Top 100 Not Perfect But Quotes
#1. Jack, I know I'm not perfect, but I'm really hoping you're not ready to give up on me yet. I don't have gifts or love letters or anything like you had. But what I can give you is my word, my promise, my vow to you. Which I will back up with actions, by the way.
J. Sterling
#2. We're not perfect, but we do have democracy.
Hugo Chavez
#3. Part of the beauty of the show in a way is that he's not perfect, but you can always count on him to do the right thing in a pinch. That's why he inspires people and inspires me.
Stephen Collins
#4. The Haitians, who knew something about suffering and survival, had a beautiful phrase ... The Translation is not perfect, but the nut of it was: 'The season of pain is never over until the sky begins to cry.
Rick Bragg
#5. It's not perfect, but nothing is perfect except for an idea of something," he goes on, "And if we aren't experiencing the world and all we do is think about our idea of the world, then why bother with any of it?
Autumn Doughton
#6. I believe the best influence you can have is not by being preachy, but by trying to live. For example, knowing you're not perfect, but trying to treat everyone kind and accepting everyone for who they are.
Paul Butcher
#7. I'm not perfect, but I know when I start to do something, I don't like to not finish.
Champ Bailey
#8. We're just doing our best to live in this world, Davy." Sean's voice stretches into the fading dark. "We're not perfect, but we're not monsters, either. We're just human.
Sophie Jordan
#9. Love is like a childs birth, it's special, amazing, it brings happieness, and you should cherish it, as it grows into somthing not perfect but becomes stronger within the bond between two people.
Binh Nguyen
#10. Between the radiant white of a clear conscience and the coal black of a conscience sullied by sin lie many shades of gray
where most of us live our lives. Not perfect but not beyond redemption.
Sherry L. Hoppe
#11. You're not perfect, and I'm not perfect, but we're perfect together. It was never about fixing you; it was always about loving you.
Adriane Leigh
#12. Into the air. There was love here - not perfect, but strong,
Susanna Kearsley
#13. you are not perfect but you are not your mistakes
Unknown
#14. I'm not perfect, but I'd like to be perfect. I'm working on it.
Shelley Long
#15. There's plenty of days when I'm like 'Oh God, why? But that's just life. It's every job, not just mine. Every moment is not perfect. But it's definitely more good times than bad. You can't even compare. And when I'm on stage it feels incredible
Beyonce Knowles
#16. What are you so mad about? That we still have a government? We still have "traffic lights." We're sorry. The government's not perfect, but some people wish it was better, not gone.
Jon Stewart
#17. My message is a simple one - the E.U. is not perfect, but Scotland's interests are best served by being a member.
Nicola Sturgeon
#18. We're not perfect, but we want to do the right thing.
Charlie Bell
#19. My parents were not perfect, but no one's parents are. As childhoods go, mine was pretty comfortable and good in a lot of ways, and yet I still ended up with anxiety.
Scott Stossel
#20. How long do you intend for us to wait? Obviously you're not perfect, but--"
"'Not perfect' is having a bald spot or pockmarks. My problems are a bit more significant than that.
Lisa Kleypas
#21. Those who defend traditional morality will sometimes admit that it is not perfect, but contend that any criticism will make all morality crumble.
Bertrand Russell
#22. Life is not perfect. But it is how you face it that's worth living for. From there you will find out how beautiful it is to live.
Kcat Yarza
#23. When America does not lead, the world is a dangerous and a tragic place. This is a bad deal. [Barack] Obama broke every rule of negotiation.Yes, our allies are not perfect, but Iran is at the heart of most of the evil that is going on in the Middle East through their proxy.
Carly Fiorina
#24. I'm sorry, okay, I'm not perfect, but I'm trying.
Sara Shepard
#25. I'm not perfect but I'm learning to be better.
Ronnie Radke
#26. I'm not perfect but I'll be the creator of perfection.
Colin Powell
#27. I feel about New York as a child whose father is a bank robber. Not perfect, but I still love him.
Woody Allen
#28. Through a long and painful process, I've learned that happiness is an inside job - not based on anything or anyone in the outer material world. I've become a different and better person - not perfect, but still a work in progress.
Alana Stewart
#29. Maybe not perfect, but great all the same.
Anonymous
#30. And I know I'm not perfect. But I believe I was meant to be.
Buddy Wakefield
#31. I will always do R. Kelly - I'm not perfect, but I'm perfectly me.
R. Kelly
#32. ...it's been amazing- not perfect, but amazing. I'm actually glad of the nonperfection because that has made our relationship feel more grounded, solid, and real than what I had (...), which just cruised blithely along, deceptively perfect, until it crashed and burned in a fiery wreck.
Sherri Rifkin
#33. I strive for perfection, but I'm not perfect. But what I can say is my morals are totally different than any other 24-year-old rapper my age now. I look at life totally different. A whole other aspect. I have different views and morals on life in general. And opinions.
ASAP Rocky
#34. Nothing's perfect, the world's not perfect. But it's there for us, trying the best it can; that's what makes it so damn beautiful.
Hiromu Arakawa
#35. I'm the most chill person I know ... I'm happy with myself ... I'm not perfect, but I'm cool with that.
Freddie Prinze Jr.
#36. You're not perfect, but you're not your mistakes.
Kanye West
#37. Mankind are not perfect, but one age is more or less hypocritical than another, and then simpletons say that its morality is high or low.
Honore De Balzac
#38. She's not perfect. I'm not perfect. But together, we're imperfectly perfect for each other.
Michelle Smith
#39. Our names told us who we were. They told us why we'd been sent. What was expected of us. We were not confused. We were not ashamed. We were not perfect, but we were excellent.
Daniel Black
#40. I've always tried to explain democracy is not perfect. But it gives you a chance to shape your own destiny.
Aung San Suu Kyi
#41. If you gave me just a coin for every time we say goodbyeWell I'd be rich beyond my dreams, I'm sorry for my weary lifeI know I'm not perfect but I can smileand I hope that you see this heart behind my tired eyes.
Dido Armstrong
#42. Who are we? We're not perfect but we're not worthless. Scripture tells us that we're beautifully made, but broken.
Trip Lee
#43. Everything was okay. Maybe not perfect, but life wasn't meant to be perfect. It was messy and sometimes it was a disaster, but there was beauty in the messiness and there could be peace in the disaster.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#44. Liberal capitalism is not perfect, but compared to the other 'isms,' it's far superior.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
#45. Meditation is like hearing a voice on the telephone: there might be slight delays if the line is not perfect, but it is otherwise direct and requires no effort other than listening
Sumangali Morhall
#46. I'm not perfect, but what's wonderful about eating a plant-based diet is, I don't have to be.
Victoria Moran
#47. I'm not perfect, but who are we kidding? Neither are you. And you wanna know what? I dig it!
Vince Vaughn
#48. She's not perfect, but she tries so hard for me. And I thank God, that she isn't, cause how boring that would be.
Brad Paisley
#51. A man not perfect, but of heart so high, of such heroic rage, That even his hopes became a part of earth's eternal heritage.
Richard Watson Gilder
#52. I'm not perfect, but those flaws make an interesting person.
Mary Frann
#53. ability to know that you're not perfect but that you can get better if you look within, internalize the struggle, and work harder, instead of bringing everyone else down.
Adam Carolla
#54. I felt like I was at that breaking point. I just prayed and took my mind off of dreams - I went to church. I felt like a lot of things came together. I'm not perfect but I strive to be.
Boi-1da
#55. Baseball is a game of life. It's not perfect, but it feels like it is,
Joe Torre
#56. Freedom has many difficulties and democracy is not perfect, but we have never had to put up a wall to keep our people in.
John F. Kennedy
#57. I'm not perfect, but I think that I've done good to stay focused on what I'm called to do.
Joel Osteen
#58. I'm not perfect, but I believe my faith in Jesus Christ will really take me far in the world!
Christina Grimmie
#59. I think people in England take things for granted, we complain about our NHS system and yes it's not perfect but believe me it's far better than what they've got here.
Alesha Dixon
#60. I know I'm not perfect, but I didn't think it was fair that they told me one thing and wrote down another.
Jack Gantos
#61. I'm not perfect and you're not perfect but we're perfect together.
Windhy Puspitadewi
#62. I'm not perfect, but if there are any points given for caring about people with every fiber of your being and giving life all you've got every day, then I suppose I have a shot.
Jack Welch
#63. He's not like his father. She reconsidered this. I mean, he's not perfect. But he's not Scarface.
Chelsea Cain
#64. Soulmates are people who bring out the best in you. They are not perfect but are perfect for you.
Anonymous
#65. Was I ever crazy? Maybe. Or maybe life is ... Crazy isn't being broken or swallowing a dark secret. It's you or me amplified. If you ever told a lie and enjoyed it. If you ever wished you could be a child forever. They were not perfect, but they were my friends.
Susanna Kaysen
#66. Women are complicated and messy and we are certainly not perfect, but we are funny and challenging and kind, and I wouldn't change a thing
Melissa McCarthy
#67. And at first it's okay, you know, not perfect, but okay, and you get used to it. Then it gets a little worse, and you get used to that, too. Then one day, you wake up and you don't have the first freakin' clue how it got that bad.
Patrick Ness
#68. People are like, 'Be yourself, be yourself,' and I'm still trying to figure out who that is. I know I'm not perfect, but I know I have a lot of people that support me and love me, and I don't want to let anyone down, so I just try to be the best that I can be.
Selena Gomez
#69. I will make mistakes, after all I am not perfect, but I will do my best to make them up to you. I would never hurt you intentionally. I would not give up on you, so I hope you don't give up on me.
Sincerely,
The Person that Loves You
Carlos Salinas
#70. I'm not perfect. But clothes help. A good bra with some underwire definitely helps a lot!
Katherine Heigl
#71. I'm not perfect. But I am trying every day to concentrate on being better.
Allen Iverson
#72. Politics is not perfect but it's the best available nonviolent means of changing how we live.
Maynard Jackson
#73. No. No break. We don't need a break. I'm not perfect, but I get it. I can't see you run away from me again. So we stop this. We're all in, because there is no other option for me. You're my mate. You're it for me. You have to trust me.
Aileen Erin
#74. Last year I had a stroke. It left me in bad shape. I had to teach myself how to walk and talk all over again. It was a long hard fight. My speech is not perfect but I'm getting there.
Dick Clark
#75. I think her flaws make me love her even more. She's not perfect, but she's perfect to me
Jodi Picoult
#76. Maybe you're not perfect, but you're willing to actually look at yourself and take some kind of accountability. That's a change. It might not mean that you can turn everything around, but I think there's something incredibly hopeful about that.
Brie Larson
#77. From the core, I'm a shy person, but when I'm on stage, I know how to put it aside. Of course, I'm not perfect, but I've definitely grown as far as being comfortable on stage.
Leon Bridges
#78. But I remember the place with fondness ... not perfect but, all in all, not a bad memory.
Diane Meier
#79. My 'Moment of TRU' - I live, I love, I let be. I grind, I do my own thing, I stay in my own lane. Ain' got no worries because God is my source. I'm not perfect, but by grace I get better with every day God gives me.
LaNina King
#82. Family life is a bit like a runny peach pie - not perfect but who's complaining?
Robert Breault
#83. Our lives were limitless and unknowable, not perfect, but ours.
Brenna Yovanoff
#84. It was not perfect but I'm very happy. It could have been better, but I'm now looking forward to my second race of the season.
Usain Bolt
#86. I'm very responsible. And with ability you have to have responsibility. I'm not perfect. But you have to make sure that your children will know that daddy makes mistakes.
R. Kelly
#87. "The world's not perfect,but somethings in it are,and when we find them, we need not to let them go
Katriena Knights
#88. I love, but I am not entirely sure how to be loved: how to be seen and known for the utterly flawed woman I am. It demands surrender. It demands acknowledging that I am not perfect, but perhaps I deserve affection anyway.
Roxane Gay
#89. She was wearing a gown of lilac pink threaded with silver and stitched with tiny pearls. It was gorgeous in itself, and of course had the perfect new skirt, but it did not flatter her as a cooler shade would have done.
Anne Perry
#90. Perfect love casts out fear. Where there is love there are no demands, no expectations, no dependency. I do not demand that you make me happy; my happiness does not lie in you. If you were to leave me, I will not feel sorry for myself; I enjoy your company immensely, but I do not cling.
Anthony De Mello
#91. Man is apt to be more moved by the art of his own period, not because it is more perfect, but because it is organically related to him.
Ilya Ehrenburg
#92. As Aquinas, the quintessential theologian, says: "The notion of form is most fully realized in existence itself. And in God existence is not acquired by anything, but God is existence itself subsistent. It is clear, then, that God himself is both limitless and perfect."28
Rudy Rucker
#93. The saved man is not a perfect man, but his heart's desire is to become perfect.
Charles Spurgeon
#94. We chase gravity of the micro world, but after leaving its world we try to perfect the laws here that do not exist there.
Akiane Kramarik
#95. When things in your life do not make sense, keep on praying. Ask God what He wants you to do, and let Him heal you on the inside. He understands that you and I are not perfect. We are works in progress, but we should let Him work within us.
Nick Vujicic
#96. It is not with a rush and a spring that we are to reach Christ's character, and attain to perfect saintship; but step by step, foot by foot, hand over hand, we are slowly and often painfully to mount the ladder that rests on earth, and rises to heaven.
Thomas Guthrie
#97. The thing about Tolkien, about The Lord of the Rings, is that it's perfect. It's this whole world, this whole process of immersion, this journey. It's not, I'm pretty sure, actually true, but that makes it more amazing, that someone could make it all up. Reading it changes everything.
Jo Walton
#98. I chose Dauntless not because they are perfect, but because they are alive, they are free.
Veronica Roth
#99. Salvation is not a divine transaction that takes place because you are morally perfect, but much more is an organic unfolding, a becoming who you already are, an inborn sympathy with and capacity for the very One who created you.
Richard Rohr
#100. I watch my daughter wanting to be like other kids and getting upset that she's not. But I always try and instill in her the idea that she's perfect as she is.
Idris Elba
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