Replace perfectionism with persistence. After all, in recovery and life, it's persistence that really pays off. Forget about perfection. — Jenni Schaefer Copy Share Image
To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good; the very perfection of manners is not… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
Difficulties can be a valuable tool in our pursuit of perfection. Adversity need have no necessary connection with failure. — Marvin J. Ashton Copy Share Image
“I bet you have girls hanging all over you. Dozens would probably kill to be in my spot and here I am,… — J. Lynn Copy Share Image
I know perfection is one thing I will never achieve, but I will always make it my goal because this means I… — Luke Wood Copy Share Image
Surely the novel should be a form of art - but art was not enough. It must contain not only the perfection… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
“You know you’re not perfect and that’s good. Perfect is boring. You have a lot to offer. A lot more to experience… — Happy Positivity Copy Share Image
To have a reputation for being noble, she thought, is more confining than to be known as a wit. On the rare… — Libbie Block Copy Share Image
I think one of the wonderful messages of A Dog's Purpose is how difficult it is for humans to master love without… — W. Bruce Cameron Copy Share Image
Asian American success is often presented as something of a horror - robotic, unfeeling machines psychotically hellbent on excelling, products of abusive… — Jenny Zhang Copy Share Image
Love at first sight is only realizing an imagination that has always haunted us; or meeting with a face, a figure, or… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Astronomers have a common ground for discussion with musicians in the harmony of the stars and musical concords in tetrads and triads… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
“Because we are always growing, life compounds and magnifies what is already in us. If you are miserable you grow in misery… — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
The more progress physical sciences make, the more they tend to enter the domain of mathematics, which is a kind of centre… — Adolphe Quetelet Copy Share Image
“Perfectionism is a mean, frozen form of idealism, while messes are the artist’s true friend. What people somehow (inadvertently, I’m sure) forgot… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“In my opinion, there are two types of perfect. The first is the type that seems so obvious and intuitive to you… — B.J. Novak Copy Share Image
Strive for perfection in everything you do. Take the best that exists and make it better. When it does not exist, design… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Rebelling against perfection , Staying authentic to my own identity , Living life to the fullest & Not giving a flying fuck… — Skyler Bling Copy Share Image
Ever since my childhood, I was haunted by the search for perfection. An imperfectly cut paper literally made me ill. I would… — Hans Arp Copy Share Image
Holy writing must strive (by all means) for perfection and true holiness, that a door may be opened to him in heaven. — Henry Vaughan Copy Share Image
I don't think there's any such thing as perfection. But I'm a perfectionist. I don't believe in the idea of perfection, but… — Jack Garratt Copy Share Image
Ultimately, we measure ourselves against our own ideas of idealism and perfection, and we don't always come very close to them. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
He that said it was not good for man to be alone, placed the celibate amongst the inferior states of perfection. — Robert Boyle Copy Share Image
At times failure is very necessary for the artist. It reminds him that failure is not the ultimate disaster. And this reminder… — John Berger Copy Share Image
Perfection does not exist; to understand it is the triumph of human intelligence; to expect to possess it is the most dangerous… — Alfred de Musset Copy Share Image
The gospel is the fulfillment of all hopes, the perfection of all philosophy, the interpretation of all revelation, the key to all… — Max Muller Copy Share Image
Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of, herself. She is not to be judged by any external standard of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
Perfectionism is a time waster - 20 percent of the effort you put into any project accomplishes 80 percent of the outcome… — Mira Kirshenbaum Copy Share Image
Don't imagine that your perfection lies in accumulating or possessing external things. Your affection is inside of you. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The are no perfect people; only people perfectly willing to point out your imperfections while ignoring their own.” — Faydra D. Fields Copy Share Image
“Perfection is achieved, not when there's nothing much more to add, but when there's nothing left to remove." - Antoine de Saint-Exupe” — Nicholas Fringe Copy Share Image
Most people tend to think the best of those who are blessed with beauty; we have difficulty imagining that physical perfection can… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Every man, woman and child holds the possibility of physical perfection; it rests with each of us to attain it by personal… — F. Matthias Alexander Copy Share Image
The kinda days were your face is pimple free, your hair is anti frizz, and for some strange reason you feel like… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All perfection is there already in the soul. But this perfection has been covered up by nature; layer after layer of nature… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
How happy is it for us, that the admiration of others should depend so much more on their ignorance than our perfection! — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke Copy Share Image
You have this ambition to make something perfect, exactly right. Of course, necessarily, it fails in some way and you have to… — Gregory Crewdson Copy Share Image
Just because you don't have a boyfriend doesn't mean that you are not beautiful or any less perfect than someone who does. — Kiara Leigh Copy Share Image
You can simulate perfection, but it's not the same. Some one can do a copy of Rembrandt, but it's not a Rembrandt.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
