Imperfection Quotes - Page 2

• I cling to my imperfection, as the very essence of my being.

  Anatole France

  Essence, Being Imperfect, Imperfect

  Anatole France (1920). “The garden of Epicurus”

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• Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them -- every day begin the task anew.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Inspirational, Depression, Patience

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• This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.

  Saint Augustine

  Philosophical, Men, Perfection

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• Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Life, Motivational, Positive

  Robert H. Schuller (1996). “Your Positive Plan for Love and Happiness”, Bbs Publishing Corporation

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• All men have their frailties; and whoever looks for a friend without imperfections, will never find what he seeks.

  Cyrus the Great

  Men, Looks, Frailty

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• 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.

  Joseph Addison

  Inspiring, Perfect, Excellence

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• It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Men, Opposites, Desire

  The Journals of Søren Kierkegaard, 1841.

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• Every form, not being the whole, must, of necessity, be imperfect; less than the whole, it cannot be identical with the whole, and being less than the whole and, therefore, imperfect by itself, it shows imperfection as evil, and only the totality of a universe can mirror the image of God.

  Annie Besant

  Mirrors, Evil, Form

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• No one thing does human life more need than a kind consideration of the faults of others. Every one sins; everyone needs forbearance. Our own imperfections should teach us to be merciful.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Doe, Needs, Faults

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• Where imperfection ceaseth, heaven begins.

  Philip James Bailey

  Heaven, Perfection And Imperfection

  Philip James Bailey, “Festus - II”

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• Imperfection means perfection hid.

  Robert Browning

  Mean, Perfection

  Richard Cronin, Robert Browning, Dorothy McMillan (2015). “Robert Browning”, p.349, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Perfectionism is a dangerous state of mind in an imperfect world.

  Robert Hillyer

  Imperfect World, Mind, Perfectionism

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• Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

  Owen Feltham

  Change, Imperfect Things, Perfection

  Owen Feltham (1840). “Resolves: divine, moral and political”, p.123

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• Wines are like women in that it's often the imperfections that fascinate.

  Sam Neill

  Wine

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• Your imperfections are what make you beautiful.

  Sandra Bullock

  Inspirational, Beautiful

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• Persuade thyself that imperfection and inconvenience are the natural lot of mortals, and there will be no room for discontent, neither for despair.

  Ieyasu Tokugawa

  Despair, Rooms, Natural

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• I love the very exposed, humorous, imperfect, never-trying to-pretend-to-be-perfect journey that I have been on in my life.

  Drew Barrymore

  Humorous, Journey, Perfect

  "Drew Barrymore Will Forbid Her Daughter From Posing For Playboy". www.huffingtonpost.com. January 21, 2014.

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• True wisdom is a thing very extraordinary. Happy are they that have it: and next to them, not those many that think they have it, but those few that are sensible of their own defects and imperfections, and know that they have it not.

  John Tillotson

  Inspirational, Thinking, Next

  John Tillotson (1720). “The works of the Most Reverend Dr. John Tillotson ... containing fifty four sermons and discourses, on several occasions”, p.412

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• That which causes us trials shall yield us triumph: and that which make our hearts ache shall fill us with gladness. The only true happiness is to learn, to advance, and to improve: which could not happen unless we had commenced with error, ignorance, and imperfection. We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light.

  Albert Pike

  Wisdom, Heart, Ignorance

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• There is nothing known as "Perfect". Its only those imperfections which we choose not to see!!

  Albert Einstein

  Perfect, Known

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• A sublime religion inevitably generates a strong feeling of guilt. There is an unavoidable contrast between loftiness of profession and imperfection of practice. And, as one would expect, the feeling of guilt promotes hate and brazenness. Thus it seems that the more sublime the faith the more virulent the hatred it breeds.

  Eric Hoffer

  Strong, Hate, Practice

  ERIC HOFFER (1963). “THE TRUE BELIEVER”

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• Evil does exist in the world. A non-violent movement could not have halted Hitler's armies. Negotiations cannot convince al Qaeda's leaders to lay down their arms. To say that force may sometimes be necessary is not a call to cynicism - it is a recognition of history; the imperfections of man and the limits of reason.

  Barack Obama

  Army, Men, Evil

  Nobel Prize for Peace Acceptance Speech and Lecture, delivered 10 December 2009, Oslo City Hall, Oslo, Norway

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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 for truth . . . and respects the highest law of his being.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Law, Suspense

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1937). “Essays, First and Second Series”, p.109, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The Holy Bible is like a mirror before our mind's eye. In it we see our inner face. From the Scriptures we can learn our spiritual deformities and beauties. And there too we discover the progress we are making and how far we are from perfection.

  Pope Gregory I

  Beauty, Bible, God

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• My message behind this album was finding the beauty in imperfection.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Feminist, Albums, Messages

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