This document contains a collection of quotes about perfection and perseverance. The quotes provide words of encouragement for not letting the pursuit of perfection prevent taking action or joining in. They emphasize that persevering through challenges and mistakes is what leads to accomplishments rather than giving up. Repeated small efforts over time can achieve great things just as rain droplets can eventually carve holes in stone through persistent falling.

1. Perfection and
perserverance
A collection of quotes

2. Some people collect quotes
to give them inspiration
through their daily life.

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hoping in a neat little
package. They are the
equivalent of a snapshot
picture in words.

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gives them an authority
over and beyond what
they may actually say.

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7. PERFECTION
The pursuit of perfection
means you'll never
arrive.

8. “A man would do nothing if he waited
until he could do it so well that no one
could find fault.”
~John Henry Newman
A job done well is worth more than a perfect
plan.

9. “Use what talents you possess; the woods
would be very silent if no birds sang except
those that sang best.”
~Henry van Dyke
You don’t have to be the best singer in the choir to
join in the song of life or to delight others with your
voice.

10. “Done is better than perfect.”
~Donna Kozik
You can always go back and fill in the details later. Don’t
allow your quest for perfection to paralyze you from
taking action.

11. “To escape criticism, do nothing, say
nothing, be nothing.”
~Elbert Hubbard
We are own worst critics. Fear of criticism
masquerades as perfectionism and yet it’s not
likely someone else is going to think less of you
than how you think of yourself.

12. “Artists who seek perfection in everything
are those who cannot attain it in
anything.”
~Gustave Flaubert
Impossible things can be achieved when we
surrender our death-grip on perfect results.

13. PERSEVERANCE
Imagine telling a toddler who is
learning to walk, “You’re no good
at this—you should quit.”

14. “Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness
consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it
gets there.”
~Josh Billings
If everyone gave up on the things that seem
impossible, nothing amazing would ever be
accomplished.

15. “He conquers who endures.”
~Persius
You were born with the instinct to persevere
and most of your limitations are self-imposed.

16. “The drops of rain make a hole in the stone
not by violence but by oft falling.”
~Lucretius
If you want to know what perseverance in action
looks like, you just need to look at the persistence of
weeds growing in your garden.

17. “One may go a long way after one is tired.”
~French Proverb
The best baseball player misses the ball half the
time. It is because he perseveres that he ever hits
the ball at all.

18. “Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock,
perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack
showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will
split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did
it, but all that had gone before.”
~Jacob A. Riis
You could be one swing away from reaching your goal.
Are you sure you want to quit now?

19. If you have enjoyed these
why not take a look at
Don’t Take My Word for It
by Berry Winter
Available on Kindle.