Perfection QuotesPerfection quotes remind us that perfectionism is a trap. It works beautifully for people who refuse to do anything unless they can do it perfectly. That pattern brings out the worst in us, rather than the best. Read more... Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing. Harriet Braiker Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism…confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person. David M. Burns Perfectionism is not a quest for the best. It is a pursuit of the worst in ourselves, the part that tells us that nothing we do will ever be good enough – that we should try again. Julia Cameron The maxim ‘Nothing but perfection’ may be spelled ‘Paralysis’. Winston Churchill Do not wait until the conditions are perfect to begin. Beginning makes the conditions perfect. Alan Cohen Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it. Salvador Dali An artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing. Eugene Delacroix The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men. George Eliot The farther a man knows himself to be free from perfection, the nearer he is to it. Gerard Groote Don’t wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident, and more and more successful. Mark Victor Hansen A lot of disappointed people have been left standing on the street corner waiting for the bus marked Perfection. Donald Kennedy Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor. Anne Lamott Nothing gives a man a sense of failure so often as an overdeveloped sense of perfection. George S. Odiorue The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself. Anna Quindlen We have the need to be accepted and to be loved by others, but we cannot accept and love ourselves. The more self-love we have, the less we will experience self-abuse. Self-abuse comes from self-rejection, and self-rejection comes from having an image of what it means to be perfect and never measuring up to that ideal. Our image of perfection is the reason we reject ourselves the way we are, and why we don’t accept others the way they are. Miguel Ángel Ruiz Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly. Robert H. Schuller You don’t need endless time and perfect conditions. Do it now. Do it today. Do it for twenty minutes and watch your heart start beating. Barbara Sher Contentment is a state of grace, a state of peace and happiness, appreciation and enjoyment for what is, right now. Desires, in contrast, can never be satisfied. Once we get what we crave, we soon find it less satisfying than we expected, so we strive for something else. The only escape from this perpetual wheel of want is to discover the contentment and perfection we already have. Gillian Stokes Not hammer-strokes, but dance of the water, sings the pebbles into perfection. Rabindranath Tagore Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self-solitude is the enemy of well-being. John Updike Perfect is the enemy of the good. Voltaire In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they’re still beautiful. Alice Walker Return from Perfection Quotes, Perfectionism Quotes, and Perfect Quotes to Quotes Listed by Subject
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