248 Quotes About Perfectionism

Those who demand perfection in others can only be satisfied by a con artist.

Perfectionism is the belief that something is broken - you. So you dress up your brokenness with degrees, achievements, accolades, pieces of paper, none of which can fix what you think you are fixing.

Very strange clay this, passive in the potter’s hands, to which the potter can do nothing unless it lets him!

So often there was sadness and grief lying underneath perfection.

Striving for perfection is a good and worthwhile effort. Expecting to actually attain perfection can kill you.

This absurd over-estimate of the importance of the moment of dying is the direct consequence of the rejection of the Bible doctrine of Perseverance and the substitution for it of a doctrine of Perfection as the meaning of Christ being our Saviour to the uttermost.

Eventually, I developed the discernment to spend energy in friendships that thrive--some I already had and new ones as well. And it didn't take finding perfect women without issues or becoming one myself. My friendships today are with imperfect women like me who have enough self-awareness that they can both give and receive the most important thing in any relationship: grace.

... perfectionists often produce very little.

Don’t let perfectionism become an excuse for never getting started.