Quotes About Life Is Not Perfect

#1. A woman's life is not perfect or whole till she has added herself to a husband. Nor is a man's life perfect or whole till he has added to himself a wife.

Anthony Trollope

#2. Life is not perfect. But it is how you face it that's worth living for. From there you will find out how beautiful it is to live.

Kcat Yarza

#3. After all, what kind of a life is it that is not pestered by insects? A perfect one, and since life is not perfect, this cannot be life.

Gregory Maguire

#4. My life is not perfect.

Zoe Sugg

#5. Worry tells you that life is not perfect, you are not perfect, and that what is about to happen is "bad.

Bruce Van Horn

#6. 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

#7. Life is not perfect.

Javier Bardem

#8. Laugh and make the best of every situation. Understand that life is not perfect.

Bryant McGill

#9. O sleepers! what a thing is slumber! Sleep resembles death. Ah, why then dost thou not work in such wise as that after death thou mayst retain a resemblance to perfect life, when, during life, thou art in sleep so like to the hapless dead?

Leonardo Da Vinci

#10. Life does not measure up to performing ... Performing is perfect.

Joan Rivers

#11. My life is not balanced and not everything is perfect all the time.

Kelly Cutrone

#12. In studying ourselves, we find the harmony that is our total existence. We do not make harmony. We do not achieve it or gain it. It is there all the time. Here we are, in the midst of this perfect way, and our practice is simply to realize it and then to actualize it in our everyday life.

John Daishin Buksbazen

#13. Let's try not to be exacting with other people, but rather to pass over in silence those thousand little annoyances that tend to irritate us. For we know that no one is perfect in this life, and we must put up with the defects of others as they put up with ours.

Rose Philippine Duchesne

#14. You know, Monsieur, that, although the contemplative life is more perfect than the active life, it is not, however, more so than one which embraces at the same time contemplation and action, as does yours, by God's grace.

Vincent De Paul

#15. Although my life is far from perfect, the irony is that in a divorced parent's custody schedule - with days on and days off - instead of like it was before, when I felt ragged and still oddly guilty all the time, now I feel guilty but not ragged.

Sandra Tsing Loh

#16. Nothing can happen, nothing can occur in your life which is not a precisely perfect opportunity for you to heal something, create something, or experience something that you wish to heal, create, or experience in order to be who you really are.

Neale Donald Walsch

#17. The real payoff of a yoga practice, I came to see, is not a perfect handstand or a deeper forward bend - it is the newly born self that each day steps off the yoga mat and back into life.

Rolf Gates

#18. The true story ... is the realization that no time in your life is ever perfect, that even the best memories have cracks you might not see.

Sarah Dessen

#19. Life is about growth. People are not perfect when they're 21 years old.

Bill Walton

#20. Mom says,'What are you going to do when it's time to go to college?' I choose not to think about that yet. That is years away. For now, I just watn things all safe and familiar. My life may not be perfect, but it is what I have known.
~pg 16; Hattie on change

Ann M. Martin

#21. That life is far too short to waste on grudges. Love does not come along often. When it does, you can't throw it away because it isn't perfect.

Sophie Oak

#22. Once we get to Heaven we know everything there is to know. We remember every life we've ever lived. We recall everyone we've ever loved. There is much to know here, but there is not too much to learn. That's why we have to do our learning before we get here.

Kate McGahan

#23. What I've learned from my own journey, and from my family's experience with cancer, is how important it is to stay positive and move forward. Not every day is going to be perfect; that's life. But staying positive is going to get you to the next day.

Bonnie Blair

#24. There's plenty of days when I'm like 'Oh God, why? But that's just life. It's every job, not just mine. Every moment is not perfect. But it's definitely more good times than bad. You can't even compare. And when I'm on stage it feels incredible

Beyonce Knowles

#25. Life in freedom is not easy, and democracy is not perfect.

John F. Kennedy

#26. Democracy does not require perfect equality, but it does require that citizens share a common life. What matters is that people of different backgrounds and social positions encounter one another, and bump up against one another, in the course of ordinary life.

Michael Sandel

#27. Well, so be it. Nothing's perfect in life, so you have an election that's not quite perfect. Is it better than not having an election? You bet.

Donald Rumsfeld

#28. The seeming imperfections of Earth, the hazards and inequalities of life, the cruelty, harshness and apparent indifference to suffering and affliction are not what they seem; as it is Earth is perfect for its purpose. It is ignorance of that purpose which makes it appear imperfect.

Kolbrin BIble

#29. Then what's the point of trying if you can't even win?"
"You win in lots of different ways," Asher said. "Lots of little wins. The point of this life is not to be good all the time. It's to be as good as you can. No one is perfect. No one does it right all the time. That's not what life is.

Cate Tiernan

#30. I haven't lived a perfect life. I have regrets. But that's from a lifetime of taking chances, making decisions, and trying not to be frozen. The only thing that I can do with my regrets is understand them.

Kevin Costner

#31. However hard man tries, he is not able to make his life perfect and filled with harmony.

Sunday Adelaja

#32. One naively thinks that by winning the Olympics, it's going to be this switch, and then your life is going to be perfect, and that's not reality.

Dorothy Hamill

#33. Learning lessons is a little like reaching maturity. You're not suddenly more happy, wealthy, or powerful, but you understand the world around you better, and you're at peace with yourself. Learning life's lessons is not about making your life perfect, but about seeing life as it was meant to be.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#34. Life is certainly only worthwhile as it represents struggle for worthy causes. There is no struggle in perfect security. I am quite certain that the human being could not continue to exist if he or she had perfect security.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#35. We go through life trying to line up the chess pieces just right, but doing so is difficult. Something is always not quite to our liking. Health may not be perfect. Finances may not be perfect. Relationships may not be perfect.

Solomon Katz

#36. This is my religion - we're all animals, perfect animals created in the infinite image and imagination of nature. It's a life not without pain and competition and suffering, but it can be a life of dignity and mutual respect.

David Duchovny

#37. the world is not perfect, you need to find a place that is perfect for you

Avis J. Williams

#38. Perfect life is a contradiction in terms. Therefore we must always expect to find things not up to our highest ideal. Knowing this, we are bound to make the best of everything.

Swami Vivekananda

#39. You have not yet learned that in this life you have to be like everyone else: the perfect mediocrity
no better, no worse. Individuality is a monster and it must be strangled in its cradle to make our friends feel comfortable.

Stanley Kubrick

#40. If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved.

Maurice Chevalier

#41. No one is perfect and we all make mistakes, but not all of us admit to mistakes made.

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

#42. Managing perfect body weight is not a complicated rocket science. Our body is made up of food which we eat during our day to day life. If we are overweight or obese at the moment then one thing is certain that the food which we eat is unhealthy.

Subodh Gupta

#43. If our life is to resemble the gospel, we must shun, not merely the grosser vices, but everything that would hinder our perfect conformity to Christ.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#44. I hate that our world makes it look like everyone is perfect but you. Each and every one of us is human. Why are all the flaw that we all have hidden like they're not real?

Audrey Regan

#45. There's no way I can represent for everyone. I can't represent for all women or all big women or all black women. It's important for people not to make celebrities their source of who they should be in life. I can't take on the pressure of being perfect. Nobody is.

Queen Latifah

#46. it was better to commit mistakes on the path that one's soul is meant to walk on, than to live a perfect life on a path that is not meant for one's soul.

Amish Tripathi

#47. I think what is interesting in life is all the cracks and all the flaws and all the moments that are not perfect.

Clemence Poesy

#48. And I understand now, maybe not completely, but more, that in times of overwhelming joy, immobile sadness, hysterical laughter, absolute fear, and sometimes just perfect quiet there is Life. Real Life. And it really is that simple. I take my gift now. I go live.

Dito Montiel

#49. Life is not about having perfect days. Life is not about handling days perfectly. Life is about perfecting one's character through the having and handling of every given day.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#50. My life is exactly what it's meant to be, and I'm okay. I'm. Okay. Those two words, yeah, they mean a lot to me. I'm not perfect, I'm not completely healed, but I'm okay. I'll take it.

Ashley Beale

#51. Following Jesus is not a perfect life of nonstop thrills. There are some boring and bad parts. But still there's something different about them, simply because I'm following Jesus.

Vince Antonucci

#52. A writer who has perfect writing skills and zero honesty is not an author but a sales person.

Sandra Chami Kassis

#53. Life is not that tough if you have a perfectionist sub-ordinate; life is a bit tough when you have a perfectionist peer; life is toughest when you have a perfectionist supervisor!

Abhishek Ratna

#54. I believe," he said gently, "we all have a perfect right to make ourselves unhappy if that is what we freely choose. But I am not sure we have the right to allow our own unhappiness to cause someone else's. The trouble with life sometimes is that we are all in it together.

Mary Balogh

#55. Reading and life are not separate but symbiotic. And for this serious task of imaginative discovery and self-discovery, there is and remains one perfect symbol: the printed book.

Julian Barnes

#56. The perfect PIN is not four digits and not associated with your life, like an old telephone number. It's something easy for you to remember and hard for other people to guess.

Kevin Mitnick

#57. Being a mom is what life is about. I hope people realize what the priorities in life should be and know not everything has to be perfect.

Kourtney Kardashian

#58. Our assignment is to see the dominion of God realized into people's lives. It is not an overpowering control, it is a life-giving, liberating experience with the almighty God, who is an ultimate, perfect Father who loves to bring liberty and freedom to His people.

Bill Johnson

#59. The perfect life is not worth living. There would be nothing to look forward to. The imperfect life is perfect.

Ted Agon

#60. God wants us to know that life is a series of beginnings, not endings. Just as graduations are not terminations, but commencements. Creation is an ongoing process, and when we create a perfect world where love and compassion are shared by all, suffering will cease.

Bernie Siegel

#61. Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum.

Erich Maria Remarque

#62. For now, I just want things all safe and familiar. My life may not be perfect, but it is what I have known.

Ann M. Martin

#63. There is no moment of my life when you are not a part of me; you hold my heart; you guard my soul; you guide my dreams so tenderly
And if my will might be done, and all I long for could come true, with perfect joy I would choose to share eternity with you.

Robert Sexton

#64. I strive for perfection, but I'm not perfect. But what I can say is my morals are totally different than any other 24-year-old rapper my age now. I look at life totally different. A whole other aspect. I have different views and morals on life in general. And opinions.

ASAP Rocky

#65. Most people who graduate from college think they have to make a perfect choice. Is it Goldman Sachs? Is it Google? Is it Apple? They think that their first job is going to determine their career, if not their life.

Guy Kawasaki

#66. You will come closer and closer to perfection, but you will never be perfect. Perfection is not the way of existence. Growth is the way.

Rajneesh

#67. We are one of many appearances of the thing called Life; we are not its perfect image, for it has no perfect image except Life, and life is multitudinous and emergent in the stream of time.

Loren Eiseley

#68. Regret is the most useless thing in the world. One cannot recall anything. And one cannot rectify anything. Otherwise we would all be saints. Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum. Joan

Erich Maria Remarque

#69. A good man is not a perfect man; a good man is an honest man, faithful and unhesitatingly responsive to the voice of God in his life.

John Fisher

#70. I rely on guns for protection in life. God does not say, 'This is la-la land.' God doesn't say, 'Welcome to Earth. Everything's perfect. There's no crime. There's no murder. There's no death.' The world is imperfect, and you have to be on guard.

Luke Scott

#71. Life is not always what we want it to be, but we can color it any way we like, in order to make it the perfect painting, even when things look rough, there is someone out there who has it worse than us.

Gia Russell

#72. A lot of people assume that women of a certain age who are not unattractive have no excuse for not having a perfect life. But you can have emotional baggage that is dragging you down like cement blocks tied to your feet.

Olivia Wilde

#73. There's no such thing as perfect. Chasing 'Perfect' is the shortest road to not achieving it.

Gary Vaynerchuk

#74. Your desire is not up to your decision, your decision is not up to your determination, your determination is not up to your destiny.

Oladosu Feyikogbon

#75. He is constantly reminding me that real magic doesn't come from achieving the perfect appearance, from being Cinderella at the ball with both glass slippers and a killer hairstyle. The real magic is in the pumpkin, in the mice, in the moonlight; not beyond ordinary life, but within it.

Martha N. Beck

#76. Sense of pleasure we may well
Spare out of life perhaps, and not repine,
But live content, which is the calmest life;
But pain is perfect misery, the worst
Of evils, and excessive, overturns
All patience.

John Milton

#77. It's not going to be easy. It's the earth. What creates power in your life is when you perfect your mind, your career, and your associations with others.

Frederick Lenz

#78. Life is short, fragile and does not wait for anyone. There will never be a perfect time to pursue your dreams and goals other than right now

Rachael Bermingham

#79. No one has a perfect life. Everybody has something that he wishes was not the way it is.

Stan Lee

#80. You just have to keep moving forward. You just have to keep doing something, seizing the next opportunity, staying open to trying something new. It doesn't have to fit your vision of the perfect job or the perfect life. Perfect is boring, and dreams are not real. Just . . . DO.

Shonda Rhimes

#81. Being single is not easy. But neither is being married. They are just difficult in different ways as God uses everything in our life to make us more like Jesus, who happened to live a perfect life while single.

Mark Driscoll

#82. He does not require that we live a perfect life. He only requires that we try to live as He wills. The only way to fail Him is by giving up.

Patricia Davids

#83. All things are already complete in us. There is no greater delight than to be conscious of right within us. If one strives to treat others as he would be treated by them, he shall not fail to come near the perfect life.

Mencius

#84. I love doing emotional scenes. As I've had a perfect life, I don't really have much to pull from. But it's really fun and not that challenging. It's almost pretty easy. The hardest thing is to try and make people laugh. That's a really hard thing.

Hilary Duff

#85. People are gonna disappoint you sometimes. We're flawed creatures. Not one of us is perfect, not even you, and you've gotta let people mess up and then you've gotta forgive them. That's just life.

Jenny Han

#86. A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory. LLAP

Leonard Nimoy

#87. Real life isn't always going to be perfect or go our way, but the recurring acknowledgement of what is working in our lives can help us not only to survive but surmount our difficulties.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

#88. While you may not be able to understand exactly what God is doing, you can trust that He is doing something. He has your best interests at heart. And He will make everything in your life beautiful in His perfect time.

Stormie O'martian

#89. My life is perfect even when it's not.

Ellen DeGeneres

#90. The value of a story like 'Deadline' is kids get to look at death at the perfect distance. They can put the book down. They can experience the story, rub up against it, but it's not real life.

Chris Crutcher

#91. The whole of life is as music and in order to study life we must study it as music. It is not only study, it is also practice which makes man perfect. If someone tells me that a certain person is miserable or wretched or distressed, my answer will be that he is out of tune.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

#92. I DECLARE that God has a great plan for my life. He is directing my steps. And even though I may not always understand how, I know my situation is not a surprise to God. He will work out every detail to my advantage. In His perfect timing, everything will turn out right. This is my declaration.

Joel Osteen

#93. I've been a perfect lady my entire life, and somebody just tried to shoot me, anyway. Grandmother was wrong. Goodness is not its own reward.

Susan Andersen

#94. To die is to be a counterfeit, for he is but the counterfeit of a man who hath not the life of a man; but to counterfeit dying when a man thereby liveth is to be no counterfeit, but the true and perfect image of life indeed.

William Shakespeare

#95. Baseball is a game of life. It's not perfect, but it feels like it is,

Joe Torre

#96. I know I'm not perfect & will never become. Yet, I'm proud of being Me, with all humility & imperfections.
Cause this is the only life I have ...

Abu Sufyan Ibn Harb

#97. Life is not always perfect. Like a road, it has many bends, ups and down, but that's its beauty.

Amit Ray

#98. I think life is full of challenges and problems. I don't believe that anyone is perfect. We all make mistakes. It's not a bed of roses, and you have to work real hard at it.

Nigel Mansell

#99. The whole function of the life of prayer is, then, to enlighten and strengthen our conscience so that it not only knows and perceives the outward, written precepts of the moral and divine laws, but above all lives God's law in concrete reality by perfect and continual union with His will.

Thomas Merton

#100. This life is not about our comfort. We have an eternity for that. I really think this is about training and testing. We will have work to do in Heaven, work that is fulfilling and perfect for us. God needs to develop certain skill sets in us before that time. That may be what this life is about.

Terri Blackstock