More quotations tagged with “perfection”
To demand perfection is a sure way to be disappointed in everybody, for you will be bound to think ill of others.
—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.