Perfection Quotations
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Dr. David M. Burns
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| The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light. |
| - Matthew Arnold |
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| No one is perfect... that's why pencils have erasers. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| The most difficult part of attaining perfection is finding something to do for an encore. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| I don't confuse greatness with perfection. To be great anyhow is…the higher achievement. |
| - Lois McMaster Bujold |
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| Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life. |
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| Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person. |
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| Assert your right to make a few mistakes. If people can't accept your imperfections, that's their fault. |
| - Dr. David M. Burns |
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| Once you accept the fact that you're not perfect, then you develop some confidence. |
| - Rosalynn Carter |
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| The human story does not always unfold like a mathematical calculation on the principle that two and two make four. Sometimes in life they make five or minus three; and sometimes the blackboard topples down in the middle of the sum and leaves the class in disorder and the pedagogue with a black eye. |
| - Sir Winston Churchill |
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| Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without. |
| - Confucius |
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| Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways. |
| - Samuel McChord Crothers |
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| Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it. |
| - Salvador Dali |
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| Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best. |
| - Henry Van Dyke |
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| All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. |
| - William Faulkner |
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| I cling to my imperfection, as the very essence of my being. |
| - Anatole France |
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| A good garden may have some weeds. |
| - Thomas Fuller |
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| Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks. |
| - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
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| You see, when weaving a blanket, an Indian woman leaves a flaw in the weaving of that blanket to let the soul out. |
| - Martha Graham |
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| Living up to ideals is like doing everyday work with your Sunday clothes on. |
| - Edgar Watson Howe |
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| To escape criticism - do nothing, say nothing, be nothing. |
| - Elbert Hubbard |
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| He who hath not a dram of folly in his mixture hath pounds of much worse matter in his composition. |
| - Charles Lamb |
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| Always live up to your standards - by lowering them, if necessary. |
| - Mignon McLaughlin |
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| The imperfections of a man, his frailties, his faults, are just as important as his virtues. You can't separate them. They're wedded. |
| - Henry Miller |
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| A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault. |
| - John Henry Cardinal Newman |
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| One minute was enough, Tyler said, a person had to work hard for it, but a minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection. |
| - Chuck Palahniuk |
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| Nothing that is complete breathes. |
| - Antonio Porchia |
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| Even the best needles are not sharp at both ends. |
| - Chinese Proverb |
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| Gold cannot be pure, and people cannot be perfect. |
| - Chinese Proverb |
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| He that will have a perfect brother must resign himself to remain brotherless. |
| - Italian Proverb |
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| The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself. |
| - Anna Quindlen |
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| Only in grammar can you be more than perfect. |
| - William Safire |
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| Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. |
| - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry |
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| Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering you own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them - every day begin the task anew. |
| - Saint Francis de Sales |
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| Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny. |
| - Carl Schurz |
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| Striving to better, oft we mar what's well. |
| - William Shakespeare |
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| I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center. |
| - Kurt, Jr. Vonnegut |
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| It is better to aim at perfection and miss, than to aim at imperfection and hit it |
| - Thomas Watson |
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