Top 82 Imperfect People Quotes
#1. No matter how hard we try, we are at best imperfect people. When we allow sin, we allow our imperfections to show.
Bidemi Mark-Mordi
#2. We learn to love imperfect people by serving them out of reverence for a perfect God...
Gary Thomas
#3. I often get, 'Oh, you always play the asshole.' An asshole is somebody who knows that they're doing it, but continues to behave a certain way. The one sort of common thread to me has always been that these are imperfect people.
Will Arnett
#4. I have learned that much of my spiritual progress does not come directly from God, but through my ability to humble myself and hear Him speak through imperfect people.
Francis Frangipane
#5. Imperfect people are all god has ever had to work with. That must be terribly frustrating to him, but he deals with it. So should we.
Jeffrey R. Holland
#6. An ideal marriage is a true partnership between two imperfect people, each striving to complement the other, to keep the commandments, and to do the will of the Lord ["Our Sacred Duty to Honor Woman," Ensign, May 1999).
Russel M. Nelson
#7. Each marriage starts with two built-in handicaps. It involves two imperfect people.
Russell M. Nelson
#8. Marriage is two imperfect people committing themselves to a perfect institution, by making perfect vows from imperfect lips before a perfect God.
Myles Munroe
#9. 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
#10. I like telling stories of imperfect people because most people are imperfect.
David S.Goyer
#12. 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
#13. If you can learn to love the imperfect people in your family then it's possible that someone can learn to love a imperfect you.
T.D. Jakes
#14. A perfect marriage is just two imperfect people who refuse to give up on each other.
Dave Willis
#15. No person is 100% faithful. It is only when we see the depth of our own unfaithfulness that we can truly begin to understand the faithfulness of Jesus. He is faithful even when we are not. Thankfully, we have a perfect God who loves us imperfect people.
Jayce O'Neal
#16. I believe that the measure of my soul is my capacity to love imperfect people.
Joseph Grenny
#17. It is far easier to be a Christian in isolation than it is to live out one's faith in the context of all those other imperfect people who make up God's church.
Gordon Fee
#18. We live in an imperfect world, and imperfect people surround us every day.
Joyce Meyer
#19. My hope is that my novels reflect the reality of a world where good and evil exist, imperfect people make mistakes, but a perfect Heavenly Father offers forgiveness and second chances.
Julie Klassen
#20. Church and family are both primary influences designed by God for a purpose and when they work together, they are orange. Both are systems comprised of imperfect people - that's why God desires to use them as a platform to tell his story of restoration and redemption to the world.
Reggie Joiner
#21. He was too perfect, despite being one of the most imperfect people I knew.
Richelle Mead
#22. Sages of the past would say we are - all of us - just imperfect people on a flawed planet who are trying to hold on to what is good and lovely and right.
Susan Meissner
#23. So there we were; two perfectly imperfect people coming together in a perfectly imperfect world.
Craig R. Key
#24. Ordinary imperfect people, always choose similarly imperfect people as friends.
Haruki Murakami
#25. We're imperfect people trapped in an imperfect world until we get to that place beyond.
Kathie Lee Gifford
#26. Two imperfect people can make a perfect moment.
Rachel Morgan
#27. People aren't meant to be perfect. We're all imperfect people looking for perfect moments to share with other imperfect people.
Shaun Hutchinson
#28. The beauty of grace is that God chooses to use imperfect people to demonstrate His perfect glory, love and Truth to this world.
Alisa Hope Wagner
#29. I suppose the Church would be perfect only if it were run by perfect beings. God is perfect, and His doctrine is pure. But He works through us - His imperfect children - and imperfect people make mistakes.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
#30. Because in my opinion it's not really a great idea to see people as one thing.
Every person has lots of ingredients to make them into what is always a one-of-a-kind creation.
We are all imperfect genetic stews.
Holly Goldberg Sloan
#31. What I've learned in 40 years of consumer reporting is that the market is imperfect, and some people get ripped off.
John Stossel
#32. So you made some bad choices. Some of God's best players were His imperfect, broken prodigals. In fact, iffy players are God's best picks. He specializes in short-tempered, reckless, flawed people to accomplish his plans.
Susan May Warren
#33. Our people, our history, our struggle is more than a war, more than a fall, more than a favorite dish, more than one monolithic political opinion, more than one dialect, one gender, one nation, one flag. Respect and love to the diaspora - as imperfect as I am, I am one of you and I am yours.
Bao Phi
#34. Just be yourself. Let people see the real, imperfect, flawed, quirky, weird, beautiful, magical person that your are.
Mandy Hale
#35. Let's face it, we're all imperfect and we're going to fall short on occasion. But we must learn from failure and that will enable us to avoid repeating our mistakes. Through adversity, we learn, grow stronger, and become better people.
John Wooden
#36. I am in favour of leaving people alone, however imperfect their polity may seem. It appears to me that you must not tell other nations how to set their house in order; nor must you compel them to be happy.
Patrick O'Brian
#38. I'm pretty comfortable with my body. I'm imperfect. The imperfections are there. People are going to see them, but I take the view you only live once.
Kate Hudson
#39. There would be a time when the world created people stronger than them. When all of this got worked out. But until then there would be women and men like Hanne and Alan, who were imperfect and had no path toward perfection.
Dave Eggers
#40. If anything is evident about people who manage money, it is that the task attracts a very low level of talent, one that is protected in its highly imperfect profession by the mystery that is thought to enfold the subject of economics in general and of money in particular.
John Kenneth Galbraith
#41. Self-realization may be and sometimes is attained even by people who are struggling with sick and otherwise imperfect bodies; but it cannot be attained unless one can concentrate and meditate uninterruptedly upon God.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#42. I'd begun to realize that there was an unspoken predjudice among book-learned people, a secret conviction they all seemed to share, that life as we know it is an imperfect vision of reality, and that only art, like a pair of reading glasses can correct it.
Ian Caldwell
#43. People must not only hear about the kingdom of GOD, but must see it in actual operation, on a small scale perhaps and in imperfect form, but a real demonstration nevertheless.
Pandita Ramabai
#44. People are imperfect, but that doesn't mean they spoil like milk.
Veronica Rossi
#45. People are naturally imperfect. No matter what your relationship, whether parent, child, friend or lover, there will always be mistakes on both sides. It's how we choose to accept the flaws of the people who surround us that determines our peace.
Kate J. Squires
#46. People like me don't work towards perfection in an imperfect world. We celebrate imperfection
Shelley Coriell
#47. Ordinary people who know nothing of phonetics or elocution have difficulties in understanding slow speech composed of perfect sounds, while they have no difficulty in comprehending an imperfect gabble if only the accent and rhythm are natural.
Alexander Graham Bell
#48. They're people who probably imagine that they would have had a better time in the past. I wouldn't imagine you'd encounter a lot of black people saying 'Oh, the '50s, that was when America was great.' It's very dangerous because the past was imperfect, and you can't go back anyway.
Christine Jennings
#49. Foreign policy is all about a universe of bad decisions, imperfect decisions; every situation is different. The dynamics, the atmospherics, the people, the pressures, the geopolitical realities shift.
Chuck Hagel
#50. Don't let anger rule your life. Avoid confrontation. It's an imperfect world, and people make mistakes, even when they're trying to do their best.
Stan Hinden
#51. And that's the thing about marriage. It can look perfect to people from the outside but be utterly imperfect on the inside. The reverse is true as well. No one knows what goes on in a marriage except for the two people living in it.
Elin Hilderbrand
#52. 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
#53. 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
#54. Most of the time, all you have is the moment, and the imperfect love of the people around you.
Anne Lamott
#55. If you place the imperfect next to the perfect, people will see the difference between the one and the other. But if you offer the imperfect alone, people are only too apt to be satisfied by it.
Alfred Stieglitz
#56. My marriage? Up to now everything's okay. But it's a real marriage - imperfect and very difficult. It's all about people evolving somewhat simultaneously through their lives. I think we've emotionally evolved.
Jamie Lee Curtis
#57. Institutions are imperfect. Governments surely are. People are.
Chuck Hagel
#58. 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
#59. A role model is an imperfect person, not a perfect person, because that's who we are as real people.
Jennifer Love Hewitt
#60. So many people are like, 'I'm perfect.' I'm so imperfect; that's why I'm able to let everything out and let people see everything. 'Cause I'm just a mess like every other person that's a mess out there.
Mary J. Blige
#61. You can drink pickle juice and imitate gorillas and do silly dances and sing stupid songs and wear funny hats and be as imperfect as you please and still be a good person. Good people are hard to find nowadays. And they're a lot more fun than perfect people any day of the week.
Stephen Manes
#62. It brought him the most peace to simply believe that people were imperfect, and life was imperfect and sometimes bad things just happened.
Kaya McLaren
#63. In ancient times, people said that imperfect moves to becoming perfect. Are these words vain? No! Truly, by gaining Unity you come to Perfection!
Laozi
#64. 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
#65. So research is a terribly imperfect science, and you learn an awful lot more after you've published a book, because people keep writing to you and saying, 'Oh, gosh, I was related to such and such a character and I have a letter in my possession.'
Simon Winchester
#66. We come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly ... Only after we have lost everything, are we free to do anything ... Throw things out there and not be perfect and not have answers to anything and see if people understand.
Angelina Jolie
#67. Your goal is to launch an imperfect product and let people laugh at you.
Bo Sanchez
#68. To the people who love you, you are beautiful already. This is not because they're blind to your shortcomings but because they so clearly see your soul. Your shortcomings then dim by comparison. The people who care about you are willing to let you be imperfect and beautiful, too. (20)
Victoria Moran
#69. The truth of the matter is, every film is imperfect. It's the nature of the beast. One of the things that people ask me all the time is, what's the difference between theater and film, and one of the biggest differences is, in the theater you always get another go.
Stephen Daldry
#70. God bears with imperfect beings even when they resist His goodness. We ought to imitate this merciful patience and endurance. It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become toward the defects of other people.
Francois Fenelon
#71. There are only people doing their imperfect best at doing their imperfect jobs
Stephen Nachmanovitch
#72. 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
#73. Nearly 40% of all food in this country is wasted, and there are over 49 million food-insecure people in the United States. Clearly we have an enormous opportunity if we can find a way to retrieve the imperfect food and to feed the hungry.
Dana Cowin
#74. We need to be willing to be uncomfortable, to be flawed, to be imperfect, to own our voice, to step into our light, so that we can continue to inspire other people and employ other people, and make room for more and more voices and presence.
Kerry Washington
#75. Everyone deserves to feel beautiful. It is your God-given right to look in the mirror and love what you see. Never mind the imperfections -we're all imperfect, after all. But people tend to get so caught up in what they are lacking, they forget to appreciate all that they have.
Jenna Moreci
#76. I like people who have a sense of individuality. I love expression and anything awkward and imperfect, because that's natural and that's real.
Marc Jacobs
#77. In the end Suzanne, it's a gift to spend time with people we care about. Even if it's imperfect. Even if that time doesn't end when, or how, we expected. Even when that person leaves us.
Ali Benjamin
#78. Your people are not unwise, after all: love of the perfect Deity may prevent us from loving imperfect man! But God's will is to restore the lost; and that can't be done without loving them.
K.J. Bishop
#79. Here is a paradox: People who think imperfect are closer to perfection than their counterparts who claim that they're perfect or closer...
Assegid Habtewold
#80. We read not only because we cannot know enough people, but because friendship is so vulnerable, so likely to diminish or disappear, overcome by space, time, imperfect sympathies, and all the sorrows of familial and passional life.
Harold Bloom
#81. It is strange to me that most people assume companies will be imperfect (as they are), but they assume that government agencies will be perfect, which they are not.
Matt Ridley
#82. The world is imperfect, and young people are always trying to perfect it and they always fail - which is a good thing. Who'd want to live in a perfect world?
Carl Andre
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