Top 100 For Perfection Quotes
#1. it is much easier to strive for perfection when you are never bored.
Daniel Kahneman
#2. I strive for perfection - I settle for satisfaction
Carroll Bryant
#3. Our essence is change. We are movement. Being out of balance is life.
Perfect balance. Stasis. That is death.
Life yearns for perfection. Death is perfection.
Chris Boucher
#4. I keep saying I am an auto-didact, but I have a lot of outside influences. One I could cite is juggler Francis Brunn, who was the first man to throw ten rings in the air; he was really an amazing juggler who showed onstage the quest for perfection.
Philippe Petit
#5. You're not looking for perfection in your partner. Perfection is all about the ego. With soulmate love, you know that true love is what happens when disappointment sets in - and you're willing to deal maturely with these disappointments.
Karen Salmansohn
#6. I don't aim for perfection. But I do want to try and come up with something interesting.
Kate Bush
#7. There are no shortcuts on the quest for perfection.
Ben Hogan
#8. Strive not for perfection..but for lives and loves that matter.
Debora Spar
#9. Being a disciple is more than being good: it is about searching for perfection through the love of Jesus Christ.
Michael J. Coyner
#10. 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
#11. To me, searching for perfection isn't anywhere near as interesting as trying to find your own voice.
Charlie Trotter
#12. To strive for perfection is to kill love because perfection does not recognize humanity.
Marion Woodman
#13. As the leaders and decision-makers of this great state, it is our responsibility to strive for perfection.
Roy Barnes
#14. I look for good possibilities in movies. I don't look for perfection.
Christopher Walken
#15. People often called us perfectionists, but we were not looking for perfection. We were looking for some kind of magic in the music.
Paul Simon
#16. We aren't supposed to strive for perfection everyday. If we were perfect, we'd have no need for Jesus. And it's through our imperfections that we really feel the pull toward our need for a Savior. So the imperfections serve a wonderful purpose if we'll let them.
Lysa TerKeurst
#17. WITHOUT GRACE, MINIMALISM IS ANOTHER METRIC FOR PERFECTION. Chasing
Erin Loechner
#18. Even when we strive for perfection, life is nothing more than an attempt to achieve it through a series of greater or smaller imperfections.
Peter Prange
#19. Golf is a search for perfection, for balance. It's about meditation and concentration. You have to use hand and brain.
Celine Dion
#20. A selfie has nothing to do with ego. It is a constant search for perfection.
Chloe Thurlow
#22. Your desire for perfection is the cause of anger. Leave room for imperfection. Perfection in action is almost impossible.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
#23. The way to achieve happiness is to try for perfection that is impossible to achieve, and spend the rest of your life trying to achieve it.
Winston S. Churchill
#24. I take my job very seriously and I work the best that I can on every drum that I hit. I want all the drums and cymbals to sound the best. I strive for perfection and I won't take anything less.
Chris Johnson
#25. That's the beauty of art
we strive for perfection but never achieve it. The journey is everything.
Rafe Esquith
#26. She strived for perfection. She loved setting herself tasks, sometimes impossible ones, to prove to her heart that underneath every seemingly ugly thing there was something beautiful inside.
Cecelia Ahern
#28. The book designer strives for perfection; yet every perfect thing lives somewhere in the neighborhood of dullness and is frequently mistaken for it by the insensitive.
Jan Tschichold
#29. Mozart, striving for perfection, wrote the same symphony forty-one times. In his case, it worked. He wrote a perfect symphony.
Edward Abbey
#30. Striving for perfection can get in the way during the early stages of the creative process.
David Kelley
#31. Don't aim for perfection. Aim for progress. Learn to slow the process down when your adrenaline gets pumping.
Kerry Patterson
#32. It may be in seemingly unimportant things that a man expresses his passion for perfection, yet they will count heavily in the long run.
Charles M. Schwab
#33. We will be relentless in our pursuit for perfection. We won't ever be perfect - but in the process we will achieve greatness.
Vince Lombardi
#34. Life calls not for perfection, but for completeness.
Carl Jung
#35. I have always had a drive that pushed me to try for perfection, and golf is a game in which perfection stays just out of reach.
Betsy Rawls
#36. At some point you just have to let go ... knowing full well you might look back in a couple years and be embarrassed by the finished product. But that's life. And like I said before, if I were to strive for perfection I would never get anything done.
Elizabeth Rudnick
#37. Nobody gets everything they want. There will always be something. New problems arise. Instead of striving for perfection, strive for contentedness. Find a way to be happy what you already have & you'll always have exactly what you need.
Adam J. Kurtz
#38. Instead of waiting for perfection, run with what you've got, and fix it as you go.
Paul Arden
#39. shame is the voice of perfectionism. Whether we're talking about appearance, work, motherhood, health or family, it's not the quest for perfection that is so painful; it's failing to meet the unattainable expectations that lead to the painful wash of shame.
Brene Brown
#40. When you aim for perfection, you discover it's a moving target.
Geoffrey Fisher
#41. Strive for perfection. Nobody's going to be perfect on this earth. But strive for perfection.
Judith Jamison
#42. And I know you thought a lot of him. I realize I'm hardly the perfect substitute, but like I said, the way things are going maybe it's stupid to wait for perfection. Suddenly he was looking directly at her and Cassie saw something in his mahogany eyes she'd never seen before.
L.J.Smith
#43. Grain is life, there's all this striving for perfection with digital stuff. Striving is fine, but getting there is not great. I want a sense of the human and that is what breathes life into a picture. For me, imperfection is perfection.
Anton Corbijn
#44. As you begin to eliminate your need for perfection in all areas of your life, you'll begin to discover the perfection in life itself
Richard Carlson
#45. In this life, there is not the need for perfection, nor is there sufficient time to achieve it.
Benedict Kruse
#46. I'm always astonished whenever I finish anything. Astonished and depressed. My desire for perfection should prevent me from ever finishing anything; it should prevent me even from starting.
Fernando Pessoa
#47. Success depends on our choice of deployment (in terms of both quantity and/ or Quality) of the 86400 spells (Hindi- Pal) available each day for reflection, correction, and improvement,towards the journey for perfection.
Priyavrat Thareja
#48. Some people strive for perfection, but I often find perfection boring.
Mario Testino
#49. I strive for perfection, but of course it can never be perfect. I'm never satisfied at the end of a performance. But the great thing about live theatre is that every night you get another chance to get it right.
Anthony Warlow
#50. Strive for perfection, but settle for excellence.
Don Shula
#51. I'm somewhat of a perfectionist, I think, and I strive for perfection.
Sam Claflin
#52. The seeker for perfection must discover in his own life the reflection of the inner light.
Okakura Kakuzo
#53. Ever since my childhood, I was haunted by the search for perfection. An imperfectly cut paper literally made me ill. I would guillotine it.
Hans Arp
#54. What I've learned is you don't have to strive for perfection, but you do have to strive to be a very hard worker.
Lindsay Pearce
#55. Striving for perfection is neurotic; striving for excellence is progress. Excellence is continuous improvement. There is nothing that cannot be done better or improved the next time.
Shiv Khera
#56. There's no such thing as Perfection. But, in striving for perfection, we can achieve excellence.
Vince Lombardi
#57. Italian men are beautiful in the same way as French women, which is to say - no detail spared in the quest for perfection.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#58. 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
#59. Competition is about passion for perfection, and passion for other people who join in this impossible quest.
Mariah Nelson
#60. Don't strive for perfection, just do your best. Everything in life is ever revolving to be perfect.
Ann Marie Frohoff
#61. I mentioned the non-competitive spirit explicitly, because these days, excellence is a fashionable concept. But excellence is a competitive notion, and that is not what we are heading for: we are heading for perfection.
Edsger Dijkstra
#62. If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.
Leo Tolstoy
#63. It's always necessary to seek for perfection. Obviously, for us, this word no longer has the same meaning. To me, it means: from one canvas to the next, always go further, further ...
Pablo Picasso
#64. Not one thing we've done changes that we are his. That he created us and loves us with a love more fierce and loyal than any we will ever know. He isn't looking for perfection. He's looking for humble hearts that know we are nothing without his lavish grace.
Melanie Shankle
#65. Striving for excellence is a positive quality. Striving for perfection is self-defeating.
Melody Beattie
#66. Don't waste your time striving for perfection; instead, strive for excellence - doing your best.
Laurence Olivier
#67. Strive for perfection in everything you do. Take the best that exists and make it better. When it does not exist, design it.
Henry Royce
#68. Letting go of the need for perfection releases a burst of energy - and guess what - you may accidentally do a good job.
Anna Olson
#69. Without monstrous distortions, I was slowly learning, without lies and hypocrisy, one cannot have the idealized American life I so longed for. Perfection was marred only by those corruptions necessary to its enterprise.
Joshua Ferris
#70. I have striven for perfection, it has always eluded me, but I surely had an obligation to make one more try.
Giuseppe Verdi
#71. You can make amends of your flaws and faults if you strive for perfection and succeed
Sandile Sean Mntla
#72. Because there is a word for perfection, people will always imagine that they know it.
Idries Shah
#73. Heaven itself is just a little less than perfect: for perfection, by self-definition, is a static condition, and anything truly static has deceased its purpose.
Gabriel Brunsdon
#74. Perfection is impossible without humility. Why should I strive for perfection, if I am already good enough?
Leo Tolstoy
#75. The novel is too capacious, inclusive, unruly, and personal for perfection. Too long, sometimes too much like life.
Ian McEwan
#76. I'm always looking for perfection. Every photographer, in one way or another, if he's serious, is. He ain't ever going to get it. But hope springs eternal.
Phil Stern
#77. This toxic striving for perfection is a female thing. How many men obsess about being perfect? For men, generally, good enough is good enough.
Jane Fonda
#78. You take the opportunities given to you. If we always waited for perfection, we'd miss out on so much. Don't you think?
Sarah Monzon
#79. Don't strive for perfection. It doesn't exist. Strive for a better you. That's always in reach.
Brett Hoebel
#80. I was greatly influenced by one of my teachers. She had a zeal not so much for perfection as for steady betterment-she demanded not excellence so much as integrity.
Edward R. Murrow
#81. Perfection is impossibility but striving for perfection is not. Do the best you can. That is what counts.
John Wooden
#82. We must have the courage to be imperfect while striving for perfection.
Patricia T. Holland
#83. Entrepreneurs are never satisfied. They want to do things better. They strive for perfection and use all the ingenuity to their command to achieve it.
J. Willard Marriott
#84. The smart employer looks not for perfection but for an explanation of how the consequences of a dishonorable act affected the candidate and others.
Bruce Weinstein
#86. I probably do have an obsessive personality, but striving for perfection has served me well.
Tom Ford
#87. Strive for perfection, excellence, and never give up.
Chris Mentillo
#88. Improvement in one area often adversely affects another area, and striving for perfection in one may lead to failure in another.
Stephen F. Rosenstiel
#89. We should embrace our mistakes, not fear them, learn from them, as we know we are not perfect. We do not come from perfection, we reach for perfection.
Shani Bush
#90. I'm still waiting for perfection. In the meantime, I'll settle for persistence
Bo Ryan
#91. I wanted to make it as anonymous as a photo. But it was perhaps also the wish for perfection, the unapproachable, which then means loss of immediacy. Something is missing then, though; that is why I gave that up.
Gerhard Richter
#92. Learn the difference between striving for excellence and striving for perfection. The first is attainable; the second is not.
Douglas Merrill
#93. Don't think you are unstoppable or foolproof. Don't think that the only way your business will work is through perfection. Don't aim for perfection. Aim for success.
Eike Batista
#94. Artists are strange people. They make the world a beautiful place, and make others feel good, but they are a bunch of lonely people. Artists are people with unfulfilled, unrealistic dreams, lonely, and always searching for perfection.
Ama H. Vanniarachchy
#95. So I made up my mind I was going to find someone who would love me unconditionally three hundred and sixty-five days a year.
Watanabe: Wow, and did your search pay off?
M: That's the hard part. I guess I've been waiting so long I'm looking for perfection. That makes it tough.
Haruki Murakami
#96. This search for perfection - which is a search for divinity - is nothing more than the failure to accept our existence the way it is.
Bernadette Roberts
#97. 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
#98. One of the strongest things I have had to wrestle with in my life is the significance of the longing for perfection in oneself and in the people bound to the self by friendship or parenthood or childhood.
Fred Rogers
#99. Alexander was in the grip of a passion for perfection. He was not aware of how closely, how perilously, perfectionism and fanaticism are related.
Tove Jansson
#100. Just start Don't wait for perfection. Just start and let the work teach you.
Jacqueline Novogratz
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