Imperfect famous quotes
05-15-2025
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I am fallen, flawed and imperfect. Yet drenched in the grace and mercy that is found in Jesus Christ, there is strength
-- Adam Young -
I'm far from perfect, but I'll be perfect for that imperfect person that's perfect for me.
-- Amanda Bynes -
I think we learn the most from imperfect relationships - things like forgiveness and compassion.
-- Andrea Thompson -
There is always a but in this imperfect world.
-- Anne Bronte -
...most of the time, all you have is the moment, and the imperfect love of the people around you.
-- Anne Lamott -
We must act, knowing that our work will be imperfect.
-- Barack Obama -
I considered her my ally, because, like me, she was imperfect.
-- Barbara Kingsolver -
If God had not made Sherry, how imperfect his work would have been.
-- Benito Perez Galdos -
The more mysterious, the more imperfect: that which is mystically spoken is but half spoken.
-- Benjamin Whichcote -
Let's be honest. There's not a business anywhere that is without problems. Business is complicated and imperfect. Every business everywhere is staffed with imperfect human beings and exists by providing a product or service to other imperfect human beings.
-- Bob Parsons -
We are imperfect beings in a very imperfect world, and the one thing we can count on is that things will go wrong, and that each and every one of us will have problems.
-- Bob Parsons -
as imperfect human beings, any of us, all of us, are subject at some time or another to make mistakes!
-- Brenda Jackson -
You are imperfect, you are wired for struggle, but you are worthy of love and belonging.
-- Brené Brown -
Those who have a strong sense of love and belonging have the courage to be imperfect.
-- Brené Brown -
We are not merely imperfect creatures who must be improved; we are rebels who must lay down our arms.
-- C. S. Lewis -
You have been taught that there is something wrong with you and that you are imperfect, but there isn't and you're not.
-- Cheri Huber -
Institutions are imperfect. Governments surely are. People are.
-- Chuck Hagel -
A boycott is, inherently, a blunt instrument. It is an imperfect weapon, a carpet bomb, when all involved would prefer a surgical strike.
-- Conor Oberst -
Life is messy and gloriously imperfect, and some signs of wear and tear indicate a well-loved, well-used home.
-- Deborah Needleman -
Accept yourself as you are right now; an imperfect, changing, growing and worthy person.
-- Denis Waitley -
Drop the veneer periodically and be like "OK, I'm an imperfect human. Let's try to get through this."
-- Dennis Miller -
The Church is designed to nourish the imperfect, the struggling, and the exhausted.
-- Dieter F. Uchtdorf -
The only nice thing about being imperfect is the joy it brings to others.
-- Doug Larson -
Hope, the best comfort of our imperfect condition.
-- Edward Gibbon -
So now I have started living my own life. Imperfect and clumsy as it may look, it is resembling me now, thoroughly.
-- Elizabeth Gilbert -
Man is imperfect. The reality he creates is always endangered by man.
-- Friedrich Durrenmatt -
Marriage ... is still the imperfect institution it must remain while women continue to be ill-educated, passive, and subservient ...
-- Harriet Martineau -
Imperfect action is better than perfect inaction.
-- Harry S. Truman -
A certain type of perfection can only be realized through a limitless accumulation of the imperfect.
-- Haruki Murakami -
We all feel disabled in some way. We all feel imperfect. It's hard to be looked at for various reasons.
-- Helen Hunt -
It's made me realize that imperfect is perfectly comfortable to me. Whether it's a city or my apartment, I feel most at home when things are somewhat flawed.
-- Hoda Kotb -
However rich or elevated, a name less something is always wanting to our imperfect fortune.
-- Horace -
Imperfect understanding is often more dangerous than ignorance.
-- J. K. Rowling -
...there must be an inviolate place where the choices and decisions, however imperfect, are the writer's own, where the decision must be as individual and solitary as birth or death.
-- Janet Frame -
You many have noticed I have a temper ... but when I calmed down, I realized that this world, blighted and imperfect as it is, would be better with you in it.
-- Jasper Fforde -
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.
-- Jeffrey R. Holland -
...you are defined not by life's imperfect moments, but by your reaction to them.
-- Jenny Lawson -
Because you are defined not by life's imperfect moments, but by your reaction to them. And because there is joy in embracing - rather than running from - the utter absurdity of life.
-- Jenny Lawson -
A bicultural upbringing is a rich but imperfect thing
-- Jhumpa Lahiri -
If it is an imperfect word, no external circumstance can heighten its value as poetry.
-- John Drinkwater -
All great art is an imperfect, halting attempt to catch up upon life.
-- John Edgar Park -
Ignorance, which is contented and clumsy, will produce what is imperfect, but not offensive. But ignorance dis contented and dexterous, learning what it cannot understand, and imitating what it cannot enjoy, produces the most loathsome forms of manufacture that can disgrace or mislead humanity.
-- John Ruskin -
What I've learned in 40 years of consumer reporting is that the market is imperfect, and some people get ripped off.
-- John Stossel -
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 -
Don't permit fear of failure to prevent effort. We are all imperfect and will fail on occasions, but fear of failure is the greatest failure of all.
-- John Wooden -
In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others.
-- Joseph Priestley -
Screws fall out all the time, the world is an imperfect place.
-- Judd Nelson -
Surely it's better to love others, however messy and imperfect the involvement, than to allow one's capacity for love to harden.
-- Karen Armstrong -
We're imperfect people trapped in an imperfect world until we get to that place beyond
-- Kathie Lee Gifford -
At times, my nostalgia for our family life as it used to be--for our own imperfect, cherished, irretrievable past--is nearly overwhelming.
-- Katrina Kenison -
The enso contains the perfect and imperfect; that is why it is always complete.
-- Kazuaki Tanahashi -
When I made the decision - when my team-mates made that decision, when the whole peloton made that decision - it was a bad decision and an imperfect time. But it happened.
-- Lance Armstrong -
God made in the image of Man is an imperfect master.
-- Laurence Overmire -
I found out along the way that they like you a little imperfect.
-- Lena Horne -
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 -
I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.
-- Mahatma Gandhi -
My hand will always be imperfect because it's human… I think that's where the beauty is.
-- Margaret Kilgallen -
I am one imperfect man saved by God's grace,
-- Mark Sanford -
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.
-- Maurice Nicoll -
When I wanted to know something, I wanted it undistorted by somebody else's imperfect knowledge.
-- Milton H. Erickson -
Each of us A cell of awareness Imperfect and incomplete Genetic blends With uncertain ends On a fortune hunt that's far too fleet
-- Neil Peart -
Flawed, imperfect creatures! That's what we both are, oga! That's what we ALL are!
-- Nnedi Okorafor -
True perfection has to be imperfect. I know that sounds foolish, but it's true.
-- Noel Gallagher -
It is precisely from the regret left by the imperfect work that the next one can be born.
-- Odilon Redon -
My knowledge of the human psyche is as yet imperfect. Certain areas won't yield to computation.
-- Poul Anderson -
We like the imperfect because it reminds us of ourselves.
-- Randy Bachman -
Maturity is the ability to joyfully live in an imperfect world.
-- Richard Rohr -
To follow imperfect, uncertain, or corrupted traditions, in order to avoid erring in our own judgment, is but to exchange one danger for another.
-- Richard Whately -
He was too perfect, despite being one of the most imperfect people I knew.
-- Richelle Mead -
Some things are meant to be broken. Imperfect. Chaotic.
-- Sarah Dessen -
Who do you have to sleep with to get laid in this town?
-- Sloane Crosley -
There are only people doing their imperfect best at doing their imperfect jobs
-- Stephen Nachmanovitch -
There is something wonderfully bold and liberating about saying yes to our entire imperfect and messy life.
-- Tara Brach -
Is it truly so unfathomable, that an imperfect girl might be perfectly loved?
-- Tessa Dare -
Winners take imperfect action while losers are still perfecting the plan.
-- Tony Robbins -
My calling, as one imperfect human, is to celebrate and uphold life every time I get the chance.
-- Victoria Moran -
We are all imperfect. We can not expect perfect government.
-- William Howard Taft -
We are imperfect. We cannot expect perfect government.
-- William Howard Taft -
Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
-- William James -
Decide on some imperfect Somebody and you will win, because the truest truism in politics is: You can't beat Somebody with Nobody.
-- William Safire -
The pacifist streak in German politics is a problem. But Greens and Social Democrats have to ask themselves: In an imperfect world, what do they prefer? The rise of the right or the success of the European project?
-- Anthony Glees -
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 -
If we accept imperfect food, we can indeed change the world for the better.
-- Dana Cowin -
There's imperfect food out there that just needs a mouth to bite into it.
-- Dana Cowin -
The Jews in the ghetto were every bit as imperfect as human beings anywhere else.
-- Edgar Hilsenrath -
Imperfect communities show that being a maximal resemblance class is not sufficient for being a property.
-- Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra -
The process of putting intangible thoughts into an imperfect system of notation - which is difficult enough, depending on your ideas - acquaints you with how best to express your ideas so that it is as clear as possible to the performer.
-- Marc-Andre Hamelin -
Praxiteles borrowed the better elements of a hundred imperfect models in order to create a masterpiece.
-- Marc-Charles-Gabriel Gleyre -
I'm imperfect. There are things in time that will bother me, but I don't dwell on them. It's another thing to dwell on it your whole day and let it bother you.
-- Trinidad James -
The improvisational ability to lead adaptively relies on responding to the present situation rather than importing the past into the present and laying it on the current situation like an imperfect template.
-- Ronald A. Heifetz -
To find by experience that friendships are mortal, is the hard but inevitable lot of fallible and imperfect men.
-- Samuel Parr -
I don't over-think my existence. I'm a very imperfect person, like most of us are. I'm also a very busy person. I have a family. I have a career. I'm a professor at NYU. I have a full life for which I feel grateful every day.
-- Kasi Lemmons
