Top 87 Quotes About Our Imperfections
#1. I think we are living in a world that is too perfect and things are too retouched. I want to scream at the top of my lungs 'our imperfections are what make us special'
Erin Wasson
#2. So much of our lives is given over to the consideration of our imperfections that there is no time to improve our imaginary virtues. The truth is we only perfect our vices, and man is a worse creature when he dies than he was when he was born.
Edward Dahlberg
#3. I love that feeling of, you know, we are women, we are so different, our imperfections are what make us unique and beautiful.
Gisele Bundchen
#4. Grace only sticks to our imperfections. Those who can't accept their imperfections can't accept grace either.
Donald Miller
#5. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create
John Lennon
#6. IT'S OUR IMPERFECTIONS THAT MAKE US VULNERABLE, MAKE US INTERESTING. HOW CAN I MAKE MYSELF A BIT OF AN ASSHOLE AND STILL HAVE HUMANITY ABOUT IT?
Steve Coogan
#7. At the heart of each of us, whatever our imperfections, there exists a silence pulse of perfect rhythm which is absolutely individual and unique, and yet which connects us to everything else.
George Leonard
#8. If we are interested in Christ by faith, notwithstanding our imperfections and sins, God will be our God through grace.
Adoniram Judson
#9. Not everyone sees you the way you do. Sometimes our imperfections are what makes us special. - Tripp
Abbi Glines
#11. I am not perfect. Are you? Let us accept the fact that nobody is perfect. Let us learn to accept our imperfections as well as those of others. - RVM.
R.v.m.
#12. Our imperfections make us unique as surely as our strengths.
Toni Sorenson
#13. The most perfect things in life are created by our imperfections,
Mia Clark
#14. Prayer brings a good spirit in our homes. For God hears prayer. Heaven itself would come down to our homes. And even though we who constitute the home all have our imperfections and our failings, our home would, through God's answer to prayer, become a little paradise.
Ole Hallesby
#15. If the pursuit of perfection is a way to prove our worth, in the end the pursuit will only prove our imperfections.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#16. Silence tells the seeker in us to love, to love himself. It tells us it is wrong to hate ourselves because of our imperfections. When the seeker loves himself, loves the Divine within himself, he eventually realises the Ultimate Truth.
Sri Chinmoy
#17. The process of facing and selecting our possessions can be quite painful. It forces us to confront our imperfections and inadequacies and the foolish choices we made in the past.
Marie Kondo
#18. The bonds that unite us to another human being are sanctified when he or she adopts the same point of view as ourselves in judging one of our imperfections.
Marcel Proust
#19. Our own opinion of ourselves should be lower than that formed by others, for we have a better chance at our imperfections.
Thomas A Kempis
#20. We should seek after spiritual gifts. They can lead us to God. They can shield us from the power of the adversary. They can compensate for our inadequacies and repair our imperfections.
Dallin H. Oaks
#21. We aren't supposed to strive for perfection everyday. If we were perfect, we'd have no need for Jesus. And it's through our imperfections that we really feel the pull toward our need for a Savior. So the imperfections serve a wonderful purpose if we'll let them.
Lysa TerKeurst
#22. Perfect, you say? That was your problem. It is our imperfections that make us endlessly fascinating.
Kathryn Craft
#23. We all have our imperfections. But I'm human, and you know, it's important to concentrate on other qualities besides outer beauty.
Beyonce Knowles
#24. The growth mindset also doesn't mean everything that CAN be changed SHOULD be changed. We all need to accept some of our imperfections, especially the ones that don't really harm our lives or the lives of others.
Carol S. Dweck
#25. We are humans who make wrong decisions, who act in strange ways, who have freckles and ailments. We are humans who are incredible in both our capacity to love and our resistance to hate. And in our imperfections we are beautiful.
Sarah Noffke
#26. It seems that nature, which has so wisely disposed our bodily organs with a view to our happiness, has also bestowed on us pride, to spare us the pain of being aware of our imperfections.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#27. Our love is perfect. And even though we may not be, our love creates a bridge that spans over our imperfections and joins us where it matters.
Steve Maraboli
#28. It is through our imperfections that our true beauty shines through.
Cheryl L. Ilov
#29. Life is full of many unpredictable changes ... Let go of chaos yesterday; cheerfully live for today, and look forward to tomorrow with greater possibilities ... It's our imperfections that make us perfect in our own unique ways
Oprah Winfrey
#30. The God we serve does not seek out the perfect, but instead uses our imperfections and our shortcomings for his greater good. I am humbled by my own limitations. But where I am weak, He is strong.
Rick Perry
#31. 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
#32. God's forgiveness allows us to be honest with ourselves. We recognize our imperfections, admit our failures, and plead to God for clemency.
Jonathan Sacks
#33. Sometimes our imperfections are what makes us special
Abbi Glines
#34. 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
#35. God doesn't work through us because we're flawless; rather, He works through us in spite of our imperfections.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#36. 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
#37. Our Imperfections Are What Make Us Perfect.
Lace Vintage
#38. In some basic way, it is our imperfections and even our pain that draws others close to us.
Rachel
#39. Jiu Jitsu uses us to express itself, and the best thing we can do to is to become a vehicle capable of expressing Jiu Jitsu with all of its perfection minus our imperfections.
Chris Matakas
#40. As you begin your tour of the United States, you may as well know that one American national trait which irritates many Americans and must be convenient for our critics is that we relentlessly advertise our imperfections.
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.
#41. Perhaps it is our imperfections that make us so perfect for one another.
Jane Austen
#42. Though we best know and cannot deny our imperfections, it is not for us to lose our self-reliance and true manhood.
Nicolas Chamfort
#43. Our imperfections are what create authentic connections with one another.
Henna Inam
#44. I believe that for all our imperfections, we are full of decency and goodness, and that the forces that divide us are not as strong as those that unite us.
Barack Obama
#46. Our imperfections are the bonds that hold us together. We might as well recognize them.
Irwin Shaw
#47. Once in an age God sends to some of us a friend who loves in us, not a false-imagining, an unreal character, but looking through the rubbish of our imperfections, loves in us the divine ideal of our nature,
loves, not the man that we are, but the angel that we may be.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
#48. The praise we seek for our own virtues sometimes tempts us to flatter the imperfections of other men.
Norm MacDonald
#49. Perfection is not real. Perfection is not human. Carlos is not perfect- no, even better- he is imperfect. Everything about him, and us, and all of this is imperfect. And those imperfections in our reality are the seams and cracks into which our outsized love can seep and pool.
Cecil Baldwin
#50. None of us are perfect, for which reason we should heed the voice of charity when it whispers in our ears, Do not magnify the imperfections of others.
Elizabeth Keckley
#51. ...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
#52. Please hear me right now when I tell you that you're so fucking perfect in your imperfections that it actually is funny. I'm so serious when I say that. Our quirks - the things that we often look at with disgust - they are the things that make us unique and completely amazing!
Chris Grosso
#53. We love our country, not because it is perfect in everything, but it manages to touch our heart despite all its imperfections in everything!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#54. When you descant on the faults of others, consider whether you be not guilty of the same. To gain knowledge of ourselves, the best way is to convert the imperfections of others into a mirror for discovering our own.
Henry Home, Lord Kames
#55. The imperfections of others never release us from the need to work on our own shortcomings.
Neal A. Maxwell
#56. Our raw imperfections make us real and make us human but they don't make us.
Jay McLean
#57. We need to love ourselves first in All our glory and imperfections
John Lennon
#58. We don't think of our flaws as the glue that binds us to the people we love, but they are. Grace only sticks to your imperfections.
Donald Miller
#59. Our relationship is not simple or straightforward. It's not perfect the way young couples dream about. It's rough and flawed, but it's ours. And sometimes, if you get really lucky, something truly beautiful can come from the imperfections.
Aly Martinez
#60. A moment of care carries us away!
The fragrance of forgiveness elevates us
Imperfections are essentially universal
Divine love drives our desire.
Balroop Singh
#61. Because our expression is imperfect we need friendship to fill up the imperfections.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#62. Knowledge can be a subtle curse. When we learn about the world, we also learn all the reasons why the world cannot be changed. We get used to our failures and imperfections. We become numb to the possibilities of something new
Jonah Lehrer
#63. History balances the frustration of 'how far we have to go' with the satisfaction of 'how far we have come.' It teaches us tolerance for the human shortcomings and imperfections which are not uniquely of our generation, but of all time.
Lewis F. Powell Jr.
#64. In our dreams every man and woman are amazingly perfect, but in reality they have imperfections, so accept it without judgement.
Debasish Mridha
#65. We need to learn how to keep people through love. Despite imperfections, sins, and irritating habits of other Christians, they belong to Jesus and they need our love as a healthy climate for growth.
John Wimber
#66. Every storm has a brilliance, Dustin; has beauty when you look at it from a distance. It blurs all those incessant imperfections we seek to hollow out with each of our hopes. But when you step into its still center, when you see it's fury and its power, you also see its beauty; its grace.
Brandon Shire
#67. No one thing does human life more need than a kind consideration of the faults of others. Every one sins; everyone needs forbearance. Our own imperfections should teach us to be merciful.
Henry Ward Beecher
#68. The more seriously we work on our own imperfections, the less we are judgemental of the imperfections of others.
Neal A. Maxwell
#69. Within our perceived weaknesses and imperfections lies the key to realizing our true strength.
Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
#70. Creativity involves missteps and imperfections. I wanted our people to get comfortable with that idea - that both the organization and its members should be willing, at times, to operate on the edge.
Ed Catmull
#71. It is good to be imperfect so that we retain our joy to work hard to rise to perfection!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#72. We should not have a petty regard for God's gifts, though we may and should despise our own imperfections.
Saint Ignatius
#73. The miracle of the Atonement can make up for imperfections in our performance.
Gary E. Stevenson
#74. 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
#75. With all the imperfections of our present government, it is without comparison the best existing, or that ever did exist.
Thomas Jefferson
#76. They who pray with faith have fervour and fervour is the fire of prayer. This mysterious fire has the power of consuming all our faults and imperfections, and of giving to our actions, vitality, beauty and merit.
Frances Xavier Cabrini
#77. 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
#78. To treat an imperfect brother (or sister) impatiently is to advertise our own imperfections.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#79. [ ... ] love is not reasonable or measured. It undoes you. It's in the imperfections in each other, in ourselves, where we find our humanity. It's in our dents and scars where the deepest connections are made. Real love resides in the parts of me I think no one wants to see.
Liza Palmer
#80. Yet, it's our emotions and imperfections that makes us human.
Clyde DeSouza
#81. Learning gives us a fuller conviction of the imperfections of our nature; which one would think, might dispose us to modesty.
Jeremy Collier
#82. To successfully tell the story, we had to be willing to let people see us as we really were; with all our weaknesses, fears, and imperfections. There are important lessons we learned from the experience that we would not have adequately relayed to the reader if we had been less bold." ~ Duane
Duane & Selena Pannell
#83. Our love of art is often quite temporary, dependent upon our moods, and our love of art is subservient to our demand for a positive self-image. How we look at art should account for those imperfections and work around them.
Tyler Cowen
#84. The logic of the system they devised was to mitigate the consequences of our real imperfections, not to celebrate our imaginary perfection.
Timothy Snyder
#85. I suspect the secret of personal attraction is locked up in our unique imperfections, flaws and frailties.
Hugh Mackay
#86. Life is an aspiration. Its mission is to strive after perfection, which is self-realization. The ideal must not be lowered because of our weaknesses or imperfections.
Mahatma Gandhi
#87. Self-contempt, however vague, sharpens our eyes for the imperfections of others. We usually strive to reveal in others the blemishes we hide in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer
