Imperfection is a state in which anything lacks perfection or has defects.
It encompasses the limits, shortcomings and flaws that exist in all parts of existence, from humans to things and ideas.
Recognizing that no person, thing, or concept is flawless is critical for personal growth and understanding.
Accepting our own flaws as well as those of others allows us to cultivate empathy, understanding and a more grounded perspective on the world we live in.
Accepting imperfection allows us to build resilience and flexibility, promoting self-growth and supporting us in navigating life’s complexities with a more balanced approach.
Best Imperfection Quotes
Have no fear of perfection ‘ you’ll never reach it. ~ Salvador Dal.
Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly. ~ Robert H. Schuller.
Beauty is the shadow of imperfection. ~ Simon Van Booy.
Practice doesn’t make perfect. Practice reduces the imperfection. ~ Toba Beta.
Imperfection is perfection. Flume Monsters are the patron saints of imperfection. ~ Guillermo del Toro.
God knows I’m not perfect, either. ~ Hideaki Anno.
To banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality. ~ John Ruskin.
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.
The more I feel imperfect, the more I feel alive. ~ Jhumpa Lahiri.
There is a kind of beauty in imperfection. ~ Conrad Hall.
To love another human in all of her splendor and imperfect perfection , it is a magnificent task…tremendous and foolish and human. ~ Louise Erdrich.
I’m not looking for the perfect man. I’m looking for the man whose imperfections I can put up with. ~ Devon Ashley.
You are just human. Being imperfect does not make you any less. ~ Kartika Atmadja.
If you look closely at a tree you’ll notice it’s knots and dead branches, just like our bodies. What we learn is that beauty and imperfection go together wonderfully. ~ Matthew Fox.
No person is completely wicked, just as no person is perfect. We are all grey. ~ Sweety Shinde.
Life isn’t meant to be lived perfectly…but merely to be lived. Boldly, wildly, beautifully, uncertainly, imperfectly, magically lived. ~ Mandy Hale.
Life is not always perfect. Like a road, it has many bends, ups and down, but that’s its beauty. ~ Amit Ray.
We are all wonderful, beautiful wrecks. That’s what connects us–that we’re all broken, all beautifully imperfect. ~ Emilio Estevez.
Perfection itself is imperfection. ~ Vladimir Horowitz.
Until we can receive with an open heart, we are never really giving with an open heart. ~ Brene Brown.
Imperfection is beauty. Madness is genius. It is better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring. ~ Marilyn Monroe.
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. ~ Thomas Carlyle.
Nothing and no one is perfect. It just takes a good eye to find those hidden imperfections. ~ Daphne Delacroix.
Top Imperfection Quotes
As machines become more and more efficient and perfect, so it will become clear that imperfection is the greatness of man. ~ Ernst Fischer.
I cling to my imperfection, as the very essence of my being. ~ Anatole France.
You look at the scratch and completely miss the diamond. ~ Raphie Frank.
To be perfect is to develop expanding imperfection. ~ Ethylios.
It is better to aim at perfection and miss, than to aim at imperfection and hit it. ~ Thomas Watson.
Sometimes we strive so hard for perfection that we forget that imperfection is happiness. ~ Karen Nave.
Even imperfection itself may have its ideal or perfect state. ~ Thomas de Quincey.
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. ~ Francis Bacon Sr.
It is better to aim at perfection and miss, than to aim at imperfection and hit it ~ Thomas Watson.
Where imperfection ceaseth, heaven begins. ~ Bailey.
Men are more unwilling to have their imperfections known than their crimes. ~ Chesterfield.
What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities! ~ Addison.
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. ~ Fnelon.
The only nice thing about being imperfect is the joy it brings to others. ~ Doug Larson.
Perfectionism is a dangerous state of mind in an imperfect world. ~ Robert Hillyer.
I never expect to see a perfect work from an imperfect man. ~ Alexander Hamilton.
Imperfect preparation gives rise to the thousand-fold forms that express physical and mental inferiority and insecurity. ~ Alfred Adler.
Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes. ~ George Soros.
If I can’t be beautiful, I want to be invisible. ~ Chuck Palahniuk.
This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections. ~ Isaac Asimov.
There is a kind of beauty in imperfection ~ Conrad Hall.
My imperfections and failures are as much a blessing from God as my successes and my talents and I lay them both at his feet. ~ Mahatma Gandhi.
Instead of waiting for perfection, run with what you do, and fix it along the way… ~ Paul Arden.
In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. ~ Hannah Arendt.
Perfection is boring. If a face doesn’t have mistakes, it’s nothing. ~ Kevyn Aucoin.
We like the imperfect because it reminds us of ourselves. ~ Randy Bachman.
To do better is better than to be perfect. ~ Toba Beta.
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. ~ John Ruskin.
No reckoning made, but sent to my account with all my imperfections on my head. ~ William Shakespeare.
The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection. ~ George Orwell.
They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they’d make up their minds. ~ Winston Churchill.
Popular Imperfection Quotes
Perfection doesn’t guarantee success. You don’t have to be perfect to succeed. ~ Unknown.
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. ~ Tupac Shakur.
To banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality. ~ John Ruskin.
Imperfection is individuality. ~ Unknown.
Imperfections are not inadequacies; they are reminders that we’re all in this together. ~ Bren Brown.
To be judged for your imperfections is to be judged for being human, mistakes are made, life goes on, don’t let other people change who you are. ~ Lee Jameson.
Practice doesn’t make perfect. Practice reduces the imperfection. ~ Toba Beta.
Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections. ~ Saint Francis De Sales.
In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they’re still beautiful. ~ Alice Walker.
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 judgment, evil or imperfection. ~ Wayne Dyer.
Nothing we see or hear is perfect. But right there in the imperfection is perfect reality. ~ Shunryu Suzuki.
Imperfection is in some sort essential to all that we know of life. ~ John Ruskin.
Being happy doesn’t mean that everything is perfect. It means that you’ve decided to look beyond the imperfections. ~ Gerard Way.
Have no fear of perfection. You’ll never reach it. ~ Salvador Dali.
Perhaps it is our imperfections that make us so perfect for one another. ~ Jane Austen.
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.
Imperfection is not our personal problem – it is a natural part of existing. ~ Tara Brach.
The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become toward the defects of other people. ~ Francois Fenelon.
Famous Imperfection Quotes
Without imperfection, you or I would not exist. ~ Stephen Hawking.
Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly. ~ Robert H. Schuller.
It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite. ~ Soren Kierkegaard.
Your imperfections are what make you beautiful. ~ Sandra Bullock.
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.
It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become toward the defects of others. ~ Joseph Addison.
The perfect human being is uninteresting the Buddha who leaves the world, you know. It is the imperfections of life that are lovable. ~ Joseph Campbell.
The imperfections of others never release us from the need to work on our own shortcomings. ~ Neal A. Maxwell.
We can never attain to perfection while we have an affection for any imperfection. ~ Saint Francis De Sales.
The more perfect one becomes, the less he is inclined to speak of the imperfections of others. ~ ElRay L. Christians.
Occupy yourself in beholding and bewailing your own imperfections rather than contemplating the imperfections of others. ~ Ignatius of Loyola.
We come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly. ~ Sam Keen.
There is no light without shadow, and no psychic wholeness without imperfection. ~ Carl Jung.
I think perfection is ugly. Somewhere in the things humans make, I want to see scars, failure, disorder, distortion. ~ Yohji Yamamoto.
A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections. ~ Joseph Addison.
To be in harmony with the wholeness of things is not to have anxiety over imperfections. ~ Dogen.
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