Top 100 Quotes About Imperfection
#1. Within our perceived weaknesses and imperfections lies the key to realizing our true strength.
Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
#2. Today I will learn to reject shame. Shame is an overwhelming sense that who I am isn't good enough. I realize that I am good enough, and that my imperfections are part of being human. I let go of shame.
Melody Beattie
#3. What was venerated as style was nothing more than an imperfection or flaw that revealed the guilty hand.
Orhan Pamuk
#4. What I have always loved most in men is imperfection.
Linn Ullmann
#5. It is the function of perfection to make one know one's imperfection.
Saint Augustine
#6. Cause we lost it all
Nothing lasts forever
I'm sorry I can't be perfect
Now it's just too late
And we can't go back
I'm sorry I can't be perfect
Simple Plan
#7. 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
#8. It is good to be imperfect so that we retain our joy to work hard to rise to perfection!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#9. We may have lots of differences,
We may not be the perfect couple.
But in-spite of those differences,
In-spite of those imperfection,
We are always at our best for each other ...
NerD_Seyer
#10. He forgot everything: the sorcerer upstairs, the mission, his own imperfection, and the shame and bitterness that came with it.
Cinda Williams Chima
#11. Evil is only imperfection, that which is not complete, which is becoming, but has not yet found its end.
Annie Besant
#12. The miracle of the Atonement can make up for imperfections in our performance.
Gary E. Stevenson
#13. Perhaps as writers, we too should embrace the concept of wabi-sabi:
J.A. Pak
#14. Every imperfection you have as a man makes a sound as it knifes through satin sheets.
Jay Mohr
#15. Imperfection is the greatness of humanity
Valgame
#16. Perfection is unattainable, so I like to live in imperfection.
Nikki Sixx
#17. It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always. The conscience really does not, and ought not to monopolizethe whole of our lives, any more than the heart or the head. It is as liable to disease as any other part.
Henry David Thoreau
#18. People, generally, are equally insecure. They just show it (or hide it) differently.
Criss Jami
#19. The imperfection became a mark of distinction about their home. Something visitors noticed, the first family anecdote that was told.
Jhumpa Lahiri
#20. If they who understand the utmost refinement of any art will enjoy the perfection of it in a manner superior to other men, will they not amply pay for that advantage in feeling more than other men the imperfection of it, which in the natural course of things must so much oftener fall in their way?
Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
#21. 'Solutionism' for me is, above all, an unthinking pursuit of perfection - by means of technology - without coming to grips with the fact that imperfection is an essential feature of liberal democracy.
Evgeny Morozov
#22. So long as there is desire or want, it is a sure sign that there is imperfection. A perfect, free being cannot have any desire.
Swami Vivekananda
#23. I wanted to be that,
The one which was vast,
The one which laughed,
The one which surpassed,
Yes, which also collapsed.
True, it was abstract.
I wanted to be that.
I still, want to be that!
Jasleen Kaur Gumber
#24. We like people for their qualities, but we love them for their defects." In writing this line I meant to say that we must not simply "accept" imperfection when it is revealed to us - we must celebrate it. This, I assure you, is the true sign of friendship.
Ron Perlman
#25. That moving carcass does but very inadequately symbolizes you ... a subtle and immortal spirit.
James Branch Cabell
#26. Every human being must be viewed according to what it is good for. For not one of us, no, not one, is perfect. And were we to love none who had imperfection, this world would be a desert for our love.
Thomas Jefferson
#27. Perfect people don't exist. And perfect people, if they existed, would be very boring. It is imperfection that keeps life interesting.
Rajneesh
#28. I don't crop my images and I always shoot handheld. By doing that I build in a kind of imperfection and this helps to emphasize reality.
Anton Corbijn
#29. Perfection in anything is unbearably dull. Myself, I prefer a touch of imperfection.
Colleen McCullough
#30. If someone finds a flaw [shortcoming] in us, know that there is imperfection [defect] in us. However, it is a different matter if that person has a habit of talking negatively, but generally that is not the case.
Dada Bhagwan
#31. With all the imperfections of our present government, it is without comparison the best existing, or that ever did exist.
Thomas Jefferson
#32. There are no refunds and no exchanges with love. It comes with flaws and imperfections. It's raw, unfiltered, and sometimes it isn't easy. But I've found the best things in this life are the ones I've had to work hardest for.
Helena Hunting
#33. Caleb had been my imperfection, with his slightly Americanized British accent, and the way he could play any sport and quote any philosopher. He was such a mix of class and jock, romance and jerk, it made me crazy.
Tarryn Fisher
#34. Whenever competition is feasible it is, for all its imperfections, superior to regulation as a means of serving the public interest.
Alfred Kahn
#35. The hope in literature is that we are allowed to be imperfect, to write of our imperfection, without being overly critiqued for being unlikeable.
Kate Zambreno
#36. It's beautiful. Your scar is your unpredictable imperfection.
Ashley Pullo
#37. She is so beautiful she is unnatural; her beauty is an abnormality, a deformity, for none of her features exhibit any of those touching imperfections that reconcile us to the imperfection of the human condition.
Angela Carter
#38. Christ
the quickest way to send a bloke mad is to let him go on re-fighting his war till he gets it right.
M.L. Stedman
#39. So difficult it is to show the various meanings and imperfections of words when we have nothing else but words to do it with.
John Locke
#40. What a rich wisdom it would be, and how much more bountiful a harvest, to gain pleasure not from achieving personal perfection but from understanding the inevitability of imperfection and pardoning those who also fall short of it.
Barbara Kingsolver
#41. Whoever imperfect..finds flaws.
Toba Beta
#42. His Nana's prayers were moving toward his mother like little butterflies of thoughts wrapped in the most beautiful colors. Each prayer looked like a mini-rainbow.
H. L. Balcomb
#43. I'm a beautiful mess of contradiction,
A chaotic display of imperfection.
Sai Marie Johnson
#44. Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere.
Thomas Carlyle
#45. Where there are many beauties in a poem I shall not cavil at a few faults proceeding either from negligence or from the imperfection of our nature.
Horace
#46. A poem is the perfect place to celebrate imperfection and exult in the ways you fall short of being the person you want to be.
Taylor Mali
#47. We need imperfection in our relationships, else we would die from the thickness of intimacy.
Gail Caldwell
#48. All praise of Civilization, or Art, or Contrivance, is so much dispraise of Nature ; an admission of imperfection, which it is man's business, and merit, to be always endeavouring to correct or mitigate.
John Stuart Mill
#49. What we call "imperfections" are illusions caused by expectation. They are a psychological warning that we are not seeing true potential, but self- imposed limitation.
Steve Maraboli
#50. When talking about marriage, Allah says your spouses are garments for you. A garment may or may not fit perfectly-but either way, it covers imperfections, protects, and beautifies.
Yasmin Mogahed
#51. Love, while always forgiving of imperfections and mistakes, can never cease to will their removal.
C.S. Lewis
#52. Out here, we let ourselves be imperfect. We let ourselves have the room to make mistakes - sometimes tragic mistakes - then we allow ourselves forgiveness. Within that forgiveness, we try to be better than what we were.
J.D. Brewer
#53. To the absolutist in every craftsman, each imperfection is a failure; to the practitioner, obsession with perfection seems a perception for failure.
Richard Sennett
#54. The power of doing anything with quickness is always prized much by the possessor, and often without any attention to the imperfection of the performance.
Jane Austen
#55. The Holy Spirit would lead us to think much upon our own sins . It is a dangerous thing for us to dwell upon the imperfections of others.
Ichabod Spencer
#56. We should cultivate the optimistic temperament, and endeavour to see the good that dwells in everything. If we sit down and lament over the imperfection of our bodies and our minds, we profit nothing; it is the heroic endeavour to subdue adverse circumstances that carries our spirit upward.
Swami Vivekananda
#57. It is often our own imperfection which makes us reprove the imperfection of others; a sharp-sighted self-love of others
Francois Fenelon
#58. Every discovery opens a new field for investigation of facts, shows us the imperfection of our theories. It has justly been said, that the greater the circle of light, the greater the boundary of darkness by which it is surrounded.
Humphry Davy
#59. The more seriously we work on our own imperfections, the less we are judgemental of the imperfections of others.
Neal A. Maxwell
#60. True bravery is being exactly who you are, imperfections included. Vulnerability is the most precious gift you can give.
Sara Bareilles
#62. Primary purposes of a mirror: (1) To help civilized men realize their imperfections, and, (2) To help the imperfect hide their imperfections.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#63. I really believe that it is honesty about our imperfect selves that makes everyone do better and be better.
Dan Pearce
#64. Imperfection is in some sort essential to all that we know in life.
John Ruskin
#65. If any dust of imperfection cling to your heart, be not troubled, but consume it immediately in the fire of divine love, and, sorrowfully asking forgiveness, continue to live in peace.
Paul Of The Cross
#66. There would be no need for love if perfection were possible. Love arises from our imperfection, from our being different and always in need of the forgiveness, encouragement and that missing half of ourselves that we are searching for, as the Greek myth tells us, in order to complete ourselves.
Eugene Kennedy
#67. Maybe happiness lies in imperfection more than perfection.
Ketan Bhagat
#68. Imperfection is true perfection.
T.A. Uner
#69. It was the thumbprints of human imperfection that used to move him, the flaws in the design: the lopsided smile, the wart next to the navel, the mole, the bruise. Was it consolation he'd had in mind, kissing the wound to make it better?
Margaret Atwood
#70. Language is evidently one of the principle instruments or helps of thought; and any imperfection in the instrument, or in the mode of employing it, is confessedly liable, still more than in almost any other art, to confuse and impede the process, and destroy all ground of confidence in the result.
John Stuart Mill
#71. If you ask people what attracted them to the person they love, they never tell you of some perfect feature that focused them on sheer surfaces but rather an imperfection that allowed them to see into their uncharted depths.
Eugene Kennedy
#72. Nostalgia, more than anything, gives us the shudder of our own imperfection. This is why with Chopin we feel so little like gods.
Emil Cioran
#74. From Lucifer to Jerry Sneak there is not an aspect of evil, imperfection, and littleness which can elude the lights of humor or the lightning of wit.
Edwin Percy Whipple
#75. On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film.
Walter Salles
#77. A work of art is full of perhapses and maybesos. Where the perhapses are found, something has to be done about it. And since art deals wtih the perhapses and maybesos, and why not call it the consummate science ... which gets its perfection from seemingly imperfection.
John Marin
#78. Why can't we control our anger? because we love perfection. make a little room for imperfection in our lives.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
#79. To be authentic is to be at peace with your imperfections.
Simon Sinek
#80. Wines are like women in that it's often the imperfections that fascinate.
Sam Neill
#81. Being perfect is boring. It's the imperfections that make us perfect.
Jessie J.
#82. If you're trying to change someone you love, you don't love them. It's the oddnesses, the most unique imperfections that you'd miss the most. That's the stuff you can't replace. Everything else is easy to come by.
Crystal Woods
#83. The world is a lot more fun when you approach it with an exuberant imperfection.
Chris Baty
#84. Learn to embrace your own unique beauty, celebrate your unique gifts with confidence. Your imperfections are actually a gift.
Kerry Washington
#87. A thorough inspection of someone you believed to be loveable will send you back into your shell if all you saw in their life was all bullshit.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#88. There is no real beauty without some slight imperfection.
James Salter
#89. I think even a hero is someone who has sort of the flaw or imperfection of character. I remember Alice Walker saying that once - she'd written a novel about a civil rights hero, and it was someone who had this flaw, this central flaw.
Hector Tobar
#90. It helps parents to feel better if we remind them of our failures with them! And how they turned out just fine despite our imperfections ... We never get over needing nurturing parents. The more we comfort our own adult children, the more they can comfort our grandchildren.
Eda LeShan
#92. God knows I'm not perfect, either. I've made tons of stupid mistakes, and later I regretted them. And I've done it over and over again, thousands of times; a cycle of hollow joy and vicious self-hatred. But even so, every time I learned something about myself
-Misato Katsuragi
Hideaki Anno
#93. Your imperfections make you beautiful, they make you who you are.
Demi Lovato
#94. My message behind this album was finding the beauty in imperfection.
Beyonce Knowles
#95. My flaws and imperfections make me perfectly incomplete.
Aisha Mirza
#96. Dont brag about being perfect..imperfections are what makes you attractive..
Sandra Chami Kassis
#97. In your very imperfections you will find the basis for your firm, way-seeking mind.
Shunryu Suzuki
#98. Perhaps, that is the way of friends, to love one another for their imperfections, not despite them.
Scott Wilbanks
#99. To be sure, it takes a stronger gaze and a better will to further that which is evolving and imperfect, rather than to penetrate its imperfection and reject it.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#100. Always seek to allow others space to be imperfect.
Alan Downs
