Quotes About Imperfection

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

Perfection is not a prerequisite for anything but pain.

This means accepting our human existence and all of life as it is. Imperfection is not our personal problem—it is a natural part of existing.

true freedom is being "without anxiety about imperfection.

Zen master Seng-tsan taught that true freedom is being "without anxiety about imperfection.

If I only had a little humility, I would be perfect.

We don't have to live in a world where everyone reacts perfectly the first time around, and if you don't, everything falls apart, and no one speaks to you ever again.

You'll see the most perfect person, and you are like, 'God, she's, like, perfect.' And then she'll tell you everything that's not perfect. Everyone has their own special set of problems - in their own minds.

We're not perfect, and there are some dark patches in our past, but what makes us special is that we recognize these evils, we come to grips with them, and we fix them.

I don't think that we are a species or a people that can exist without making mistakes somewhere along the line.

I've never made a perfect speech or a perfect anything. I always think after, I should have done it that way or this way.

Maybe strong leaders are not quite as alluring as we think, and we should celebrate the fact that our leaders are just like us. Just because one candidate can't remember his whole speech and the other likes to put his feet up on the job doesn't mean they can't govern.

The mystery of being human and, certainly, of being a Catholic lies in our embracing together the imperfect state known as the human condition. First and foremost, if we could ever be perfect or do things perfectly, we would eliminate mystery, an essential ingredient in the good life and the spiritual life.

A perfect marriage is just two imperfect people who refuse to give up on each other.

Each marriage starts with two built-in handicaps. It involves two imperfect people.

Marriage is two broken people having little broken people.

Imperfect men have no right to judge other imperfect men.

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.

No Man is wise at all Times, or is without his blind Side.

When a man imagines, even after years of striving, that he has attained perfection, his decline begins.

I'm not perfect. I am not Iron Man.

Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.

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

In the works of man, everything is as poor as its author; vision is confined, means are limited, scope is restricted, movements are labored, and results are humdrum.