Famous Quotes & Sayings

Saint Francis de Sales

Don't get upset with your imperfections. Surrender to the Power of God's Love, which is greater than our weakness.

Saint Francis de Sales

It is a great imperfection to complain unceasingly of little things.

Joseph Addison

The moderns cannot reach their beauties, but can avoid their imperfections.

Kevin Rudd

There are many who criticise the United Nations. And those of us who know this institution well know that it is not immune from criticism. But those who argue against the United Nations advance no credible argument as to what should replace it. Whatever its imperfections, the United Nations represents a necessary democracy of states.

Kesha

I embrace the imperfections and celebrate them.

Tara Brach

Imperfection is not our personal problem - it is a natural part of existing.

David Hume

Any person seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason, will fly to revealed truth with the greatest avidity.

William Shakespeare

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

Beyonce Knowles

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

Augusten Burroughs

Imperfections are attractive when their owners are happy with them.

Juvenal

What day is so festal it fails to reveal some theft?

Jane Austen

The power of doing any thing with quickness is always much prized by the possessor, and often without any attention to the imperfection of the performance. - Mr Darcy

Dana Delany

I have faith in my imperfections!

Imperfections are not inadequacies; they are reminders that we're all in this together.

Diane Kruger

With modeling, you pose. You want to look your best all the time. With acting, you have to be aware of the camera, but the more you show your imperfections, the better you're going to be.

Drew Barrymore

If you're going to go through hell... I suggest you come back learning something.

Duke of Wellington

It is not the business of generals to shoot one another.

Donald Miller

Grace only sticks to our imperfections. Those who can’t accept their imperfections can’t accept grace either.

Ambrose Bierce

SATIRE, n. An obsolete kind of literary composition in which the vices and follies of the author's enemies were expounded with imperfect tenderness.

Ambrose Bierce

DIGESTION, n. The conversion of victuals into virtues. When the process is imperfect, vices are evolved instead - a circumstance from which that wicked writer, Dr. Jeremiah Blenn, infers that the ladies are the greater sufferers from dyspepsia.

Thomas Sowell

Tolerating imperfections is the price of freedom.

Simon Sinek

To be authentic is to be at peace with your imperfections.

Simon Sinek

Authenticity is about imperfection. And authenticity is a very human quality. To be authentic is to be at peace with your imperfections. The great leaders are not the strongest, they are the ones who are honest about their weaknesses. The great leaders are not the smartest; they are the ones who admit how much they don't know. The great leaders can't do everything; they are the ones who look to others to help them. Great leaders don't see themselves as great; they see themselves as human.

Sri Chinmoy

Cry within. Meditate within. Dive within. Your inner achievements will far outweigh your outer imperfections.

Stephen Hawking

Without imperfection, you or I would not exist.

Tibor Kalman

I am interested in imperfections, quirkiness, insanity, unpredictability. That's what we really pay attention to anyway. We don't talk about planes flying; we talk about them crashing.

Victor Davis Hanson

Our institutions, if they do not erode entirely, can survive periods of decadence brought on by our material success, eras when the whole notion of civic militarism seems bothersome, and in which free speech is used to focus on our own imperfections without concern for the ghastly nature of our enemies.

Suzanne Collins

The damage, the fatigue, the imperfections. That's how they recognize me; Why I belong to them.

Shane Koyczan

I accept that today may be imperfect... I accept that I may be as well. What I don't accept is that imperfection should be the crutch I use to excuse myself from participating in joy.

Simon Van Booy

But those who seek only reassurance from life will never be more than tourists—seeing everything and trying to possess what can only be felt. Beauty is the shadow of imperfection.

John Ruskin

Imperfection is in some sort essential to all that we know in life.

Mark Levin

Where utopianism is advanced through gradualism rather than revolution, albeit steady and persistent as in democratic societies, it can deceive and disarm an unsuspecting population, which is largely content and passive. It is sold as reforming and improving the existing society's imperfections and weaknesses without imperiling its basic nature. Under these conditions, it is mostly ignored, dismissed, or tolerated by much of the citizenry and celebrated by some. Transformation is deemed innocuous, well-intentioned, and perhaps constructive but not a dangerous trespass on fundamental liberties.

Mia Wasikowska

What I like about film is it explores imperfections.