Possessing the ideal makes a person nervous: you sense the inevitable decline just ahead. — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
“Perfect does not mean perfect actions in a perfect world, but appropriate actions in an imperfect one.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Perfection lies in intensity, and what is most intense cannot be endured long.” — Walter Kaufmann Copy Share Image
Don’t worry about achieving. Don’t worry about perfection. Just be there each moment as best you can. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
I'm a perfectionist. Sometimes I have to remind myself that it's okay if there are flaws here and there. — Tyra Banks Copy Share Image
Healthy striving is self-focused: "How can I improve", Perfectionism is other-focused:"What will they think — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
It has been universally recognized, in all authentic teachings of mankind, that every being born into this world has to work, not… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
Christian perfection consists in three things: praying heroically, working heroically, and suffering heroically. — Anthony Mary Claret Copy Share Image
The perfection of conversational intercourse is when the breeding of high life is animated by the fervor of genius. — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
I have a passion for big cats, I like big snakes. There is something about snakes that is so wise, they have… — Anton Szandor LaVey Copy Share Image
I was running in circles, I hurt myself just to fin my purpose, everything was so worthless, I didn't deserve it, but… — Hollywood Undead Copy Share Image
The perfection of a Christian consists in mortifying his will for the love of Christ. Where there is no great mortification, there… — Philip Neri Copy Share Image
Has creation a final purpose at all, and if so why is it not attained immediately, why does perfection not exist from… — Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling Copy Share Image
Work hard for success. In the process perfection will take care of itself and finally it may end as excellence. It is… — Dr Anil Kr Sinha Copy Share Image
“...But living creatures are idiosyncratic. They are created in such a way that they can actualize only what their microscopic minds wish… — Lionel Suggs Copy Share Image
You are God in a physical body. You are Spirit in the flesh. You are Eternal Life expressing Itself as You. You… — Rhonda Byrne Copy Share Image
Man has a single basic choice: to think or not, and that is the gauge of his virtue. Moral perfection is an… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
We get a little further from perfection, each year on the road, I guess that's what they call character, I guess that's… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
To labor rightly and earnestly is to walk in the golden track that leads to God. It is to adopt the regimen… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
The idea of the past is as useless as the idea of the future. Both could be invoked by anybody about anything.… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
Perhapsthemost sublimeinsights oftheJewishprophets and the Christian gospel is the knowledge that since perfection is love, the apprehension of perfection is at once… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air. These qualities have ever been displayed… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
I don't think perfect is interesting. I think what makes life exciting is the imperfections. — Mary Frann Copy Share Image
The whole mass of humanity . . . marches constantly, though slowly, toward greater perfection. — Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune Copy Share Image
“There is no limit to how good you can get in pursuit of perfection.” — Sachin Kumar Puli Copy Share Image
A good leader, has no excuse to his/her failure but of perfection. — Emmanuel Olukwu Nwole Copy Share Image
The fundamentals of your business are like free throws: emphasize and practice them to perfection. — Cathy Engelbert Copy Share Image
It's the job of intellectuals and writers to cast doubt on perfection. — Antonio Tabucchi Copy Share Image
Perfect love is any time you love unconditionally, without selfish intent, without concern for personal gain. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The wholesome pursuit of excellence feels quite different from perfectionism.” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“...but you have to remind yourself that perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor.” — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“How many things by season season'd are, To their right praise and true perfection!” — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
A friend who loved perfection would be the perfect friend, did not that love shut his door on me. — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
