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Perfectionism has disadvantages as well as benefits. While on the one hand, it inspires, on the other hand, it also impedes progress.
Here are the best inspirational quotes and sayings for 2023 about letting go of perfection.
What Is Perfection Quotes
1. “Perfection is not when there is no more to add, but no more to take away” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
2. “Perfection is the willingness to be imperfect” – Lao Tzu
3. “Perfectionism at its core isn’t about high standards. It’s about fear. Fear of failure. Fear of looking stupid, fear of making a mistake, fear of being judged, criticized, and ridiculed” – Marie Forleo
4. “Perfectionism is the belief that something is broken – you. So you dress up your brokenness with degrees, achievements, accolades, pieces of paper, none of which can fix what you think you are fixing” – Edith Eger
5. “This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections” – Saint Augustine
6. “Perfection is fragile; interacting with something that seems perfect puts it in peril” – Sharon Salzberg
7. “Imperfection and perfection go so hand in hand, and our dark and our light are so intertwined, that by trying to push the darkness or the so-called negative aspects of our life to the side… we are preventing ourselves from the fullness of life” – Jeff Bridges
8. “Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away” – Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Quotes For Overcoming Perfectionism Quotes
9. “Instead of waiting for perfection, run with what you do, and fix it along the way” – Paul Arden
10. “When you aim for perfection, you discover it’s a moving target” – George Fisher
11. “Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence” – Vince Lombardi
12. “There is no perfection, only beautiful versions of brokenness” – Shannon L. Alder
13. “Don’t be afraid of not being perfect, it might be what makes you amazing” – Jolene Stockman
14. “Strive for continuous improvement, instead of perfection” – Kim Collins
15. “Perfection is impossible; just strive to do your best” – Angela Watson
16. “The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Short Quotes On Perfection
17. “Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good” – Voltaire
18. “If you look for perfection, you’ll never be content” – Leo Tolstoy
19. “Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it” – Salvador Dali
20. “Don’t aim for perfection. Aim for ‘better than yesterday” – Izey Victoria Odiase
21. “The pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement” – George Will
22. “Perfection is impossible, but you don’t stop aiming for it” – Saquon Barkley
23. “Perfection doesn’t exist” – Andres Iniesta
24. “Perfection itself is imperfection” – Vladimir Horowitz
Quotes About Striving For Perfection Quotes
25. “Perfection is boring. If a face doesn’t have mistakes, it’s nothing” – Kevyn Aucoin
26. “Perfectionism rarely begets perfection, or satisfaction – only disappointment” – Ryan Holiday
27. “Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time” – Voltaire
28. “The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection” – George Orwell
29. “Looking for perfection is the only way to motivate yourself” – Ronnie O’Sullivan
30. “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
31. “Done is better than perfect” – Sheryl Sandberg
32. “It’s not about perfection; it’s about the joy of striving” – Thomas Keller
Quotes About Embracing Imperfection
33. “No one is perfect. It’s not interesting to be perfect” – Lindsay Lohan
34. “Perfection consists not in doing extraordinary things, but in doing ordinary things extraordinarily well” – Marie Angelique Arnauld
35. “Producing perfection from imperfection is, after all, the highest of art forms” – Frank Herbert
36. “Nobody’s perfect. We’re all just one step up from the beasts and one step down from the angels” – Jeannette Walls
37. “Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly” – Robert H. Schuller
38. “A certain type of perfection can only be realized through a limitless accumulation of the imperfect” – Haruki Murakami
39. “Don’t worry about getting perfect, just keep getting better” – Frank Peretti
40. “The only skill that cannot be perfected is perfection itself” – Daphne Delacroix
Quotes About Not Being Perfect
41. “Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it” – William Ellery Channing
42. “Perfection irritates as well as it attracts, in fiction as in life” – Louis Auchincloss
43. “Perfection is an undiscovered jewel” – Edward Counsel
44. “Perfection is the measure of heaven, and the wish to be perfect the measure of man” – John Wolfgang Goethe
45. “From the moment perfection is attained, ’tis gone” – Ivan Panin
46. “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” – Dr. John Grohol
47. “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
48. “Perfection is a trifle dull. It is not the least of life’s ironies that this, which we all aim at, is better not quite achieved” – W. Somerset Maugham
Stop Trying To Be Perfect Quotes
49. “Perfection is terrible, it cannot have children” – Sylvia Plath
50. “Whoever tries to imagine perfection simply reveals his own emptiness” – George Orwell
51. “Out of perfection, nothing can be made. Every process involves breaking something up” – Joseph Campbell
52. “Perfection is the mere repudiation of that ineluctable marginal inexactitude which is the inmost quality of Being” – H. G. Wells
53. “All perfect things are saddening in effect” – Ella Wheeler Wilcox
54. “Where is perfection? Where I cannot reach” – Percy Bysshe Shelley
55. “Nobody wants to watch perfection” – Nicolas Cage
56. “Waiting for perfect is never as smart as making progress” – Seth Godin
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