It’s not about perfection; it’s about the joy of striving.

Perfectionism is adaptive if you are mindful of your humanhood.

True perfection has to be imperfect. I know that sounds foolish, but it’s true.

There are two kinds of perfect: The one you can never achieve, and the other, by just being yourself.

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Just because nobody complains doesn’t mean all parachutes are perfect.

Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.

No one is perfect. It’s not interesting to be perfect.

Even imperfection itself may have its ideal or perfect state.

The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it is.

To me, every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle.

Beauty is truth’s smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.

If you look for perfection, you’ll never be content.

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

I think what is interesting in life is all the cracks and all the flaws and all the moments that are not perfect.

We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.

Looking for perfection is the only way to motivate yourself.

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.

Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.