Imperfect Quotes

626 Imperfect quotes by 472 unique authors

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
Love and esteem are the first principles of friendship; it is always imperfect if either of these two are wanting. — Eustace Budgell
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
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
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
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
Marriage is two imperfect people committing themselves to a perfect institution, by making perfect vows from imperfect lips before a perfect God. — Myles Munroe
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
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
Look, don't judge Christianity by the imperfect examples that we have seen in history. Judge it by Jesus Christ. — Chuck Smith
All general judgments are loose and imperfect — Michel de Montaigne
Hope, the best comfort of our imperfect condition. — Edward Gibbon
To sit in judgment of those things which you perceive to be wrong or imperfect is to be one more person who is part of… — Wayne Dyer
Perfectionism is a dangerous state of mind in an imperfect world. — Robert Hillyer
In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others of which we could have no idea before, so that we… — Joseph Priestley
There is a state of perfect peace with God which can be attained under imperfect obedience. — John Owen
The legitimate aim of criticism is to direct attention to the excellent. The bad will dig its own grave, and the imperfect may safely be… — Christian Nestell Bovee
There is always a but in this imperfect world. — Anne Bronte
SATIRE, n. An obsolete kind of literary composition in which the vices and follies of the author's enemies were expounded with imperfect tenderness. — Ambrose Bierce
DIGESTION, n. The conversion of victuals into virtues. When the process is imperfect, vices are evolved instead - a circumstance from which that wicked writer,… — Ambrose Bierce

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