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Trifles go to make perfection, And perfection is no trifle.

Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.

I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.

Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing.

This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.

All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.

Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null, dead perfection; no more.

No good work whatever can be perfect, and the demand for perfection is always a sign of a misunderstanding of the ends of art.

One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.

Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.

It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.

If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself.

Perfect is determined in shortened measures of time, not over long periods of time or lifetimes. It would be unnatural.