Imperfection Quotes

• Religion is about God's truth, but none of us can grasp that truth absolutely, because of our own imperfections and limitations. We are only children of God, not God. Therefore, we must not attempt to fit God into little boxes, claiming that He supports this or that political position. This is not only bad theology; it marginalizes God.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Religion
  • Limitations
  • God's Truth

• There would be no need for love if perfection were possible. Love arises from our imperfection, from our being different and always in need of the forgiveness, encouragement and that missing half of ourselves that we are searching for, as the Greek myth tells us, in order to complete ourselves.

  

  Eugene Kennedy
  • Love
  • Forgiveness
  • Myth

• I can't tell you how many doctors try to sell me a facelift. I've even gone as far as having someone talk me into it, but when I went over and looked at pictures of myself, I thought 'What are they going to lift?' . . Frankly, I think that in the art of aging well there's this sexuality to having those imperfections. It's sensual.

  

  Sharon Stone
  • Doctors
  • Sexuality
  • Sensual

• Fight your imperfections imagining that you are the worst, so you can perform as the best.

  

  Valentina
  • Fighting
  • Worst
  • Imperfection

• You will not dishonor the divine perfections by judgments unworthy of them, provided you never judge of Him by yourself, provided you do not ascribe to the Creator the imperfections and limitations of created beings.

  

  Nicolas Malebranche
  • Judging
  • Judgment
  • Perfection

• A man must be strong enough to mold the peculiarity of his imperfections into the perfection of his peculiarities.

  

  Walther Rathenau
  • Strong
  • Enough
  • Perfection

• Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Imperfection
  • Spin
  • Advancing

• As machines become more and more efficient and perfect, so it will become clear that imperfection is the greatness of man.

  

  Ernst Fischer
  • Greatness
  • Machines
  • Imperfection

• There is no deformity But saves us from a dream.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Dream
  • Imperfection
  • Deformity

• Our credulity is a part of the imperfection of our natures. It is inherent in us to desire to generalize, when we ought, on the contrary, to guard ourselves very carefully from this tendency.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Imperfection
  • Tendency
  • Inherent

• We learn as much by others' failings as by their teachings. Examples of imperfection is just as useful for achieving perfection as are models of competence and perfection.

  

  Madeleine de Souvre
  • Imperfection

• Being a parent is such a difficult business; you don't always get things right. And also, you don't want to be a perfect parent... You need people to be human, and part of it is imperfection.

  

  Kelly Macdonald
  • People
  • Business
  • Perfect

• I like any film where the female characters are complex and have a functioning imperfection.

  

  Jenny Slate
  • Imperfection

• Perhaps it is our imperfections that make us so perfect for one another.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Perfect
  • Imperfection
  • Perhaps

• Imperfection is relatable.

  

  Lauren Conrad
  • Imperfection

• Imperfection is in some sort essential to all that we know of life. It is the sign of life in a mortal body, that is to say, of a state of progress and change. Nothing that lives is, or can be rigidly perfect; part of it is decaying, part nascent.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Change
  • Know Of Life
  • Mortal Body

• My own view is that institutions are a glory, and for all their imperfections, something really to be proud of. It is true that things can be a lot better than they are. It's okay to emphasize that.

  

  Cass Sunstein
  • Proud
  • Glory
  • Imperfection

• The God we serve does not seek out the perfect, but instead uses our imperfections and our shortcomings for his greater good. I am humbled by my own limitations. But where I am weak, He is strong.

  

  Rick Perry
  • Strong
  • Perfect
  • Weak

• The world is evolving from imperfection to perfection. It needs all love and sympathy; great tenderness and watchfulness are required from each one of us.

  

  Hazrat Inayat Khan
  • World
  • Love
  • Perfection

• From Lucifer to Jerry Sneak there is not an aspect of evil, imperfection, and littleness which can elude the lights of humor or the lightning of wit.

  

  Edwin Percy Whipple
  • Evil
  • Humor
  • Imperfection

• If someone comes in without having been on a spiritual path for long, he or she still will understand what is happening to them in their human lives, what is happening through the evolution, how their humanness is playing such an important role at this time, and where they are in their lives with their inner feelings. It actually gives them a support system, a base from which they can start to evolve naturally within themselves through the understanding of our humanness, of our imperfection.

  

  Christine McCormick Day
  • Long
  • Important
  • Giving

• Our producer, Mutt Lange, is perfect for us. He doesn't accept what we do and say, 'OK that's great.' He's always pushing us and challenging us. We like to think that we push ourselves, but having someone like Mutt, who you know is going to always give you an honest opinion, is an invaluable help. He's helped make Def Leppard the band it is today.

  

  Joe Elliott Def Leppard
  • Help
  • Opinion
  • Pushing

• Nothing's perfect... and it's in the imperfection there is possibility.

  

  Christopher Doyle
  • Perfect
  • Nothing
  • Possibility

• I think we are living in a world that is too perfect and things are too retouched. I want to scream at the top of my lungs 'our imperfections are what make us special'

  

  Erin Wasson
  • Thinking
  • Scream
  • Imperfection

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