imperfection quotes

We’re all just a bunch of sinners, but we do the best we can.

But men are men; the best sometimes forget.

Nothing I can say or devise, and nothing anybody else can say or devise, is going to be perfect.

I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we’ve struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We’ve made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.

No driver is perfect.

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.

I’m not into albums that are meant to sound perfect.

There’s no such thing as perfect writing, just like there’s no such thing as perfect despair.

I’m a human being. I’ve got opinions, I’m not always right, I’m not always on time, I don’t always say things in the proper way, but my intentions are always extremely pure.

I’m not a god – I do bad things.

It’s very fun to be the hunter of the sounds. The hunter of the right energy. And it’s not really about if every sound is correct; it’s more the energy – if it hits you in some way, it doesn’t really matter to me if it’s not perfect. I’m still very excited while hunting for songs.

I’m not perfect.

It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.

I’m not always going to say things the perfect way, the right way. But I’m going to say how I feel.

No rapper in the world from Jay-Z to Tupac to Biggie has 100 percent love on everything they do.

I think the perfection of love is that it’s not perfect.

We live in an imperfect world, and imperfect people surround us every day.

When you cook under pressure you trade perfection.

The truth is: Belonging starts with self-acceptance. Your level of belonging, in fact, can never be greater than your level of self-acceptance, because believing that you’re enough is what gives you the courage to be authentic, vulnerable and imperfect.

A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.

I never expect to see a perfect work from an imperfect man.

You’re imperfect, and you’re wired for struggle, but you are worthy of love and belonging.

Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.

Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere.

The world is not imperfect or slowly evolving along a path to perfection. No, it is perfect at every moment, every sin already carries grace in it.

Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved.

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.

Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.

In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they’re still beautiful.

I never had a speech from my father ‚this is what you must do or shouldn’t do‘ but I just learned to be led by example. My father wasn’t perfect.