Perfectionist people consider that perfection is all for them. They will be blind to perfection and judge people based on their perfection. That trait will very bad when controlling your mind and your heart.
Therefore, we are collecting quotes about perfection to keep you away from perfectionism and remind you that perfection is not everything in life. You also can share these quotes with your family, friends, and the people you love.
40 Perfection Quotes
Excellence does not require perfection.
Henry James
Finality is death. Perfection is finality. Nothing is perfect. There are lumps in it.
James Stephens
Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor.
Anne Lamott
Perfectionist mans ultimate illusion. It simply doesn`t exist in the universe…. If you are a perfectionist, you are guaranteed to be a loser in whatever you do.
David D. Burns
To demand perfection is a sure way to be disappointed in everybody, for you will be bound to think ill of others.
Monica Fairview
We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
Sam Keen
People throw away what they could have by insisting on perfection, which they cannot have, and looking for it where they will never find it.
Edith Schaeffer
Perfectionism rarely begets perfection, or satisfaction – only disappointment.
Ryan Holiday
The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.
Eugene Delacroix
Perfection is impossible; just strive to do your best.
Angela Watson
All perfect things are saddening in effect.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Whoever tries to imagine perfection simply reveals his own emptiness.
George Orwell
Only gods can safely risk perfection … it’s a dangerous thing for a man.
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From the moment perfection is attained, ’tis gone.
Ivan Panin
The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection, that one is sometimes willing to commit sins for the sake of loyalty…
George Orwell
You’ll end up living a lonely life if you’re waiting around for perfect.
Samantha Young
If you look for perfection, you’ll never be content.
Leo Tolstoy
When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.
Donald Miller
Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.
Salvador Dali
Perfection belongs to narrated events, not to those we live.
Primo Levi
There is no perfection, only beautiful versions of brokenness.
Shannon L. Alder
If people reach perfection they vanish, you know.
T.H. White
Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.
Immanuel Kant
Nobody’s perfect. We’re all just one step up from the beasts and one step down from the angels.
Jeannette Walls
There are two kinds of perfect: The one you can never achieve, and the other, by just being yourself.
Lauren King
The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
Anna Quindlen
When a man says that he is perfect already, there is only one of two places for him, and that is heaven or the lunatic asylum.
Henry Ward Beecher
Perfection doesn’t exist in anyone. Striving for perfection in any part of our lives is a recipe for failure, since it can never be attained.
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Perfection is terrible, it cannot have children.
Sylvia Plath
Perfection is impossible, but you don’t stop aiming for it.
Saquon Barkley
Strive for continuous improvement, instead of perfection.
Kim Collins
The pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement.
George Will
Perfection doesn’t exist.
Andres Iniesta
The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
George Orwell
No one is perfect. It’s not interesting to be perfect.
Lindsay Lohan
It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.
Samuel Johnson
We adore perfection because we can`t have it; it would disgust us if we had it. Perfect is inhuman, because human is imperfect.
Fernando Pessoa
Perfection does not exist. To understand it is the triumph of human intelligence; the desire to possess it the most dangerous kind of madness.
Alfred De Musset
Progress is more important than perfection.
Simon Sinek
Perfection is an impossible destination.
Tim Ferriss
