Imperfect Quotes
626 Imperfect quotes by 472 unique authors
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Feeling vulnerable, imperfect, and afraid is human. It's when we lose our capacity to hold space for these struggles that we become dangerous.
— Brené Brown
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The land on which they (the Founding Fathers) formed this Union was stolen. The hands with which they built this nation were enslaved. The women…
— Melissa Harris-Perry
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The more mysterious, the more imperfect: that which is mystically spoken is but half spoken.
— Benjamin Whichcote
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I hold that we have a very imperfect knowledge of the works of nature till we view them as works of God,— not only as…
— James McCosh
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It is perfect to be imperfect, because perfection is made up of many imperfections put together that makes it perfect.
— Yasmin Ahmad
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I’m vain because I’m imperfect.
— Pete Doherty
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I am one imperfect man saved by God's grace,
— Mark Sanford
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Perfection is the willingness to be imperfect.
— Laozi
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If, on occasion, the knowledge brought by science leads to an unhappy end, this is not to the discredit of science but is rather an…
— Polykarp Kusch
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People must not only hear about the kingdom of GOD, but must see it in actual operation, on a small scale perhaps and in imperfect…
— Pandita Ramabai
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The revolutionary spirit is mighty convenient in this, that it frees one from all scruples as regards ideas. Its hard absolute optimism is repulsive to…
— Joseph Conrad
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By his disobedience of God's law, before man had exercised his power to bring children into the earth, not only Adam lost everything for himself,…
— Joseph Franklin Rutherford
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The earth incites the wonder and admiration of man even though he is imperfect and his understanding greatly limited.
— Joseph Franklin Rutherford
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I rely on guns for protection in life. God does not say, 'This is la-la land.' God doesn't say, 'Welcome to Earth. Everything's perfect. There's…
— Luke Scott
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Humanity is regarded as unfinished, incomplete, imperfect. We have the possibility of completing ourselves, perfecting ourselves, and all that is necessary for this lies in…
— Maurice Nicoll
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Try to find the real tense of the report you are reading: Was it done, is it being done, or is something to be done?…
— Unknown Author
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Love and esteem are the first principles of friendship; it is always imperfect if either of these two are wanting.
— Eustace Budgell
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Don't permit fear of failure to prevent effort. We are all imperfect and will fail on occasions, but fear of failure is the greatest failure…
— John Wooden
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What was it called, that symbol of the serpent eating its own tail? It probably signified infinity, endlessness, timelessness. But for me it would mean…
— Patricia Gaffney
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He in whom the love of truth predominates . . . submits to the inconvenience of suspense and imperfect opinion; but he is a candidate…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I am simply content to find myself always imperfect, and in this I find my joy. Good deeds count as nothing, if done without love.
— Therese of Lisieux
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Marriage is two imperfect people committing themselves to a perfect institution, by making perfect vows from imperfect lips before a perfect God.
— Myles Munroe
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To follow imperfect, uncertain, or corrupted traditions, in order to avoid erring in our own judgment, is but to exchange one danger for another.
— Richard Whately
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Plants are the young of the world, vessels of health and vigor; but they grope ever upward towards consciousness; the trees are imperfect men, and…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Look, don't judge Christianity by the imperfect examples that we have seen in history. Judge it by Jesus Christ.
— Chuck Smith
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