Fran Tarkenton Quotes

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.

Too late, I found you can't wait to become perfect, you got to go out and fall down and get up with everybody else.

Nothing needs to be perfect to be good, and no one should need to feel perfect to feel right

Welcoming imperfection is the way to accomplish what perfectionism promises but never delivers. It gives us our best performance and genuine acceptance in the family of human -- and by that I mean imperfect -- beings.

Understanding the difference between healthy striving and perfectionism is critical to laying down the shield and picking up your life. Research shows that perfectionism hampers success. In fact, it's often the path to depression, anxiety, addiction, and life paralysis.

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.

Being perfect is being flawed, accepting it, and never letting it make you feel less than your best.

We are all failures – at least, all the best of us are.

You get successful for the person that you are, not for the way you look. If you feel good, you can conquer the world, so you need to feel right inside.

I'm learning to let go of the idea of trying to be perfect.

Strive for excellence, not perfection.

Strive for excellence, not perfection, because we don't live in a perfect world.

What I might have considered good, good doesn't mean every day is going to be perfect, you're not going to have bad breath, your hair is going to be in the perfect place.

I'm perfect. We're all perfect.

I've let go of being a super perfectionist on every single note and wanting the pitch to be absolutely perfect all of the time. I grew up watching the best of the best.

Spirituality isn't about being finished and perfect; spirituality is about trusting God in our unfinishedness.

I can't make anybody happy, so I try my best to be good at what I do

A more happy mind leads to quietness and clarity. And that clarity helps you have a greater capacity to do more and to become more successful and more giving.

Failure means you've now learned another valuable lesson that pushes you one step closer to success.

But I am learning that perfection isn't what matters. In fact, it's the very thing that can destroy you if you let it.

You don't need to have a perfect ending to be happy.

Don't be so hard on yourself, don't put pressure on yourself, life is just a chain of experiments and results, and you'll be perfect when you're dead.

Today I will tell myself that I'm lovable. Just because some people haven't been able to love me in ways that worked doesn't mean that I'm unlovable. I've had lessons to learn, and some of them have hurt deeply, but I can still love, and I still am loved.

I might not be perfect, but I feel perfect. I think that's all that matters.

You don't have to be perfect to be awesome.