Top 100 Perfect Quotes
#1. 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
#2. Anyway, if you need your heroes to be perfect, you won't have very many. Even Superman had his Kryptonite. I'd rather have my heroes be more like me: trying to do the right thing, sometimes messing up. Making mistakes. Saying you're sorry. And forgiving other people when they mess up, too.
Madeleine George
#4. In the United States, nobody needs to remind people of their own role or their own power in creating the future they want to see. Perhaps it is something that is almost written into your cultural DNA: a desire to answer your Founding Fathers' call to create a 'more perfect union.'
Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki
#5. I finally realized that no one is perfect and that I like the fact that I look different and don't have the perfect body. No one does!
Shay Mitchell
#6. I would be quite wise to realize that I will never craft a solution that will be the 'end-all,' and that God's ability to craft perfect solutions never ends 'at-all.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#7. God created us to be worshipers because it is right that he be known, loved and worshiped. This isn't because he is needy and wishes someone would tell him how special he is. No, it's because he is perfect and the worship of his perfection is holiness in action.
Elyse M. Fitzpatrick
#8. Don't let foolish assumptions about what's appropriate keep you from a good man. There are too few good men around to ignore one just because he's the perfect age for you.
Jennifer Crusie
#9. Considering the circumstances, it was a rather good kiss. In reality, it would have been perfect if they both had not been coughing from the smoke.
Isabel Allende
#10. Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch.
J.B. Priestley
#11. "The world's not perfect,but somethings in it are,and when we find them, we need not to let them go
Katriena Knights
#12. Time, which is so often an enemy in life, can also become our ally if we see how a pale moment can lead to a glowing moment, and then turn to a moment of perfect transparency, before dropping again to a moment of everyday simplicity.
Peter Brook
#13. The only difference was one of them was trying to make a perfect cake and one of them was trying to write a great book. But if we remove that from the equation, it's the same impulse and they are equally entitled to their ecstasies and their despair.
Michael Cunningham
#14. "Are We There Yet?" was the perfect title, because it's such a common saying. And having made the movie with the same name kinda locks it all in.
Ice Cube
#15. Perfect should never be a goal. Perfect just happens if you let it.
Wendy Wunder
#16. My work is never perfect. It always can be better but I just believe that we need to achieve a really high level of excellence. I don't believe in the "Good Enough" principle as a Christian.
Brian Bird
#17. And because it was a drunken perception, it was perfect, entire, and lasted about half a second.
Michael Chabon
#18. Part of me wanted to walk up to him and hug him from behind, and part of me wanted to hurl a snowball at his perfect face to get some kind of reaction.
Julie Kagawa
#19. I've leaned on God for so long. "Hey, God, you just gave me this gift, and I'm just going to go out there and sing." But I'm realizing how much larger and how expansive my gift becomes when I actually pay attention to it and try to practice and try to perfect it.
Lauryn Hill
#20. A system that works for one person won't be perfect for another ... Individuality is a major part of expanding knowledge.
Georges St-Pierre
#21. I'm not the perfect girl but I am worth your time I am a girl who will care, love, and hold u no matter what ... I can be anything u want me 2 be I will change everything just to have a chance with u because how could someone like me get a guy like u
Sereana Crowley
#22. Hadn't I known from the start he was perfect? But I hadn't known I was perfect too, just as I was. Perfect for him, anyway.
Annabel Joseph
#24. I live, I live, with an absolutely continuous sense of failure. I am always defeated, always. Every book is the wreck of a perfect idea. The years pass and one has only one life. If one has a thing at all one must do it and keep on and on and on trying to do it better.
Iris Murdoch
#25. Little Red Riding Hood was my first love. I felt that if I could have married Little Red Riding Hood, I should have known perfect bliss.
Charles Dickens
#26. The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.
Confucius
#28. When I auditioned for 'Pitch Perfect,' I didn't know it was a singing movie. I didn't read the script. I go to the audition, and I'm like, 'Oh, it's a baseball movie.' But then I'm reading the lines, and I'm like, 'This doesn't seem like a baseball movie.'
Adam DeVine
#29. If you're like us -mothers with an attitude problem- you may be getting increasingly irritable about this chasm between the ridiculous, honey-hued ideals of perfect motherhood in the mass media and the reality of mothers' everyday lives.
Susan Douglas
#30. According to the FBI and the director of national intelligence, Syria's becoming a perfect platform to strike our nation. I've got a very simple strategy as your president against ISIL. Whatever it takes, as long as it takes, to defeat them.
Lindsey Graham
#31. A few days after we came home from the hospital, I sent a letter to a friend, including a photo of my son and some first impressions of fatherhood. He responded, simply, 'Everything is possible again.' It was the perfect thing to write because that was exactly how it felt.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#32. Time is the best author. It always writes the perfect ending.
Charlie Chaplin
#33. Faithfulness is God's standard! As His servants we are not required to be perfect or successful - simply faithful.
Linda Dillow
#34. I am a survivor and not a victim. Life isn't perfect. When you get a knock, you have to get up, dust yourself down and get on with it.
Patsy Kensit
#35. The last of the cherry blossom. On the tree, it
turns ever more perfect. And when it's perfect, it falls. And then of course once it hits the
ground it gets all mushed up. So it's only absolutely perfect when it's falling through the air,
this way and that, for the briefest time!.!.!.
David Mitchell
#36. Sometimes in a movie, the lines are so perfect.
Jimmy Fallon
#37. This is Sesame Street. A place where people, birds, monsters all live in perfect harmony.
Phil Donahue
#38. I am hanging in the balance of a perfect finished plan, like every sparrow falling, like every grain of sand.
Bob Dylan
#39. You are not creating a new you; you are releasing a hidden you. The process is one of self discovery. The hidden you that wants to emerge is in perfect balance.
Deepak Chopra
#40. And if Bitsy was so all-fired set on everything being perfect, she wouldn't have scheduled the damn thing on a football Saturday. Nobody's going to miss the Alabama game for a wedding, for God's sake. We'll be lucky if the priest shows up." ~Aunt Muddy
Lexi George
#41. Just like men, perfume is never perfect right away; you have to let it seduce you.
Jean Patou
#42. The BBC is a perfect example of uncontrolled growth, [occupying] old churches and manor houses, the old Langham Hotel where Sherlock Holmes once met Moriarty and where this correspondent once shared an office with an 8-foot bathtub.
Morley Safer
#43. I love, but I am not entirely sure how to be loved: how to be seen and known for the utterly flawed woman I am. It demands surrender. It demands acknowledging that I am not perfect, but perhaps I deserve affection anyway.
Roxane Gay
#44. There never was a time when we were created perfect and fell into sin and needed to be rescued. We are evolving people; we are not fallen people. We are not a little lower than the angels. We're a little higher than the apes. It's a very different perspective.
John Shelby Spong
#45. In no way did God want me to settle for one of the typical "jerks" who were a dime a dozen. He wanted me to save myself for a man who had His very nature and character within him. And He wanted me to trust Him enough to bring that special man to me in His perfect time.
Leslie Ludy
#46. At the beginning he'd thought of his style as being his essence, the perfect expression of who he was inside, but lately the styles had started to feel like disguises, distractions Danny could move around behind without being seen. 27
Jennifer Egan
#47. We always try to make the very best movie when we're working on and we can only think one at a time. We want to make this a perfect jewel, and then we'll see what happens after that.
Jennifer Yuh Nelson
#48. Meditation is not about getting rid of all your thoughts; it's learning not to get so lost in them that you forget what your goal is. Don't worry if your focus isn't perfect when meditating. Just practice coming back to the breath, again and again.
Kelly McGonigal
#49. I always remind my kids, "I'm your parent, but I'm a human being, too, so I may not be perfect."
Kelly Ripa
#50. 2SAM 22.33. God is my strength and power: and he maketh my way perfect.
Anonymous
#51. My wealth is health and perfect ease; My conscience clear my chief defence; I neither seek by bribes to please, Nor by deceit to breed offence. Thus do I live; thus will I die. Would all did so well as I!
Edward Dyer
#52. I've just returned from my daughter's Halloween parade at grade school. She was supergirl - and she was perfect. And, even better, she still considers boys to be made of kryptonite.
Jonah Goldberg
#53. I fully realize that the new organization is a human rather than a perfect instrumentality for the attainment of its great objective. As time goes on it will, I am sure, be improved.
Cordell Hull
#54. Jesus, as the one perfect person who fully embodied what it meant to be human and is the new Adam, is the definition of what it means to be a man. Everything else is false.
Nate Pyle
#55. In this there is no judgment and no blame, for we seek not to perfect the world but to perfect our love for what is on this earth.
Jack Kornfield
#56. I'm in a Bond film directed by Sam Mendes, with Daniel Craig. I want it to be perfect.
Stephanie Sigman
#57. Perfect first date would be coffee at Aroma talking for hours. That's when I would know to ask for a second date.
Kelly Blatz
#58. Think, for a moment, of the countless happy childhood hours you spent with this amazing device: Drawing perfect horizontals, drawing perfect verticals, drawing really spastic diagonals, trying to scrape away the silver powder from the window so you could look inside.
Dave Barry
#59. Your parents were far from saints, Alice. It would be generous to say they were ordinary people who made some very serious mistakes. Don't make them out to be perfect. That's too thin a wire for anyone to be able to keep their balance.
Tracy Guzeman
#60. Sometimes something makes perfect sense, and then it's a complete mystery when you look at it the next day,
Dana Reinhardt
#61. Tea. It was not a perfect way to live one's life,
Alan Bradley
#62. In every adult human there still lives a helpless child who is afraid of aloneness ... This would be so even if there were a possibility for perfect babies and perfect mothers.
Louise J. Kaplan
#64. Don't try to be perfect. It's going to take all your energy to just not be awful. One miracle at a time.
Elan Gale
#65. At the core of your heart, you are perfect and pure. No one and nothing can alter that.
Amit Ray
#66. I was captivated. My own hair was easily as long as Olga's, but it frizzed and knotted at every opportunity. When it was combed, it didn't float in perfect fans down to my shoulders.
Megan Whalen Turner
#67. I like passion in voices. I like passion in music. And I find that, sometimes with today's music, it's just so perfect - it's that high fidelity and all of the auto-tuning and all that stuff. It's too perfect for my ears.
Lindi Ortega
#68. Your every unique skills, potentially & expertise will be nothing if you can't express at the perfect place at the perfect moment!
Osama Bin Noor
#69. One of the things that I really love about doing a film is working with actors and the whole casting process. I feel I'm not looking for actors. I feel I'm looking for characters. If the characters come from Bollywood, fine. If they come from Indian theater, perfect.
Deepa Mehta
#70. I'm convinced, though I'm no expert in biology, if you cut a dog's brain open it would just be a perfect little human brain, with none of the bad parts.
J. David Osborne
#71. Taking care of yourself isn't about trying to become perfect. It's about realizing and honouring,
in every moment, that
you already are.
Vironika Tugaleva
#72. He is both the Raffe I know and a terrifying stranger. He looks like a pissed-off demigod. I've only glimpsed him once in this perfect angel form.
Susan Ee
#73. Maybe in another life we'll meet again and get it right. But whatever happens, you will always remain my one perfect memory, my one perfect dream. I love you, my beautiful man.
Mia Asher
#74. Artists say that paintings are never done. I sort of feel the same way about music. I would never say something is perfect. There are performances that can generate a lot of emotion in me when I hear them, but I can't say if anything is perfect.
Jimmy Page
#75. If you wait for things to be perfect you'll just miss out on life.
Chris Pratt
#76. This girl. She's my girl. She's not perfect. Neither am I. But she's perfect for me, and I'll do anything I can to keep her.
Belle Aurora
#77. Armstrong was perfect for their goals - an extraordinary combination of athletic talent, drive, ambition, and ruthlessness. And once he began winning, he became the chairman and CEO of the business of making himself rich and famous.
Reed Albergotti
#78. Perfection cannot be reached, because nothings perfect. But things can change, and so can people
John O'Callaghan
#80. No room can be called perfect unless it has real comfort.
Dorothy Draper
#81. Violence should never be the answer.
Aye, in a perfect world. But sometimes animals don't understand anything but their own language.
Samantha Young
#82. Stop waiting for the perfect day or the perfect moment ... Take THIS day, THIS moment and lead it to perfection.
Steve Maraboli
#83. You can't wait for the perfect situation. Find something you love. People you love. And get out there and you'll discover it.
Tony Robbins
#84. Move in time with life; be in perfect accord with its changing music
Osho
#85. You must learn to see men and women ... as perfect beings advancing to become complete.
Wallace D. Wattles
#86. Sign by elevator put up by computer geeks in office building: REMEMBER: FIRST YOU PILAGE, THEN YOU BURN. THOSE WHO DO NOT COMPLY WILL BE SUSPENDED FROM THE RAIDING TEAM. In Mr Perfect
Linda Howard
#87. You can tell your kids they are perfect and don't need to change - which could cause insecurity when they recognize their own shortcomings - or tell them they are terrible, which would undermine their sense of self-worth and confidence. There's a happy middle ground.
Daphne Oz
#88. God has this ... hobby. He creates perfection. This world is not perfect. We have to learn to separate illusions from reality.
Bill Hicks
#89. Where would you be without friends? The people to pick you up when you need lifting? We come from homes far from perfect, so you end up almost parent and sibling to your friends - your own chosen family. There's nothing like a really loyal, dependable, good friend. Nothing.
Jennifer Aniston
#90. The truth was, if I was perfect, it was only because of her. It would only ever be because of her.
J. Lynn
#91. One flaw throws the loveliness of [everything else] into focus. I remember reading that Shakers deliberately introduced a mistake into the things they made, to show that man shouldn't aspire to the perfection of God. Flawed can be more perfect than perfection.
Gretchen Rubin
#92. We all have time to write. We have time to write the minute we are willing to write badly, to chase a dead end, to scribble a few words, to write for the hell of it instead of for the perfect and polished result.
Julia Cameron
#93. It doesn't have to be perfect, it just has to get done.
Denise Linn
#94. You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.
Debbie Macomber
#95. It isn't a perfect place. There are no perfect places. But nobody cares about perfection when there are sand castles to build and kites to chase, children that are being born, old hearts that are giving in.
Lauren DeStefano
#96. One lie... and so perfect... but it's caught!????
Naah, he is clever... if it have been so good lie... it means it's not first or the last... probably it's the lie in the middle.
Deyth Banger
#97. Our essence is change. We are movement. Being out of balance is life.
Perfect balance. Stasis. That is death.
Life yearns for perfection. Death is perfection.
Chris Boucher
#98. We all marveled that we'd gotten to take part in so perfect and courageous and amazing a life.
Wayne Earl
#99. You can't be perfect, so enjoy your imperfections.
Terry Crews
#100. How does he do that? No matter how stupid I act or feel, all he has to do is smile that perfect smile and it erases everything.
Jennifer Murgia
