his standard of perfection. He clothes it with every attribute, belonging, in his view, to a perfect character; and this character he himself endeavors to attain. ↗

— Simon Greenleaf

#attribute #belonging #character #clothes #endeavors

No one ever approaches perfection except by stealth, and unknown to themselves. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#ever #except #perfection #stealth #themselves

The perfection in theater is that it's over the second it's done. ↗

— William Hurt

#over #perfection #second #theater