Perfection Unattainable Quotes

#1. Perfection is something everyone strives for, but it's elusive and may be an illusion.

R.L. Griffin

#2. Early in my life I had made a pact with myself. I would never eat anything that moved when I cooked it, excited the dog, or inflated upon impact with my teeth.

Erma Bombeck

#3. The maxims tell you to aim at perfection, which is well; but it's unattainable, all the same.

Bayard Taylor

#4. I no longer need to carry the burden of the past on my shoulders, so I am free to fully give myself to what God has called me to in the here and now.

Paul David Tripp

#5. SCREW PERFECTION. Perfect is the archenemy of Better. Perfect is boring. Perfect is unattainable.

Fay Wolf

#6. A man can do his best only by confidently seeking (and perpetually missing) an unattainable perfection.

Ralph Barton Perry

#7. Perfectionism is self destructive simply because there's no such thing as perfect. Perfection is an unattainable goal.

Brene Brown

#8. Perfection is worth striving for, even if it is ultimately unattainable in this life.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#9. Perfection is an unattainable goal. It isn't going to be perfect. Just get words down on paper, and when you stumble to what you think is the end of the book, you will have hundreds of pages of words that came out of your head. It may not be perfect, but it looks like a book.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#10. 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

#11. I'm a workin' girl.

Dolly Parton

#12. The scope for improvement is infinite, precisely because perfection is unattainable.

George Soros

#13. Is there really such a thing as perfection? Of course not! It's a myth, a vicious rumor.

Aimee Cohen

#14. Aim at perfection in everything?, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable. - Chesterfield.

Orison Swett Marden

#15. The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection, even though it consists in nothing more than in the pounding of an old piano, is what alone gives a meaning to our life on this unavailing star.

Logan Pearsall Smith

#16. For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian--ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection that unattainable by the highest art.

Lytton Strachey

#17. True perfection is unattainable, but if you chase perfection you will catch excellence!

Vince Lombardi

#18. We sort of expect to see men in women's clothes. It's part of our culture. The key thing is, it has to be done quite badly.

David Walliams

#19. For whatever it's worth, I believe we're born imperfect, and perfection, whatever that may be, is unattainable by us mere humans.

Liza M. Wiemer

#20. Never try to outgrow the people who were helping you walk,
when you could not even walk.

Akash Lakhotia

#21. Perfection is not to be attained, but to be pursued infinitely.

Abhijit Naskar

#22. Perfection's unattainable but it isn't unapproachable.

Peter Watts

#23. Don't aim for perfect. Aim for complete. Perfection is an unattainable illusion.

Lisa Genova

#24. Even within perfection, there are flaws. These flaws carry an unattainable beauty, which is indifferent to the human nature.

Nocturnus Libertus

#25. 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

#26. Philosophers say that perfection is unattainable. Lithographers redefine perfection according to SEMI standards.

Ken Goldberg

#27. If Jesus looks too feminine to us, maybe it says more about our understanding of masculinity than it does about a possible conspiracy to feminize the church and men.

Nate Pyle

#28. Don't strive for somebody else's notion of perfection. It's an unattainable and ultimately ridiculous goal. Strive instead to be uniquely yourself and when in doubt listen to your gut, because it already knows what you want to become.

Meredith Vieira

#29. ...the state of perfection is an elusive goal; demanding something so obscure as almost unattainable and can become a compulsive, crazy making squirrel-on-a-wheel way of living.

David W. Earle

#30. Perfection is unattainable, so I like to live in imperfection.

Nikki Sixx

#31. I kind of dress like a boy from the nineties. I like wearing baseball hats. I just like to be really comfortable.

Mae Whitman

#32. Always make new mistakes

Esther Dyson