170 Imperfection Is Beauty Quotes

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Famous Imperfection Is Beauty Quotes

It's the imperfections that make things beautiful. — Jenny Han

Your imperfections are what make you beautiful. — Sandra Bullock

Beauty is perfect in its imperfections, so you just have to go with the imperfections. — Diane Von Furstenberg

Imperfections are beautiful. They are the window into a person's complexity, depth, and character. — Lex Fridman

It's the imperfections that make something beautiful, that's what makes it different and unique from everything else. — Bob Ross

Your imperfections make you beautiful, they make you who you are. — Demi Lovato

I think every single imperfection adds to your beauty. I'd rather be imperfect than perfect. — Sonam Kapoor

You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful. — Amy Bloom

A beautiful thing is never perfect. - Egyptian Proverbs

A beautiful thing is never perfect. — Egyptian Proverbs

Imperfection is underrated. Perfection is overrated. — Helena Bonham Carter

Perfection itself is imperfection. - Vladimir Horowitz

Perfection itself is imperfection. — Vladimir Horowitz

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring. — Marilyn Monroe

The most beautiful things are not perfect, they are special - Bob Marley

The most beautiful things are not perfect, they are special — Bob Marley

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

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

Short Imperfection Is Beauty Quotes

  • There is no perfection, only beautiful versions of brokenness. — Shannon Alder
  • Perfection is boring. If a face doesn't have mistakes, it's nothing. — Kevyn Aucoin
  • Beauty isn't about looking perfect. It's about celebrating your individuality. — Bobbi Brown
  • Grace is the face that love wears when it meets imperfection. — Joseph R. Cooke
  • Nothing we see or hear is perfect. But right there in the imperfection is perfect reality. — Shunryu Suzuki
  • A flaw is really beauty owned by nobody else. I think everyone is beautiful. — Mod Sun
  • Perfection is unattainable, so I like to live in imperfection. — Nikki Sixx
  • Don't you know your imperfections is a wonderful blessing, from heaven is where you got it from — Kendrick Lamar
  • I cling to my imperfection, as the very essence of my being. — Anatole France
  • Some beautiful things are more impressive when left imperfect than when too highly finished. — Francois de la Rochefoucauld

Imperfection Is Beauty Image Quotes

Imperfection is beauty quote Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.
Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.

Beautifully Imperfect Quotes

For me, the different religions are beautiful flowers from the same garden, or they are branches of the same majestic tree. Therefore, they are equally true, though being received and interpreted through human instruments equally imperfect. — Mahatma Gandhi

I am nothing; I am but an instrument, a tiny pencil in the hands of the Lord with which He writes what he likes. However imperfect we are, he writes beautifully. — Mother Teresa

When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I'm already better than them. — Marilyn Monroe

Imperfection is beauty quote Beautiful things don't ask for attention.
Beautiful things don't ask for attention.

They who pray with faith have fervour and fervour is the fire of prayer. This mysterious fire has the power of consuming all our faults and imperfections, and of giving to our actions, vitality, beauty and merit. — Frances Xavier Cabrini

A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left. — Marilyn Monroe

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. — George Boole

Imperfection is beauty quote Be brave enough to hold on to the hope that life will be beautiful again.
Be brave enough to hold on to the hope that life will be beautiful again.

Beauty is about being comfortable in your own skin. It's about knowing and accepting who you are. — Ellen DeGeneres

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. — Kerry Washington

Learn to embrace your own unique beauty, celebrate your unique gifts with confidence. Your imperfections are actually a gift. — Kerry Washington

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. — Kate Hudson

Imperfect Things Quotes

I think perfection is ugly. Somewhere in the things humans make, I want to see scars, failure, disorder, distortion. — Yohji Yamamoto

The ability to play the clarinet is the ability to overcome the imperfections of the instrument. There's no such thing as a perfect clarinet, never was and never will be. — Jack Brymer

So next time someone complains that you have made a mistake, tell him that may be a good thing. Because without imperfection, neither you nor I would exist. — Stephen Hawking

Imperfection is beauty quote Beauty isn't about having a pretty face. It's about having a pretty mind, a pretty heart and a prett
Beauty isn't about having a pretty face. It's about having a pretty mind, a pretty heart and a pretty soul.

To be in harmony with the wholeness of things is not to have anxiety over imperfections. — Dogen

I’d like to be remembered as one who kept my priorities in the right order. We live in a changing world, but we need to be reminded that the important things have not changed, and the important things will not change if we keep our priorities in proper order. — S. Truett Cathy

The best time to start is when things are hard, and when things are imperfect, because they will be imperfect again in the future. — Alex Hormozi

Imperfection is beauty quote A comfort zone is a beautiful place, but nothing ever grows there.
A comfort zone is a beautiful place, but nothing ever grows there.

I tend to really like things that are broken, I like the ones that are perfectly imperfect. — Frank Iero

Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them -- every day begin the task anew. — Saint Francis de Sales

Certain things acquired an evil complexion if phrased, but remained harmless in the mind. — R.K. Narayan

We are all works-in-progress. No one is perfect. The most important thing is to keep learning, growing, and evolving every day. — Chatri Sityodtong

Imperfection Quotes

It's okay not to be perfect. Your imperfections are what make you YOU. And at the end of the day, people like real people, flaws and all. At least I do. — Camila Cabello

You're imperfect, and you're wired for struggle, but you are worthy of love and belonging. The power of vulnerability.Brene Brown

If you do not worship God, you worship something, and nine times out of ten it will be yourself. You have a duty to worship God, not because He will be imperfect and unhappy if you do not, but because you will be imperfect and unhappy. — Fulton J. Sheen

Imperfection is beauty quote Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places, where other people see nothing.
Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places, where other people see nothing.

Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means you've decided to look beyond the imperfections. — Gerard Way

The closer you come to Jesus, the more faulty you will appear in your own eyes; for your vision will be clearer, and your imperfections will be seen in broad and distinct contrast to His perfect nature. — Ellen G. White

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. — Shane Koyczan

Imperfection is beauty quote Kindness is like snow - it beautifies everything it covers.
Kindness is like snow - it beautifies everything it covers.

Your fellow man is your mirror. If your own face is clean, the image you perceive will also be flawless. But should you look upon your fellow man and see a blemish, it is your own imperfection that you are encountering - you are being shown what it is that you must correct within yourself. — Baal Shem Tov

Do not try to excuse your faults; try to correct them - John Bosco

Do not try to excuse your faults; try to correct them — John Bosco

All men have their frailties; and whoever looks for a friend without imperfections, will never find what he seeks. — Cyrus the Great

A woman who is perfectly woman is superior to a man who is imperfectly man, just as a farmer who is faithful to his land and performs his work perfectly is superior to a king who cannot do his own work. — Julius Evola

Human Imperfection Quotes

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

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

We worship perfection because we can't have it; if we had it, we would reject it. Perfection is inhuman, because humanity is imperfect. — Fernando Pessoa

Initially, I felt like my duty was to just keep it positive and be positive and sometimes I crack in that. We're human. I'm imperfect at times and that was just me being imperfect at that one point. — Wale

We can not love everyone and be loved by everyone. It would be perfection, and nothing is perfect in this world. — Paul Pogba

Everyone makes mistakes. Nobody's perfect. — Japanese Proverbs

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. — Jose Marti

False notes [on the piano] are human. Why does everything have to be perfect? You know, perfection itself is imperfection. — Vladimir Horowitz

It’s a form of human love to accept our complicated, messy humanity and not run away from it. — Martha C. Nussbaum

I keep telling myself that I'm a human being, an imperfect human being who's not made to look like a doll, and that who I am as a person is more important than whether at that moment I have a nice figure. — Emma Watson

Love Imperfect Quotes

Though we are incomplete, God loves us completely. Though we are imperfect, He loves us perfectly. Though we may feel lost and without compass, God's love encompasses us completely. ... He loves every one of us, even those who are flawed, rejected, awkward, sorrowful, or broken. — Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Just because you are happy it does not mean that the day is perfect but that you have looked beyond its imperfections — Bob Marley

Love your friend with his foibles — Greek Proverbs

Tis' better to live your own life imperfectly than to imitate someone else's perfectly. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Love is an unconditional commitment to an imperfect person. — Selwyn Hughes

You are imperfect, you are wired for struggle, but you are worthy of love and belonging. — Brené Brown

Perhaps it is our imperfections that make us so perfect for one another. - Jane Austen

Perhaps it is our imperfections that make us so perfect for one another. — Jane Austen

I don’t know a perfect person. I only know flawed people who are still worth loving. — John Green

We come to love not by finding a perfect person but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly. — Sam Keen

To the people who love you, you are beautiful already. This is not because they're blind to your shortcomings but because they so clearly see your soul. Your shortcomings then dim by comparison. The people who care about you are willing to let you be imperfect and beautiful, too. — Victoria Moran

I Am Imperfect Quotes

I am a collection of dismantled almosts. - Anne Sexton

I am a collection of dismantled almosts. — Anne Sexton

I am fallen, flawed and imperfect. Yet drenched in the grace and mercy that is found in Jesus Christ, there is strength — Adam Young

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. — Tibor Kalman

I found happiness when I realized that as imperfect as I may be, I am the perfect Nick Vujicic. I am God's creation, designed according to His plan for me. That's not to say there isn't room for improvement. I'm always trying to be better so I can better serve Him and the world! — Nick Vujicic

I am not ashamed to reply to you in my mother tongue, however imperfectly, and am glad to be able to show that my fatherland means more to me than anything else — Bedrich Smetana

Pink is what I do. Alecia is who I am. The world has taken Pink and turned it into this thing, a brand – a snarl. — Pink

Today I will learn to reject shame. Shame is an overwhelming sense that who I am isn't good enough. I realize that I am good enough, and that my imperfections are part of being human. I let go of shame. — Melody Beattie

How happy I am to see myself as imperfect and to be in need of God's mercy. — Therese of Lisieux

I am not perfect. I just think that imperfections are beautiful. — Lady Gaga

Yes, I am imperfect and vulnerable and sometimes afraid, but that doesn't change the truth that I am also brave and worthy of love and belonging. — Brené Brown

Perfection And Imperfection Quotes

The biblical model is that God deliberately chooses imperfect vessels - those who have been wounded, those with physical or emotional limitations. Then he prepares them to serve and sends them out with their weakness still evident, so that his strength can be made perfect in that weakness. — Christine Caine

When talking about marriage, Allah says your spouses are garments for you. A garment may or may not fit perfectly-but either way, it covers imperfections, protects, and beautifies. — Yasmin Mogahed

Ordinary people who know nothing of phonetics or elocution have difficulties in understanding slow speech composed of perfect sounds, while they have no difficulty in comprehending an imperfect gabble if only the accent and rhythm are natural. — Alexander Graham Bell

Nobody's life is perfect, and each individual will have their own struggles and stipulations. — Jake Paul

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. — Graham Nash

Love isn’t about finding the perfect person. Love is about finding an imperfect person and seeing perfection. — Edward Barber

I had a perfect life in my reach once, and it was a crashing bore. Perfect is too clean, too easy. I don't want perfect any more than I want to be perfect. I want imperfect. — Sarah MacLean

Art is a reality, not a definition; inasmuch as it approaches a reality, it approaches perfection, and inasmuch as it approaches a mere definition, it is imperfect and untrue. — Benjamin Haydon

You can be one thing or two or three; you can be the beauty and the beast. — Alexi Pappas

Humanity is regarded as unfinished, incomplete, imperfect. We have the possibility of completing ourselves, perfecting ourselves, and all that is necessary for this lies in us. — Maurice Nicoll

Being Imperfect Quotes

A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure. — Buddha

Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways. — Samuel McChord Crothers

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

My teacher once told me – ”No one is perfect……..that is why pencils have erasers.” — Mahesh Bhatt

The celebration of Advent is possible only to those who are troubled in soul, who know themselves to be poor and imperfect, and who look forward to something greater to come. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Some people strive for perfection, but I often find perfection boring - Mario Testino

Some people strive for perfection, but I often find perfection boring — Mario Testino

Because being the right person isn’t about being perfect; it’s about being able to handle whatever life throws at you. — Michael J. Massimino

Remember this: No one is looking at your imperfections; they're all too busy worrying about their own. — Isaac Mizrahi

The problem to be solved is, not what form of government is perfect, but which of the forms is least imperfect. — James Madison

I can't be perfect, but I can avoid a second lapse. — James Clear

We Are All Imperfect Quotes

We are all wonderful, beautiful wrecks. That's what connects us-that we're all broken, all beautifully imperfect. — Emilio Estevez

We’re all different and we’re all imperfect, and the imperfections are what makes each of us and our work interesting. — Rick Rubin

We are all imperfect. We can not expect perfect government. — William Howard Taft

History balances the frustration of 'how far we have to go' with the satisfaction of 'how far we have come.' It teaches us tolerance for the human shortcomings and imperfections which are not uniquely of our generation, but of all time. — Lewis F. Powell, Jr.

I believe that for all our imperfections, we are full of decency and goodness, and that the forces that divide us are not as strong as those that unite us. — Barack Obama

We don't have to be perfect to be a blessing. We are asked only to be real, trusting in His perfection to cover our imperfection, knowing that one day we will finally be all that Christ saved us for and wants us to be. — Gigi Graham

we are imperfect mortal beings, aware of that mortality even as we push it away, failed by our very complication, so wired that when we mourn our losses we also mourn, for better or for worse, ourselves. as we were. as we are no longer. as we will one day not be at all. — Joan Didion

The fact that boys are allowed to exist at all is evidence of remarkable Christian forbearance among men - were it not for a mawkish humanitarianism, coupled with imperfect digestive powers, we should devour our young, as Nature intended. — Ambrose Bierce

Once, in an age, God sends to some of us a friend who loves in us, not a false imagining, an unreal character, but, looking through all the rubbish of our imperfections, loves in us the divine ideal of our nature, — loves, not the man that we are, but the angel that we may be. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

We're all imperfect. And wouldn't it be great if the message sent out by the mainstream media is that we're fine being exactly who we are? Wouldn't that be great for everyone? — Emilio Estevez

Perfectly Imperfect Quotes

Maturity is the ability to joyfully live in an imperfect world. — Richard Rohr

It is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else's life with perfection. — Bhagavad Gita

Nowadays, with digital printing, it's so easy to make everything perfect, which is not always a good idea. Sometimes the mistakes are really what make a piece. — Cindy Sherman

As long as you give your best effort, I feel like that’s all you can do. — Kawhi Leonard

Imperfect men have no right to judge other imperfect men. - Mahatma Gandhi

Imperfect men have no right to judge other imperfect men. — Mahatma Gandhi

Assert your right to make a few mistakes. If people can't accept your imperfections, that's their fault. — David D. Burns

Knock me down 9 times, but I get up 10. — Cardi B

It is impossible to perform the opera without La Girò because it is impossible to find another prima donna of her caliber. — Antonio Vivaldi

Investing is not a game of perfection. It’s a game of probability. — Raoul Pal

If you threw a stone into a gutter, it would only spurt filth in your face. — R.K. Narayan

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More Imperfection Is Beauty Quotes

These flattering mirrors reflect imperfectly what is within; the countenance is often a gay deceiver. What defects of mind lie hidden under its beauty! What fair exteriors conceal base souls! — Pierre Corneille

Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant. — Douglas Horton

There is nothing more rare, nor more beautiful, than a woman being unapologetically herself; comfortable in her perfect imperfection. To me, that is the true essence of beauty. — Steve Maraboli

I know why families were created with all their imperfections. They humanize you. They are made to make you forget yourself occasionally, so that the beautiful balance of life is not destroyed. — Anais Nin

To banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality. — John Ruskin

An ugly diamond is still worth more than a beautiful pebble. — Matshona Dhliwayo

The human condition is imperfection. And that's how it's supposed to be. — Katherine Center

I think imperfection is beauty. Instead of being insecure about my muscles, I've learned to love them. I don't even think of it as a flaw anymore because it's made me into the athlete that I am. — Aly Raisman

The answer to the mystery of existence is the love you shared sometimes so imperfectly, and when the loss wakes you to the deeper beauty of it, to the sanctity of it, you can't get off your knees for a long time, you're driven to your knees not by the weight of the loss but by gratitude for what preceded the loss. — Dean Koontz

For example, the face of Nicole Kidman in Queen of the Desert and she is the most beautiful goddess on screen that you can find anywhere around in the world. There's no imperfections, and yet I don't need to know every single pore in her face. — Werner Herzog

My hand will always be imperfect because it's human… I think that's where the beauty is. — Margaret Kilgallen

...what makes humanity beautiful is our free will, our individuality, our endless striving in spite of our imperfection. BY THE LIGHT OF THE MOON Chapter 27 Page 214 — Dean Koontz

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring. When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I'm already better than them anyways. — Marilyn

There is a kind of beauty in imperfection. — Conrad Hall

When you are reluctant to change, think of the beauty of autumn. — V V Brown

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. — Simon Sinek

Tea ceremony is a way of worshipping the beautiful and the simple. All one's efforts are concentrated on trying to achieve perfection through the imperfect gestures of daily life. Its beauty consists in the respect with which it is performed. If a mere cup of tea can bring us closer to God, we should watch out for all the other dozens of opportunities that each ordinary day offers us. — Paulo Coelho

It’s a secondhand world we’re born into. What is novel to us is only so because we’re newborn, and what we cannot see, that has come before- what our parents have seen and been and done- are the hand-me-downs we begin to wear as swaddling clothes, even as we ourselves are naked. The flaw runs through us, implicating us in its imperfection even as it separates us, delivers us onto opposite sides of a chasm. It is both terribly beautiful and terribly sad, but it is, finally, the fault in the universe that gives birth to us all. — Katherine Min

I love all sorts of animation, probably the most beautiful would be the tradtional hand drawn animation that Disney is known for. Stop-motion has a certain "grittieness" and is filled with imperfections, and yet their is an undeniable truth, that what you see really exits, even it if is posed by hand, 24 times a second. This truth is what I find most attractive about stop-motion animation. — Henry Selick

For it is a curious fact that though human beings have such imperfect means of communication, that they can only say 'good to eat' when they mean 'beautiful' and the other way about, they will yet endure ridicule and misunderstanding rather than keep any experience to themselves. — Virginia Woolf

Love yourself. Nobody's perfect. I mean, come on, nobody is perfect. Not you, not your mom, even the people on TV - nobody is perfect, and there's always something that nobody likes, but you know, you just accept that. Your imperfections make you beautiful. It's those things you find you don't like that someone else finds very special and very unique about you. — Keke Palmer

Every beauty, when out of it's place, is a beauty no longer. — Voltaire

... Love never forgets; or if it does, it is an imperfect love, like the beautiful love of a dog, faithful and unreasoning. — Margaret Deland

I think beauty is youth; it's energy. I'm attracted to imperfection, style, confidence, and experimentation. So beauty, to me, is really a lot of things. It's kind of unexpected-what surprises you. — Marc Jacobs

The whole point about beauty is its imperfection. — Diane von Furstenberg

The wonder is not that there should be obstacles and sufferings in this world, but that there should be law and order, beauty and joy, goodness and love. The idea of God that man has in his being is the wonder of all wonders. He has felt in the depths of his life that what appears as imperfect is the manifestation of the perfect. — Victor Gollancz

People accuse me of falling in love easily. It just means that I'm able to see the beauty in most of the people who cross paths with me and I appreciate it for what it is and also for what it isn't. Love is imperfect. Falling for someone's flaws is just as necessary as falling for their strengths. And people like myself, who fall into love easily, are sometimes the loneliest souls around at the end of the day. — Ashly Lorenzana

There is beauty in everything, Just not everybody sees it — Andy Warhol

Have you ever wished you were somebody else? We all have at some point. But eventually we come to realize that the body, mind and circumstances we were born with - even if they seem 'imperfect' to us - can all be used to create a beautiful and meaningful life. The choice is always ours - continue to wish - or accept and improve upon the gifts we've been given. — Ron Atchison

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. — Simon Van Booy

A subject that is beautiful in itself gives no suggestion to the artist. It lacks imperfection. — Oscar Wilde

This is life and imperfection is beautiful and don’t be afraid of that. — Dylan O'Brien

He who only does not appreciate floral beauty is to be pitied like any other man who is born imperfect. It is a misfortune not unlike blindness. — Henry Ward Beecher

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