A Quote by Laozi

Perfection is the willingness to be imperfect.

Laozi

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Laozi
Chinese - Philosopher
604 BC - 531 BC

A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.

Mahatma Gandhi

Complete and total perfection will come about only when we feel that our perfection is no perfections as long as the rest of humanity remains imperfect.

Sri Chinmoy

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

Public policy is a study in imperfection. It involves imperfect people, with imperfect information, facing deeply imperfect choices - so it's not surprising that they're getting imperfect results.

Jake Sullivan

God's willingness to answer our prayers exceeds our willingness to give good and necessary things to our children, just as far as God's ability, goodness and perfection exceed our infirmities and evil.

Edward McKendree Bounds

I always say we're chasing perfection in an imperfect game.

Nick Nurse

Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Owen Feltham

A certain type of perfection can only be realized through a limitless accumulation of the imperfect.

Haruki Murakami

The moment you achieve perfection, you are dead. The word exists because we are all imperfect. That is true about performance as well.

Kay Kay Menon

Because that's what intimacy is: It's a willingness to be vulnerable, a willingness to bite my tongue and a willingness to set an example of what I believe in.

Diane Lane

Four marks of true repentance are: acknowledgement of wrong, willingness to confess it, willingness to abandon it, and willingness to make restitution.

Corrie Ten Boom

We know of our own knowledge that we are human beings, and, as such, imperfect. But we are bathed by the communications industry in a ceaseless tide of inhuman, impossible perfection.

Margaret Halsey

In ancient times, people said that imperfect moves to becoming perfect. Are these words vain? No! Truly, by gaining Unity you come to Perfection!

Laozi

Perfection is only an ideal for man; it cannot be attained, for man is made imperfect.

Mahatma Gandhi

True perfection has to be imperfect. I know that sounds foolish, but it's true.

Noel Gallagher

In an imperfect world perfection is not instantly available. Railroad safety, for instance, cannot be secured by mechanical devices alone. It is primarily a resultant of care and discipline.

Ivy Lee

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