The Perfect Is The Enemy Of The Good Quotes

#1. Le mieux est l'ennemi du bien. (The perfect is the enemy of the good.)

Voltaire

#2. Voltaire wrote, The perfect is the enemy of the good.

Anonymous

#3. The perfect is the enemy of the good.

Voltaire

#4. Perfect is the enemy of good.

Voltaire

#5. One of the surest ways of forming good combinations in war would be to order movements only after obtaining perfect information of the enemy's proceedings. In fact, how can any man say what he should do himself; if he is ignorant what his adversary is about?

Antoine-Henri Jomini

#6. 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

#7. The perfect society to which we aspire in theory may become a powerful enemy of the good society we can become in fact.

Mark Sagoff

#8. The enemy of a good plan is the dream of a perfect plan.

Carl Von Clausewitz

#9. 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

#10. 'Perfect' is the enemy of 'good enough'.

Meg Whitman

#11. 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.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#12. Stop making the perfect enemy of the good.

Patrick Lencioni

#13. In fact, I would say that the demand for the perfect is the greatest enemy of the good.

Richard Rohr

#14. An enemy can partly ruin a man, but it takes a good-natured injudicious friend to complete the thing and make it perfect.

Mark Twain

#15. Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good.

Gretchen Rubin

#16. Consistency is important in keeping a habit going. Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good. Don't even let the good be the enemy of the just barely okay.

Daria Sockey

#17. How do we appreciate the good without letting it be the enemy of the perfect? How do we keep a step in the right direction from becoming a stopping point? How do we get beyond shades of insipid light green?

Donella Meadows