Quotes About Imperfection

Some would think the leader of a people should be a model of what to strive for. But maybe God knew trying to be perfect is just not healthy, or maybe God could not find any perfect human beings. Maybe it's just not possible to be perfect.

We don't need to be perfect. We just need to be perfect for each other.

Then it's a deal. You and me. Together. Loving each other as best as we can. Imperfectly, but honestly,

We did it!" says Draculaura. "It wasn't perfect," Frankie says. "Eh, perfect is boring.

Me shooting 40% at the foul line is just God's way to say nobody's perfect.

Me shooting 40% at the foul line is just God's way of saying nobody's perfect.

You're not flaming Bob the Builder, Poppy. There are some things is you can't fix.

Often we can achieve an even better result when we stumble yet are willing to start over, when we don't give up after a mistake, when something doesn't come easily but we throw ourselves into trying, when we're not afraid to appear less than perfectly polished.

We all make inexcusable and unjustified mistakes. But then again. What are we if we don't make mistakes?

It was a reminder of what a human self was, and what a human life was: not a beautiful glass lamp just this side of being broken, or a lovely gold ring with a single dent in it. But a bettered old seashell, formed over millions of years, made to endure.

I abhor the idea of a perfect world. It would bore me to tears.

In her own fumbling way, she'd reminded him he was just a man, fallible, needful, a member of the supremely imperfect human race…and shamefully undeserving of what she had to offer. Looking at Billie, touching her, tasting her, had filled him with a wanting fiercer than any he'd known. For the first time, he was faced with something he couldn't truly have, because of what he'd become.

John's time and effort were, in the main, spent on pretty honorable stuff. As for the other side, well, nobody's perfect, nobody's Jesus. And look what they did to him.

There's never enough money, there's never enough time, there's never enough reliable help around, anything you plan always goes wrong - it's just hard to be human, isn't it?

I'm not great about putting on make-up, I look like a wreck half the time.

Imperfect action beats perfect inaction every time.

I always have a funny story at communion time that underscores that no one is perfect, and that communion is not for perfect people but for hungry people.

A good marriage does not require a perfect man or a perfect woman. It only requires a man and a woman committed to strive together toward perfection.

It is perfect to be imperfect, because perfection is made up of many imperfections put together that makes it perfect.

The world is like a dropped pie most of the time. Don't kill yourself trying to put it back together. Just grab a fork and eat some of it off the floor. Then carry on.

Everyone is screwed up, broken, clingy, and scared, even the people who seem to have it more or less together.

The only thing I can talk about is just forgiving yourself, because I do not have everything together. And so I tell people: No, you should see my house, it's a mess.

I am sorry all the same, she said. And that it rained this afternoon. I could have wished that today would be perfect.

La vida no era perfecta. Salvo en ocasiones.