Impossible Standards Quotes

No matter what you do, you can never please everyone. And that was the hardest lesson to learn. In fact, I'm still learning it.

We're in a world and a society where we're all striving for this perfection that doesn't exist.

You can't satisfy everybody; especially if there are those who will be dissatisfied unless not everybody is satisfied.

It is a foolish woman who expects her husband to be to her that which only Jesus Christ Himself can be: always ready to forgive, totally understanding, unendingly patient, invariably tender and loving, unfailing in every area, anticipating every need, and making more than adequate provision. Such expectations put a man under an impossible strain

Modern women are just bombarded. There's nothing but media telling us we're all supposed to be great cooks, have great style, be great in bed, be the best mothers, speak seven languages, and be able to understand derivatives. And we don't really have women we're modeling after, so we're all looking for how to do this.

It's too distracting to read about yourself. You want to be perfect and you want everyone to love you, and that's never going to happen.

Every child is taught if you try to please everyone, you end up upsetting everyone.

The law was given to drive us to despair over the hopelessness of ever being able to keep it.

critic, n. A person who boasts himself hard to please because nobody tries to please him.

I find the term 'perfect child' to be an oxymoron.

When you're a girl, you have to be everything, You have to be dope at what you do, but you have to be super sweet, and you have to be sexy, and you have to be this and you have to be that and you have to be nice, and you have to - it's like, I can't be all of those things at once. I'm a human being.

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

We know of our own knowledge that we are human beings, and, as such, imperfect. But we are bathed by the communications industry in a ceaseless tide of inhuman, impossible perfection.

Perfectionism is self destructive simply because there's no such thing as perfect. Perfection is an unattainable goal.

What critics often ask for is the impossible, though this may be a salutary means of extending the borders of art.

Where in the world have you seen construction people who do everything on time, with good quality and at minimal prices? Just give me one country like that. A country like that doesn't exist in the world, you know. There's not one such country anywhere in the world.

It's impossible for anyone to meet the expectation of being the savior of the world.

It is too exhausting to try and make everyone happy or pretend.

If you try to please everybody, somebody's not going to like it.

I can't be all things to everyone.

When people insist on perfection or nothing, they get nothing.

It is impossible to please all the world and one's father.

You can't live up to what people expect. Nobody can. But I guess that's my problem, not theirs.

Women innately have this weird thing where they try to have a perfect persona - to look perfect, be perfect, act perfect, have their kids look a certain way. Women put so much pressure on themselves.