39 Quotes About Being Imperfect

We look at the world two ways; either with the glass half full or half empty. Acknowledging that each option is imperfect in its own state will help to remove any rose colored glasses that we view the world through. These quotes about being imperfect are the perfect example to what the reality of the world is.

“A diamond with a flaw is worth more than a pebble without imperfections.”

“A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation.”

“Be real. Embrace that you have weakness. Because everyone does. Embrace that your body is not perfect. Because nobody’s is. Embrace that you have things you can’t control. We all have a list of them.”

“Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.”

“Even imperfection itself may have its ideal or perfect state.”

“Gold cannot be pure, and people cannot be perfect.”

“Have no fear of perfection ‘ you’ll never reach it.”

“I always find beauty in things that are odd and imperfect – they are much more interesting.”

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

“I think every single imperfection adds to your beauty. I’d rather be imperfect than perfect.”

“If I can’t be beautiful, I want to be invisible.”

“Imperfect preparation gives rise to the thousand-fold forms that express physical and mental inferiority and insecurity.”

“Imperfection is in some sort essential to all that we know of life. It is the sign of life in a mortal body, that is to say, of a state of progress and change. Nothing that lives is, or can be rigidly perfect; part of it is decaying, part nascent.”

“Imperfection is inherited, therefore we all sin, but fighting the war of sin is the greatest war of all because we all die in the end, no matter how hard we fight.”

“In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.”

“It is better to aim at perfection and miss, than to aim at imperfection and hit it”

“Like bones to the human body, the axle to the wheel, the wing to the bird, and the air to the wing, so is liberty the essence of life. Whatever is done without it is imperfect.”

“Men are more unwilling to have their imperfections known than their crimes.”

“My plan is just to love harder than I’ve ever loved before, hide nothing, and embrace that I’m an imperfect human being. Oh, and sadness – sadness is everything.”

“No matter how correct a mathematical theorem may appear to be, one ought never to be satisfied that there was not something imperfect about it until it also gives the impression of being beautiful.”

“No reckoning made, but sent to my account with all my imperfections on my head.”

“Nothing and no one is perfect. It just takes a good eye to find those hidden imperfections.”

“Perfection doesn’t guarantee success. You don’t have to be perfect to succeed.”

“Perfection is boring. If a face doesn’t have mistakes, it’s nothing.”

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

“Sometimes we strive so hard for perfection that we forget that imperfection is happiness.”

“The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.”

“The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise.”

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

“The finer the nature, the more flaws it will show through the clearness of it; and it is a law of this universe that the best things shall be seldomest seen in their best form.”

“The only nice thing about being imperfect is the joy it brings to others.”

“There is a kind of beauty in imperfection.”

“There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.”

“They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they’d make up their minds.”

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

“To be perfect is to develop expanding imperfection.”

“We like the imperfect because it reminds us of ourselves.”

“We’re imperfect people trapped in an imperfect world until we get to that place beyond.”

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

Being imperfect is where true beauty can be found.