Marvin J. Ashton Quotes

You'll be perfect when you're dead

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.

I'm perfect. We're all perfect.

Each of you is perfect the way you are ... and you can use a little improvement.

I remove the work should from my vocabulary forever. Should is a word that makes a prisoner of me. Every time I say should, I am making myself wrong, or I am making someone else wrong. I am, in effect, saying I am not good enough.

Once you accept the fact that you're not perfect, then you develop some confidence.

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

You're not perfect, but you're not your mistakes.

Most people settle because they don't like themselves enough.

Love yourself and watch - Today, tomorrow, always. To straighten the crooked You must first do a harder thing - Straighten yourself.

There will be many times when we won't look good-to ourselves or anyone else. We need to stop demanding that we do. It is impossible to get better and look good at the same time.

I ain't no perfect man I'm tryna do the best that I can with what it is I have.

A man who loves himself takes the first step towards real love.

If I give more to myself, I can ask more from myself. Self-regard isn't selfish.

Self-esteem is something you have to earn!

I love what I do, and I always make sure to tell my fans I'm not perfect, so don't think I am. I make mistakes. I'm human, and we all are. But I try to be the best I can be, and that's all I really can do.

I'm not saying I'm perfect, or fixed, but I am learning to love and accept myself. My outlook is more positive and I am happy.

You have been taught that there is something wrong with you and that you are imperfect, but there isn't and you're not.

I require myself not to be equal to the best, but to be better then the bad.

It really is the relationship you have with your self that presents the key to the “kingdom”, so to speak... Fighting is good, but not when it is fighting yourself. Changing the world is good but first one has to start inside and concurrently make that place right. The strife and the ugliness in the world is the outward manifestation of this troubled relationship we have within on a whole.

If you truly want to become a better you, it is imperative that you learn to feel good about yourself.

When you do your best you learn to accept yourself

The Savior desires to save us from our inadequacies as well as our sins. Inadequacy is not the same as being sinful - we have far more control over the choice to sin than we may have over our innate capacity. . . . A sense of falling short or falling down is not only natural but essential to the mortal experience. Still, after all we can do, the Atonement can fill that which is empty, straighten our bent parts, and make strong that which is weak.

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