Creative work is better DONE than PERFECT. Because if you wait for it to be perfect, it will never get done.

Here is a collection of Sam Horn’s favorite quotes about perfectionism and procrastination – especially when it comes to creative work.

“The woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those who sang best.”
– Henry Van Dyke

“Procrastination is often misspelled as perfectionism.”
– Pinterest post

“Do the best you can until you know better. When you know better, do better.”
– Maya Angelou

“Everything you want is on the other side of fear.
– Jack Canfield

“When perfectionism is driving … shame is always running shotgun.”
– Brene Brown

“The bad news is, time flies. The good news is, you’re the pilot.”
– Michael Altshuler

“Fear is boring.”
– Olympia Dukakis

“I didn’t come this far to only come this far.”
– poster in the library

“May your choices be based on your hopes and not your fears.”
– Nelson Mandela

“Don’t tell it like it is, tell it like you want it to be.”
– Esther Hicks

“One person can make a difference and everyone should try.”
– John F. Kennedy

“You don’t have to be brave to be courageous.”
– Sam Horn 

“The only thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve is fear of failure.”
– Paulo Coelho

“Your life expands or contracts in proportion to your courage.”
– Anais Nin

“In any given moment, we have a choice to step forward into growth or step back into safety.”
– Abraham Maslow

“I think writers are too worried it’s all been said before. Sure it has, but not by you.”
– Asha Dornfest

“Thinking ‘Here goes nothing’ could be the start of everything.” – Drew Wagner

“What makes you different or weird – that’s your strength.”
– Meryl Streep

“What you think, you become. What you feel, you attract. What you imagine, you create.”
– Buddha

“I don’t think my story is over yet.”
– Serena Williams

“Working hard for something you don’t care about is called stress. Working hard for something you love is called passion.”
– Simon Sinek

“You become what you believe.”
– Oprah Winfrey

“The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose is to give it away.
– Pablo Picasso.

“Here’s a test to find out whether your mission in life is complete. If you’re alive, it isn’t.”
– Lauren Bacall

“Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.”
– Kahlil Gibran

“Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don’t give up.”
– Anne Lamott

“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”
– Thomas Merton