Imperfect Quotes

• Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.

  George Soros

  Mistake, Failure, Understanding

  George Soros, Byron Wien, Krisztina Koenen (1995). “Soros on Soros: Staying Ahead of the Curve”, p.11, John Wiley & Sons

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• I always find beauty in things that are odd and imperfect - they are much more interesting.

  Marc Jacobs

  Fashion, Imperfect Things, Interesting

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• The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise.

  Alden Nowlan

  Inspirational, Forgiveness, Wise

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• You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.

  Amy Bloom

  Beauty, Beautiful, Sexy

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• We come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.

  Sam Keen

  Love, Friendship, Anniversary

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• To sit in judgment of those things which you perceive to be wrong or imperfect is to be one more person who is part of judgment, evil or imperfection.

  Wayne Dyer

  Evil, Imperfection, Judgment

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• You will always be too much of something for someone: too big, too loud, too soft, too edgy. If you round out your edges, you lose your edge. Apologize for mistakes. Apologize for unintentionally hurting someone - profusely. But don't apologize for being who you are.

  Danielle LaPorte

  Being Yourself, Hurt, Mistake

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• You are imperfect, you are wired for struggle, but you are worthy of love and belonging.

  Brené Brown

  Inspirational, Struggle, Worthy

  "The Vulnerable Faith of Brené Brown" by Jamie Arpin-Ricci, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 8, 2015.

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• Perfectionism is a dangerous state of mind in an imperfect world.

  Robert Hillyer

  Imperfect World, Imperfection, Mind

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• I don't have to be perfect. All I have to do is show up and enjoy the messy, imperfect and beautiful journey of my life.

  Kerry Washington

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  "Kerry Washington's Aha! Moment". www.oprah.com.

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  Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.

  Salvador Dali

  Funny, Music, Sarcastic

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• Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections.

  Gerard Way

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• Once you’ve accepted your flaws, no one can use them against you.

  George R. R. Martin

  Wisdom, Life And Love, Acceptance

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• I am a collection of dismantled almosts.

  Anne Sexton

  Who I Am, Personality, Imperfection

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• It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.

  Joseph Addison

  Inspiring, Perfect, Excellence

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• This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.

  Saint Augustine

  Philosophical, Men, Perfection

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• To banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality.

  John Ruskin

  Expression, Imperfection, Vitality

  John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.184, University of Virginia Press

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• Screws fall out all the time, the world is an imperfect place.

  Judd Nelson

  Fall, Imperfect World, Breakfast

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• To love beauty is to see light.

  Victor Hugo

  Beauty, Spiritual, Light

  Victor Hugo (2007). “Hugo's Works”, p.81, Wildside Press LLC

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• I think every single imperfection adds to your beauty. I'd rather be imperfect than perfect.

  Sonam Kapoor

  Thinking, Perfect, Add

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The only nice thing about being imperfect is the joy it brings to others.

  Doug Larson

  Nice, Perfection, Joy

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• Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Tense, Existence, Present Tense

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• How can we expect novelists to be moral, when their trade forces them to treat every end they meet as no more than an imperfect means to a novel?

  Randall Jarrell

  Mean, Novelists, Moral

  Randall Jarrell (2010). “Pictures from an Institution: A Comedy”, p.8, University of Chicago Press

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• All things are literally better, lovelier, and more beloved for the imperfections which have been divinely appointed, that the law of human life may be effort, and the law of human judgment, mercy.

  John Ruskin

  Life, Mistake, Errors

  John Ruskin (1867). “The Stones of Venice”, p.171

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• Do not try to excuse your faults; try to correct them

  John Bosco

  Imperfection, Catholic, Trying

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