Imperfect Quotes - Page 17

• After all, I wasn't a bad person. I was just doing my best in what had turned out to be a fairly imperfect life.

  Lucy Robinson

  Life, Perfect Life, Persons

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• What passes for love is imperfect knowledge. Not knowing, initially, allows faithlessness to dress up as its opposite; casts the inarticulate as enigmatic, the selfish as forgetful, the angry as impassioned.

  Nick Laird

  Selfish, Love Is, Opposites

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• The men and women who are truly filled with light are those who have gazed deeply into the darkness of their own imperfect existence.

  Brennan Manning

  Men, Light, Darkness

  Brennan Manning (2009). “The Furious Longing of God”, p.32, David C Cook

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• I am nothing; I am but an instrument, a tiny pencil in the hands of the Lord with which He writes what he likes. However imperfect we are, he writes beautifully.

  Mother Teresa

  Writing, Hands, Likes

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• God is looking for imperfect men and women who have learned to walk in moment-by-momen t dependence on the Holy Spirit. Christians who have come to terms with their inadequacies, fears, and failures. Believers who have become discontent with 'surviving' and have taken the time to investigate everything God has to offer in this life.

  Charles Stanley

  Christian, Taken, Men

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• But that the reasoning from these facts, the drawing from them correct conclusions, is a matter of great difficulty, may be inferred from the imperfect state in which the Science is now found after it has been so long and so intensely studied.

  Nassau William Senior

  Science, Drawing, Long

  Nassau William Senior (1858). “Political Economy”, p.4

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• Yes, I am imperfect and vulnerable and sometimes afraid, but that doesn't change the truth that I am also brave and worthy of love and belonging.

  Brené Brown

  Brave, Sometimes, Vulnerable

  Brené Brown (2012). “Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead”, p.18, Penguin

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• We’re all imperfect and we all have needs. The weak usually do not ask for help, so they stay weak. If we recognize that we are imperfect, we will ask for help and we will pray for the guidance necessary to bring positive results to whatever we are doing.

  John Wooden

  Motivational, Needs, Helping

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• Love is sometimes shown in the things you don't say, don't keep track of and don't notice. The greatest kindness is often shown in letting things go. None of us is perfect, but we can all be perfect friends and perfect partners by allowing those that we love to be imperfect. Give those around you the 'break' that you hope the world will give you on your own 'bad day' and you'll never, ever regret it.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Kindness, Regret, Bad Day

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Mar 09, 2015

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• It meant that Diana had not waited for any explanation, however halting and imperfect, but had condemned him unheard; and this showed a much harder, far less affectionate woman than the Diana he had known or had thought he knew - a mythical person, no doubt created by himself. It had of course been evident from her letter, which made no reference to his; but he had not chosen to see the evidence and now it was absolutely forced upon his sight it made his eyes sting and tingle again. And deprived of his myth he felt extraordinarily lonely.

  Patrick O'Brian

  Lonely, Eye, Sight

  Patrick O'Brian (2011). “The Reverse of the Medal (Vol. Book 11) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels)”, p.168, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Perfectionism is a dangerous state of mind in an imperfect world. The best way is to forget doubts and set about the task in hand. . . . If you are doing your best, you will not have time to worry about failure.

  Robert Hillyer

  Failure, Imperfect World, Hands

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• Law is an imperfect profession in which success can rarely be achieved without some sacrifice of principle. Thus all practicing lawyers -- and most others in the profession -- will necessarily be imperfect, especially in the eyes of young idealists. There is no perfect justice, just as there is no absolute in ethics. But there is perfect injustice, and we know it when we see it.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Inspirational, Motivational, Eye

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• Let’s face it, we’re all imperfect and we’re going to fall short on occasion. But we must learn from failure and that will enable us to avoid repeating our mistakes. Through adversity, we learn, grow stronger, and become better people.

  John Wooden

  Mistake, Fall, Adversity

  John Wooden (2010). “Coach Wooden's Pyramid of Success (Large Print 16pt)”, p.45, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I think that we come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly. Raise kids. Have a good life. Be a good friend. And try to be completely who you are.

  Angelina Jolie

  Imperfect Person, People, Answers

  "Angelina Jolie on Her Insecurities & Finding Happiness". Interview with Hilary Rowland, urbanette.com. August 2016.

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• You have to understand accounting and you have to understand the nuances of accounting. It's the language of business and it's an imperfect language, but unless you are willing to put in the effort to learn accounting - how to read and interpret financial statements - you really shouldn't select stocks yourself

  Warren Buffett

  Effort, Nuance, Financial

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• Disregarding all evidence to the contrary, the student of Truth will maintain that he lives in a PERFECT Universe and among people potentially perfect. He will regulate his thinking to meet this necessity and refuse to believe in its opposite. At first he may be influenced by conditions, and he may appear weak, but as time goes on he will PROVE TO HIMSELF that his position is a correct one, for that which appears imperfect will begin to slip from his experience

  Ernest Holmes

  Believe, Thinking, Opposites

  Ernest Holmes (2012). “The Science of Mind Collection”, p.130, Penguin

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• Tea ceremony is a way of worshipping the beautiful and the simple. All one's efforts are concentrated on trying to achieve perfection through the imperfect gestures of daily life. Its beauty consists in the respect with which it is performed. If a mere cup of tea can bring us closer to God, we should watch out for all the other dozens of opportunities that each ordinary day offers us.

  Paulo Coelho

  Beautiful, Opportunity, Simple

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• We're imperfect people trapped in an imperfect world until we get to that place beyond

  Kathie Lee Gifford

  Imperfect World, People, A Perfect World

  Kathie Lee Gifford, Jim Jerome (1993). “I Can't Believe I Said That!: An Autobiography”, MacMillan Publishing Company

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• I'm an imperfect messenger, but the message is perfect.

  Ron Paul

  Perfect, Messengers, Messages

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• The lichen on the rocks is a rude and simple shield which beginning and imperfect Nature suspended there. Still hangs her wrinkledtrophy.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Simple, Rocks

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.178, Xist Publishing

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• Imperfect action is better than perfect inaction.

  Harry S. Truman

  Perfect, Action, Inaction

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• The unmet need that can get met right now is the need to be whole, to be both your magnificent, divine self and your imperfect, human self.

  Debbie Ford

  Self, Needs, Divine

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• We are all imperfect. We can not expect perfect government.

  William Howard Taft

  Government, Perfect, Can Not

  William Howard Taft (2002). “The Collected Works of William Howard Taft: Presidential addresses and state papers”

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• I sometimes think there is a dimension beyond the four of experience and Einstein: insight, that fifth dimension which promises to liberate us from bondage to the long, imperfect past

  Leo Rosten

  Past, Thinking, Long

  Leo Rosten (1978). “Passions & Prejudices: Or, Some of My Best Friends are People”

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• As has been pointed out with Libya, the debate over Libya, sometimes we allow diplomatic relations with imperfect regimes because progress can best be made through engagement instead of isolation.

  Earl Blumenauer

  Progress, Diplomatic Relations, Engagement

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