Top 100 Better Than Perfect Quotes
#2. Another one of my favorite posters at Facebook declares in big red letters, "Done is better than perfect." I have tried to embrace this motto and let go of unattainable standards. Aiming for perfection causes frustration at best and paralysis at worst.
Sheryl Sandberg
#3. Done is better than perfect if perfect ain't done.
Eric Thomas
#4. Progress is much more better than perfect.
Toba Beta
#5. Strategy is about out-thinking your competition. Mark Zuckerberg, while at Harvard, built a website called Facemash 'for fun'. Even today, Facebook believe that 'done is better than perfect'.
Max McKeown
#8. I don't think we're at the point where most people are willing to get rid of body parts and replace them, but then again, people who shoot lasers in their eyes come out with better-than-perfect vision.
John Scalzi
#9. You don't have to have perfect wisdom to get very rich - just a bit better than average over a long period of time.
Charlie Munger
#10. More than six people cannot agree on anything, three is better and one is perfect for a job that one can do. This is why parliamentary bodies all through history, when they accomplished anything, owed it to a few strong men who dominated the rest.
Robert A. Heinlein
#11. Capitalism is not a perfect system. It may be better than all the other systems, but it's not a perfect system.
Howard Warren Buffett
#12. And then he realized that he loved the eagle better than the sheep and that he always would and that, because he did, because it was in him to do it, he could never be perfect in the sight of God.
Thomas Harris
#13. There's nothing wrong with George. It is not possible to find fault with George. He's a perfect Scottish angel. He always shares the snacks that his mother sends him and he's better- looking than Jace. There, I said it. I'm not taking it back.
Cassandra Clare
#15. Then, when shame strikes, it is so nasty you have to numb yourself, and what better anesthetic than your addiction? It is the perfect vicious circle.
Edward T. Welch
#16. There's no worse enemy and no better friend than a brother, Tuan, for one brother knows another, and in perfect knowledge is strength for good or evil.
Joseph Conrad
#17. Always remember, actions speak louder than words. No one's perfect, but we can all strive to be better people.
Demi Lovato
#18. This world that we live in would be perfect if there were less prejudice and people who think they are better than others.
Werley Nortreus
#19. Embrace the creativity and don't care about the result. It's better to be a beginner till the end of the life than waiting forever to be perfect.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#20. I am a socialist not because I think it is a perfect system, but half a loaf is better than no bread. The other system has been tried and found wanting
Swami Vivekananda
#21. If there is no one who is perfect,So there is no one better than you
Mohammed Sekouty
#22. Am I embarrassed to speak for a less than perfect democracy? Not one bit. Find me a better one. Do I suppose there are societies which are free of sin? No, I don't. Do I think ours is, on balance, incomparably the most hopeful set of human relations the world has? Yes, I do.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
#23. My ex-boyfriend said, 'You have a better chance of getting elected to Congress than getting on the staff of a television show.' Which was the perfect thing for him to say, because my entire career is, 'Well, screw you.' And we broke up.
Jenji Kohan
#24. 'Pong' hit the fancy. It was sort of the perfect storm of a game which has two players highly social, a game that women could play better than a guy, and sort of an acceptance of this social nature of games in a bar.
Nolan Bushnell
#25. So they talk about heaven, and I don't know what is waiting for me up there. But I can tell you this: Nothing will happen up there that can duplicate my life down here. Nothing. That life cannot be better than the one I've lived down here, the football life. It's been perfect.
Steve Sabol
#26. I have a strong feeling that I shall be glad when I am dead and done for - scrapped at last to make room for somebody better, cleverer, more perfect than myself.
George Bernard Shaw
#27. The second best decision in time is infinitely better than the perfect decision too late.
Omar N. Bradley
#28. A good-enough novel violently written now is better than a perfect novel meticulously written never.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#29. Loving yourself doesn't mean you think you're perfect or better than others. It just means you know that sometimes you have to be your own cheerleader, your own warrior ... and you're ok with that
Nina Guilbeau
#30. In life, perfect pitch is the ability to know someone from the inside out, even better maybe than she knows herself.
Jodi Picoult
#31. No, even I know better than that. I'm looking for selfishness. Perfect selfishness.
Haruki Murakami
#32. Making an un-perfect decision is far, far better than not making a decision, which is the worst possible decision you could make.
Hank Green
#33. Time is a factor in all action. An imperfect scheme put into action at the proper time is better than a perfect one accomplished too late.
Andre Maurois
#34. We're certainly not perfect, and we're not probably even better than anybody else, except that perhaps we are given to certain kinds of contemplation that provide a valuable balance to the knee-jerk reactionary behavior of most of our newspapers and political leaders. Poets are great doubters.
Sam Hamill
#35. Sometimes it's better to live through someone's work than the person themselves, and to realise that every human being is flawed, but through art they can be perfect.
Emily Haines
#36. Being somebody who wants to be religious doesn't make me perfect and doesn't make me necessarily any better than anybody else. It maybe makes me better than I would have been if I didn't have that level.
Jack Abramoff
#37. What a perfect escape the return to the womb was. Better by far than Religion or Art or the South Sea Islands. It was so snug and warm there, and the feeding was automatic.
Nathanael West
#38. A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed at some indefinite time in the future.
George S. Patton Jr.
#39. It is an error common to many artists, who strive merely to avoid mistakes, when all our efforts should be to create positive and important work. Better positive and important with mistakes and failures than perfect mediocrity.
Edward Steichen
#40. I don't think anything less than perfect, even though I'm a human being. The way I work and go at things is to better myself in perfect terms.
Kevin Garnett
#41. The persistent man with a poor plan stands a better chance of winning than the man with a perfect plan who hesitates and waivers in carrying it out.
Napoleon Hill
#42. I am in perfect health, and hear it said I look better than ever I did in my life, which is one of those lies one is always glad to hear.
Mary Wortley Montagu
#43. In so many millennia, the humans never did figurs love out. How much is physical, how much in the mind? How much accident and how much fate? Why did perfect matches crumble and impossible couples thrive? I dont know the answer better than they did. Love simply is where it is.
Stephenie Meyer
#44. We don't have to be perfect today. We don't have to be better than someone else. All we have to do is to be the very best we can.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#45. It doesn't have to be perfect to be better than a hotbed of rape threats and Nazi memes.
Adam Kotsko
#46. The light in the darkness, as Stephen explained it, did not chase away the shadows of fear and regret: It merely illuminated the fears worth fighting. It lit the paths dictated by fate and choice, rather than casting a celestial glow on the way to a better and more perfect world. Although
Christopher Rice
#47. God knows far better than we do what is best for us. Thank God even when He says "No" or "Wait." His answer is always perfect.
Billy Graham
#48. I think people in England take things for granted, we complain about our NHS system and yes it's not perfect but believe me it's far better than what they've got here.
Alesha Dixon
#49. If Prophets and Messengers are the closest to godliness as any human is capable of being, and yet even they fail, how the fuck can anyone, less than perfect, be so arrogant as to expect they will do better than a Prophet, or Messenger of G-D.
Alejandro C. Estrada
#51. Men are like shoes. Some fit better than others. And sometimes you go out shopping and there's nothing you like. And then, as luck would have it, the next week you find two that are perfect, but you don't have the money to buy both.-
Janet Evanovich
#52. Don't worry about the room being messy! Everything can't be perfect - you have to let some things go, and it's better to actually sit down on the floor with your child than spend time worrying about having a perfect house.
Andie MacDowell
#53. To do better is better than to be perfect.
Toba Beta
#54. It's better to do it than to talk about how perfect it could be.
Simon Sinek
#55. Well, so be it. Nothing's perfect in life, so you have an election that's not quite perfect. Is it better than not having an election? You bet.
Donald Rumsfeld
#56. A good solution applied with vigor now is better than a perfect solution applied ten minutes later.
George S. Patton
#57. If the Lord sets you to guard a lonely post in perfect stillness from all active work, you ought to be just as content as to be in the midst of the active warfare. It is no virtue to love the Master's work better than the Master's will.
Hannah Whitall Smith
#58. I deserve better than a guy who after twenty years can't see why we'd be perfect together.
Mira Lyn Kelly
#59. I wish the air were pure oxygen, and then as it says in our chemistry book, our life would sweep through its fevered burning course in a few hours and we would live in a perfect delirium of excitement and would die vibrating with passion, for anything would be better than this lazy sluggish life.
M. Carey Thomas
#60. We all have flaws, no matter how hard we try to tame sometimes still eludes us. If you give me your flaw, I'll handle it flawlessly, and I mine, you'd do the same. That's when two is better than one, else, we'll have two aggravated untamed flaws.
Ufuoma Apoki
#61. She deserves so much better than what I can give her. I don't, however, think she deserves better than me. I think she would be perfect for me and I would be perfect for her, but all the bad choices I've made in my life are what she doesn't deserve to be a part of.
Colleen Hoover
#62. Alone, there is only the person inside. I've grown to like her better than the stuck-up husk of me. Alone, there is no perfect daughter, no gifted high school junior, no Kristina Georgia Snow. There is only Bree. (Ellen Hopkins)
Ellen Hopkins
#63. The teachers want we to be perfect (Nobody is perfect, perfection doesn't exist) - if it exists what's the purpose we to be on this planet when we are not perfect?
However in some subjects it's not quite, it's not possible to focus and get a better grade than this!
Deyth Banger
#64. I have to admit, an unrequited love is so much better than a real one. I mean, it's perfect ... As long as something is never even started, you never have to worry about it ending. It has endless potential.
Sarah Dessen
#65. Bad days my memory functions no better than an out-of-focus kaleidoscope, but other days me recall is painfully perfect.
Mordecai Richler
#66. Living a life worthy of the gospel does not mean pretending to be perfect. Instead, it means having the humility to think of others as better than ourselves (Phil. 2:3).
Matt Chandler
#67. Wells Fargo behaves better than the average big bank. But nobody's perfect.
Charlie Munger
#68. Better to have a single perfect diamond than a sack of flawed stones.
Erin Morgenstern
#69. I think mischievous people always there, ... Some kind of perfect world, that is impossible. Accept that reality. (For) those people who have genuine concern about humanity, make some effort-better than none.
Dalai Lama
#70. The decent method you follow is better than the perfect method you quit.
Timothy Ferriss
#71. I've changed. I've learned a million lessons that make me a better man for you and for Cade. Not a perfect man, but you wouldn't want that for me any more than I would for you.
Mia Ashlinn
#72. Do you think that, if you were granted omnipotence and omniscience and millions of years in which to perfect your world, you could produce nothing better than the Ku Klux Klan or the Fascists?
Bertrand Russell
#73. Our whole lives, it was like we were always trying so hard to be perfect - for our families and our friends, for each other - when the funny thing was, we didn't have to. In the end, we were better than that.
Brenna Yovanoff
#74. Perfect health, sincerity, honesty, straightforwardness, courage, disinterestedness, unselfishness, patience, endurance, perseverance, peace, calm, self control are all things that are taught infinitely better by example than by beautiful speeches.
Sri Aurobindo
#75. I'm not going to have a perfect career. It's better to be Billy Wilder and make lots of movies and have five or six great ones than to make so few movies that when you make a bad one it crushes you.
Jason Reitman
#76. The imperfect book that gets published is better than the perfect book that never leaves my computer.
Gretchen Rubin
#77. I took that smile and I put it right where the hole in my chest was. It was better than coffee, or chocolate, or a perfect pirouette. I clutched it and held it tight.
Cecil Castellucci
#78. Mock you!" repeated he earnestly, "no I revere you! I esteem and I admire you above all human beings! you are the friend to whom my soul is attached as to its better half! you are the most amiable, the most perfect of women! and you are dearer to me than language has the power of telling.
Fanny Burney
#79. " ... he had understood, better than anyone ... the beauty that grew out of the simple knowledge that everything, no matter how small or large it might be, was a perfect example of what it was."
Charles De Lint
#80. Practice Makes Perfect
I'll know better next time
Than to even begin;
Everything's easier on the second try
Especially sin.
Carol Lynn Pearson
#81. Although engineers want always to make everything better, they cannot make anything perfect. This basic characteristic flaw of the products of the profession's practitioners is what drives change and makes achievement a process rather than simply a goal.
Henry Petroski
#82. It is becoming more widely acknowledged that it is better to have a good constitution than not having a perfect one.
Romano Prodi
#83. The U.S. isn't a perfect place, but it's better than most people have managed to come up with. And all my stuff is there.
Jim Butcher
#84. There's design, and there's art. Good design is total harmony. There's no better designer than nature - if you look at a branch or a leaf, it's perfect. It's all function. Art is different. It's about emotion. It's about suffering and beauty - but mostly suffering!
Diane Von Furstenberg
#85. I feel like kids are the perfect psychic investigators of their parents, and kids understand their parents' unconscious better than the parents ever do.
Mike Mills
#86. I don't know how perfect everybody is going to be in Heaven, but anyhow, certainly a lot better than here!
David Berg
#87. A good battle plan that you act on today can be better than a perfect one tomorrow.
George S. Patton
#88. A more miserable life is better...believe me..than an existence protected by an organized society...where everything is calculated....where everything is perfect...
Frederico Fellini
#89. Nobody's perfect and I don't want to try and portray that but I'm genuinely doing the best I can out here; trying to support my family the best that I can, trying to make them proud and happy and everybody having the best life they can live. I'm trying to provide a better life for them than I had.
Chris Johnson
#90. No politician is perfect. But in every election in your life, there will be one choice that is better than the others. Go out and vote for that one.
Bill Maher
#91. Christian Bale has a kind of genetically engineered handsomeness that's perfect for [John Preston]. He's also a better actor than he ever gets credit for being.
Richard Roeper
#92. An imperfect plan implemented immediately and violently will always succeed better than a perfect plan.
George S. Patton
#93. When it came to slaughtering sacred cows with such crude yet perfect musical precision, there was no one better than Frank. I wonder what songs he's teaching the angels right now? Good luck God! You've got your hands full this time.
Terry Gilliam
#94. Lipstick?" He arched a brow.
"I'm on the hunt for my perfect shade," I respond, deadpan.
"Ditch the magenta. Your olive skin screams for rose." His deadpan is better than mine.
Gena Showalter
#95. Loves by all pros and cons is better than force it to look perfect
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#96. Nobody's perfect, but all of us can be better than we are.
Jackie Stewart
#97. Anyone who says the past was perfect is a liar and wasn't there. Everything that thinks can aspire, and everything that aspires wants something better than what they've left behind them.
Seanan McGuire
#98. He had known instinctively that it was always better to tell a partial truth with a willing aspect than to tell a perfect truth in a defensive way.
Eleanor Catton
#99. A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow. Don't wait for an inspired ending to come to mind. Work your way to the ending and see what comes up.
Andy Weir
#100. it was better to commit mistakes on the path that one's soul is meant to walk on, than to live a perfect life on a path that is not meant for one's soul.
Amish Tripathi
