Trying To Be Perfect Quotes

• If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Twitter post from Jan 15, 2017

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• We don't need to be perfect. We're not supposed to be perfect; we're supposed to be complete. And you can't be complete if you're trying to be perfect.

  Jane Fonda

  Perfect, Trying, Needs

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• I'm human, I'm not perfect. I make mistakes all the time, but I guess my job is to keep those mistakes to myself, which I'm already fine doing and just try to be the best I can be for those kids.

  Selena Gomez

  Jobs, Mistake, Kids

  "Selena Gomez: I Make Mistakes All the Time". Interview with Alla Byrne, people.com. June 16, 2011.

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• Want to be happy? Stop trying to be perfect.

  Brené Brown

  Perfect, Trying, Want

  "Want to be happy? Stop trying to be perfect" By Brené Brown, www.cnn.com.

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• People always try to be perfect. That's why they don't start anything. Perfection is the lowest standard in the world. Because if you're trying to be perfect, you know you can't be. So what you really have is a standard you can never achieve. You want to be outstanding, not perfect.

  Tony Robbins

  People, Perfect, Trying

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• So I grew up feeling that I wasn't good enough, and that no-one would love me unless I was perfect. But no-one's perfect, we're not meant to be perfect. We're meant to be complete. But it's hard to be complete if you're trying to be perfect, so you kind of become disembodied. And I spent a lot of my life that way.""And if you don't own your strength... Women like me tend to always look over their shoulder to see who... "Who's the leader? Who's the smart one?" Never thinking it might be ME. Took a long time for me to get over that.

  Jane Fonda

  Inspiring, Smart, Thinking

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• I don’t want to be perfect. I want to be useful, I want to be good, and I want to sound like myself. Trying to be perfect gets in the way of all three.

  Scott Berkun

  Perfect, Trying, Want

  Scott Berkun (2009). “Confessions of a Public Speaker”, p.5, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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• Creativity is often blocked by trying to be perfect. Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

  Tony Robbins

  Art, Mistake, Creativity

  FaceBook post by Tony Robbins from Oct 24, 2011

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• I am human. I am messy. I'm not trying to be an example. I am not trying to be perfect. I am not trying to say I have all the answers. I am not trying to say I'm right. I am just trying - trying to support what I believe in, trying to do some good in this world, trying to make some noise with my writing while also being myself.

  Roxane Gay

  Inspiring, Believe, Writing

  "Bad Feminist". Book by Roxane Gay, August 5, 2014.

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• In the end, trying to be perfect is the unconscious social effort to please ourselves by pleasing these others.

  George Robinson

  Being Yourself, Perfect, Effort

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• Everybody is trying to be perfect. And the moment somebody starts trying to be perfect, he starts expecting everybody else to be perfect. He starts condemning people, he starts humiliating people.

  Rajneesh

  People, Perfect, Trying

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• I...keep trying to be perfect. For you. So you'll notice me.

  Janet Morris

  Dedication, Perfect, Trying

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• Our society nurtures the illusion that all the rewards go to the people who are perfect. But many of us are finding out that trying to be perfect is costly.

  Debbie Ford

  People, Perfect, Trying

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• Sometimes I stress too much and don't have fun. If you're trying to be perfect, sometimes it backfires on you.

  Chad Pennington

  Fun, Stress, Perfect

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• In trying to be perfect, He perfected the art of anonymity, Became imperceptible And arrived nowhere from nowhere.

  Dejan Stojanovic

  Art, Perfect, Trying

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• I spent a good deal of time going back over my childhood, my midlife, to try to understand who I was. We're supposed to be complete and whole, and you can't be whole if you're trying to be perfect. Doing a life review helped me get over the disease to please.

  Jane Fonda

  Perfect, Childhood, Trying

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• As a parent you walk around trying to be perfect, but you don't have to be perfect. That's the key. You just have to be faithful, and when I say faithful I mean you have to give your all.

  Terry Crews

  Mean, Keys, Giving

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• I'm tugging at my hair. I'm pulling at my clothes. I'm trying to keep my cool, I know it shows. I'm staring at my feet. My cheeks are turning red. I'm searching for the words inside my head. I'm feeling nervous trying to be perfect, 'cause I know you're worth it.

  Avril Lavigne

  Love, Crush, Hair

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• Trying to be perfect may be inevitable for people who are smart and ambitious and interested in the world and its good opinion...What is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.

  Anna Quindlen

  Giving Up, Smart, People

  Anna Quindlen (2009). “Being Perfect”, p.1, Random House

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• Trying to be Supermom is as futile as trying to be Perfect Mom. Not going to happen.

  Arianna Huffington

  Mom, Perfect, Trying

  "Arianna Huffington's Best Advice". www.harpersbazaar.com. July 15, 2014.

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• The idea of sustainability can imply there is one perfect, unchanging future, if only we could work out how to get there. Resilience might be more useful, in that it assumes a dynamic environment and that perfection is impossible. You need to design systems to accommodate failure rather than eliminate it. By trying to be perfect, many visions of sustainability are quite brittle

  Jamais Cascio

  Future, Ideas, Work Out

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