Quotes About Imperfection

Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it falls opposite to the sun; short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it?

I turn over a new leaf every day. But the blots show through.

I try to look at things in a positive light, but not everything ends up turning out positive or perfect.

You are not going to be perfect every day. It's about turning up the next day and doing it again.

I truly believe that we have the best health care system in the world. It's not perfect, but this business of turning it over to the federal government to try to make it perfect is quite honestly asinine.

As you know, on live TV, sometimes you don't always say things perfectly.

At some point, I'm just of the mind that no art is perfect, and it shouldn't be perfect. I think it's beautiful in its imperfection. You could tweak something forever, but you have to let it go and trust it.

Don't beat yourself up for not being perfect. But you might want to kick your own a## if you're not trying to get better.

I would say nobody is perfect. I don't know all the answers. I have don't want to run people's lives and run the world and run the economy. So, my qualifications are a little bit different.

A poem is the perfect place to celebrate imperfection and exult in the ways you fall short of being the person you want to be.

Who wants to be a goddess when we can be human? Perfection is a flaw disguised as control.

I write down portions, maybe fragments, and perhaps an imperfect view of what Im hoping to write. Out of that, I keep trying to find exactly what I want.

Nobody wants to watch perfection.

Life is never going to be perfect, as much as we want it to be, and I have to lead by example.

None of us is perfect. Everyone has got a skeleton in the closet that they don't want people to find out. I just let it go, with a bit of humor.

Any fool can love somebody who's perfect, somebody who does everything right. But that doesn't stretch your soul. Your soul only gets stretched when you can still love somebody after they've hurt you.

Life doesn't have to be perfect to be happy. And sometimes you have to find those happy places in between the pain.

So you made some bad choices. Some of God's best players were His imperfect, broken prodigals. In fact, iffy players are God's best picks. He specializes in short-tempered, reckless, flawed people to accomplish his plans.

Life doesn't have to be perfect to be happy. Sometimes you have to find the happy places between the pain.

Maybe because his main character never seems to get it right till the end. You know, he's not perfect, just real.

Life doesn't have to be perfect to be happy. Sometimes you have to find the happy places between the pain.

we are—all of us—just imperfect people on a flawed planet who are trying to hold on to what is good and lovely and right.

This is what makes us sublimely human, isn't it? Not unsullied genetic perfection, but when we stubbornly love and honor one another.

This is what makes us sublimely human, isn't it? Not unsullied genetic perfection, but when we stubbornly love and honor one another. Just the way we are.