Imperfect Human Quotes

#1. The unmet need that can get met right now is the need to be whole, to be both your magnificent, divine self and your imperfect, human self.

Debbie Ford

#2. Please look at the imperfect human being God gave to love you once, and try to like me a little for what I really was, or, God willing, am. Then please, darling, become an imperfect human being among imperfect human beings again."
"Jenny

Kurt Vonnegut

#3. I keep telling myself that I'm a human being, an imperfect human being who's not made to look like a doll, and that who I am as a person is more important than whether at that moment I have a nice figure.

Emma Watson

#4. Eighty million steel juggernauts, operated by imperfect human beings at high speeds, are more destructive than war.

Robert A. Heinlein

#5. Your best changes from moment to moment, sick or well, tired or rested. Remember that you are an imperfect human being. There is no value to judging yourself for

Miguel Angel Ruiz

#6. As imperfect human beings, any of us, all of us, are subject at some time or another to make mistakes!

Brenda Jackson

#7. Can you predict the future with absolute certainty? Your answer must be no. You have two options: You can either decide to accept yourself as an imperfect human being with limited knowledge and realize that you will at times make mistakes, or you can hate yourself for it.

David D. Burns

#8. All of us are imperfect human beings living in an imperfect world.

Haruki Murakami

#9. An imperfect human heart, perfectly shattered, was her conclusion. A condition so common as to be virtually universal, rendering issues of right and wrong almost incidental.

Richard Russo

#10. Forgive yourself for being an imperfect human being. The goddess doesn't expect perfection, although she does expect you to try and do better. Allow yourself to be happy. Live the life you want, and follow the path of your heart.

Deborah Blake

#11. Peril-ridden and fragile, the imperfect human body, what a shameful thing it was!

Kenzaburo Oe

#12. The acceptance that all that is solid has melted into the air, that reality and morality are not givens but imperfect human constructs, is the point from which fiction begins.

Salman Rushdie

#13. Drop the veneer periodically and be like "OK, I'm an imperfect human. Let's try to get through this."

Dennis Miller

#14. No morally imperfect human being(s), born into "the double darkness of sin and ignorance" could ever qualify for the position of Master Utilitarian Manipulator that Consequentialism needs to be put into practice.

John C. Wright

#15. I've just grown as a person, accepting my flaws as well. Before I was very insecure and I used to just hide, and now I just accept that I'm an imperfect human.

Rebecca Ferguson

#16. Let's be honest. There's not a business anywhere that is without problems. Business is complicated and imperfect. Every business everywhere is staffed with imperfect human beings and exists by providing a product or service to other imperfect human beings.

Bob Parsons

#17. My calling, as one imperfect human, is to celebrate and uphold life every time I get the chance.

Victoria Moran

#18. It's OK to have fun in the Marine Corps. I like to say we are an imperfect people working in an institution that tries to be perfect. That is a noble thing, but you have to realize there is no perfect. We're human.

James L. Jones

#19. But it is one thing to transmit the divine through a blasting storm of holy noise, another thing entirely to write a history forged from human voices, imperfect memories, self-interested accounts.

Geraldine Brooks

#20. We must recognize that we are living in an imperfect world in which human and superhuman forces of evil are at work and so long as those forces affect the political behaviour of mankind there can be no hope of abiding peace.

Christopher Dawson

#21. The interesting thing about advertising is that the things that annoy us sometimes about it are really human. It's us looking at ourselves - and like all human endeavors it's imperfect.

Jaron Lanier

#22. Initially, I felt like my duty was to just keep it positive and be positive and sometimes I crack in that. We're human. I'm imperfect at times and that was just me being imperfect at that one point.

Wale

#23. I fail all the time, but we are all just human and imperfect, but you know what's best for you, so follow your gut. That's probably my biggest life lesson, follow your gut.

Chris Wyse

#24. The rationalism of the creative minds was tempered by abundant fantasies, and the supreme beauty of the monuments was probably spoiled by the circumambient vanities and ugliness; in a few cases the Greeks came as close to perfection as it was possible to do, yet they were human and imperfect.

George Sarton

#25. Human existence basically is--a never to be completed imperfect tense.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#26. My hand will always be imperfect because it's human ... I think that's where the beauty is.

Margaret Kilgallen

#27. 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.

Margaret Halsey

#28. I think we need to develop a powerful dose of tolerance to understand each other's humanness. None of us is perfect.

Cathy Burnham Martin

#29. Christianity brings to fulfilment and completion imperfect and partial insights about reality, scattered abroad in human culture. Tolkien gave Lewis a lens, a way of seeing things, which

Alister E. McGrath

#30. For whatever it's worth, I believe we're born imperfect, and perfection, whatever that may be, is unattainable by us mere humans.

Liza M. Wiemer

#31. In justice to human society it may perhaps be said of almost all the polities and civil institutions in the world, however imperfect, that they have been founded in and carried on with very considerable wisdom.

Ezra Stiles

#32. Sometimes we give too much too soon. Sometimes we hold back for too long. This is our beautiful dance. Our imperfect dance. This is the dance that makes us human.

Simon Sinek

#33. Markets are imperfect. So you do need regulation, knowing that the regulators are also human.

George Soros

#34. Our human laws are but the copies, more or less imperfect, of the eternal laws, so far as we can read them.

James Anthony Froude

#35. Politics is brutal because it engages the most fundamental human impulses for affection, honor, power, and fame. Great principles and grand visions are ennobling, but at its best politics is an imperfect means to an altruistic end.

Jon Meacham

#36. In war, where imperfect intelligence, the threat of a catastrophe, and the number of accidents are incomparably greater than any other human endeavor, the amount of missed opportunities, so to speak, is therefore bound to be greater.

Carl Von Clausewitz

#37. To love another human in all of her splendor and imperfect perfection , it is a magnificent task ... tremendous and foolish and human.

Louise Erdrich

#38. Because dating is a human exercise, it can be a tightrope fraught with danger. You will be dating imperfect people, and some of them are more imperfect than others. In addition, you are not perfect either, so that complicates the picture.

Henry Cloud

#39. We are no more and no less than minds, and it is human for the mind to be imperfect and to forget.

Claire North

#40. I started out looking for the perfect love story, but what I found instead was something even more beautiful - a messy love, an imperfect love, a human love. In this time of uncertainty, can I continue to love, even if it breaks my heart?

Velcrow Ripper

#41. And they're also very foolish, because no human being can ever make another human being completely happy. Human beings are far too imperfect for that.

Sylvain Reynard

#42. I never expect to see a perfect work from imperfect man.

Alexander Hamilton

#43. The Jews in the ghetto were every bit as imperfect as human beings anywhere else.

Edgar Hilsenrath

#44. God hears no sweeter music than the cracked chimes of the courageous human spirit ringing in imperfect acknowledgement of His perfect love.

Joshua L. Liebman

#45. The danger, when not seen, has the imperfect vagueness of human thought. The fear grows shadowy; and Imagination, the enemy of men, the father of all terrors, unstimulated, sinks to rest in the dullness of exhausted emotion.

Joseph Conrad

#46. She was. She was imperfect. She made mistakes. But she was her best self more often than it's reasonable for any human to be.

Cheryl Strayed

#47. Grieving doesn't make you imperfect. It makes you human.

Sarah Dessen

#48. It wasn't my choice to be an open book, but when people found out what my life was like when I was 14 or 15, I didn't deny it. I think the more imperfect you are, the more human you are.

Drew Barrymore

#49. Compassion is, by definition, relational. Compassion literally means "to suffer with," which implies a basic mutuality in the experience of suffering. The emotion of compassion springs from the recognition that the human experience is imperfect.

Kristin Neff

#50. In a world like that, there'd be no need for love anymore either. if everyone were perfect, there would be no need to look out for others. Sympathy or Love is needed because people are imperfect. A perfect human cannot love anyone.

Tamiki Wakaki

#51. Ordinary human laws are the means
however imperfect
by which we express our understanding of the enduring moral law.

Russell Kirk

#52. People are not totally good or bad, black or white - unless we are talking of evil psychos.
We, human beings, are somewhere between angels and demons. That is what makes us, human beings, lovely imperfect.

Cristiane Serruya

#53. I want to love like my grandmother, who loved a woman like Joseph loved Mary. Someone so imperfect, so human, brave enough to love someone who already knows God.

R. YS Perez

#54. No story is a straight line. The geometry of a human life is too imperfect and complex, too distorted by the laughter of time and the bewildering intricacies of fate to admit the straight line into its system of laws.

Pat Conroy

#55. Religious moderation is the direct result of taking scripture less and less seriously. So why not take it less seriously still? Why not admit the the Bible is merely a collection of imperfect books written by highly fallible human beings.

Sam Harris

#56. We can't be both human and divine. To be human is to be imperfect." When

Patricia Engel

#57. I think the dilemma exists because art, among all the other tidy categories, most closely resembles what it is like to be human. To be alive. It is our nature to be imperfect. To have uncategorized feelings and emotions. To make or do things that don't sometimes necessarily make sense.

Brene Brown

#58. They wanted to rock, they wanted to roll, they wanted to feel the peculiarly human feeling of having a perfect night in an imperfect world.

Rebecca Wells

#59. What was it about scholarship and learning, he wondered, that seemed to wither the hearts of University men, leaving them incapable of loving anything as imperfect and fallible as an actual human being?

Ellen Kushner

#60. Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.

George Soros

#61. The true aim of female education should be, not a development of one or two, but all the faculties of the human soul, because no perfect womanhood is developed by imperfect culture.

Frances Harper

#62. Scepticism is effortful and costly. It is better to be sceptical about matters of large consequences, and be imperfect, foolish and human in the small and the aesthetic.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#63. All these problems [deciding cases] are easier for people who believe in God. Those of us who don't or can't have to do the best we can. That's what the law is, the best we can do. Human justice is imperfect, but it's the only justice we have.

P.D. James

#64. One of the most human things that you can do is reach out for the stars knowing that you might not ever touch them; we are all perfectly imperfect, but to live knowing so is to be a fulfilled human being.

Oli Anderson

#65. When we are young, we make gods and goddesses of one another, then we soon come to realize that we are all merely human and imperfect.

Elizabeth Aston

#66. 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.

Martha Beck

#67. Do not have expectations. We humans are created imperfect, which means that we have flaws

Norhafsah Hamid

#68. It might not be about perfection. Rather, it may be that that which is imperfect is that which has the most character.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#69. Being human is a divine gift. It is also not necessary that we overcome all our sins and become saints.We need to realize that we are born imperfect and will remain so until death.

Gian Kumar

#70. We humans are imperfect, but what makes us human is not are kind but our courage to overcome fear, our ability to turn imagination into reality, our hope to diminish despair, and have a smile on our face although we in a predicament.

Paranjay Malkan

#71. Every human being who loves another loves imperfection, for there is no perfect being on this earth
nothing is so simple as that.

Susan Cooper

#72. We are imperfect humans and are bound to need attitude adjustments from time to time.

Cathy Burnham Martin

#73. He saw nothing but misfortune
human error and misfortune. It brought him the most peace to simply believe that people were imperfect, and life was imperfect, and sometimes bad things happened.

Kaya McLaren

#74. For it is a curious fact that though human beings have such imperfect means of communication, that they can only say 'good to eat' when they mean 'beautiful' and the other way about, they will yet endure ridicule and misunderstanding rather than keep any experience to themselves.

Virginia Woolf

#75. A general limitation of the human mind is its imperfect ability to reconstruct past states of knowledge, or beliefs that have changed. Once you adopt a new view of the world (or any part of it), you immediately lose much of your ability to recall what you used to believe before your mind changed.

Daniel Kahneman

#76. Scholars note that human reasoning is limited not only by imperfect information and innate intellectual capacities but also by the broader culture that subsequently shapes the very optics that individuals use to categorize the world.

Michael Barnett

#77. Being human, we are imperfect. That's why we need each other. To catch each other when we falter. To encourage each other when we lose heart. Some may lead; others may follow; but none of us can go it alone.

Hillary Clinton

#78. Feeling vulnerable, imperfect, and afraid is human. It's when we lose our capacity to hold space for these struggles that we become dangerous.

Brene Brown

#79. My knowledge of the human psyche is as yet imperfect. Certain areas won't yield to computation.

Poul Anderson

#80. Perfection is not real. Perfection is not human. Carlos is not perfect- no, even better- he is imperfect. Everything about him, and us, and all of this is imperfect. And those imperfections in our reality are the seams and cracks into which our outsized love can seep and pool.

Cecil Baldwin

#81. For me, the different religions are beautiful flowers from the same garden, or they are branches of the same majestic tree. Therefore, they are equally true, though being received and interpreted through human instruments equally imperfect.

Mahatma Gandhi

#82. The god who presides over the Judeo-Christian belief system bears a disquieting resemblance to those imperfect creations known as human beings. This suggests that either he really did fashion us in his own image or we fashioned him in ours.

Michael Parenti

#83. Like bones to the human body, the axle to the wheel, the wing to the bird, and the air to the wing, so is liberty the essence of life. Whatever is done without it is imperfect.

Jose Marti