If you'd like to be good at something, the first thing to out the window is the notion of perfection.

Have no fear of perfection—you'll never reach it.

—Unknown

Only a peace between equals can last. Only a peace the very principle of which is equality and a common participation in a common benefit.

—Unknown

The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just and charitable war.

—Unknown

Peace is an unstable equilibrium, which can be preserved only by acknowledged supremacy or equal power.

—Unknown

The history of liberty is the history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it.

—Unknown

Have no fear of perfection—you'll never reach it.

—Unknown

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.