248 Quotes About Perfectionism

If you criticize others, they don't dare to hurt you. If you are perfect, nobody can criticize you.

A pursuit for perfection is the most leading cause of procrastination in artists.

Isn’t it a relief to hear that what might not be perfect for you might be perfect for someone else?

We may accept a falsity that doesn't claim perfection, but we must never accept anything that claims perfection, not even a truth.

A small step of progression is a thousand times better than a delayed step of perfection. Perfectionism procrastinates and paralyzes progress.

Everything is idea, nothing is ideal.

You’d be perfect if you weren’t a perfectionist.

Being a perfectionist is far from perfect.

During the past few years I had come to understand that there were two kinds of perfection. The first was the natural cycle in which we live, where things rise and fall like the changing of the tides; a perfection which nevertheless contained death, putrefaction and filth. The second, an imaginary place that was created perfect and sentenced to remain so in an impermanent world, as clear and brittle as glass, for the ideal was a place, a locus, even when its template applied to living beings.