Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections, but instantly start remedying them - every day begin the task anew. Saint Francis de Sales

• patience
• self improvement
• perfection

Only a mediocre person is always at his best. William Somerset Maugham

• excellence
• mistakes
• perfection

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. Aristotle

• work
• perfection

The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself. Anna Quindlen

• perfection

Implement now, perfect later. Larry Winget

• perfection
• initiative

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

• perfection
• practice

One of the very worst uses of time is to do something very well that need not be done at all. Brian Tracy

• time management
• perfection

There are no perfect human beings! Persons can be found who are good, very good indeed, in fact, great. There do in fact exist creators, seers, sages, saints, shakers, and movers...even if they are uncommon and do not come by the dozen. And yet these very same people can at times be boring, irritating, petulant, selfish, angry, or depressed. To avoid disillusionment with human nature, we must first give up our illusions about it. Abraham Maslow

• perfection

Perfection is not when there is no more to add, but no more to take away. Antoine de Saint-Exupery

• simplicity
• perfection

This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfection. Saint Augustine

• self improvement
• perfection

'Done' is better than 'perfect'. Anonymous

• perfection

Waiting for perfect is never as smart as making progress. Seth Godin

• progress
• perfection

It's more important to do big things well than to do small things perfectly. Ray Dalio

• priorities
• accomplishment
• perfection

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Don't be a perfectionist, because perfectionists often spend too much time on little differences at the margins at the expense of other big, important things. Be an effective imperfectionist. Solutions that broadly work well (e.g., how people should contact each other in the event of crises) are generally better than highly specialized solutions (e.g., how each person should contact each other in the event of every conceivable crisis), especially in the early stages of a plan. There generally isn't much gained by lots of detail relative to a good broad solution. Ray Dalio

• perfection

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Even on the biological level life is not like a river but like a tree. It does not move towards unity but away from it and the creatures grow further apart as they increase in perfection. Good, as it ripens, becomes continually more different not only from evil but from other good. Clive Staples Lewis

• perfection