Top 40 Perfection Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Progress is more important than perfection.”

— Simon Sinek

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2. “Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection.”

— Mark Twain

3. “Don’t let your want for perfection become procrastination.”

— Danielle LaPorte

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4. “Passion drives perfection.”

— Rick Warren

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5. “Excellence does not require perfection.”

— Henry James

6. “When you aim for perfection, you discover it’s a moving target.”

— Geoffrey Fisher

7. “I’m chasing perfection.”

— Kobe Bryant

8. “Details make perfection, and perfection is not a detail.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

9. “Perfection is lots of little things done well.”

— Fernand Point

10. “I was born to make mistakes, not to fake perfection.”

— Drake

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11. “A certain type of perfection can only be realized through a limitless accumulation of the imperfect.”

— Haruki Murakami

12. “One of the most essential things you need to do for yourself is to choose a goal that is important to you. Perfection does not exist – you can always do better and you can always grow.”

— Les Brown

13. “I’m never pleased with anything, I’m a perfectionist, it’s part of who I am.”

— Michael Jackson

14. “Gentlemen, we are going to relentlessly chase perfection, knowing full well we will not catch it.”

— Vince Lombardi

15. “Life calls not for perfection, but for completeness.”

— C.G. Jung

16. “Remember that, sooner or later, before it ever reaches perfection, you will have to let it go and move on and start to write the next thing. Perfection is like chasing the horizon. Keep moving.”

— Neil Gaiman

17. “Perfection is an impossible destination.”

— Tim Ferriss

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18. “The perfection of Tawheed is found when there remains nothing in the heart except Allaah.”

— Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

19. “Perfection is impossible without humility. Why should I strive for perfection, if I am already good enough?”

— Leo Tolstoy

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20. “When you strive for perfection, you compare different versions of what could be instead of being present with what is. Perfectionism is an attempt to inhabit an imaginary world in order to avoid experiencing the world in which you live.”

— Gary Zukav

21. “Excellence always sells.”

— Earl Nightingale

22. “You are a Divine creation, a Being of Light who showed up here as a human being at the exact moment you were supposed to. You are the Beloved, a miracle, a part of the eternal perfection.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

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23. “Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.”

— Michelangelo

24. “Imperfections define perfection.”

— Colleen Hoover

25. “I’m definitely on the pursuit of perfection. I will always be learning.”

— Conor McGregor

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26. “Businesses that grow by development and improvement do not die. But when a business ceases to be creative, when it believes it has reached perfection and needs to do nothing but produce no improvement, no development, it is done.”

— Henry Ford

27. “Our religion doesn’t demand perfection but instead a manageable strive to better ourselves.”

— Nouman Ali Khan

28. “Quality involves living the message of the possibility of perfection and infinite improvement, living it day in and day out, decade by decade.”

— Tom Peters

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29. “There is no perfection only life.”

— Milan Kundera

30. “Be content with nothing less than perfection.”

— Walter J. Phillips

31. “Perhaps the crescent moon smiles in doubt at being told that it is a fragment awaiting perfection.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

32. “I’m obsessed with perfection. I want to work. I don’t want to stop. I want to take advantage and make myself the best possible me that I can be.”

— Drake

33. “Gentlemen, we will chase perfection, and we will chase it relentlessly, knowing all the while we can never attain it. But along the way, we shall catch excellence.”

— Vince Lombardi

34. “Comparisons are easily done, once you’ve had a taste of perfection.”

— Katy Perry

35. “The egocentric is always frustrated, simply because the condition of self-perfection is self-surrender. There must be a willingness to die to the lower part of self, before there can be a birth to the nobler.”

— Fulton J. Sheen

36. “The perfection of moral character consists in this, in passing every day as the last, and in being neither violently excited nor torpid nor playing the hypocrite.”

— Marcus Aurelius

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

— Tupac Shakur

38. “It’s the notion that there is no perfection – that there is a broken world and we live with broken hearts and broken lives but still there is no alibi for anything. On the contrary, you have to stand up and say hallelujah under those circumstances.”

— Leonard Cohen

39. “Man is rotten with perfection.”

— Kenneth Burke

40. “The ultimate aim of Karate lies not in victory or defeat, but in the perfection of the character of its participants.”

— Gichin Funakoshi

41. “Done is better than perfect.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

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