Top 100 Imperfect Quotes
#1. Yes, she was imperfect. But that didn't mean she wasn't also spectacular.
Victoria Dahl
#3. It is possible to do good things with an imperfect situation.
Chris Cleave
#4. 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
#5. If God is love, and nothing imperfect can exist in the presence of God; then healing is simply the process of bringing love to the places within us that are hurting.
Habib Sadeghi
#6. Because in the conversation beneath this one, what we're really saying is I am an imperfect person. Here are my failures. Do you want me anyway?
Nina LaCour
#7. If we accept imperfect food, we can indeed change the world for the better.
Dana Cowin
#8. Memory depends on the medium, I thought; brains are such imperfect recorders. I
Mahvesh Murad
#9. The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.
Henry Ward Beecher
#10. Eighty million steel juggernauts, operated by imperfect human beings at high speeds, are more destructive than war.
Robert A. Heinlein
#12. 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
#13. We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
Sam Keen
#14. The fear of failure, the fear of being imperfect (perfectionism), and the fear of impossible expectations (being overwhelmed) that prevent us from acting on and attaining humanly possible goals and relationships.
Neil A. Fiore
#15. People are imperfect, but that doesn't mean they spoil like milk.
Veronica Rossi
#16. To test a perfect theory with imperfect instruments did not impress the Greek philosophers as a valid way to gain knowledge.
Isaac Asimov
#17. 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
#18. She cannot, therefore, go too fast from Paris. Weariness of soul lies before her, as it lies behind - her Ariel has put a girdle of it round the whole earth, and it cannot be unclasped - but the imperfect remedy is always to fly from the last place where it has been experienced. Fling
Charles Dickens
#19. Perfection is only an ideal for man; it cannot be attained, for man is made imperfect.
Mahatma Gandhi
#20. An imperfect person living an imperfect, limited life.
Haruki Murakami
#21. A Buddhist scholar once explained to me that most Westerners mistakenly think that Nirvana is what you arrive at when your suffering is over and only an eternity of happiness stretches ahead. But such bliss would always be shadowed by the sorrow of the past and would therefore be imperfect.
Andrew Solomon
#22. The brilliant escape, the funny line to cap it, despite the lack of timing. And the girl was still dead. The last act had not materialised. The world, and himself, remained so far from what they should be: so imperfect.
Paul Cornell
#23. No matter how correct a mathematical theorem may appear to be, one ought never to be satisfied that there was not something imperfect about it until it also gives the impression of being beautiful.
George Boole
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. Too much trust is folly, in an imperfect world.
Ellis Peters
#27. I'm imperfect, and in perfection there is no any CLIMAX!
Samar Sudha
#28. Perfection exacts a price, but it's the imperfect who pay it
Margaret Atwood
#29. We're all imperfect, and life is simply a perpetual, unending struggle against those imperfections.
Sidney Poitier
#30. 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
#31. It is necessary, in order to know things well, to know the particulars of them; and these, being infinite, make our knowledge eversuperficial and imperfect.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#32. A god whose creation is so imperfect that he must be continually adjusting it to make it work properly seems to me a god of relatively low order, hardly worthy of any worship.
Martin Gardner
#33. 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
#34. If God has made the world a perfect mechanism, He has at least conceded so much to our imperfect intellect that in order to predict little parts of it, we need not solve innumerable differential equations, but can use dice with fair success.
Max Born
#35. Often, when you've reached a very high level of achievement, you almost become paralyzed by the idea that anything you might do might be imperfect. Perfection is just the striving, the effort, the struggle, but it's hard to remember that.
Gelsey Kirkland
#36. 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
#37. Relinquishing the delusional hope that we can or must be flawless - allows us to seek happiness in the only place it can be found: our real, messy, imperfect experience.
Martha N. Beck
#38. 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
#39. 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
#40. A certain type of perfection can only be realized through a limitless accumulation of the imperfect.
Haruki Murakami
#41. Are you imperfect, romantically irrational, ridiculously fearless, and utterly illogical? You're my ideal reader, friend, partner. I'm your fan.
Brook Tesla
#42. Jesus's parables and the remarkable lives of Moses and Gideon reveal that God chose imperfect, sometimes flawed individuals to do marvelous works to His glory.
Teresa Hampton
#43. I thought about Kizuki. "So you finally made Naoko yours," I heard myself telling him. Oh, well, she was yours to begin with. Now maybe, she's where she belongs. But in this world, in this imperfect world of the living, I did the best I could for Naoko.
Haruki Murakami
#44. What I've learned in 40 years of consumer reporting is that the market is imperfect, and some people get ripped off.
John Stossel
#45. But however mysterious is nature , however ignorant the doctor, however imperfect the present state of physical science , the patronage and the success of quacks and quackeries are infinitely more wonderful than those of honest and laborious men of science and their careful experiments.
P.T. Barnum
#46. 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
#47. 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
#48. A single man's imperfect conscience can never be superior to centuries of tradition.
Philippa Gregory
#49. 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
#50. He didn't mind if she hated him. They were never going to be a cute romantic couple like Sam and Astrid. Clean-cut, righteous, all that. The perfect couple. He and Diana were the imperfect couple.
Michael Grant
#51. 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
#52. 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
#53. 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
#54. Physical strength, good looks, fitness, and external appearance. Many feel a diminished sense of self-worth because they perceive their body as ugly or imperfect. In some cases, the
Eckhart Tolle
#55. We're all imperfect and we all have needs. The weak usually do not ask for help, so they stay weak. If we recognize that we are imperfect, we will ask for help and we will pray for the guidance necessary to bring positive results to whatever we are doing.
John Wooden
#56. I don't have to be perfect. All I have to do is show up and enjoy the messy, imperfect and beautiful journey of my life.
Kerry Washington
#57. He only had the imperfect medium of words.
Sara Gruen
#58. Because in the end to learn a language, to feel connected to it, you have to have a dialogue, however childlike, however imperfect.
Jhumpa Lahiri
#59. A perfect marriage is just two imperfect people who refuse to give up on each other.
Dave Willis
#60. 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
#61. How imperfect is all our knowledge!
John Donne
#62. Just be yourself. Let people see the real, imperfect, flawed, quirky, weird, beautiful, magical person that your are.
Mandy Hale
#63. Softly he continued, "You need to ask God for forgiveness. That's His job, isn't it? To forgive imperfect humankind. You are quick to forgive others and offer them kindness. Do the same for yourself.
Mary Jo Putney
#64. Why, after all, take as our standard a material world whose existence is affirmed by nothing more trustworthy than the sense-impressions of "normal men"; those imperfect and easily cheated channels of communication?
Evelyn Underhill
#65. Then say not man's imperfect, Heav'n in fault;. Say rather, man's as perfect as he ought.
Alexander Pope
#66. 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
#67. Deep in my mind a thought did flash for a moment that one who commands must of necessity be wildly imperfect, boldly pragmatic, capable of compromises impossible for the truly wise and the truly good.
Anne Rice
#68. Man in the flesh is essentially imperfect. He may be described as being made in the image of God but is far from being God.
Mahatma Gandhi
#69. Your eyes, ears and mind are imperfect in front of magic.
Amit Kalantri
#70. No love is perfect; it is beautiful even when it is imperfect.
Debasish Mridha
#71. 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
#72. 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
#73. The problem to be solved is, not what form of government is perfect, but which of the forms is least imperfect.
James Madison
#74. But nature flies from the infinite; for the infinite is imperfect, and nature always seeks an end.
Aristotle.
#75. 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
#76. This is a very imperfect analogy, because the nature of a thing is not a core but a principle.
Fulton J. Sheen
#77. Invention depends altogether upon execution or organization; as that is right or wrong so is the invention perfect or imperfect.
William Blake
#78. In its original Latin form, sacrifice means to make sacred or to make holy. I wholeheartedly believe that when we are fully engaged in parenting, regardless of how imperfect, vulnerable, and messy it is, we are creating something sacred.
Brene Brown
#79. Change the attitude toward errors. Think of an object's user as attempting to do a task, getting there by imperfect approximations. Don't think of the user as making errors; think of the actions as approximations of what is desired.
Donald A. Norman
#80. As imperfect human beings, any of us, all of us, are subject at some time or another to make mistakes!
Brenda Jackson
#81. I believe that the measure of my soul is my capacity to love imperfect people.
Joseph Grenny
#82. Perfect does not mean perfect actions in a perfect world, but appropriate actions in an imperfect one.
R.H. Blyth
#83. Real happiness comes from loving you're inner self and excepting the things you can't change. Flaws perfectly imperfect.
Shellie Palmer
#84. 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
#85. Cowards and courage make for great conflict. Embodied within the statement above is the idea that imperfect heroes are the most satisfying because true courage is facing what you fear, trying even though the odds of failure are great. Internal
Debra Dixon
#86. It had rained, she said, and I imagined the beads of small water on the windshield like a thousand eyes, or each drop a small imperfect reflection of a perfect moment.
Simon Van Booy
#87. Their imperfect record at awards shows was disappointing, sure, but the best prize of all came when, on February 4, 1986, President Ronald Reagan name-checked and quoted directly from the movie - where we're going, we don't need roads - in his State of the Union address.
Caseen Gaines
#88. Dare to be imperfect and one day there will tug at your sleeve a soulmate.
Robert Breault
#89. The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be.
Raymond Chandler
#90. Beauty that steals the heart is often imperfect, suggests grace and kindness, and inspires tenderness more than it incites lust.
Dean Koontz
#91. It's easy to make perfect decisions with perfect information. Medicine asks you to make perfect decisions with imperfect information.
Siddhartha Mukherjee
#93. I try to be perfect but I'm not. I'm perfectly imperfect in every way.
James Weston
#94. Gratitude is a burden upon our imperfect nature, and we are but too willing to ease ourselves of it, or at least to lighten it as much as we can.
Philip Dormer Stanhope
#95. Imperfect men have no right to judge other imperfect men.
Mahatma Gandhi
#96. 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
#97. 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
#98. Imperfect though it may be, the Beijing Platform for Action is the strongest statement of consensus on women's equality, empowerment and justice ever produced by governments.
Bella Abzug
#99. Some things are meant to be broken. Imperfect. Chaotic.
Sarah Dessen
#100. However rich or elevated, a name less something is always wanting to our imperfect fortune.
Horace
