Striving For Perfection Quotes

Consciously or unconsciously, we are all striving for perfection. Every being must attain to it.

There's no such thing as Perfection. But, in striving for perfection, we can achieve excellence.

Striving for excellence is a positive quality. Striving for perfection is self-defeating.

I probably do have an obsessive personality, but striving for perfection has served me well

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

On this sacred path of Radical Acceptance, rather than striving for perfection, we discover how to love ourselves into wholeness.

Perfectionism is not a quest for the best. It is a pursuit of the worst in ourselves, the part that tells us that nothing we do will ever be good enough - that we should try again.

This toxic striving for perfection is a female thing. How many men obsess about being perfect? For men, generally, good enough is good enough.

Learn the difference between striving for excellence and striving for perfection. The first is attainable; the second is not.

Striving for perfection is the greatest stopper there is. You'll be afraid you can't achieve it. It's your excuse to yourself for not doing anything. Instead, strive for excellence, doing your best.

Don't waste your time striving for perfection; instead, strive for excellence - doing your best.

Grain is life, there's all this striving for perfection with digital stuff. Striving is fine, but getting there is not great. I want a sense of the human and that is what breathes life into a picture. For me, imperfection is perfection.

Nowadays the world is becoming increasingly materialistic, and mankind is reaching toward the very zenith of external progress, driven by an insatiable desire for power and vast possessions. Yet by this vain striving for perfection in a world where everything is relative,they wander even further away from inward peace and happiness of the mind.

Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing.

I always had the sense that nothing was never good enough - striving for perfection. My mother and I had a sort of typical mother-daughter relationship.

Perfection is impossibility but striving for perfection is not. Do the best you can. That is what counts.

Strive for perfection in everything you do.

Mozart, striving for perfection, wrote the same symphony forty-one times. In his case, it worked. He wrote a perfect symphony.

If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters.

To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

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

Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude

If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.

Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.

Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.

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

In less than 70 hours, three astronauts will be launched on the flight of Apollo 8 from the Cape Kennedy Space Center on a research journey to circle the moon. This will involve known risks of great magnitude and probable risks which have not been foreseen. Apollo 8 has 5,600,000 parts and 1.5 million systems, subsystems and assemblies. With 99.9 percent reliability, we could expect 5,600 defects. Hence the striving for perfection and the use of redundancy which characterize the Apollo program.

Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.

Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.

Perfection, fortunately, is not the only alternative to mediocrity. A more sensible alternative is excellence. Striving for excellence is stimulating and rewarding; striving for perfection--in practically anything--is both neurotic and futile.

There is no such thing as the perfect picture. That's the challenge of photography. I was always striving for perfection, even though I knew I could never achieve it. But it kept me reaching for something.

I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence I can reach for; perfection is God's business.

Strive for excellence, not perfection.