Imperfect Quotes

626 Imperfect quotes by 472 unique authors

I think we learn the most from imperfect relationships - things like forgiveness and compassion. — Andrea Thompson
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… — Ronald A. Heifetz
We're imperfect people trapped in an imperfect world until we get to that place beyond — Kathie Lee Gifford
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
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,… — C.S. Lewis
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… — Winston Graham
In justice to human society it may perhaps be said of almost all the polities and civil institutions in the world, however imperfect, that they… — Ezra Stiles
Each day, awakening, are we asked to paint the sky blue? Need we coax the sun to rise or flowers to bloom? Need we teach… — Robert Breault
[E]xcess in the practice of virtue is no less imperfect than the lack of it. — Vincent de Paul
Perhaps we are wiser, less foolish and more far-seeing than we were two hundred years ago. But we are still imperfect in all these things,… — Joseph Wood Krutch
Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life. — Anais Nin
If you place the imperfect next to the perfect, people will see the difference between the one and the other. But if you offer the… — Alfred Stieglitz
Institutions are imperfect. Governments surely are. People are. — Chuck Hagel
My hand will always be imperfect because it's humanâ€¦ I think that's where the beauty is. — Margaret Kilgallen
I like telling stories of imperfect people because most people are imperfect. — David S. Goyer
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… — Simon Sinek
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.… — Gelsey Kirkland
Men shouldnâ€™t try too hard, or think about what they wear too much. I like when thereâ€™s something about a look that throws it off… — Thom Browne
More progress results from the violent execution of an imperfect plan than the perfection of a plan to violently execute. — Hubert H. Humphrey
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

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