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One in All All in One-- If only this is realized, No more worry about your not being perfect (175)
Sep 10, 2025
It is incredible how rich you can get by not being perfect
Progress is more important than perfection.
Nobody has a perfect life. What you see on the screen is the best of the artist.
Perfection itself is imperfection.
Not being perfect hurts.
I aint sayin I'm requestin anyone that's perfect but I just need a woman that'll make it all worth it.
Love hard when there is love to be had. Because perfect guys don’t exist, but there’s always one guy that is perfect for you.
The secret to modeling is not being perfect. What one needs is a face that people can identify in a second. You have to be given what’s needed by nature, and what’s needed is to bring something new.
I think that not being perfect has given me the freedom to keep getting better.
Your relationship is not supposed to be perfect all the time, your business is not supposed to do well all the time, your soufflés are not supposed to raise perfectly all the time. Everything is designed to go wrong so that you can gain the skills of rediscovering your tracks, even in difficult or frightening circumstances. Especially in difficult and frightening circumstances.
Forgive others, forgive yourself, forgive yourself for not being perfect, and accept responsibility for your own life.
I don’t know a perfect person. I only know flawed people who are still worth loving.
Stop hating on yourself for not being perfect. If God wanted perfection, He would have made you an angel.
Perfection isn't human. Human beings are not perfect. What evokes our love--and I mean love, not lust--is the imperfection of the human being. So, when the imperfection of the real person peaks through, say, 'This is a challenge to my compassion.' Then make a try, and something might begin to get going.
My teacher once told me – ”No one is perfect……..that is why pencils have erasers.”
I think perfection is ugly. Somewhere in the things humans make, I want to see scars, failure, disorder, distortion.
When you finally accept that it's OK not to have answers and it's OK not to be perfect, you realize that feeling confused is a normal part of what it is to be a human being.
Nothing is perfect. Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain. People are irrational.
What is a disease is wishing with an equal intensity what is needed and what is desirable, and suffer for not being perfect as you would suffer for not having bread. The romantic error is this wanting the moon as if there was a way to get it.
Perfection is boring. If a face doesn't have mistakes, it's nothing.
I forgive myself for not being perfect. I am living the very best way I know how.
Tis' better to live your own life imperfectly than to imitate someone else's perfectly.
To me, one of the things I love about being an actor is that its never done; its never perfect, and so its the process. Its like practicing being okay with things not being perfect and things being outside of your control.
He's not perfect. You aren't either, and the two of you will never be perfect. But if he can make you laugh at least once, causes you to think twice, and if he admits to being human and making mistakes, hold onto him and give him the most you can.
Our religion doesn't demand perfection but instead a manageable strive to better ourselves.
The goal is not to be perfect by the end. The goal is to be better today.
I make mistakes every day. I'm not perfect in my behavior, but I want to be and that's what God is after, a heart that wants to be.
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.
Love hard when there is love to be had.
Sometimes we give too much too soon. Sometimes we hold back for too long. This is our beautiful dance. Our imperfect dance. This is the dance that makes us human.
And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.
I have a crumble baby belly, boobs are worse for wear after two kids...I'm doing all right. I'm 33. I don't look in the mirror and go, "Oh, I look fantastic!". Of course I don't. Nobody is perfect. I just don't believe in perfection. But I do believe in saying, "This is who I am and look at me not being perfect!". I'm proud of that.
Don't beat yourself up for not being perfect. But you might want to kick your own a## if you're not trying to get better.
Life is not perfect. It never will be. You just have to make the very best of it, and you have to open your heart to what the world can show you; and sometimes it's terrifying, and sometimes it's incredibly beautiful, and I'll take both. Thanks.
Why bad things happen to good people
Is there an answer to the question of why bad things happen to good people?...The response would be…to forgive the world for not being perfect, to forgive God for not making a better world, to reach out to the people around us, and to go on living despite it all…no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it has happened.
Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.
We come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
There's no such thing as perfect people. There's no such thing as a perfect life. So come as you are, broken and scarred. Lift up your heart and be amazed and be changed by a perfect God.
Releasing guilt is like removing a huge weight from your shoulders. Guilt is released through the empowering thought of love and respect for yourself. Let go of standards of perfection and refuse to use up the precious currency of your life, the now, with thoughts that continue to frustrate and weaken you. Instead, vow to be better than you used to be, which is the true test of nobility.
Be patient with yourself. Perfection comes not in this life, but in the next life. Don't demand things that are unreasonable, but demand of yourself improvement. As you let the Lord help you through that, He will make the difference.
I've enjoyed every age I've been, and each has had its own individual merit. Every laugh line, every scar, is a badge I wear to show I've been present, the inner rings of my personal tree trunk that I display proudly for all to see. Nowadays, I don't want a "perfect" face and body; I want to wear the life I've lived.
Overnight, punk had become as stupid as everything else. This wonderful vital force that was articulated by the music was really about corrupting every form-it was about advocating kids to not wait to be told what to do, but make life up for themselves, it was about trying to get people to use their imaginations again, it was about not being perfect, it was about saying it was ok to be amateurish and funny, that real creativity came out of making a mess, it was about working with what you got in front of you and turning everything embarrassing, awful, and stupid in your life to your advantage.
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.
When things are perfect, that's when you need to worry most.
I'm pretty comfortable with my body. I'm imperfect. The imperfections are there. People are going to see them, but I take the view you only live once.
I don't have to be perfect. All I have to do is show up and enjoy the messy, imperfect and beautiful journey of my life.
The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
Some people strive for perfection, but I often find perfection boring