Imperfect Quotes

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Imperfect men have no right to judge other imperfect men.

I am fallen, flawed and imperfect. Yet drenched in the grace and mercy that is found in Jesus Christ, there is strength

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.

Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant.

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

Imperfect action is better than perfect inaction.

You have to understand accounting and you have to understand the nuances of accounting. It's the language of business and it's an imperfect language, but unless you are willing to put in the effort to learn accounting - how to read and interpret financial statements - you really shouldn't select stocks yourself

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

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

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

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

When I wanted to know something, I wanted it undistorted by somebody else's imperfect knowledge.

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.

Marriage ... is still the imperfect institution it must remain while women continue to be ill-educated, passive, and subservient.

I’m vain because I’m imperfect.

A bicultural upbringing is a rich but imperfect thing

The enso contains the perfect and imperfect; that is why it is always complete.

We must act, knowing that our work will be imperfect.

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.

If you can learn to love the imperfect people in your family then it's possible that someone can learn to love a imperfect you.

It is precisely from the regret left by the imperfect work that the next one can be born.

Perfection is the willingness to be imperfect.

How happy I am to see myself as imperfect and to be in need of God's mercy.

If God had not made Sherry, how imperfect his work would have been.

Those who have a strong sense of love and belonging have the courage to be imperfect.

They [free market policies] were never based on solid empirical and theoretical foundations, and even as many of these policies were being pushed, academic economists were explaining the limitations of markets for instance, whenever information is imperfect, which is to say always.

Yes, I am imperfect and vulnerable and sometimes afraid, but that doesn't change the truth that I am also brave and worthy of love and belonging.

The thing that you think is imperfect about you, is the thing that makes you who you are. It separates you from everybody else.

To follow imperfect, uncertain, or corrupted traditions, in order to avoid erring in our own judgment, is but to exchange one danger for another.

What beauty is, I know not, though it adheres to many things.

So now I have started living my own life. Imperfect and clumsy as it may look, it is resembling me now, thoroughly.

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.

It is useful that while mankind are imperfect there should be different opinions, so is it that there should be different experiments of living; that free scope should be given to varieties of character, short of injury to others.

A certain type of perfection can only be realized through a limitless accumulation of the imperfect.

Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.

I am so imperfect, can you love me when really my soul is deformed? Will you love me anyhow?

How imperfect is all our knowledge!

...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.

Accept yourself as you are right now; an imperfect, changing, growing and worthy person.

The imperfect is our paradise.

My hand will always be imperfect because it's human… I think that's where the beauty is.