Quotes About Progress Not Perfection

#1. Progress, not perfection, is what we should be asking of ourselves.

Julia Cameron

#2. Every day you should strive for PROGRESS not perfection.

Cassey Ho

#3. always remember that it is progress, not perfection, you should be looking for.

The Arbinger Institute

#4. The goal is progress, not perfection!

Kathy Freston

#5. Personal growth is about progress, not perfection.

Hal Elrod

#6. Progress not perfection ... you can't be perfect everything ... but you can gain progress on a daily basis.

Court McGee

#7. Expect progress, not perfection.

John F. MacArthur Jr.

#8. Focus on progress, not perfection.

Josh Bezoni

#9. We ask for progress, not perfection. Just do your best.

James Frey

#10. Progress, not perfection, is the goal. I'm a gold-star junkie,

Gretchen Rubin

#11. 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

#12. Ah well. You know what they say. Progress, not perfection. That's why it's called training. Shall we begin again?

Claire Thompson

#13. Think progress, not perfection.

Ryan Holiday

#14. By divine design, men and women are intended to progress together toward perfection and a fulness of glory. Because of their distinctive temperaments and capacities, males and females each bring to a marriage relationship unique perspectives and experiences.

David A. Bednar

#15. The best painters, as they progress in reputation and towards perfection, are found to dispense more and more with the technique of the art, for simpler methods. Simplicity never fails to charm.

Honore De Balzac

#16. 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

#17. It is important to understand where to draw a line between progress and perfection.

Abhishek Ratna

#18. The discerning realize that it is not realistic to expect perfection in others when none of us is perfect ... Meaningful progress can be made only when all of us can cast the motes out of our own eyes, leave judgment to our Father in Heaven, and lose ourselves in righteous living.

Marvin J. Ashton

#19. They say if you're a better person today than you were yesterday you're well on the road to perfection. So I figure if I'm a real snot today, tomorrow I should make huge progress.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#20. The Commedia , it must be remembered, is a vision of the progress of man's soul toward perfection.

Dante Alighieri

#21. ...adopt the "practice makes progress" approach

Mark Hawthorne

#22. My life hasn't been perfect, yet I've never wasted my time envying anyone else. If something wasn't the best it could be - I made it better.

Aleatha Romig

#23. I realized that the future of aviation, to which I had devoted so much of my life, depended less on the perfection of aircraft than on preserving the epoch-evolved environment of life, and that this was true of all technological progress.

Charles Lindbergh

#24. In a sense, evolution adheres to the classic twelve-step program: it takes things one day at a time. It does not strive for perfection; it does not strive at all. There is no progress, no plans, no scala natura, or scale of nature, that ranks organisms from lowly to superior, primitive to advanced.

Natalie Angier

#25. As natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress toward perfection.

Charles Darwin

#26. As long as algebra and geometry have been separated, their progress have been slow and their uses limited; but when these two sciences have been united, they have lent each mutual forces, and have marched together towards perfection.

Joseph-Louis Lagrange

#27. All progress and power are already in every man; perfection is man's nature, only it is barred in and prevented from taking its proper course.

Swami Vivekananda

#28. Don't aim for perfection. Aim for progress. Learn to slow the process down when your adrenaline gets pumping.

Kerry Patterson

#29. The more progress physical sciences make, the more they tend to enter the domain of mathematics, which is a kind of centre to which they all converge. We may even judge the degree of perfection to which a science has arrived by the facility with which it may be submitted to calculation.

Adolphe Quetelet

#30. Perfection is static, and I am in full progress.

Anais Nin

#31. Perfection of planning is a symptom of decay. During a period of exciting discovery or progress, there is no time to plan the perfect headquarters.

C. Northcote Parkinson

#32. The Holy Bible is like a mirror before our mind's eye. In it we see our inner face. From the Scriptures we can learn our spiritual deformities and beauties. And there too we discover the progress we are making and how far we are from perfection.

Pope Gregory I

#33. Hey, you know I might not be perfect! But I'm a wonderful work in progress!

D.C. Akers

#34. We are not to expect perfection in this world; but mankind, in modern times, have apparently made some progress in the science of government.

George Washington

#35. Whenever perfection becomes the goal, it becomes the enemy of progress.

Amy Pendergrass

#36. And in this constancy, in this complete indifference to the life and death of each of us, there lies hid, perhaps, a pledge of our eternal salvation, of the unceasing movement of life upon earth, of unceasing progress towards perfection.

Anton Chekhov

#37. Progress is more important than perfection.

Simon Sinek

#38. More progress results from the violent execution of an imperfect plan than the perfection of a plan to violently execute.

Hubert H. Humphrey

#39. If there is a good and wise God, then there also exists a progress of humanity toward perfection.

Plato

#40. Those who wish to attain God and progress in religious devotion, should particularly guard themselves against the snares of lust and wealth. Otherwise they can never attain perfection.

Ramakrishna

#41. Life is about progress,
not perfection.

Kimberly Kolb

#42. 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

#43. For them it's not about immediate perfection. It's about learning something over time: confronting a challenge and making progress.

Carol S. Dweck

#44. If you do not learn to deny yourself, you can make no progress in perfection.

San Juan De La Cruz

#45. Free agency, given us through the plan of our Father, is the great alternative to Satan's plan of force. With this sublime gift, we can grow, improve, progress, and seek perfection.

James E. Faust

#46. I really don't feel like I'm in any kind of contest. Except, maybe, with myself. Just want to learn and create and grow. Get better all the time with these filmmaking tools. I don't expect perfection from myself. Just progress.

Angela Bettis

#47. These enemies of divine revelation extol human progress to the skies, and with rash and sacrilegious daring would have it introduced into the Catholic religion as if this religion were not the work of God but of man, or some kind of philosophical discovery susceptible of perfection by human efforts.

Pope Pius IX

#48. People feel so guilty about not exercising. Especially people over 50, who feel like they've gone a lifetime without taking care of themselves. Instead of aiming for perfection, you should try to celebrate the progress you're making.

Jack LaLanne

#49. 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

#50. The progress and perfection of mathematics are linked closely with the prosperity of the state.

Carl Sagan

#51. Perfection is a paradigm meant to keep us striving and learning and growing. Like a wondrous sunset, perfection may be beyond our reach, but it is within our view and well worth seeking after.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#52. Activists measure progress against the standard of perfection, or at least the most perfect possible choice. Historians gauge progress against what came before it.

Jonathan Chait

#53. God doesn't require perfection, he requires progression.

Stephan Labossiere

#54. Progress is a tension between the notion of perfection and the notion that striving, not finding, is important.

George Zebrowski

#55. Progress is the goal, the ideal is the type.
What is this ideal? It is God.
Ideal, absolute, perfection, infinity: identical words.

Victor Hugo

#56. The Qur'an does not ask for human perfection, but rather
asks that we persevere in striving for self-improvement and that we never
become complacent or despondent about our progress.

Jeffrey Lang

#57. If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.

Epictetus

#58. I've heard claims that we can wish our way to perfect, permanent wellness, but I haven't seen any proof of that. Sickness and death are part of life. But you can optimize your life. You can make progress as you strive toward perfection.

Brian Carter