Top 100 Not Perfection Quotes
#1. Since there must be chimeras, why is not perfection the chimera of all men?
Sophie Swetchine
#2. Strive for excellence, not perfection, because we don't live in a perfect world.
Joyce Meyer
#3. Every day you should strive for PROGRESS not perfection.
Cassey Ho
#4. Progress, not perfection, is what we should be asking of ourselves.
Julia Cameron
#5. Life is about refinement, not perfection. And you still have refining to do.
Dan Millman
#6. Ah well. You know what they say. Progress, not perfection. That's why it's called training. Shall we begin again?
Claire Thompson
#7. You don't need to stick to tough rules or overnight changes; you need not rely on hardcore discipline that makes you hate your life. You need only focus on progress, not perfection. Lean in to the process of losing weight, and it will happen easily.
Kathy Freston
#9. Progress, not perfection, is the goal. I'm a gold-star junkie,
Gretchen Rubin
#10. See not perfection in self. Seek it not in others. One being a false perceptionThe other, an endless quest.
Mary Summer Rain
#11. What man really seeks is not perfection which is in the future, but fulfillment which is ever in the present.
Nilakanta Sri Ram
#13. Relationships take skill, not perfection or luck!
Staci Bartley
#14. Thankfully, life is a journey of progress and not perfection, and we can improve our blurred reflection by taking up the Sword of the Spirit. We can find a healthy dose of just how much God loves us in the Bible and start to have as much respect for ourselves as God has for us.
Kristen Clark
#15. Their relationship isn't perfect in a lot of ways, bit it's something real. And real should probably be the goal, not perfection. Every relationship is flawed; you just have to figure out how to make it work. Keep trying.
Lindsey Leavitt
#16. My intent is simply to know my material so well that I'm very comfortable with it. Confidence, not perfection, is the goal.
Scott Berkun
#17. Demand perfection of yourself and you'll seldom attain it. Fear of making a mistake is the biggest single cause of making one. Relax - pursue excellence, not perfection.
Lloyd Winter
#18. An excellence mind pursues perfecting, not perfection.
Pearl Zhu
#19. Redemption is not perfection. The redeemed must realize their imperfections.
John Piper
#20. We ask for progress, not perfection. Just do your best.
James Frey
#22. It's not perfection that makes you beautiful, It's your imperfections
Peyton J Glenn
#23. Honey you are a woman of excellence. Excellence is not perfection it's progression
Patricia Hardy-Shaw
#25. The mark of a saint is not perfection, but consecration. A saint is not a person without faults, but a man who has given himself without reserve to God.
Brooke Westcott
#26. The goal is not perfection, but rather mastering the art of practice.
Colleen Mariotti
#28. I will hold my self to a standard of grace which is Christ's gift, not perfection which is Satan's trap.
Maralee McKee
#30. What makes a Christian a Christian is not perfection but forgiveness.
Max Lucado
#31. You can't start with imbalance and end with peace, be that in your own body, in an ecosystem or between a government and its people. What we need to strive for is not perfection, but balance.
Ani DiFranco
#32. Life is about connection, not perfection.
Luke Taylor
#33. The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler
#34. The pursuit of perfection is frustrating and a waste of time, because nothing is ever perfect.
The pursuit of excellence is commendable and worthwhile. Therefore strive for excellence not perfection.
Alan Kulwicki
#35. Essential truths gained by loss in translation. The essence of beauty not perfection, but the doomed aspiration.
Brian McGreevy
#36. Djuna had wanted a life of desire and freedom, not luxury but beauty, not security but fulfillment, not perfection but a perfect moment like this one ...
Anais Nin
#37. The most essential quality for leadership is not perfection but credibility. People must be able to trust you.
Rick Warren
#38. Progress not perfection ... you can't be perfect everything ... but you can gain progress on a daily basis.
Court McGee
#39. Personal growth is about progress, not perfection.
Hal Elrod
#40. Not perfection as a final goal, but the ever-enduring process of perfecting, maturing, refining is the aim of living.
John Dewey
#43. Perfection is a theory. You cannot be a perfect human being, perfect artist. You cannot be a perfect husband, you cannot be a perfect father probably and probably I am not. But go through your daily routine with hope you will be a little better in all respects, and do something meaningful
Mikhail Baryshnikov
#45. Do not be afraid of perfection - you will never attain it.
Salvador Dali
#46. Engineering, like poetry, is an attempt to approach perfection. And engineers, like poets, are seldom completely satisfied with their creations. They notice, even if no one else does, the world that is not quite le mot juste, or the hairline crack that blemishes the structure.
Henry Petroski
#47. Not hammer-strokes, but dance of the water, sings the pebbles into perfection.
Rabindranath Tagore
#48. Happily ever after doesn't mean a lifetime of perfection. I don't think anyone believes that happily ever after means there are no unhappy days, even unhappy years. It means loving forever, despite all the many reasons it's easier not to.
Mia Sheridan
#49. Young friends, do not hesitate to follow the example of Pedro, who 'pleased God and was loved by him' and who, having come to perfection in so short a time, lived a full life.
Pope John Paul II
#50. What a rich wisdom it would be, and how much more bountiful a harvest, to gain pleasure not from achieving personal perfection but from understanding the inevitability of imperfection and pardoning those who also fall short of it.
Barbara Kingsolver
#51. We will not attain a state of perfection in this life, but we can and should press forward with faith in Christ along the strait and narrow path and make steady progress toward our eternal destiny.
David A. Bednar
#52. The central character is an incomplete package of yearning that takes the length of the novel to complete. Completion, though, is not to be confused with perfection.
Patricia Hickman
#54. Error is human,perfection is divine!You are not God! Your mistake is normal.So forgive yourself.
Paul Gitwaza
#55. The naively cynical measure a piece of legislation, a victory, a milestone not against the past or the limits of the possible, but against their ideas of perfection...
Rebecca Solnit
#56. Holiness of heart and life. This is not the perfection of the human nature, but the holiness of the divine nature dwelling within.
A.B. Simpson
#57. Wholeness does not mean perfection; it means embracing brokenness as an integral part of life
Parker J. Palmer
#58. The ultimate aim of Karate lies not in victory or defeat, but in the perfection of the character of its participants.
Gichin Funakoshi
#59. A work of art is full of perhapses and maybesos. Where the perhapses are found, something has to be done about it. And since art deals wtih the perhapses and maybesos, and why not call it the consummate science ... which gets its perfection from seemingly imperfection.
John Marin
#60. Not only we can, but some have reached perfection; so no matter what finer bodies come, they could only be on the relative plane and could do no more than we, for to attain freedom is all that can be done.
Swami Vivekananda
#61. "Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem to characterize our age. If we desire sincerely and passionately the safety, the welfare and the free development of the talents of all men, we shall not be in want of the means to approach such a state."
Albert Einstein
#62. What she aspired to was a kind of delirious perfection. What Lilia wanted was to travel, but not only that; she wanted to be a citizen of everywhere, free-wheeling and capable of instant flight.
Emily St. John Mandel
#64. Learn the difference between striving for excellence and striving for perfection. The first is attainable; the second is not.
Douglas Merrill
#65. My intention here is to make it clear that not a single cell of my composition, here in regard to The Raven, is found by chance or intuition, that the composition moved towards perfection with the precision and inevitability of a mathematical equation.
Maurice Ravel
#66. What is perfect? From the Zen mind, perfection is not being there.
Frederick Lenz
#67. Business by no means forbids pleasures; on the contrary, they reciprocally season each other; and I will venture to affirm that noman enjoys either in perfection that does not join both.
Lord Chesterfield
#68. Friendships aren't perfect and yet they are very precious. For me, not expecting perfection all in one place was a great release.
Letty Cottin Pogrebin
#69. In art them is a point of perfection, as of goodness or maturity in nature; he who is able to perceive it, and who loves it, has perfect taste; he who does not feel it, or loves on this side or that, has an imperfect taste.
Jean De La Bruyere
#70. Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#71. I'm not perfect but I'll be the creator of perfection.
Colin Powell
#72. I was reflecting, in the first place," replied Dantes, " upon the enormous degree of intelligence and ability you must have employed to reach the high perfection to which you have attained. What would you not have accomplished if you had been free?
Alexandre Dumas
#73. Knowing that you are perfect as you are does not mean you will no longer grow. It means that everything you've experienced up to this moment has made you who you are, and that is perfection. Tomorrow, you will be an even more perfect version of yourself.
Julie-Anne
#75. Perfectionism means that you try not to leave so much mess to clean up. But clutter and mess show us that life is being lived.
Anne Lamott
#77. The ideal project does not exist, each time there is the opportunity to realize an approximation.
Paulo Mendes Da Rocha
#78. Surely the novel should be a form of art - but art was not enough. It must contain not only the perfection of art, but the imperfection of nature.
Ellen Glasgow
#79. Life is an aspiration. Its mission is to strive after perfection, which is self-realization. The ideal must not be lowered because of our weaknesses or imperfections.
Mahatma Gandhi
#80. In anything at all, perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#81. The Word of God well understood and religiously obeyed is the shortest route to spiritual perfection. And we must not select a few favorite passages to the exclusion of others. Nothing less than a whole Bible can make a whole Christian.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#82. 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
#83. We need not despair even in our worst, for our failures are forgiven. The only fatal thing is to sit down content with anything less than perfection.
C.S. Lewis
#84. Perfection is not a destination; it's a never-ending process ... Enjoy!
Jim Bouchard
#85. It's not about perfection; it's about the joy of striving.
Thomas Keller
#86. The writer Rebecca Solnit puts it well: "So many of us believe in perfection, which ruins everything else, because the perfect is not only the enemy of the good; it's also the enemy of the realistic, the possible, and the fun." Perfectionism
Elizabeth Gilbert
#87. 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.
Kahlil Gibran
#88. Perfection does not consist in any singular state or condition of life, or in any particular set of duties, but in holy and religious conduct of ourselves in every state of Life.
William Law
#89. It might not be about perfection. Rather, it may be that that which is imperfect is that which has the most character.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#90. Humility is a Divine property and the perfection of the Christian life. It is attained through obedience. He who is not obedient cannot gain humility. There are very few in the world today who have obedience. Our humility is in proportion to our obedience.
Thaddeus Of Vitovnica
#91. Perfection does not exist
you can always do better and you can always grow.
Les Brown
#92. 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
#93. Has creation a final purpose at all, and if so why is it not attained immediately, why does perfection not exist from the very beginning?
Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling
#95. God's careful instructions for building the tabernacle in Exodus 31 remind us that his perfection sets the standard for whatever we create in his name. Whatever we happen to make-not only in the visual arts, but in all the arts-we should make it as well as we can, offering God our very best.
Philip Graham Ryken
#96. Perfection is the natural consequence of eternity: wait long enough, and anything will realize its potential. Coal becomes diamonds, sand becomes pearls, apes become men. It's simply not given to us, in one lifetime, to see those consummations, and so every failure becomes a reminder of death.
Ian Caldwell
#97. Perfection does not consist in macerating or killing the body, but in killing our perverse self-will.
St. Catherine Of Siena
#98. Not separate in this place where I now was. I could hear the visual beauty of the silvery bodies of those scintillating beings above, and I could see the surging, joyful perfection of what they sang.
Eben Alexander
#99. When that strange race nears the dust and is condemned as untouchable, then nature remembers the physical perfection that she accomplished elsewhere, and throws out a god-not many, but one here and there, to prove to society how little its categories impress her.
E. M. Forster
#100. This idealization of clinical perfection prevents us from being in the moment. It stops us from appreciating our experience as beautiful despite the "flaws" because, deep down, we are so ashamed of ourselves for not living up to these expectations of perfection that we can barely breathe. In
Robin Elizabeth
