248 Quotes About Perfectionism

Robert would allow me to cry as I desperately needed to. At least he'd understand that this need to keep up a perfect appearance had been slowly killing me. Though I hated to admit it; in some ways, Robert had been right all along. You couldn't live without feeling. Denying yourself was a terrible destructive thing that wore on you.

Tout ce qui vaut la peine d'être fait mérite et exige d'être bien fait.

Without a deadline, your work is never over. The power of deadlines leads your work to completion. What is done poorly is better than what is 20% done perfectly assuming person operates on a progress-driven mindset. Then you can improve to make things less bad faster.

The devil, cheated of his legitimate portion of human life, avenges itself by taking over all of life.

Сотри случайные черты - И ты увидишь: мир прекрасен.

There is often no line between perfection and evil.

[Judith Warner:] Our neurotic quest to perfect the mechanics of mothering can be interpreted as an effort to do on an individual level what we’ve stopped trying to do on a society-wide one.

Flaws are what make us human. Accepting our flaws and forgiving ourselves for our mistakes and reconciling those conflicting parts of ourselves is crucial to our health and happiness.

I really believe that it is honesty about our imperfect selves that makes everyone do better and be better.