Imperfect Quotes - Page 18

• 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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• I found happiness when I realized that as imperfect as I may be, I am the perfect Nick Vujicic. I am God's creation, designed according to His plan for me. That's not to say there isn't room for improvement. I'm always trying to be better so I can better serve Him and the world!

  Nick Vujicic

  Found Happiness, Always Trying, Perfect

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• We must act, knowing that our work will be imperfect.

  Barack Obama

  Knowing

  Second Presidential Inaugural Address, delivered 21 January 2013, Washington, D.C.

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• I am imperfect in many things, nevertheless I want my brethren and kinsfolk to know my nature so that they may be able to perceive my soul's desire.

  Saint Patrick

  Character, Angel, Soul

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• I think we learn the most from imperfect relationships - things like forgiveness and compassion.

  Andrea Thompson

  Forgiveness, Thinking, Compassion

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

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• The improvisational ability to lead adaptively relies on responding to the present situation rather than importing the past into the present and laying it on the current situation like an imperfect template.

  Ronald A. Heifetz

  Past, Currents, Situation

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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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• In ancient times, people said that imperfect moves to becoming perfect. Are these words vain? No! Truly, by gaining Unity you come to Perfection!

  Laozi

  Moving, Knowledge, People

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• Fallen man is not simply an imperfect creature who needs improvement: he is a rebel who must lay down his arms. Laying down your arms, surrendering, saying you are sorry, realizing that you have been on the wrong track and getting ready to start life over again from the ground floor-that is the only way out of a "hole." This process of surrender-this movement full speed astern-is repentance.

  C. S. Lewis

  Sorry, Men, Track

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• Give me the comma of imperfect striving, thus to find zest in the immediate living. Ever the reaching but never the gaining, ever the climbing but never the attaining of the mountain top.

  Winston Graham

  Climbing, Zest, Hiking

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• Whatever strength the masses have is due entirely to ahimsa, however imperfect or defective its practice might have been.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Practice, Might, Mass

  Mahatma Gandhi (1993). “Gandhi on Nehru”

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• All faiths constitute a revelation of Truth, but all are imperfect and liable to error.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Faith, Errors, Revelations

  Mahatma Gandhi (1980). “All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections”, p.61, A&C Black

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• 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.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Men, May

  Mahatma Gandhi (1986). “The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Civilization, Politics and Religion”, Clarendon Press

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• Man will ever remain imperfect, and it will always be his part to try to be perfect.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Perfect, Trying

  Mahatma Gandhi (1980). “All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections”, p.119, A&C Black

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• Imperfect men have no right to judge other imperfect men.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Judging, Mankind

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• We are all very imperfect and weak things, and if we are to destroy all whose ways we do not like, there will be not a man left alive.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Alive, Way

  Mahatma Gandhi, Anand T. Hingorani, Ganga Anand Hingorani (1985). “The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts”

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• The Congress fights not with violent but with nonviolent means, however imperfect, however crude the nonviolence may be.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mean, Fighting, May

  Mahatma Gandhi (1944*). “Gandhi Against Fascism”

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• Religion of our conception, thus imperfect, is always subject to a process of evolution and re-interpretation.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Religion, Evolution, Process

  Mahatma Gandhi (1986). “The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Civilization, Politics and Religion”, Clarendon Press

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• God bears with imperfect beings even when they resist His goodness. We ought to imitate this merciful patience and endurance. It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become toward the defects of other people.

  Francois Fenelon

  Knowledge, Perfect, People

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• The thing that you think is imperfect about you, is the thing that makes you who you are. It separates you from everybody else.

  Terry Crews

  Thinking, Who You Are

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• Sometimes we give too much too soon. Sometimes we hold back for too long. This is our beautiful dance. Our imperfect dance. This is the dance that makes us human.

  Simon Sinek

  Beautiful, Long, Giving

  FaceBook post by Simon Sinek from Mar 11, 2015

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• Often, when you've reached a very high level of achievement, you almost become paralyzed by the idea that anything you might do might be imperfect. Perfection is just the striving, the effort, the struggle, but it's hard to remember that.

  Gelsey Kirkland

  Struggle, Ideas, Perfection

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• Men shouldn’t try too hard, or think about what they wear too much. I like when there’s something about a look that throws it off a little – perfection is really imperfect.

  Thom Browne

  Men, Thinking, Perfection

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• More progress results from the violent execution of an imperfect plan than the perfection of a plan to violently execute.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Perfection, Progress, Execution

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• Adam wasn't lonely because he was imperfect but because he was perfect. The ache for friends is not the result of sin.

  Timothy Keller

  Lonely, Perfect, Sin

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