66 Perfect Quotes For Inspiration

Aug. 30, 2024, 10:45 a.m.

66 Perfect Quotes For Inspiration

In a world filled with constant challenges and uncertainties, a few words of wisdom can make all the difference. Whether you're looking for a boost to start your day, motivation to push through a tough time, or simply a gentle reminder of life's beauty, the right quote can serve as a powerful source of inspiration. Dive into our handpicked selection of the top 66 perfect quotes designed to uplift your spirit, ignite your passion, and inspire positive change. Let these timeless words guide you on your journey to becoming the best version of yourself.

1. “There is still that singular perfection, and it's perfect in part because it seemed, at the time, so clearly to promise more.” - Michael Cunningham

2. “Aria: I went to Hollis. Because I was looking for...you know. Her. She was teaching an art class, so I ran inside, grabbed a paintbrush, and painted a scarlet A across her chest. You know, like that woman in The Scarlet Letter? It was awesome. She didn't know what hit her. And then I said, 'Now everyone will know what you've done'.Ella: Do you realize that Hester Prynne is supposed to be a sympathetic character?” - Sara Shepard

3. “We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.” - Sam Keen

4. “Too late, I found you can't wait to become perfect, you got to go out and fall down and get up with everybody else.” - Ray Bradbury

5. “Happiness is part of who we are. Joy is the feeling” - Tony DeLiso

6. “One is always considered mad when one perfects something that others cannot grasp.” - Edward D. Wood, Jr.

7. “Life's just a bunch of accidents, connected by one perfect end.” - Daniel C. Tomas

8. “The woman is the most perfect doll that i have dressed with delight and admiration.” - Karl Lagerfeld

9. “Jack Force was more than she had ever dared wish for, and he was better than a dream or a fantasy because he was real. He was far from perfect, moody and distant at times, and burdened with sharp temper and an impulsiveness that was part of his dark nature. But she felt more love for him than she thought possible. He wasn't perfect, but he was perfect for her. (Schuyler Van Alen)” - Melissa de la Cruz

10. “There are two kinds of perfect: The one you can never achieve, and the other, by just being yourself.” - Lauren King

11. “There are no wrong roads to anywhere.” - Norton Juster

12. “Music burst through him, perfect notes he hear rarely. Fire and ice, wind and calm, sky and earth, water and rock all fused together. Joley seemed as wild and turbulent s the sea, yet beneath her fiery passion, at the very core of her, she was as forceful and strong and as constant as the deepest ocean currents. Ilya seemed as calm as a windless sea, yet beneath the surface smoldered a volcano of such explosive magnitude, his power could easily sweep everything from his path. Together they completed each other, his melody and hers merging together into a single, perfect harmony.” - Christine Feehan

13. “He had all the attributes of a perfect man, and, in my opinion, no finer personality ever existed.{Edison's opinion of the great Robert Ingersoll}” - thomas edison

14. “Nothing is permanently perfect. But there are perfect moments and the will to choose what will bring about more perfect moments.” - Mary Balogh

15. “The real question is, can you love the real me? Not the perfect person you want me to be, not that image you had of me, but who I really am.” - Christine Feehan

16. “That settles it, no more books about vampire before bedtime.” - Amanda Ashley

17. “This is what I know. Don't settle for 40, 50, or even 80 percent. A relationship-it shouldn't be too small or too tight or even a little scratchy. It shouldn't take up space in your closet out of guilty conscience or convenience or a moment of desire. Do you hear me? It shold be perfect for you. It should be lasting. Wait. wait for 100 percent.” - Deb Caletti

18. “Commitment means losing yourself to gain something temporary. Nothing lasts. Not looks. Not love.” - Ellen Hopkins

19. “No one teaches you how to walk away from someone who you know loves you. NO one teaches you how to say good-bye.” - Ellen Hopkins

20. “‎Perfect? How can you define a word without concrete meaning?” - Ellen Hopkins

21. “God always ignores the present perfection for the ultimate perfection.” - Oswald Chambers

22. “Practice doesn't make perfect.Practice reduces the imperfection.” - Toba Beta

23. “Before you enbark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.” - Sara Shepard

24. “I had a perfect life in my reach once, and it was a crashing bore. Perfect is too clean, too easy. I don't want perfect any more than I want to be perfect. I want imperfect.” - Sarah MacLean

25. “Her bladder felt painfully, solidly full, as though it would burst and release not urine but the garbled prayers she was muttering.” - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

26. “It's just him and me and cookies.” - Carrie Jones

27. “I'm still kind of a mess. But I think we all are. No one's got it all together. I don't think you ever do get it totally together. Probably if you did manage to do it you'd spontaneously combust. I think that's a law of nature. If you ever manage to become perfect, you have to die instantly before you ruin things for everyone else.” - Michael Thomas Ford

28. “From recovery to rags and rags to recovery symbolizes art - a perfect compilation of human imperfections.” - Criss Jami

29. “There is truth, my boy. But the doctrine you desire, absolute, perfect dogma that alone provides wisdom, does not exist. Nor should you long for a perfect doctrine, my friend. Rather, you should long for the perfection of yourself. The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.” - Hermann Hesse

30. “Some old wounds never truly heal, and bleed again at the slightest word.” - George R.R. Martin

31. “For everything in this journey of life we are on, there is a right wing and a left wing: for the wing of love there is anger; for the wing of destiny there is fear; for the wing of pain there is healing; for the wing of hurt there is forgiveness; for the wing of pride there is humility; for the wing of giving there is taking; for the wing of tears there is joy; for the wing of rejection there is acceptance; for the wing of judgment there is grace; for the wing of honor there is shame; for the wing of letting go there is the wing of keeping. We can only fly with two wings and two wings can only stay in the air if there is a balance. Two beautiful wings is perfection. There is a generation of people who idealize perfection as the existence of only one of these wings every time. But I see that a bird with one wing is imperfect. An angel with one wing is imperfect. A butterfly with one wing is dead. So this generation of people strive to always cut off the other wing in the hopes of embodying their ideal of perfection, and in doing so, have created a crippled race.” - C. JoyBell C.

32. “Loves by all pros and cons is better than force it to look perfect” - Aditia Rinaldi

33. “He didn't mind if she hated him. They were never going to be a cute romantic couple like Sam and Astrid. Clean-cut, righteous, all that. The perfect couple. He and Diana were the imperfect couple.” - Michael Grant

34. “You are perfect, Avery. Just like you are, flaws and everything.” - Shana Norris

35. “No One is perfect... So don't say I am "No One" for you” - Saket Assertive

36. “He leaned down, far enough that the dark ends of his hair brushed feather-light against her face, caught in her lashes, She had just enough time to take in a breath, to blink, to part her lips before he took them with his own. Time froze. Her heart ceased to beat. Her eyes fluttered shut.The cool slip of the small metal loop pressed into her skin as he kissed her. Urgent.Gentle.So slow.Sweet, soft demolition.He tasted of cloves and coffee. And of something else. A farawat essence, familiar and yet somehow foreign, too. Something sere and arid. A little like some. A little like decayAsh.” - Kelly Creagh

37. “You’ve got to live right, too. It’s the way you live that predisposes you to avoid the traps and see the right facts. You want to know how to paint a perfect painting? It’s easy. Make yourself perfect and then just paint naturally. That’s the way all the experts do it. The making of a painting or the fixing of a motorcycle isn’t separate from the rest of your existence. If you’re a sloppy thinker the six days of the week you aren’t working on your machine, what trap avoidance, what gimmicks, can make you all of a sudden sharp on the seventh? It all goes together ... The real cycle you're working in is a cycle called yourself. The machine that appears to be "out there" and the person that appears to be "in here" are not two separate things. They grow toward Quality or fall away from Quality together.” - Robert M. Pirsig

38. “As pathetic as it was, she'd rather hold on to the possibility of something perfect than be hit with the reality of nothing much.” - Francine Pascal

39. “My God", he whispered. What have I done to her? He thought, humbled. The spell was broken, but it wasn't sealed, and her soul was bare to him, the scars of her tragic past and her triumphs over pain and her aching need to find her place. He just wanted to hold her to him and tell her it would be okay, that she had survived and was beautiful.” - Kim Harrison

40. “Don't worry about getting perfect, just keep getting better.” - Frank Peretti

41. “The last of the cherry blossom. On the tree, itturns ever more perfect. And when it’s perfect, it falls. And then of course once it hits theground it gets all mushed up. So it’s only absolutely perfect when it’s falling through the air,this way and that, for the briefest time!.!.!.” - David Mitchell

42. “You're both so screwed up alone that together you're like the perfect mess.” - J. Sterling

43. “... we sat back and let the moon shine itself all over her, and we saw that Tia was full of light. Billy said that when we die the darkness leaves us.'We're pure and perfect then,' he said, 'the way we are when we're born.” - Glenda Millard

44. “It's very hard to grow up in a perfect family when you're not perfect.” - E.L. James

45. “To accomplish the perfect perfection, a little imperfection helps.” - Dejan Stojanovic

46. “Our love is perfect. And even though we may not be, our love creates a bridge that spans over our imperfections and joins us where it matters.” - Steve Maraboli

47. “In trying to be perfect, He perfected the art of anonymity, Became imperceptible And arrived nowhere from nowhere.” - Dejan Stojanovic

48. “When there is noise and crowds, there is trouble; When everything is silent and perfect, There is just perfection and nothing To fill the air.” - Dejan Stojanovic

49. “In the infinity of life where I am,All is perfect, whole and complete,I no longer choose to believe in old limitations and lack, I now choose to begin to see myselfAs the Universe sees me --- perfect, whole, and complete.” - Louise Hay

50. “You can't consume much if you sit still and read books.” - Aldous Huxley

51. “I can't live without your Touch.You'll see that I've provided enough money to pay for at least twenty or so.” - J. Sterling

52. “It's hard to do," I said. Wes looked at me. "What is?" I swallowed, not sure why I'd said this out loud. "Get it right.” - Sarah Dessen

53. “The name sounds almost too perfect. And as I said, you look perfect, too. The only thing left... is to be perfect.” - Jay Asher

54. “Did you ever get the feeling that everything was too perfect? Like the moment was so good that something had to be wrong? Kind of like the way a fish sees that bright, shiny lure just before it chomps down and gets hauled out of water to become someone's lunch.” - Neal Shusterman

55. “O great creator of being grant us one more hour to perform our art and perfect our lives.” - Jim Morrison

56. “Perfect is a dream that you wake up from and spend forever trying to remember.” - Joseph Eastwood

57. “Our Imperfections Are What Make Us Perfect.” - Lace Vintage

58. “You shall love your neighbourWith your crooked heart,It says so much about love and brokenness -- it's perfect.” - John Green

59. “In 2008, I was the woman who thought she had the world by the tail: the "perfect life." In 2010, I was the woman without hope who thought she had no life left to live. Which woman am I today? Neither. Both were illusions.” - Julie-Anne

60. “But, here's a sad fact: perfect isn't meant to be. When you aim for perfect, you just wind up ruined.” - Autumn Doughton

61. “If the world were perfect, then I would not exist.” - Gavriil Stiharul

62. “Wait," I say. "Aren't soulmates supposed to be perfect? What if you find yours and shes not a virgin, not even a girl? What if he's a fixer upper? What if he has an STD?” - Joey Comeau

63. “Don't be so hard on yourself, don't put pressure on yourself, life is just a chain of experiments and results, and you'll be perfect when you're dead.” - Dan Harmon

64. “Perfection is real. It occurs when you find that other part of you, that other person, that when combined you become one, perfect being.” - Shannan Jacoby

65. “Hey, you know I might not be perfect! But I'm a wonderful work in progress!” - D.C. Akers

66. “Anger is easier than forgiveness.” - Ellen Hopkins