To demand perfection is a sure way to be disappointed in everybody, for you will be bound to think ill of others.

There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.

—Salvador Dali

I do not take drugs—I am drugs.

—Salvador Dali

The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.

—Salvador Dali

Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.

—Salvador Dali

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.

—Salvador Dali

[M]aybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn't perfection but progress.

—Francis de Sales

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

—Lois McMaster Bujold

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 now with what you want. That type of self criticism is significantly deterring.

—John Eliot, Ph.D.

No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.

—John Eliot, Ph.D.

I do think imperfection's underrated.

—Herbert Spencer