Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

Our society nurtures the illusion that all the rewards go to the people who are perfect. But many of us are finding out that trying to be perfect is costly.

There are no perfect men of course, but some are more perfect than others, and we can use all of those we can get.

They are just 100 per cent bear, whereas human beings feel we're not 100 per cent human, that we're always letting ourselves down. We're constantly striving towards something, to some fulfilment.

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If I wait until I become perfect before I love myself, I will waste my whole life. I am already perfect right here and right now. I am perfect exactly as I am.

Consciously or unconsciously, we are all striving for perfection. Every being must attain to it.

Perfect can't possibly be the goal, we're left with generous, important and human instead.

There is a perfect ant, a perfect bee, but man is perpetually unfinished...Moreover, the incurable unfinishedness keeps man perpetually immature, perpetually capable of learning and growing.

My life is my statement and I try to be true to myself and thusly to other people. Whatever my failings are, they are human and I try to perfect it each day.

No one's perfect. And we've all made our mistakes and you just have to live with them and try to not make them again.

I feel like I leave every single project feeling like I didn't quite do as good as I wanted to do on it, and I have to just look forward to the next one to try and do better. Because you never quite hit the heights you have in your head for what you're going to do. But you learn something each time, which is important.

Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum.

I don't think I've reached perfection by any stretch of the imagination, but maybe someday I'll become a perfectionist.

The difficulty is that we try to perfect others before we perfect ourselves.

We don't need to be perfect. We're not supposed to be perfect; we're supposed to be complete. And you can't be complete if you're trying to be perfect.

It sounds funny, but my biggest fear is that I'm not perfect. I'm a perfectionist, and I get upset when things go wrong or when I don't do well. I used to be very uptight, but I've learned to loosen up.

Some men are more perfect than others.

The saved man is not a perfect man, but his heart's desire is to become perfect.

One of the nice things about looking at a bear is that you know it spends 100 per cent of every minute of every day being a bear. It doesn't strive to become a better bear. It doesn't go to sleep thinking, "I wasn't really a very good bear today". They are just 100 per cent bear, whereas human beings feel we're not 100 per cent human, that we're always letting ourselves down. We're constantly striving towards something, to some fulfilment

That good is the enemy of great is not just a business problem. It is a human problem.

Who shall make me perfect? I am perfect already.

Little by little we human beings are confronted with situations that give us more and more clues that we are not perfect.

Worthiness is a process, and perfection is an eternal trek. We can be worthy to enjoy certain privileges without being perfect.

I always think I don't do the first one good, so I try to do it more.

I've learned that nobody's perfect, and I don't expect myself to be perfect anymore.