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“Perfectionism is self-destructive simply because there is no such thing as perfect. Perfection is an unattainable goal. Additionally, perfectionism is more about perception - we want to be perceived as perfect. Again, this is unattainable - there is no way to control perception, regardless of how much time and energy we spend trying.”

Way Want Trying Self Motivational Energy Goal Perfect Perception Perfection Destructive Perfectionism Unattainable Time And Energy Self Destructive

Author:Brené Brown

“I'm training all the time. My goal is perfection. But I will never reach perfection.”

Goal Training Perfection Mma

Author:Georges St-Pierre

“[The career a young man should choose should be] one that is most consonant with our dignity, one that is based on ideas of whose truth we are wholly convinced, one that offers us largest scope in working for humanity and approaching that general goal towards which each profession offers only one of the means: the goal of perfection ... If he works only for himself he can become a famous scholar, a great sage, an excellent imaginative writer [ Dichter ], but never a perfected, a truly great man.”

Ifs Men Should Mean Ideas Young Humanity Goal Careers Offers Dignity Perfection Convinced Profession Excellent Young Man Great Men Scholar Sage Scope Imaginative Consonants

Author:Karl Marx

“As we educate a child -- removing out of its path those obstacles over which we ourselves, in early days, have stumbled, and strengthening its mind with the aid of our own matured experience -- we, as it were, construct a new and better replica of ourselves, and thus enable the race to move slowly, but surely, forward towards the ultimate goal of existence -- towards perfection.”

Mind Children Moving Goal Race Existence Path Perfection Ultimate Obstacles Aids Educate Constructs Strengthening Ultimate Goal Matured Moving Out Replica Slowly But Surely

Author:Leonid Andreyev

“My fabulous architect godfather and mentor told me once that striving toward a goal - or perfection - gives one focus and direction, which is a helluva lot better than chasing one's tail.”

Giving Goal Focus Perfection Strive Architect Mentor Tails Fabulous Chasing

Author:Catherine Stock

“We won't be perfect on this side of heaven. But Jesus is perfect. Always. We are becoming more holy and true. Jesus already is. His name isn't “Becoming.” It is “I Am.” Perfection isn't the goal. Jesus is.”

Jesus Names Heaven Sides Goal Perfect Becoming Holy Perfection Becoming More

Book:Becoming Myself: Embracing God's Dream of You

Source: Becoming Myself: Embracing God's Dream of You

“Don't strive for somebody else's notion of perfection. It's an unattainable and ultimately ridiculous goal. Strive instead to be uniquely yourself and when in doubt listen to your gut, because it already knows what you want to become.”

Knows Want Goal Doubt Perfection Strive Notion What You Want Ridiculous Guts Listen To Your Heart Unattainable Listen To Yourself When In Doubt

Author:Meredith Vieira

“Perfection is an unattainable goal. It isn't going to be perfect. Just get words down on paper, and when you stumble to what you think is the end of the book, you will have hundreds of pages of words that came out of your head. It may not be perfect, but it looks like a book.”

Thinking Writing Looks May Book Ends Literature Goal Perfect Paper Pages Perfection Unattainable May Not Be Perfect

Author:Laurell K. Hamilton

“Our ego ideal is precious to us because it repairs a loss of our earlier childhood, the loss of our image of self as perfect and whole, the loss of a major portion of our infantile, limitless, ain't-I-wonderful narcissism which we had to give up in the face of compelling reality. Modified and reshaped into ethical goals and moral standards and a vision of what at our finest we might be, our dream of perfection lives on--our lost narcissism lives on--in our ego ideal.”

Source: Necessary Losses: The Loves Illusions Dependencies and Impossible Ex

“Women are taught that their main goal in life is to serve others--first men, and later, children. This prescription leads to enormous problems, for it is supposed to be carried out as if women did not have needs of their own, as if one could serve others without simultaneously attending to one's own interests and desires. Carried to its "perfection," it produces the martyr syndrome or the smothering wife and mother.”

Source: Toward a New Psychology of Women

“How will you get God's grace? When you discipline yourself. How will you know how to discipline? By observing others that had walked the path successfully to the goal of perfection. Who are these men who had walked to the goal? It is these that are known as Gurus. So you need their help, their personal example, their encouragement and their grace. Thus, we have come round to the answer that a Guru is necessary as well as his grace. Everything is necessary-\-\ Atma Kripa, Guru Kripa and Isvara Kripa.”

Knows Men Needs Wells Helping Goal Answers Known Know How Path Grace Example Discipline Perfection Encouragement Rounds Observing Guru Serving Others God's Grace

Author:Sivananda

“We must recognize that the goal of a cleaner environment will not be achieved by rhetoric or moral dedication alone. It will not be cheap or easy and the costs will have to be borne by each citizen, consumer and taxpayer. How clean is clean enough can only be answered in terms of how much we are willing to pay and how soon we seek success... It is simplistic to seek ecological perfection at the cost of bankrupting the very tax-paying enterprises which must pay for the social advances we seek.”

“One of the most essential things you need to do for yourself is to choose a goal that is important to you. Perfection does not exist - you can always do better and you can always grow.”

Needs Doe Important Grows Goal Powerful Essentials Perfection Excellence

Author:Les Brown

“I know perfection is one thing I will never achieve, but I will always make it my goal because this means I am always giving my all and working to improve”

Knows Giving Mean Goal One Thing Achieve Perfection

Author:Luke Wood