Quotes About Imperfection

Much that is natural, to the will must yield. Men manufacture both machine and soul, And use what they imperfectly control To dare a future from the taken routes.

Fill the seats of justice with good men, not so absolute in goodness as to forget what human frailty is.

We all are men, in our own natures frail, and capable of our flesh; few are angels.

But men are men; the best sometimes forget.

You weren't a decent man and you didn't do your best. We none of us were and none of us did.

I have learnt to expect that it will rarely fall to the lot of imperfect man to retire from this station with the reputation and the favor which bring him into it.

Man, at his best, remains a sort of one-lunged animal, never completely rounded and perfect, as a cockroach, say, is perfect.

I like a man with faults, especially when he knows it. To err is human

As a man I am flawed, but my music is perfect.

What I have always loved most in men is imperfection.

None but great men are capable of having great flaws.

No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends as to give them no cause to miss him less.

The noble woman is half a man, even a complete one. Only their imperfections make them women.

I've been married 34 years. I have not been a perfect man. I have made mistakes in my life.

For this world that men have made, none of us is bad enough. For the world that made us, none is good enough.

Free men are aware of the imperfection inherent in human affairs, and they are willing to fight and die for that which is not perfect.

Nature attains perfection, but man never does.

There is a perfect ant, a perfect bee, but man is perpetually unfinished...Moreover, the incurable unfinishedness keeps man perpetually immature, perpetually capable of learning and growing.

can't blame a man for being human when human is all he'll ever be!

I think men are still very loath to talk about their sexuality. Yet, I am so ashamed about my imperfection as a human being that I tell everything.

Man is imperfect. The reality he creates is always endangered by man.

Human language can but imperfectly describe God's ways.

Man in the flesh is essentially imperfect. He may be described as being made in the image of God but is far from being God.

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