Top 100 Imperfect Perfect Quotes
#1. When I think of my version of a role model, it's not about being the perfect Samaritan; it's just being out there and being honest and happily imperfect.
Zoe Kravitz
#2. We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
Sam Keen
#3. To test a perfect theory with imperfect instruments did not impress the Greek philosophers as a valid way to gain knowledge.
Isaac Asimov
#4. That's the secret - to distract the senses. Have I told you my theory about them? I think that our sight, smell, taste, touch, hearing are all calibrated for the enjoyment of a perfect world. But since the world is imperfect, we must put blinders on the senses.
Rohinton Mistry
#5. After all, I wasn't a bad person. I was just doing my best in what had turned out to be a fairly imperfect life.
Lucy Robinson
#6. A perfect marriage is just two imperfect people who refuse to give up on each other.
Dave Willis
#7. Then say not man's imperfect, Heav'n in fault;. Say rather, man's as perfect as he ought.
Alexander Pope
#8. No love is perfect; it is beautiful even when it is imperfect.
Debasish Mridha
#9. The problem to be solved is, not what form of government is perfect, but which of the forms is least imperfect.
James Madison
#10. My parents did not have a perfect marriage. It was pretty good, but it was not perfect. My marriage is not perfect. My wife is, but I happen to be imperfect. However, that does not discount the fact that the definition of marriage must be defended and protected.
Stockwell Day
#11. It's easy to make perfect decisions with perfect information. Medicine asks you to make perfect decisions with imperfect information.
Siddhartha Mukherjee
#14. The world, Govinda my friend, is not imperfect, not to be seen as on a slow path toward perfection: No, it is perfect in every moment, all transgression already bears grace within itself, all little children already have the aged in themselves, all the sucklings death, all the dying eternal life.
Hermann Hesse
#15. If you are the one perfect person in an imperfect world, you are flawed.
Palle Oswald
#16. There is a state of perfect peace with God which can be attained under imperfect obedience.
John Owen
#17. People aren't meant to be perfect. We're all imperfect people looking for perfect moments to share with other imperfect people.
Shaun Hutchinson
#18. being normal is unnormal but being imperfect is PERFECT! I know I was different and perfect
Monica Petra
#20. TRANSIENCY We should find perfect existence through imperfect existence.
Shunryu Suzuki
#22. An imperfect creative expression is much more sensible and creative than a grammatically perfect expression without an iota of sense and value in it.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#23. Man will ever remain imperfect, and it will always be his part to try to be perfect.
Mahatma Gandhi
#24. I don't want to be perfect, but I do want to be a role model. My mom always tells me that imperfections equal beauty. All of us are imperfect.
Miley Cyrus
#25. Pity the poor infant. Born perfect into the world from imperfect parents.
Cynthia Heimel
#26. Maybe there weren't fairytales, or dreams didn't often really come true, but this moment felt very close. As close as it gets to perfect in an imperfect world.
Lee Woodruff
#27. Humans weren't made to be perfect, Daniel. We were made to screw up, fuck up, and learn new things. We were made perfectly imperfect.
Brittainy C. Cherry
#28. 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
#29. Time is a factor in all action. An imperfect scheme put into action at the proper time is better than a perfect one accomplished too late.
Andre Maurois
#30. I had a perfect life in my reach once, and it was a crashing bore. Perfect is too clean, too easy. I don't want perfect any more than I want to be perfect. I want imperfect.
Sarah MacLean
#31. even if a perfect system could be designed, it would still have to operate in an imperfect world.
Deborah Blum
#32. Pain dutifully reminds me that the world is terribly imperfect, but it faithfully helps me appreciate the world on those days when it's a little closer to being perfect.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#33. It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.
Joseph Addison
#34. Perfect combinations are rare in an imperfect world.
Peter Hale
#35. 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
#36. I've always been pro-life from conception to natural death. It's important for the Republican nominee to maintain what we stand for. We are the party that stands for all of life, whether it's convenient or inconvenient, whether it's perfect or imperfect.
Michele Bachmann
#37. 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
#38. Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.
Owen Feltham
#39. Perfect creatures find no worth in imperfect things.
T.A. Chase
#40. I'm far from perfect, but I'll be perfect for that imperfect person that's perfect for me.
Amanda Bynes
#41. Perhaps art is a quest for the perfect, or even the imperfect. Reality always falls short on both sides.
Anna Deavere Smith
#42. 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
#43. According to the true Indian view, our consciousness of the world, merely as the sum total of things that exist, and as governed by laws, is imperfect. But it is perfect when our consciousness realizes all things as spiritually one with it, and there
Rabindranath Tagore
#44. Marriage is two imperfect people committing themselves to a perfect institution, by making perfect vows from imperfect lips before a perfect God.
Myles Munroe
#45. Humans are imperfect. That's one of the reasons that classical and jazz are in trouble. We're on the quest for the perfect performance and every note has to be right. Man, every note is not right in life.
Branford Marsalis
#46. 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
#47. The Universe continues to be perfect at every moment and never permits even the first imperfect event to occur. It goes from perfect to perfect to perfect.
Chris Prentiss
#48. A great marriage is not when the 'perfect couple' comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.
Dave Meurer
#49. Nothing written in any book is a perfect reflection of truth.( ... )
No teachings and no bibles on earth are perfect. They can never be
so, for this is an imperfect universe. The perfection isn't here,
it is in the worlds beyond, and this is what we are trying to reach.
Harold Klemp
#50. The world is not imperfect or slowly evolving along a path to perfection. No, it is perfect at every moment, every sin already carries grace in it.
Hermann Hesse
#51. No man can become perfect until he knows his true nature. And the person who knows his or her true nature cannot be an imperfect.
Lokendra Singh
#52. Don't be afraid to be who you are, we were created to perfect in our own imperfect way.
Kendal Rob
#53. In art them is a point of perfection, as of goodness or maturity in nature; he who is able to perceive it, and who loves it, has perfect taste; he who does not feel it, or loves on this side or that, has an imperfect taste.
Jean De La Bruyere
#54. Perfectionism is a shield that we carry with a thought process that says this, 'If I look perfect, live perfect, work perfect, and do it all perfectly, I can avoid or minimize feeling shame, blame, and judgement.
Brene Brown
#56. Life is just an endless chain of judgements ... The more imperfect our judgement, the less perfect our success.
B.C. Forbes
#57. I would that you were either less beautiful, or less corrupt. Such perfect beauty does not suit such imperfect morals.
[Lat., Aut formosa fores minus, aut minus improba vellem.
Non facit ad mores tam bona forma malos.]
Ovid
#58. 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
#59. Adam wasn't lonely because he was imperfect but because he was perfect. The ache for friends is not the result of sin.
Timothy Keller
#60. The imperfections in life are what make life perfect.
Gary Leblanc
#61. When I let go of having it perfect, I learned the joy of sharing life with the imperfect.
Kara Tippetts
#62. The seeming imperfections of Earth, the hazards and inequalities of life, the cruelty, harshness and apparent indifference to suffering and affliction are not what they seem; as it is Earth is perfect for its purpose. It is ignorance of that purpose which makes it appear imperfect.
Kolbrin BIble
#63. 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
#64. The task is simple. We will organize children and teach them in a perfect way the things their fathers and mothers are doing in an imperfect way.
John D. Rockefeller
#65. 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
#66. Marshall's crime is to pretend to handle imperfect competition with tools only applicable to perfect competition.
Paul Samuelson
#67. You may be imperfect according to the world, but you're perfect in my world.
Courtney Lane
#68. Is it better to have something perfect that doesn't fit or something imperfect that fits?
Buffi Neal
#69. The most successful are not the most perfect, but the imperfect who dare to believe that they can despite the damning verdict.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#70. The down-and-out, who flocked to Jesus when he lived on earth, no longer feel welcome. How did Jesus, the only perfect person in history, manage to attract the notoriously imperfect? And what keeps us from following in his steps today?
Philip Yancey
#71. I'm just a living witness that you can be an imperfect soldier and still be in the army fighting for God Almighty. Don't you think you got to be perfect 'cause I ain't.
Steve Harvey
#72. In the light of absolute values (religious or ethical) man himself is judged to be limited or imperfect, while he can occasionally accomplish acts which partake of perfection, he, himself can never be perfect.
T. E. Hulme
#73. 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
#74. If it is made with love, the imperfect becomes perfect.
Marian Keyes
#75. The world, my friend Govinda, is not imperfect or confined at a point somewhere along a gradual pathway toward perfection. No, it is perfect at every moment.
Hermann Hesse
#76. The perfect life is not worth living. There would be nothing to look forward to. The imperfect life is perfect.
Ted Agon
#77. Nothing is perfect; nothing is imperfect. Perfection and imperfection reside in your perception.
Debasish Mridha
#78. Painters tend to ignore the challenges and thrills that sculptors enjoy daily - volume ... like the perfect, imperfect voluminous oval of the egg.
Sara Genn
#79. I believe that systems of religion are perfect or imperfect, true or false, just so far as they agree or disagree with Christianity; and that to the end of time all systems are to be measured by the Christian standard, and not Christianity by any other system.
John Lord
#80. For someone to be perfect, they must be real, however imperfect they are.
Johnny Rich
#81. It is perfect to be imperfect, because perfection is made up of many imperfections put together that makes it perfect.
Yasmin Ahmad
#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
#83. When you are ready to accept him for the imperfect man that he is, and find happiness in his imperfect company, you have definitely found love, and the two of you can create the perfect world for each other!
Kimberly Ann Moore
#84. There was something capricious about God. How could one expect perfect submission from those who are imperfect? How could one create desire and then expect everyone to pull the plug on it? And if God were capricious, then God was imperfect. If God were imperfect, God was not God.
Jerry Pinto
#85. God uses the flawed, the failures, and the imperfect to accomplish His perfect will.
Elizabeth George
#86. 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
#87. Two imperfect people can make a perfect moment.
Rachel Morgan
#88. 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
#89. Spirit-led Jesus followers recognize that they are imperfect Christians working with other imperfect Christians to serve a perfect Christ. When we love and give to one another, then we grow as individuals and as the family of God.136
Mark Driscoll
#90. There is something perfect to be found in the imperfect: the law keeps balance through the juxtaposition of beauty, which gains perfection through nurtured imperfection.
Dejan Stojanovic
#91. To accomplish the perfect perfection, a little imperfection helps.
Dejan Stojanovic
#92. A perfect marriage is as rare as a perfect love. Could it be otherwise, when both men and women are so imperfect? Could aught else be expected? Yet all do expect it.
Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
#93. Love isn't finding a perfect person. It's seeing an imperfect person perfectly.
Sam Keen
#94. The world ... is not imperfect, or on a slow path towards perfection: no, it is perfect in every moment ...
Hermann Hesse
#95. 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
#96. Allow yourself to be happy right now, even if outside circumstances seem imperfect. Waiting for everything to be "perfect" means delaying the happiness that you are meant to enjoy now. Enjoy, enjoy, enjoy this very moment ... now.
Doreen Virtue
#97. When God broke his deal with me, I turned to the Devil. In the end, I wasn't happy. I realized that the imagination of a perfect being was more limited than that of the imperfect one. Color me unimpressed by the Actus Purus.
Lionel Suggs
#98. We are imperfect humans and are bound to need attitude adjustments from time to time.
Cathy Burnham Martin
#99. The argument for the perfectibility of humankind rests on a logical fallacy. Thus: man is by definition imperfect, say those who would perfect him. But those who would perfect him are themselves, by their own definition, imperfect.
Margaret Atwood
#100. 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
