Perfectionists Quotes

“Perfection is an illusion. Yet perfectionists demand it from others while being far from flawless themselves. The margin of error of the human condition is often our greatest area of excellence and discovery.”

“Perfectionists are patient,the diligent are persevering,and the relentless are successful.”

“Perfectionists are not all negative, miserable, unhappy and over controlling individuals”

“Perfectionists talk about first love. Realists talk about true love. Optimists talk just about love.”

“Perfectionists are neurotic people. The world is perfectly beautiful in its imperfection.”

“Their grumpiness is often the grumpiness of perfectionists who hold that anything less than total victory is failure, a premise that makes it easy to give up at the start or to disparage the victories that are possible. This is Earth. It will never be heaven. There will always be cruelty, always be violence, always be de- struction.”

“Building your "dream life" is filled with things that can feel like the opposite of a dream:MistakesDelaysStarting overFailureThe building part is actually more of a rebuilding that is a continual process. The building is not linear in nature but far more interesting. You might start a creative dream, take the "next step", and find yourself completely bored, dissatisfied, or just not inspired. ”

“Our creative dreams are subject to grudge-holding when we decide that other people somehow have made their dreams real and we have not.”

“Identifying Your DreamSome people can easily identify one primary dream. For others, a dream is more elusive. These people often have many dreams at once, or a general idea of a dream that never takes a specific shape.”