Famous Perfection Quotes in English with Images

Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself.  Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them – every day begin the task anew.

- Saint Francis de Sales Quotes

Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.

Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors in an amazing variety of imperfectness.  We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.

Aim for success, not perfection.  Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life.

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.

Perfectionism is simply putting a limit on your future.  When you have an idea of perfect in your mind, you open the door to constantly comparing what you have no with what you want.  That type of self criticism is significantly deterring.

- John Eliot, Ph. D., Quotes

Assert your right to make a few mistakes.  If people can’t accept your imperfections, that’s their fault.

The idea of perfect close your mind to new standards.   When your drive hard toward one ideal, you miss opportunities and paths, not to mention hurting your confidence.  Believe in you potential and then go out and explore it; don’t limit it.

The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

Perfection is a road, not a destination.  Every time I live, I get an education.

- Perfection Quotes by Burk Hudson

Assert your right to make a few mistakes.  If people can’t accept your imperfections, that’s their fault.

- Dr. David M. Burns Quotes Download or Share

Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.

- Eugene Delacroix Qutoe

I don’t confuse greatness with perfection.  To be great anyhow is… the higher achievement. 

I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God’s business.

[Maybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn’t perfection but progress.

- Michelle Burford Quotes