Abuse Quote by Anne Wilson Schaef Download Open image ““Perfectionism is self-abuse of the highest order.”” — Anne Wilson Schaef ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Abuse Abuse Highest Excellence Perfection Perfectionism Perfectionism Self Self Abuse Work
“Unfortunately, perfectionism dies slowly. It’s persistent and particularly dangerous because it masquerades as excellence” — Jon Acuff Copy Share Image
“I think perfectionism is based on the obsessive belief that if you run carefully enough, hitting each stepping-stone just right, you won’t have to… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“Perfectionists are not all negative, miserable, unhappy and over controlling individuals” — Asa Don Brown Copy Share Image
“Perfection is not about being better than anyone else. It is the state of peace when you have accepted your unique flawed self” — Henna Sohail Copy Share Image
“Perfectionism. My perfectionism arose as an attempt to gain safety and support in my dangerous family. Perfection is a self-persecutory myth. I do not… — Pete Walker Copy Share Image
“Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will keep you cramped and insane your whole life.” — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“Perfection is an illusion. Yet perfectionists demand it from others while being far from flawless themselves. The margin of error of the human condition… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
“Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people.” — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“Perfectionists are people who take great pains and give them to other people” — Marianne Neifert Copy Share Image
Almost everyone seems to worry about something, and yet, we rarely talk about worry as a problem. Maybe that is because worry is so… — Anne Wilson Schaef Copy Share Image
I realize that humor isn't for everyone. It's only for people who want to have fun, enjoy life, and feel alive. — Anne Wilson Schaef Copy Share Image
“Asking for help does not mean that we are weak or incompetent. It usually indicates an advanced level of honesty and intelligence.” — Anne Wilson Schaef Copy Share Image
All of us need to talk to someone who's interesting, intelligent, knows us well, and is on our side - and that's us. We're… — Anne Wilson Schaef Copy Share Image
Getting to the top isn't bad, and it's probably best done as an afterthought. — Anne Wilson Schaef Copy Share Image
What we perceive as a failure may simply be our inner being's way of telling us that we are ready to move to a… — Anne Wilson Schaef Copy Share Image
Our culture has valued closed systems and tries to generate them in all walks of life. Women are better at and more comfortable with… — Anne Wilson Schaef Copy Share Image
Looking after my health today gives me a better hope for tomorrow. — Anne Wilson Schaef Copy Share Image
Security is an attempt to try to make the universe static so that we feel safe. — Anne Wilson Schaef Copy Share Image
It is not what I do, it is the way I do it, that will get me in the end. — Anne Wilson Schaef Copy Share Image
We can influence who we will be tomorrow, for tomorrow can only be built on today. — Anne Wilson Schaef Copy Share Image
I wrote when I was a young teen, but I didn't put an eye on the available markets until I was seventeen. The next… — Robert Reed Copy Share Image
Amongst the financial Twitterati, the term 'muppets' has come to describe any client used and abused by some financial predator. I've adopted the term… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
Being nice is okay,but don't allow anybody to abuse it...try to fight for your self when you know your on the right way... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Build a bridge over shame by teaching kids about sexual abuse. Give them a chance to run to us should they encounter it. Be… — Carolyn Byers Ruch Copy Share Image
It is sure that those are most desirous of honour or glory who cry out loudest of its abuse and the vanity of the… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
“The sole reason I stand to open it up now is that lots of people who are in pain just like I was, and… — Patricia Dsouza Copy Share Image
Democracy must be built through open societies that share information. When there is information, there is enlightenment. When there is debate, there are solutions.… — Atifete Jahjaga Copy Share Image
I have a theory that all abuse, no matter what kind of abuse it is, is foremost an assault on the mind. — Tara Westover Copy Share Image
“Blaming therapy, social work and other caring professions for the confabulation of testimony of 'satanic ritual abuse' legitimated a programme of political and social… — Michael Salter Copy Share Image
Finally, the scariest thing about abuse of any shape or form, is, in my opinion, not the abuse itself, but that if it continues… — Alan Cumming Copy Share Image
“Research on organised abuse emphasises the diversity of organised abuse cases, and the ways in which serious forms of child maltreatment cluster in the… — Michael Salter Copy Share Image
“Stand up for yourself. Never give any one permission to abuse you.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
