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
Have no fear of perfection, you’ll never reach it. – Salvador Dal
Where imperfection ceaseth, heaven begins. – Bailey
I never expect to see a perfect work from an imperfect man. – Alexander Hamilton
Perfectionism is a dangerous state of mind in an imperfect world. – Robert Hillyer
You look at the scratch and completely miss the diamond. – Raphie Frank
What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities!. – Addison
If I can’t be beautiful, I want to be invisible. – Chuck Palahniuk
There is a kind of beauty in imperfection. – Conrad Hall
We like the imperfect because it reminds us of ourselves. – Randy Bachman
They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they’d make up their minds. – Winston Churchill
To do better is better than to be perfect. – Toba Beta
Imperfection is individuality. – Unknown
This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections. – Isaac Asimov
No reckoning made, but sent to my account with all my imperfections on my head. – William Shakespeare
Practice doesn’t make perfect. Practice reduces the imperfection. – Toba Beta
Perfection doesn’t guarantee success. You don’t have to be perfect to succeed. – Unknown
Gold cannot be pure, and people cannot be perfect. – Chinese Proverb
I cling to my imperfection, as the very essence of my being. – Anatole France
Men are more unwilling to have their imperfections known than their crimes. – Chesterfield
A diamond with a flaw is worth more than a pebble without imperfections. – Chinese Proverb
The only nice thing about being imperfect is the joy it brings to others. – Doug Larson
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
Perfection is boring. If a face doesn’t have mistakes, it’s nothing. – Kevyn Aucoin
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
The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection. – George Orwell
Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly. – Robert H. Schuller
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. – Francis Bacon Sr.
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
It is better to aim at perfection and miss, than to aim at imperfection and hit it. – Thomas Watson
Imperfect preparation gives rise to the thousand-fold forms that express physical and mental inferiority and insecurity. – Alfred Adler
In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. – Hannah Arendt
A beautiful thing is never perfect. – Unknown
Nothing and no one is perfect. It just takes a good eye to find those hidden imperfections. – Daphne Delacroix
Even imperfection itself may have its ideal or perfect state. – Thomas de Quincey
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
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. – John Ruskin
To banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality. – John Ruskin
Imperfection is beauty. Madness is genius. It is better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring. – Marilyn Monroe
Sometimes we strive so hard for perfection that we forget that imperfection is happiness. – Karen Nave
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. – Dan Pearce
As machines become more and more efficient and perfect, so it will become clear that imperfection is the greatness of man. – Ernst Fischer
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
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. – Joseph Addison
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
All things are literally better, lovelier, and more beloved for the imperfections which have been divinely appointed, that the law of human life may be Effort, and the law of human judgment Mercy. – Ruskin
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
Imperfections are not inadequacies; they are reminders that we’re all in this together. – Bren Brown
Instead of waiting for perfection, run with what you do, and fix it along the way… – Paul Arden
