Best 149 quotes in «imperfect quotes» category

You may not understand issues that do not pertain to the heart, but be a master in areas that do. Nobody knows everything, and nobody can be a master of everything. Nobody was created perfect, and nobody should be measured according to perfection. It is the weight of your heart that matters the most in the end. All else is irrelevant.

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

A bicultural upbringing is a rich but imperfect thing

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

All imperfections are forced upon the imperfect, so the 'perfect' can live content and oblivious.

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.

All things in the natural world symbolize God, yet none of them speak of Him but in broken and imperfect words.

A republic - if you can keep it - is about limitation, and for good reason, because we are mortal and our actions are imperfect.

as imperfect human beings, any of us, all of us, are subject at some time or another to make mistakes!

At times, my nostalgia for our family life as it used to be--for our own imperfect, cherished, irretrievable past--is nearly overwhelming.

Beauty is only skin deep.

All faiths constitute a revelation of Truth, but all are imperfect and liable to error.

Beauty is only temporary, but your mind lasts you a lifetime.

All general judgments are loose and imperfect

Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant.

Dare to be imperfect and one day there will tug at your sleeve a soulmate.

Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.

Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.

Drop the veneer periodically and be like "OK, I'm an imperfect human. Let's try to get through this.

Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.

But nature flies from the infinite; for the infinite is imperfect, and nature always seeks an end.

How can we expect novelists to be moral, when their trade forces them to treat every end they meet as no more than an imperfect means to a novel?

False pleasures come from without and are imperfect: happiness is internal and our own.

Hope, the best comfort of our imperfect condition.

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

He was so far from the gallant knights in her romantic fantasies...He was tarnished, scarred, imperfect.

I cling to my imperfection, as the very essence of my being.

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.

I considered her my ally, because, like me, she was imperfect.

I don't think of Hillary Clinton as a bad choice. She's an uninspiring choice. She is a deeply imperfect choice, largely for reasons of her own tendency to get into a defensive crouch and create greater problems for herself and the rest of us by refusing to have a transparent reckoning.

I don't believe that we are what we do although many thinkers argue otherwise. I believe that what we do is, very often, a poor approximation of what we are -- an imperfect manifestation of a much better totality. Even the best of us sometimes bite off, as it were, less than we can chew.

I am one imperfect man saved by God's grace.

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.

I know tolerably well what Ireland was, but have a very imperfect idea of what Ireland is.

I like telling stories of imperfect people because most people are imperfect.

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

International relationships are preordained to be clumsy gestures based on imperfect knowledge.

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.

... I prefer true but imperfect knowledge, even if it leaves much undetermined and unpredictable, to a pretense of exact knowledge that is likely to be false.

I'm an imperfect messenger, but the message is perfect.

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

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.

Is it truly so unfathomable, that an imperfect girl might be perfectly loved?

Imperfect men have no right to judge other imperfect men.

Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.

Life is messy and gloriously imperfect, and some signs of wear and tear indicate a well-loved, well-used home.

[J.F] Kennedy's own accent was inconsistent. So people are inconsistent. And it always kind of irks me when people talk about inconsistent accents, because people are imperfect by nature. So in the end, what you do is, you do an inhabitation and not an imitation.

Markets are imperfect. So you do need regulation, knowing that the regulators are also human.

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

My knowledge of the human psyche is as yet imperfect. Certain areas won't yield to computation.