To Be Perfect Quotes

To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man.
- Joseph Addison

I wish there were two of me and 48-hour days so I could get everything done. But for me, I have to not try and think that everything has to be 100% perfect all the time and leave room for error. As long as my kids feel loved and a priority, everything really is secondary.
- Jessica Alba

Elegance is the correct posture if the writing is to be perfect. It's the same with life: when all superfluous things have been discarded, we discover simplicity and concentration. The simpler and more sober the posture, the more beautiful it will be, even though, at first, it may seem uncomfortable.
- Paulo Coelho

Maybe you expected marriage to be perfect - I guess that's where you and I are different. See, I thought it would be all about making mistakes, but doing it with someone who's there to remind you what you learned along the way.
- Jodi Picoult

The name sounds almost too perfect. And as I said, you look perfect, too. The only thing left... is to be perfect.
- Jay Asher

I wish, as well as every body else, to be perfectly happy; but like every body else, it must be in my own way.
- Jane Austen

I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way.
- Jane Austen

You have no ambition, I well know. Your wishes are all moderate.'
'As moderate as those of the rest of the world, I believe. I wish as well as every body else to be perfectly happy, but like every body else it must be in my own way. Greatness will not make me so.
- Jane Austen

How can you sit there, calmly eating muffins when we are in this horrible trouble, I can't make out. You seem to me to be perfectly heartless."
"Well, I can't eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs. One should always eat muffins quite calmly. It is the only way to eat them."
"I say it's perfectly heartless your eating muffins at all, under the circumstances.
- Oscar Wilde

The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.
- Henry Ward Beecher

And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.
- John Steinbeck

It is as evil as we are positive...the more desperately we try to be good and wonderful and perfect, the more the Shadow develops a definite will to be black and evil and destructive... The fact is that if one tries beyond one's capacity to be perfect, the Shadow descends to hell and becomes the devil.
- Haruki Murakami

To do better is better than to be perfect.
- Toba Beta

Look, it's one of the great mysteries of the world, I cannot answer that question. I think I'm vaguely blonde. To be perfectly frank, I don't know.
- Cate Blanchett

I remember seeing some little wrinkles in my early 30s and thinking they were interesting. But you know the horror of it is that the screen image has to be perfect.
- Claire Bloom

By crying on my bed, drinking quite a lot and feeling tempted by drugs. Well, just not reading it to be perfectly honest with you. I know it's a bit of a copout.
- Jo Brand

It's a video release as well so I have to be perfectly honest and go, probably not specifically for DVD, but there are extra bits on it that aren't on anything else, so as exciting as that sounds.
- Jo Brand

It's a very American trait, this wanting people to think well of us. It's a young want, and I am ashamed of it in myself. I am not always a good daughter, even though my lacks are in areas different from her complaints. Haven't I learned yet that the desire to be perfect is always disastrous and, at the least, loses me in the mire of false guilt?
- Madeleine L Engle

What's going on with you? Jared asked out of the blue.
Beginning a new era of journalistic history, Kami told him, sending her cheer through their connection. Also, to be perfectly honest, Angela and I were slapping our asses.
As one does.
- Sarah Rees Brennan

No, Miss Wright didn't want to meet her kid. To her, that relationship was just as important, just as ideal and impossible as it would be to the child. She'd expect that young man to be perfect, smart, and talented, everything to compensate for all the mistakes that she'd made. The whole wasted, unhappy mess of her life.
- Chuck Palahniuk

Beauty is finding the right fit, the natural fit. To be perfect, you have to feel perfect about yourself. Avoid trying to be someone you're not.
- Rick Riordan

Beauty is about finding the right fit, the most natural fit. To be perfect, you have to feel perfect about yourself avoid trying to be someone you're not.
- Rick Riordan

But beauty is about finding the right fit, the most natural fit, To be perfect, you have to feel perfect about yourself --- avoid trying to be something you're not. For a goddess, that's especially hard. We can change so easily.
-Aphrodite
- Rick Riordan

I try to recognize that there is no such thing as having it all - and it's impossible to be perfect. You just have to let certain things go.
- Emily Giffin

I actually knew I was going to be perfect for Def Leppard, sorry I hate to say that but I knew it.
- Vivian Campbell

Politics move, as fast as Twitter, and for everyone to think that in four years America was going to be perfect is ridiculous.
- Cedric The Entertainer

The soul mate is what we aspire to and like to understand about us, is what we deem to be perfection, purity and endless regarding our own being.
- Sorin Cerin

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.
- Winston Churchill

If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven.
- Jesus Christ

To be perfectly honest, drama is a lot simpler than comedy.
- Nikki Cox

I don't have to try to be perfect at everything.
- Cindy Crawford

I'm talking about a little truth-in-packaging here. To be perfectly frank, you don't quite look like yourself. And if you walk around looking like someone other than who you are, you could end up getting the wrong job, the wrong friends, who knows what-all. You could end up with somebody else's life."
I shrugged again, and smiled. "This is my life," I said. "It doesn't seem like the wrong one.
- Michael Cunningham

I don't want to be perfect, but I do want to be a role model. My mom always tells me that imperfections equal beauty. All of us are imperfect.
- Miley Cyrus

In those days, reserve duty lasted for six years, which, I might add, was three times as long as service in the regular army, although to be perfectly honest, I was unable to fulfill my entire obligation because I was taking acting classes and they said I could skip my last year.
- Larry David

I think Willim Shakespeare was the wisest human being I ever heard of. To be perfectly frank though, that's not saying much. We are impossibly conceited animals, and actually dumb as heck. Ask any teacher. You don't even have to ask a teacher. Ask anybody. Dogs and cats are smarter than we are.
- Kurt Vonnegut

We are not native. We have no generations of Americans behind us. We have roots elsewhere. We are looking in from the outside. To me, that seems to be perfectly natural.
- Don Delillo

Waiting around to be perfect never amounts to anything. Don't be a waiter or you'll be serving other people.
- Ian Desabrais

It took a lot of work to be perfect.
- Sarah Dessen

The Lord has a plan. We always think the plans are A, B, C and D, and everything is going to be perfect for us and it may not be that way, but it's still his plan.
- Tony Dungy

Part of the problem is when we bring in a new technology we expect it to be perfect in a way that we don't expect the world that we're familiar with to be perfect.
- Esther Dyson

I want to be the best mum and I want everything to be perfect - I want a fairy tale really.
- Jennifer Ellison

To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.
- Victor Hugo

There is a difference between a military mission and the aspiration for the long-term plans for the country. What we want is a stable enough Afghanistan, able to look after its own security so we can leave without the fear of it imploding... But let's be clear - it's not going to be perfect.
- Liam Fox

...and Dave and I, we were doing this...this weird circling thing, like we needed to figure out every single line of the script before we could even start the movie. I knew, and he knew, and we didn't do a damn thing about it...It's like we thought everything had to be perfect, or it wouldn't work. Like it was a story.
- Mira Grant

After I retired and came off the road, I gathered up all my musical instruments and suddenly, I wanted them all to be perfect.
- Tom T Hall

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.
- Laurell K Hamilton

Workaholics don't actually accomplish more than nonworkaholics. They may claim to be perfectionists, but that just mean they're wasting time fixating on inconsequential details instead of moving on to the next task.
- David Heinemeier Hansson

To be perfectly honest, I enjoy thinking dangerously
- Jimmy Henderson

Because we're human beings, we're not always going to be perfect.
- Benny Hinn

I was beginning to understand.My grandmother's love was cold because she was afraid of things;that was why everything had to be perfect.
- Alice Hoffman

In this long eternal quest to be more like our Savior, may we try to be "perfect" men and women in at least this one way nowby offending not in word, or more positively put, by speaking with a new tongue, the tongue of angels. Our words, like our deeds, should be filled with faith and hope and charity, the three great Christian imperatives so desperately needed in the world today.
- Jeffrey R Holland

Trying to be Supermom is as futile as trying to be Perfect Mom. Not going to happen.
- Arianna Huffington

When I joined Custer I donned the uniform of a soldier. It was a bit awkward at first but I soon got to be perfectly at home in men's clothes.
- Calamity Jane

The more I try to be perfect; the more I fail.
- Harley King

If you're working on a movie, you want it to be projected on the largest tapestry possible, and the sound to be perfect, and for that kind of communal experience of the movies to take place for it.
- Greg Kinnear

Something I'd like to be perfect at?... Loving you,' I said. The words climbed from my mouth. 'I'd want to be perfect at loving you.
- Markus Zusak

To be perfect, one lacks only a defect.
- Karl Kraus

...you don't have to be perfect to be pretty
- Carson Kressley

Fortunately, now I've got myself in a position where things are about story and not money. In my earlier career, it was more about getting my foot in the door and to get enough money to live, to be perfectly honest.
- Ryan Kwanten

I want tonight to be perfect for you. Just know that it's already been perfect for me.
- M Leighton

He wanted to be perfectly safe and yet also very nonchalant and daring-to be admired for manly honesty among the Dimbles and yet also for realism and knowingness at Belbury-to have two more large whiskies and also to think everything out very clearly and collectedly.
- C S Lewis

I think Baltimore suffers from nostalgia and it keeps us from being honest in talking about what really happened here. A place doesn't have to be perfect to be beloved, and I love this city and I love it better for seeing its flaws.
- Laura Lippman

I'm not perfect, but I'd like to be perfect. I'm working on it.
- Shelley Long

Love is more powerful than the pressure to be perfect.
- Demi Lovato

Love is larger than the pressure to be perfect
- Demi Lovato

Love is louder then the pressure to be perfect.
- Demi Lovato

Love is Louder than the Pressure to be Perfect
- Demi Lovato

What is perfect? Journey, a thing doesn't have to be perfect to be fine. That goes for a picture. That goes for life....Things can be good enough.
- Patricia Maclachlan

I had a perfect life in my reach once, and it was a crashing bore. Perfect is too clean, too easy. I don't want perfect any more than I want to be perfect. I want imperfect.
- Sarah Maclean

For me to be here tonight, everything had to be perfect. I had to get drafted by Utah, had to play with a point guard like John Stockton, and had to be coached by Jerry Sloan and Frank Layden.
- Karl Malone

I am obsessed with beauty. I want everything to be perfect, and of course it isn't. And that's a tough place to be because you're never satisfied.
- Robert Mapplethorpe

A lot of times, in the beginning of my career, I put pressure on myself just because I wanted to perform so well. I just wanted to be perfect.
- Floyd Mayweather Jr

If I'd been a housemaid I'd have been the best in Australia - I couldn't help it. It's got to be perfection for me.
- Nellie Melba

Fine,' Jared snapped. 'But if you try cuddling up to me tonight... so help me, O'Shea.
Ian chuckled. ' Not to sound overly arrogant, but to be perfectly honest, Jared, were I so inclined, I think I could do better.
- Stephenie Meyer

In gymnastics, you have to be perfect every step along the way.
- Shannon Miller

When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.
- Donald Miller

If you're going to learn a new language, you can't try to be perfect. You'll stop yourself from talking. You just have to let go.
- Yao Ming

To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.
- John Henry Newman

You may never get to that perfect world that you're waiting for where everything's going to be perfect and you got that much money and your house paid off.
- Joel Osteen

We learned to put discipline in the haircuts by using actual geometry, actual architectural shapes and bone structure. The cut had to be perfect and layered beautifully, so that when a woman shook it, it just fell back in.
- Vidal Sassoon

I want to be perfect. I don't want to fail. And you always fail.
- Robin Wright Penn

There are a lot of things that are personally uncomfortable to show, especially me without makeup and completely bloated or crying. But I've realized that it's time for me to show my audience that you don't have to be perfect to achieve your dreams. Because nobody relates to being perfect.
- Katy Perry

A good education is that which prepares us for our future sphere of action and makes us contented with that situation in life in which God, in his infinite mercy, has seen fit to place us, to be perfectly resigned to our lot in life, whatever it may be.
- Ann Plato

What scared me in that debate is that it's not about the ownership rules at all. The vast majority of people don't even know what the rules say, to be perfectly candid. Name all six of them.
- Michael K Powell

Don't strive to be perfect. Strive for excellence.
- Victoria Principal

Not much to be perfectly honest! I thought The Phantom Menace was terrible, except for the Pod Race.
- David Prowse

Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.
- Anthony Robbins

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

I couldn't be an ingenue today, because the business has changed. I remember when you could dress for a premiere just by putting on a cute top. Now you have to be perfect and fabulous in every way, or you're ridiculed.
- Julia Roberts

When you finally accept that it's OK not to have answers and it's OK not to be perfect, you realize that feeling confused is a normal part of what it is to be a human being.
- Winona Ryder

If we are not careful, we will convey the message that investigators have to be perfect. Not true!
- Richard G Scott

Everything that looks too perfect is too perfect to be perfect.
- Dejan Stojanovic

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

Everybody wants to be perfect.
- Isaiah Thomas

I seem finally to have stopped worrying about Elinor, and age. She seems now to be perfectly normal -- about twenty-five, a witty control freak. I like her but I can see how she would drive you mad. She's just the sort of person you'd want to get drunk, just to make her giggling and silly.
- Emma Thompson

What you create doesn't have to be perfect. So what if the eggs are greasy or the toast is burned? Don't let fear of failure discourage you.
- Dieter F Uchtdorf

As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days.
- Gore Vidal

When people start writing there is this idea that you have to get everything right first time, every sentence has to be perfect, every paragraph has to be perfect, every chapter has to be perfect, but what you're doing is not any kind of public show, until you're ready for it.
- Irvine Welsh

It's hard to be perfect, It really is. I keep learning things after I've already bungled it.
- Tina Weymouth