| Author |
Quotes |
| Alfred Lord Tennyson | Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null, dead perfection; no more |
| Beatrice Potter Webb | So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere. |
| Benedict Spinoza | All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare. |
| Anonymous | No one becomes perfect, but some become great. |
| Charlton Heston | You can spend a lifetime, and, if you're honest with yourself, never once was your work perfect. |
| Dante | The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it is. |
| Doug Larson | The only nice thing about being imperfect is the joy it brings to others. |
| Dr David M Burns | Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person. |
| Epictetus | One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent. |
| Harriet Braiker | Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing. |
| J Yahl | Perfection is our goal, excellence will be tolerated. |
| John Ruskin | No good work whatever can be perfect, and the demand for perfection is always a sign of a misunderstanding of the ends of art. |
| John Updike | Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self-solitude is the enemy of well-being. |
| Josh Billings | If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself. |
| Josh Billings | If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself. |
| Lord Chesterfield | Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable. |
| Michael J Fox | I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business. |
| Michaelangelo | Trifles go to make perfection, And perfection is no trifle. |
| Michelangelo | Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle. |
| Paul Acquasanta | Perfect is determined in shortened measures of time, not over long periods of time or lifetimes. It would be unnatural. |
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