Quotes on Perfectionist

Ring the bells that still can ring.

Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.

I am not a perfectionist, but still I seek perfection. I am not a great romantic, but yet I yearn 4 affection

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

I think this..."perfectionist gene" that too many young women have holds them back, and instead they should be really aiming for "good enough." You don't have to be perfect. Most men never think like that. They're just trying to figure out what's the opening and how they can seize it. They're not thinking about, Oh my gosh, I'm not perfect, my hair's not perfect today, I wore the wrong shoes. No.

Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.

Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.

I was a perfectionist in gymnastics.

I'm a perfectionist. I'm pretty much insatiable. I feel there's so many things I can improve on.

It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.

I also learned that you didn’t come onto this earth as a perfectionist or control freak. You weren’t born a person of cringe and contraction. You were born as energy, as life, made of the same stuff as stars, blossoms, breezes. You learned contraction to survive, but that was then. You have paid through the nose-paid but good. It is now your turn to reap.

Everything is perfect in the universe - even your desire to improve it.

It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.

A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.

The trouble with being number one in the world - in anything- is that it takes a certain mentality to attain that position, and that is something of a driving, perfectionist attitude, so that once you do achieve number one, you don't relax and enjoy it.

People often called us perfectionists, but we were not looking for perfection. We were looking for some kind of magic in the music.

If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do.

We come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.

People call me a perfectionist, but I'm not. I'm a rightist. I do something until it's right, and then I move on to the next thing.

The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.

Striving to better, oft we mar what’s well.