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We fought hard. We gave it our best. We did what was right and we made a difference.
Geraldine Ferraro
Use what talents you have the woods would have little music if no birds sang their song except those who sang best.
Reverend Oliver G. Wilson
I'll take any way to get into the Hall of Fame. If they want a batboy I'll go in as a batboy.
Phil Rizzuto
Perfection consists not in doing extraordinary things but in doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
Angelique Arnauld
One must not hold one's self so divine as to be unwilling occasionally to make improvements in one's creations.
Ludwig van Beethoven
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
When something has been perfect there is a tendency to try hard to repeat it.
Edna O'Brien
The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.
Eugène Delacroix
You just have to learn not to care about the dust mites under the beds.
Margaret Mead
The secret of joy in work is contained in one word-excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.
Pearl S. Buck
Excellence encourages one about life generally it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.
George Eliot
Excellence is not an act but a habit. The things you do the most are the things you will do the best.
Marva Collins
The very pink of perfection.
Oliver Goldsmith
There are many lovely women but no perfect ones.
Victor Hugo
Trifles make perfection and perfection is no trifle.
Michelangelo
Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see. Thinks what ne'er was nor is nor e'er shall be.
Alexander Pope
Have patience with all things but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them-every day begin the task anew.
Saint Francis de Sales
Sainthood is acceptable only in saints.
Pamela Hansford Johnson
I like a man with faults especially when he knows it. To err is human- I'm uncomfortable around gods.
Hugh Prather
If the best man's faults were written on his forehead it would make him pull his hat over his eyes.
Gaelic proverb
Almost anything carried to its logical extreme becomes depressing if not carcinogenic.
Ursula K. LeGuin
A concern with the perfectibility of mankind is always a symptom of thwarted or perverted development.
Hugh Kingsmill
Perfectionism is self-abuse of the highest order.
Anne Wilson Schaef
When everything has to be right something isn't.
Stanislaw Lee
The maxim "Nothing avails but perfection" may be spelled "Paralysis."
Winston Churchill
Perfectionism is a dangerous state of mind in an imperfect world.
Robert Hillyer
Perfectionism is slow death.
Hugh Prather
Perfect order is the forerunner of perfect horror.
Carlos Fuentes
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.
Eugene Herrigel
The man who makes no mistakes lacks boldness and the spirit of adventure. He never tries anything new. He is a brake on the wheels of progress.
M. W. Larmour
I only have to stop the puck not beat it to death.
Don Beaupre
To try to be better is to be better.
Charlotte Cushman
Even a clock that is not going is right twice a day.
Polish proverb
When we do the best that we can we never know what miracle is wrought in our life or in the life of another.
Helen Keller
We're the best team in baseball. But not by much.
Sparky Anderson
It is the function of perfection to make one know one's imperfection.
Saint Augustine
A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.
John Henry Cardinal Newman
Nothing you write if you hope to be any good will ever come out as you first hoped.
Lillian Hellman
All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection.
William Faulkner
What after all is a halo? It's only one more thing to keep clean.
Christopher Fry
Angels can do no better.
K. Panuthos
To talk about the need for perfection in man is to talk about the need for another species.
Norman Cousins
Striving for perfection is the greatest stopper there is. You'll be afraid you can't achieve it. ... It's your excuse to yourself for not doing anything. Instead strive for excellence doing your best.
Sir Laurence Olivier
The "C" students run the world.
Harry S. Truman
You know what they call the guy who finishes last in medical school? They call him Doctor!
Abe Lemons
A good garden may have some weeds.
Thomas Fuller
At times failure is very necessary for the artist. It reminds him that failure is not the ultimate disaster. And this reminder liberates him from the mean fussing of perfectionism.
John Berger
Perfection is no more a requisite to art than to heroes.
Ned Rorem
Living with a saint is more grueling than being one.
Robert Neville
A finished person is a boring person.
Anna Quindlen
He is all fault who hath no fault at all. For who loves me must have a touch of earth.
Alfred
You're only human you're supposed to make mistakes.
Billy Joel
I don't like a man to be too efficient. He's likely to be not human enough.
Felix Frankfurter
Perfection does not exist. To understand this is the triumph of human intelligence to expect to possess it is the most dangerous kind of madness.
Alfred de Musset
So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.
Beatrice Potter Webb
The essence of man is imperfection.
Norman Cousins
A new idea is rarely born like Venus attended by graces. More commonly it's modeled of baling wire and acne. More commonly it wheezes and tips over.
Marge Piercy
The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
George Orwell
There is no perfection in humanity.
Samuel Montagne
Perfection never exists in reality but only in our dreams.
Dr. Rudolf Dreikurs
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