Imperfection Quotes - Page 4

• Don't get upset with your imperfections. It's a great mistake because it leads nowhere - to get angry because you are angry, upset at being upset, depressed at being depressed, disappointed because you are disappointed. So don't fool yourself. Simply surrender to the Power of God's Love, which is always greater than our weakness.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Faith, Mistake, Inspiration

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• Do not waste time trying to overcome your weaknesses and failures. Simply raise your consciousness, transcend and free your thoughts from limitation and illusion, and find within the very center of your being a wholeness and completeness! Cease wallowing in your imperfections and never accept limitations! Aim high, and you will get there. It is only your thoughts that hold you back.

  Eileen Caddy

  Trying, Weakness, Overcoming

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• The closer you come to Jesus, the more faulty you will appear in your own eyes; for your vision will be clearer, and your imperfections will be seen in broad and distinct contrast to His perfect nature.

  Ellen G. White

  Jesus, Eye, Perfect

  Ellen G. White “Steps to Christ—Illustrated”, Digital Inspiration

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• Whenever a man believes that he has the exact truth from God, there is in that man no spirit of compromise. He has not the modesty born of the imperfections of human nature; he has the arrogance of theological certainty and the tyranny born of ignorant assurance. Believing himself to be the slave of God, he imitates his master, and of all tyrants the worst is a slave in power.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Believe, Men, Tyrants

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.444, Library of Alexandria

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• The more perfect one becomes, the less he is inclined to speak of the imperfections of others.

  ElRay L. Christiansen

  Perfect One, Judging, Speak

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• Occupy yourself in beholding and bewailing your own imperfections rather than contemplating the imperfections of others.

  Ignatius of Loyola

  Occupy Yourself, Contemplating

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• None of us are perfect, for which reason we should heed the voice of charity when it whispers in our ears, "Do not magnify the imperfections of others.

  Elizabeth Keckley

  Voice, Perfect, Ears

  Elizabeth Keckley (1868). “Behind The Scenes”, p.15

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• As you become more aware of your own imperfections, you simultaneously become more aware of the overall perfection of the universe.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Perfection

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• Pride is not the heritage of man; humility should dwell with frailty, and atone for ignorance, error, and imperfection.

  Albert Pike

  Mistake, Ignorance, Humility

  Albert Pike “Morals and Dogma : Scottish Rite in Freemasonry”, Lulu.com

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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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• Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Character, Hocus Pocus, Novelists

  Kurt Vonnegut (1997). “Hocus Pocus”, p.167, Penguin

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• Once you accept that we're all imperfect it's the most liberating thing in the world. Then you can go around making mistakes and saying the wrong thing and tripping over on the street and all that and not feel worried.

  Paloma Faith

  Mistake, Acceptance, World

  "Paloma Faith: 'I wish I was more stupid'". Interview with Hermione Hoby, www.theguardian.com. August 7, 2010.

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• I aint sayin I'm requestin anyone that's perfect but I just need a woman that'll make it all worth it.

  Drake

  Relationship, Humble, Rapper

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• Some people strive for perfection, but I often find perfection boring

  Mario Testino

  Fashion, People, Perfection

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• Nowadays, with digital printing, it's so easy to make everything perfect, which is not always a good idea. Sometimes the mistakes are really what make a piece.

  Cindy Sherman

  Photography, Art, Mistake

  "It Began with Madame de Pompadour". Interview with Susan Sollin, art21.org. July 2013.

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

  John Bosco

  Catholic, Trying, Saint

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• I think perfection is ugly. Somewhere in the things humans make, I want to see scars, failure, disorder, distortion.

  Yohji Yamamoto

  Inspirational, Failure, Thinking

  "Talking to Myself (The Past, the Feminine, the Vain)". Book by Yohji Yamamoto and Kiyokazu Washida, 2002.

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• I don’t know a perfect person. I only know flawed people who are still worth loving.

  John Green

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Amy Mek‏ @AmyMek, twitter.com. June 4, 2015.

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• I am a collection of dismantled almosts.

  Anne Sexton

  Who I Am, Personality, Individuality

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• I don't like perfection - I think it's dangerous. There is nothing after perfection.

  Alber Elbaz

  Thinking, Perfection, Excellence

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• Even imperfection itself may have its ideal or perfect state.

  Thomas de Quincey

  Perfect, May, States

  Thomas De Quincey, James Thomas Fields (1851). “De Quincey's Writings: Miscellaneous essays. 1851”, p.22

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• Perfection is the willingness to be imperfect.

  Laozi

  Perfection, Taoism, Imperfect

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• The whole point about beauty is its imperfection.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Beauty, Whole

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• Redemption is not perfection. The redeemed must realize their imperfections.

  John Piper

  Perfection, Redemption, Realizing

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• To be in harmony with the wholeness of things is not to have anxiety over imperfections.

  Dogen

  Anxiety, Harmony, Wholeness

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