Imperfect World Quotes:

We must recognize that we are living in an imperfect world in which human and superhuman forces of evil are at work and so long as those forces affect the political behaviour of mankind there can be no hope of abiding peace.

- Christopher Dawson

topic: Imperfect World, Long, Evil, A Perfect World

We are gripped by God’s will of love, and must help carry out that will in this world, in small things as in great things, in saving as in pardoning. To be glad instruments of God’s love in this imperfect world is the service to which we are called.

- Albert Schweitzer

source: Albert Schweitzer, Steven E. G. Melamed (2003). “The African Sermons”, p.20, Syracuse University Press

topic: Imperfect World, Saving, Helping

All of us are imperfect human beings living in an imperfect world.

- Haruki Murakami

topic: Imperfect World, Imperfection, Norwegian Wood

We live in an imperfect world, and imperfect people surround us every day.

- Joyce Meyer

topic: Imperfect World, People, Surround

I’d like to be remembered as one who kept my priorities in the right order. We live in a changing world, but we need to be reminded that the important things have not changed, and the important things will not change if we keep our priorities in proper order.

- S. Truett Cathy

topic: Inspirational, Change, Imperfect World, Reminding, Things Will Never Change

Screws fall out all the time, the world is an imperfect place.

- Judd Nelson

topic: Fall, World, Imperfect, Imperfect World

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

- Robert A. Heinlein

source: Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.340, Penguin

topic: Love, Life, Positive, Great Feelings, Always Happy

I love this world because it is imperfect. It is imperfect, and that's why it is growing; if it was perfect it would have been dead. Growth is possible only if there is imperfection. I would like you to remember again and again, I am imperfect, the whole universe is imperfect, and to love this imperfection, to rejoice in this imperfection is my whole message.

- Rajneesh

topic: Spiritual, Perfect, Growth, Imperfect World

This world isn't perfect. That means it isn't perfectly good; but it isn't perfectly bad, either. The ease comes with the hardship. Shift the focus of what you see, and your experience of this life will change.

- Yasmin Mogahed

topic: Mean, Perfectly Good, Focus, Life Is Not Easy, Imperfect World

All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.

- Helen Keller

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Courage, Soul Healing, Godlike

Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections.

- Gerard Way

topic: Inspirational, Life, Positive, Inspiration And Life, Inspiring Students

Don't spend your precious time asking "Why isn't the world a better place?" It will only be time wasted. The question to ask is "How can I make it better?" To that there is an answer.

- Leo Buscaglia

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Contribution To Society, Wasting My Time

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.

- Alden Nowlan

topic: Forgiveness, Wise, Wisdom, Live And Learn, Becoming An Adult

Roses have thorns, and silver fountains mud; Clouds and eclipses stain both moon and sun, And loathsome canker lies in sweetest bud. All men make faults.

- William Shakespeare

source: Sonnet 35

topic: Lying, Moon, Men, Moon And Sun, Eclipse Of The Sun

Christians were never meant to be normal. We’ve always been holy troublemakers, we’ve always been creators of uncertainty, agents of dimension that’s incompatible with the status quo; we do not accept the world as it is, but we insist on the world becoming the way that God wants it to be. And the Kingdom of God is different from the patterns of this world.

- Jacques Ellul

topic: Change, God, Christian, Insisting, Troublemaker

Perfectionism is a dangerous state of mind in an imperfect world.

- Robert Hillyer

topic: Imperfection, Mind, World, A Perfect World, Imperfect World

I think perfection is ugly. Somewhere in the things humans make, I want to see scars, failure, disorder, distortion.

- Yohji Yamamoto

source: "Talking to Myself (The Past, the Feminine, the Vain)". Book by Yohji Yamamoto and Kiyokazu Washida, 2002.

topic: Thinking, Perfection, Ugly, Fashion Designer, Distortion

The world is run by one million evil men, ten million stupid men, and a hundred million cowards.

- Gregory David Roberts

topic: Running, Stupid, Men, Stupid Men, Rulership

The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.

- Albert Einstein

source: Source: www.pbs.org

topic: Peace, Integrity, Patriotic, Dangerous Things, Necessary Evil

Let the future say of our generation that we sent forth mighty currents of hope and that we worked together to heal the world.

- Jeffrey Sachs

topic: Our Generation, Together, Generations, Heal The World, Future Generation

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.

- George Grosz

topic: Mean, Drawing, Sick, Drawing And Painting, Hypocritical

We are in a world that is connected, but is not communicating.

- Tariq Ramadan

topic: World, Communicate, Connected, Imperfect World

In an imperfect world perfection is not instantly available. Railroad safety, for instance, cannot be secured by mechanical devices alone. It is primarily a resultant of care and discipline.

- Ivy Lee

topic: Discipline, Safety, Perfection, Imperfect World

Perfect solutions of our difficulties are not to be looked for in an imperfect world.

- Winston Churchill

topic: Perfect, Goal, World, Brainstorming, Lateral Thinking

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

- Richard Rohr

source: Richard Rohr (1996). “Job and the Mystery of Suffering: Spiritual Reflections”, p.177, Gracewing Publishing

topic: Maturity, World, Imperfect, A Perfect World, Imperfect World

In a musically imperfect world, there is still perfection in the voice of Barbara Cook. For anyone eulogizing the historic scores of a long-lost era of Broadway greatness, not to worry. Somebody is still singing them with purity and passion. She is Barbara Cook, and she sings them for the angels to applaud.

- Rex Reed

topic: Passion, Angel, Greatness, Imperfect World

You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut.

- Maxwell Maltz

topic: Adversity, Doors, World, Cybernetics, Psycho Cybernetics

Why do people resist [engines, bridges, and cities] so? They are symbols and products of the imagination, which is the force that ensures justice and historical momentum in an imperfect world, because without imagination we would not have the wherewithal to challenge certainty, and we could never rise above ourselves.

- Mark Helprin

topic: Bridges, Cities, Justice, Imperfect World

Elric knew that everything that existed had its opposite. In danger he might find peace. And yet, of course, in peace there was danger. Being an imperfect creature in an imperfect world he would always know paradox. And that was why in paradox there was always a kind of truth. That was why philosophers and soothsayers flourished. In a perfect world there would be no place for them. In an imperfect world the mysteries were always without solution and that was why there was always a great choice of solutions.

- Michael Moorcock

source: Michael Moorcock (2009). “Duke Elric”, p.127, Del Rey

topic: Peace, Opposites, Perfect, Imperfect World

He didn't believe in a God who sifted through prayers, answering some and ignoring others, no matter how unworthy or worthy a person might be. Instead, he preferred to believe in a God who bestowed all people with gifts and abilities and placed them in an imperfect world; only then was faith tested, only then could faith be earned.

- Nicholas Sparks

topic: Prayer, Believe, People, Imperfect World

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

topic: Challenges, World, Imperfect, Imperfect World

It's a journalist's job to be a witness to history. We're not there to worry about ourselves. We're there to try and get as near as we can, in an imperfect world, to the truth and get the truth out.

- Robert Fisk

source: "Robert Fisk, Injured in Line of Duty" by Matthew Rothschild, progressive.org. December 10, 2001.

topic: Jobs, Worry, Trying, Imperfect World

We're imperfect people trapped in an imperfect world until we get to that place beyond

- Kathie Lee Gifford

topic: People, World, Imperfect, A Perfect World, Imperfect World

Too much trust is folly, in an imperfect world.

- Ellis Peters

source: Ellis Peters (2016). “Brother Cadfael: The Complete Chronicles”, p.492, Head of Zeus Ltd

topic: Trust, World, Too Much, A Perfect World, Imperfect World

Artists live in an imperfect world where affairs of the heart must sometimes be compromised with business.

- Sara Genn

topic: Business, Heart, Artist, A Perfect World, Affairs Of The Heart

Often I have heard the taunt that suffragists are women who have failed to find any normal outlet for their emotions, and are therefore soured and disappointed beings. This is probably not true of any suffragist, and it is most certainly not true of me. My home life and relations have been as nearly ideal as possible in this imperfect world.

- Emmeline Pankhurst

topic: Home, World, Normal, Taunting, Suffragists

There is always a but in this imperfect world.

- Anne Bronte

source: Anne Bronte (2006). “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall”, p.257, ReadHowYouWant.com

topic: Imperfection, World, Imperfect, Imperfect World