Quotes About Imperfection

No good work whatever can be perfect, and the demand for perfection is always a sign of a misunderstanding of the ends of art.

I like guys who are understandable and good guys who are flawed.

If you'd like to be good at something, the first thing to out the window is the notion of perfection.

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.

All I want to do is be a good dad, but I'm pretty bad at it.

I try to stay away from certain stuff - I'm not a perfect human being. I try to represent myself as much as a good person could. I stay around the positive people.

Good enough is good enough. We're not supposed to be perfect. We're supposed to be complete.

There are good mothers and bad ones, but most of them are somewhere in-between.

The good thing about people really is their iffy-ness and dodginess, isnt it?

My hope is that my novels reflect the reality of a world where good and evil exist, imperfect people make mistakes, but a perfect Heavenly Father offers forgiveness and second chances.

I'd prefer to be good, but I'm not always. I struggle.

It was a style not of perfection, but warmth. Even mistakes had a good feeling about them

I don't want to be perfect. I want to be useful, I want to be good, and I want to sound like myself. Trying to be perfect gets in the way of all three.

The problem to be solved is, not what form of government is perfect, but which of the forms is least imperfect.

We are imperfect. We cannot expect perfect government.

It is very easy to accuse a government of imperfection, for all mortal things are full of it.

he found what a grotesque thing a rose is and how raw the sunlight was upon the scarcely created grass.

Im not suggesting that the play is without fault; all of my plays are imperfect, Im rather happy to say-it leaves me something to do.

You are valuable, even in your imperfection.

At the bottom there is no perfect history; there is none such conceivable. All past centuries have rotted down, and gone confusedly dumb and quiet.

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.

I know I ain't nobody's bargain, but hell a little touchup and a little paint.

Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.- Lucullus (Act III, scene 1)

Freedom is a lonely battle, but if the United States doesn't lead it - sometimes imperfectly, but mostly with honor - who will?