I have hundreds of mottos of simple sentences I have come to define over the years to condense some of my life experiences. The one I remind myself of the most is probably "pursue progress, not perfection".

Even if you could reach perfection, getting there would still only ever come from incremental improvements that you do in the present. And if your present self is stuck wanting perfection, it ends up getting neither. So just focus on what little thing you can do now that makes you a little better every day, that takes you a little closer to your goal, and you'll eventually get as close to perfection as you could ever get :)

Oh I found another of my quotes on my drive while searching "perfection" in my personal philosophy folder:

"The moment you think you have reached perfection, you have already proved yourself wrong. Becuase an essential quality of man is the constant pursuit of improvement through challenging the known and exploring the unknown, and how can one be perfect if one lacks such an important quality?"

From 2008 LOL.