Imperfect Actions Quotes

A republic - if you can keep it - is about limitation, and for good reason, because we are mortal and our actions are imperfect.

We only have the past that we have. Not all of our deeds were incorrect.

To err is human but it feels divine.

I grew up in a very loving but very broken family, and I suppose that's why I'm drawn to telling stories about well-intentioned people who are doing their best - but are not always successful - in figuring out how to maneuver through this complicated, bumpy and broken world.

There's so many things, when you're in national security, that you do that aren't perfect, but you do them because you think you're doing what the country needs to be safe.

I really believe I've been a good person. Not perfect - forget about perfect - but just learning by what I was taught and living by my own values. I might have stepped on a few ants - and a few other things as well - but I've never hurt anybody.

We should often blush for our very best actions, if the world did but see all the motives upon which they were done.

I don't love everything I do, and I don't always like how I am in it. I'm not always pleased.

Change the attitude toward errors. Think of an object's user as attempting to do a task, getting there by imperfect approximations. Don't think of the user as making errors; think of the actions as approximations of what is desired.