20 Inspiring Quotes About Overcoming Perfectionism

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We've been conditioned to not make mistakes, But I can't live that way.
Natasha Bedingfield

Every woman’s success should be an inspiration to another. We’re strongest when we cheer each other on.
Serena Williams

I cannot imagine where women ever got the idea that they must be perfect in order to be loved or successful.
Elizabeth Gilbert

My expectations are way lower. I no longer believe that at this age I should have rock-hard abs, a perfectly calm disposition, or a million dollars in the bank. It helps to surround myself with women my age who speak honestly about their lives.
Ada Calhoun

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

We must understand that the drive for perfectionism is a corrosive waste of time, because nothing is ever beyond criticism.
Elizabeth Gilbert

I want to do something splendid…something heroic or wonderful that won’t be forgotten after I’m dead. I don’t know what, but I’m on the watch for it and mean to astonish you all someday.
Louisa May Alcott

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Victory is temporary, but joy is eternal. Be grateful for all of the joyful moments, big and small.
Serena Williams

Perfectionism doesn’t make you feel perfect. It makes you feel inadequate.
Maria Shriver

Radical acceptance is finding a way to take life as it is, not as you thought it would be.
Ada Calhoun

We think that if we just meditated enough or jogged enough or ate perfect food, everything would be perfect. But from the point of view of someone who is awake, that’s death. (...) It doesn’t have any fresh air. We are killing the moment by controlling our experience.
Pema Chödrön

Healthy striving is self-focused: "How can I improve?" Perfectionism is other-focused: "What will they think?”
Brené Brown

But I am learning that perfection isn't what matters. In fact, it's the very thing that can destroy you if you let it.
Emily Giffin

You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.
Amy Bloom

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

Embrace the glorious mess that you are.
Elizabeth Gilbert

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius, and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.
Marilyn Monroe

There is no perfection, only beautiful versions of brokenness.
Shannon L. Alder

Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.
Maya Angelou

When all of your flaws and all of my flaws Are laid out one by one The wonderful part of the mess that we made We pick ourselves undone.
Bastille