Top 87 Self Perfection Quotes

#1. We are not supposed to run after miracles but we are supposed to run after self-perfection, self-growth, self - improvements.

Sunday Adelaja

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#2. The egocentric is always frustrated, simply because the condition of self-perfection is self-surrender. There must be a willingness to die to the lower part of self, before there can be a birth to the nobler.

Fulton J. Sheen

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#3. During adolescence imagination is boundless. The urge toward self-perfection is at its peak. And with all their self- absorption and personalized dreams of glory, youth are in pursuit of something larger than personal passions, some values or ideals to which they might attach their imaginations.

Louise J. Kaplan

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#4. True life is creativity, not development: it is the freedom for creative acts, for creative fire, rather than necessity and the heaviness of congealing self-perfection.

Nikolai Berdyaev

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#5. The goal of the martial arts is not for the destruction of an opponent, but rather for self-growth and self-perfection. The practice of a martial art should be a practice of love - for the preservation of life, for the preservation of body, and for the preservation of family and friends.

Dan Inosanto

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#6. I happen to think we've set our ideal on the wrong objects; I happen to think that the greatest ideal man can set before himself is self-perfection.

W. Somerset Maugham

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#7. I respect everything in change and the solemn beauty of life and death ... and therefore, while man is amidst the immense beauty of objective bodies, he must possess the capacity of self-perfection and must observe and represent his world with full confidence.

Ansel Adams

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#8. Perfection does not consist in macerating or killing the body, but in killing our perverse self-will.

St. Catherine Of Siena

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#9. This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.

Augustine Of Hippo

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#10. Negativity is a natural part of your perfect self.

Bryant McGill

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#11. Striving for excellence is a positive quality. Striving for perfection is self-defeating.

Melody Beattie

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#12. I will hold my self to a standard of grace which is Christ's gift, not perfection which is Satan's trap.

Maralee McKee

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#13. You had to break, to be unbroken. In the brokenness, I had found, that which was unbroken. That which was perfect, and beautiful, and complete.

T. Scott McLeod

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#14. Don't strive for perfection, just do your best. Everything in life is ever revolving to be perfect.

Ann Marie Frohoff

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#15. Be patient with yourself. Perfection comes not in this life, but in the next life. Don't demand things that are unreasonable, but demand of yourself improvement. As you let the Lord help you through that, He will make the difference.

Russell M. Nelson

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#16. By creating so many illusory images of physical perfection, whether on store aisles or storefront ads, magazine covers or TV shows, we speak more to the profit margins of companies than the self-esteem of today's girls.

Adora Svitak

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#17. We judge others according to our image of
perfection as well, and naturally they fall short of our expectations.

Miguel Ruiz

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#18. Live a life that you do not need to take a vacation from. Live in a way that makes yearly resolutions unnecessary. Make the kind of choices that leave you Happy and Healthy... where all of your needs are satisfied. Live a life where your only 'wants' are for others to feel as good as you do.

Gary Hopkins

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#19. Heaven itself is just a little less than perfect: for perfection, by self-definition, is a static condition, and anything truly static has deceased its purpose.

Gabriel Brunsdon

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#20. You are loved just for being who you are, just for existing. You don't have to do anything to earn it. Your shortcomings, your lack of self-esteem, physical perfection, or social and economic success - none of that matters. No one can take this love away from you, and it will always be here.

Ram Dass

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#21. Either nobody's perfect,
or everyone is.

Eric Micha'el Leventhal

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#22. We are not perfect human beings, nor do we have to pretend to be, but it is necessary for us to be the best version of ourselves we can be.

Satsuki Shibuya

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#23. I hate those endless descriptions of a heroine's physical attributes ... it really bothers me how in books it seems like the only two choices are perfection or self-hatred. As if readers will only like a character who's ideal
or completely shattered.

E. Lockhart

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#24. For whatever it's worth, I believe we're born imperfect, and perfection, whatever that may be, is unattainable by us mere humans.

Liza M. Wiemer

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#25. One possible sign of low self-esteem is suppressing parts of yourself so you can fill someone else's expectations of what you should be. You try to fill someone else's (or your own) prescription of perfection, instead of being yourself and embracing your originality.

Robin Meade

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#26. One of the most liberating things a person can do is to admit that he or she is human and is flawed.

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

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#27. You are either in a state of perfection or a state of learning. Reading is one of the best ways to learn about our lives and purpose!

Cupideros

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#28. Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self- solitude is the enemy of well- being.

John Updike

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#29. 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

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#30. When life beats us down, we often do not feel worthwhile to ourselves nor to anyone else. Often, we try to hide our feelings of inadequacy in pursuit of perfection, which develops into self-loathing. If only we can be perfect, then we can be okay.

David W. Earle

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#31. Acceptance is the vessel of realization.

Eric Micha'el Leventhal

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#32. Not complete inaction, which is an error, a confusion, a self-delusion, an impossibility, but action full and
free done without subjection to sense and passion, desireless and unattached works, are the first secret of perfection.

Sri Aurobindo

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#33. Purge me from every sinful blot;
My idols all be cast aside:
Cleanse me from every evil thought,
From all the filth of self and pride.
The hatred of the carnal mind
Out of my flesh at once remove:
Give me a tender heart, resigned,
And pure, and full of faith and love.

John Wesley

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#34. Inner-calm will lead you on a beautiful journey back to your original self; the perfect, beautiful you.

Bryant McGill

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#35. In that moment, I felt differently to myself yet the essence of who I really was.
Like a perfect state of balance.

Tim Relf

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#36. To reach perfection, we must all pass, one by one, through the death of self-effacement.

Dag Hammarskjold

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#37. I'd been through so much, falling short again and again, and only recently had found a place where who I was, right now, was enough.

Sarah Dessen

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#38. Perfection itself is not the ultimate goal
but the ultimate condition of life.

Eric Micha'el Leventhal

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#39. To spend your time trying to make your body flawless is to waste your time. Even if it appears to match some externalized ideals of perfection for a moment, your physical self will wrinkle and age. Work on your mind. Work on your legacy.

Vironika Tugaleva

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#40. If the pursuit of perfection is a way to prove our worth, in the end the pursuit will only prove our imperfections.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

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#41. Perfectionism is self destructive simply because there's no such thing as perfect. Perfection is an unattainable goal.

Brene Brown

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#42. Don't be proud of what you know, and don't be self-confident if you are learned. Be open to advice from the unlearned as well as from the learned. Art knows no limit, and the artists will never achieve perfection.

Barbara De Angelis

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#43. Be real. Embrace that you have weakness. Because everyone does. Embrace that your body is not perfect. Because nobody's is. Embrace that you have things you can't control. We all have a list of them.

Dan Pearce

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#44. I am self-conscious, and I'm aware of my body. But I struggle with America's limited idea of what perfection is.

Rene Russo

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#45. I covered the scar with concealer every day because I wanted my body to be a flawless figurine, but this blemish would be with me forever.

Scarlet Risque

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#46. Perfectionism is searching for faults to justify low self-esteem. It is a guaranteed failure and fantasy.

Brittany Burgunder

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#47. The life of a Christian is nothing but a perpetual struggle against self; there is no flowering of the soul to the beauty of its perfection except at the price of pain

Padre Pio

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#48. O Lord, self-renunciation is not the work of one day, nor children's sport; yea, rather in this word is included all perfection.

Thomas A Kempis

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#49. Nirvikalpa samadhi is a state of no mind, beyond the ten thousand states of mind, where there is nothing but perfection, where the self no longer exists ... the ego dissolves into immortality.

Frederick Lenz

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#50. Washington had performed his role to perfection. It was no enough that a leader look the part; by Washington's rules, he must know how to act it with self-command and precision.

David McCullough

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#51. If the love object is divine perfection, then one's own self is elevated by joining one's destiny to it ... All our guilt, fear, and even our mortality itself can be purged in a perfect consummation with perfection itself.

Ernest Becker

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#52. Relationships take skill, not perfection or luck!

Staci Bartley

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#53. There is nothing we could add to that which has already been created ... perfection.

Vivian Amis

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#54. Imperfection is true perfection.

T.A. Uner

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#55. Out of many thousands among men, one may endeavor for perfection, and of those who have achieved perfection, hardly one knows Me in truth.

A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

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#56. Primary purposes of a mirror: (1) To help civilized men realize their imperfections, and, (2) To help the imperfect hide their imperfections.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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#57. See not perfection in self. Seek it not in others. One being a false perceptionThe other, an endless quest.

Mary Summer Rain

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#58. So self-assured were they all by nature that it never occurred to me to doubt that their perfection was predetermined by forces I did not understand. They were all royalty. They were all gods. They were all broken.

Chelsey Philpot

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#59. I guess sometimes the perfection we perceive in others is made up of a whole bunch of tiny imperfections, because some days the damn dress just won't zip.

Julie Murphy

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#60. I was told i was conceited today ... but being conceited would imply that i see my self as being absolutely perfect ... but come on lets be real ... EVERYONE KNOWS IM PERFECT.

Arik Maldonales

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#61. In the supremacy of self-control consists one of the perfections of the ideal man.

Herbert Spencer

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#62. Self-disciplin e is necessary, but so is playfulness, flexibility, joy. When you stop demanding perfection of yourself, your writing desk will become a spacious place.

Karen Russell

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#63. The person who wishes to attain human perfection should study logic first, next mathematics, then physics, and, lastly, metaphysics.

Maimonides

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#64. The more a human being feels himself a self, tries to intensify this self and reach a never-attainable perfection, the more drastically he steps out of the center of being.

Eugen Herrigel

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#65. Self reliance, the height and perfection of man, is reliance on God.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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#66. In all of our society, but especially in Hollywood, there is an obsession with perfection that can lead to self-loathing and neurosis and all that kind of stuff.

Ethan Hawke

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#67. The point is that if the love object is divine perfection, then one's own self is elevated by joining one's destiny to it.

Ernest Becker

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#68. We throw away real people searching for the "perfect" person the same way that we throw ourselves away searching for our "perfect" self.

Vironika Tugaleva

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#69. The Qur'an does not ask for human perfection, but rather
asks that we persevere in striving for self-improvement and that we never
become complacent or despondent about our progress.

Jeffrey Lang

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#70. The code of Manu differs from the bible. By means of it the nobles, the philosophers, and the warriors keep the whip hand over the majority. It is full of noble valuations; it shows a feeling of perfection, an acceptance of life, and triumphant feeling toward self and life.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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#71. Working to perfect our gift and overcoming the pain of self-discipline, we achieve our goals and move on to our dreams

Sunday Adelaja

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#72. Comparing yourself to others does nothing for you. Society has conditioned us to value people who fit a secular mold of perfection.

Michele Woolley

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#73. I do not stand here before you as a self-righteous saint who has achieved spiritual perfection, but as a sinner who has received Jesus into his heart as his Lord and Savior.

Thomas J. Paprocki

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#74. The fruits of the earth are not brought to perfection immediately, but by time, rain and care; similarly, the fruits of men ripen through ascetic practice, study, time, perseverance, self-control and patience.

Anthony The Great

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#75. Because we are always growing, life compounds and magnifies what is already in us. If you are miserable you grow in misery and if you are joyful you grow in joy. This makes self-love is the perfect soil from which to grow love.

Bryant McGill

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#76. Life is an aspiration. Its mission is to strive after perfection, which is self-realization. The ideal must not be lowered because of our weaknesses or imperfections.

Mahatma Gandhi

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#77. I am sometimes almost terrified at the scope of the demands made upon me, at the perfection of the self-abandonment required of me; yet outside of such absoluteness can be no salvation.

George MacDonald

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#78. You are Perfection and Imperfection's Love Child.

Sera Beak

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#79. Aikido is not merely about fighting and the development of the physical self but the perfection of the spiritual man at the same time. It has very harmonious movements, very beautiful to watch and beautiful for your body to feel.

Steven Seagal

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#80. God doesn't require perfection, he requires progression.

Stephan Labossiere

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#81. When your identity switch from the personal identity to the eternal self, no fear of death or karmic bondage arise in you.

Roshan Sharma

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#82. It really bothers me how in books it seems like the only two choices are perfection or self-hatred.

E. Lockhart

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#83. Like the rest of the genetic lottery, beauty is unfair. Everyone falls short of perfection, but some are luckier than others. Real confidence requires self-knowledge, which includes recognizing one's shortcomings as well as one's strengths.

Virginia Postrel

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#84. What is the meaning of Initiation? It is the Path to the realisation of your Self as the sole, the supreme, the absolute of all Truth, Beauty, Purity, Perfection!

Aleister Crowley

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#85. One of the strongest things I have had to wrestle with in my life is the significance of the longing for perfection in oneself and in the people bound to the self by friendship or parenthood or childhood.

Fred Rogers

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#86. The signs of the soundness of the servant's love for his Lord are three: absence of self-willing; pleasure in every event which takes place through divine decree; and seeing the perfection of the Beloved in everything and being content with Him in everything through submission to Him in all things.

Ibn Ata Allah

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#87. Hu-man, Hu-mility, Hu-manity, is a title of nobility of the Perfected One, one who has knowledge of its self, and living its essence

AainaA-Ridtz

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