Imperfect Quotes

Imperfect Quote of the day

We come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.

I accept that today may be imperfect... I accept that I may be as well. What I don't accept is that imperfection should be the crutch I use to excuse myself from participating in joy.

I am nothing; I am but an instrument, a tiny pencil in the hands of the Lord with which He writes what he likes. However imperfect we are, he writes beautifully.

Maturity is the ability to joyfully live in an imperfect world.

Look, don't judge Christianity by the imperfect examples that we have seen in history. Judge it by Jesus Christ.

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.

Imperfect people are all god has ever had to work with. That must be terribly frustrating to him, but he deals with it. So should we.

Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.

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.

The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.

Oligopoly is an imperfect monopoly. Like the despotism of the Dual Monarchy, it is saved only by its incompetence.

We are not merely imperfect creatures who must be improved; we are rebels who must lay down our arms.

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.

We worship perfection because we can't have it; if we had it, we would reject it. Perfection is inhuman, because humanity is imperfect.

It is perfect to be imperfect, because perfection is made up of many imperfections put together that makes it perfect.

Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go.

The celebration of Advent is possible only to those who are troubled in soul, who know themselves to be poor and imperfect, and who look forward to something greater to come.

Every great cause is born from repeated failures and from imperfect achievements.

The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise.

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.

I'm pretty comfortable with my body. I'm imperfect. The imperfections are there. People are going to see them, but I take the view you only live once.

Imperfect men have no right to judge other imperfect men.

I tend to really like things that are broken, I like the ones that are perfectly imperfect.

I like people who have a sense of individuality. I love expression and anything awkward and imperfect, because that’s natural and that’s real.

Love is an unconditional commitment to an imperfect person.

I am imperfect in many things, nevertheless I want my brethren and kinsfolk to know my nature so that they may be able to perceive my soul's desire.

The problem to be solved is, not what form of government is perfect, but which of the forms is least imperfect.

We are all wonderful, beautiful wrecks. That's what connects us-that we're all broken, all beautifully imperfect.

You are imperfect, you are wired for struggle, but you are worthy of love and belonging.

I saw that bad handwriting should be regarded as a sign of an imperfect education.

I think imperfections are important, just as mistakes are important. You only get to be good by making mistakes, and you only get to be real by being imperfect.

There is something wonderfully bold and liberating about saying yes to our entire imperfect and messy life.

Imperfect action is better than perfect inaction.

[On journalists:] We are a noisy, imperfect lot, struggling to scribble what has been called the first draft of history.

There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences even worse than war.

Surely it's better to love others, however messy and imperfect the involvement, than to allow one's capacity for love to harden.

Fallen man is not simply an imperfect creature who needs improvement: he is a rebel who must lay down his arms.

Like bones to the human body, the axle to the wheel, the wing to the bird, and the air to the wing, so is liberty the essence of life. Whatever is done without it is imperfect.

You have been taught that there is something wrong with you and that you are imperfect, but there isn't and you're not.

Marriage is two imperfect people committing themselves to a perfect institution, by making perfect vows from imperfect lips before a perfect God.

My drawings and paintings were done as an act of protest; I was trying by means of my work to convince the world that it is ugly, sick and hypocritical.

A perfect marriage is just two imperfect people who refuse to give up on each other.

Winners take imperfect action while losers are still perfecting the plan.

The Church is designed to nourish the imperfect, the struggling, and the exhausted.

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.

We're all imperfect, and life is simply a perpetual, unending struggle against those imperfections.

Art is a reality, not a definition; inasmuch as it approaches a reality, it approaches perfection, and inasmuch as it approaches a mere definition, it is imperfect and untrue.

I found out along the way that they like you a little imperfect.

What we are teaches the child far more than what we say, so we must be what we want our children to become.

Humanity is regarded as unfinished, incomplete, imperfect. We have the possibility of completing ourselves, perfecting ourselves, and all that is necessary for this lies in us.