Perfectionism Quotes

No matter how long the preparation, you will never feel ready to write an exam, to start a business, to be parent or even to die. Just go for it.

You can waste a perfectly good life trying to meet the standards of someone who thinks you’re not good enough because they can’t understand who you are.

Anyone can find the dirt on someone, but very few can wipe it from their own shoes.

Perfection, my dear being, is what you are.Let not your mindobscure your view.Be still and be aware, right where you are, you cannot miss it.

When people undermine your values, they've strong reasons. For example, they mistaken your passion for excellence as perfectionism...

Being thin created intense anxiety that I wouldn’t be able to maintain that weight for life, and I couldn’t.

Our teens are embedded in a culture driven by competition and perfectionism, where success is defined by status, performance and their appearance.

Progress is much more better than perfect.

Perfection is an opinion not a fact.

There isn't anything you can't make run a little better, a little faster, a little smoother, if you take the time to analyse it and component-split the processes.

The myth of self-sufficiency demands optimism without end, downplays life’s challenges, and shames us when, inevitably, we fall short.

I'm not here to be small, to compare, to judge (myself or you), to fit in or to be perfect. I'm here to grow, to learn, to love, to be human.

Perfect is the enemy of done.

Worst thing about being a perfectionist.. Everything you do might look amazing in someone else eyes but in your heart never truly satisfied.

I am not Perfect, but I am a Limited Edition

I do think imperfection is underrated

Perfectionism is searching for faults to justify low self-esteem. It is a guaranteed failure and fantasy.

At some point, you really just have to finish your work and release it as is-if only so you can go on and make other things with a glad and determined heart.

Professionalism is a key to Perfectionism…

There’s no need to sharpen your pencils any more. Even the dull ones can make a mark.

In the end, perfection is just a concept - an impossibility we use to torture ourselves and that contradicts nature.

We freeze up because we expect a certain result or because we want things to be perfect.

Perfectionism, of course, was something which even as a young man he had come to see as the innermost essence of talent.

Perfectionism sucks the air out of your uniqueness and leaves you empty, away from who you could become.

Perfectionism is a delusion that can rob one of a very successful, enriching life if not careful.

[Judith Warner:] Our neurotic quest to perfect the mechanics of mothering can be interpreted as an effort to do on an individual level what we’ve stopped trying to do on a society-wide one.