Life calls not for perfection, but for completeness.
I’m obsessed with perfection. I want to work. I don’t want to stop. I want to take advantage and make myself the best possible me that I can be.
The egocentric is always frustrated, simply because the condition of self-perfection is self-surrender. There must be a willingness to die to the lower part of self, before there can be a birth to the nobler.
When you strive for perfection, you compare different versions of what could be instead of being present with what is. Perfectionism is an attempt to inhabit an imaginary world in order to avoid experiencing the world in which you live.
A certain type of perfection can only be realized through a limitless accumulation of the imperfect.
Businesses that grow by development and improvement do not die. But when a business ceases to be creative, when it believes it has reached perfection and needs to do nothing but produce no improvement, no development, it is done.
The perfection of Tawheed is found when there remains nothing in the heart except Allaah.
Comparisons are easily done, once you’ve had a taste of perfection.
Perfection is impossible without humility. Why should I strive for perfection, if I am already good enough?
Details make perfection, and perfection is not a detail.
One of the most essential things you need to do for yourself is to choose a goal that is important to you. Perfection does not exist – you can always do better and you can always grow.
The perfection of moral character consists in this, in passing every day as the last, and in being neither violently excited nor torpid nor playing the hypocrite.
Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection.
I’m never pleased with anything, I’m a perfectionist, it’s part of who I am.