Harry Crews Quotes

Being perfect is being flawed, accepting it, and never letting it make you feel less than your best.

We are all failures – at least, all the best of us are.

It's been hard, but I've finally come to the realization that it's okay to not be perfect.

Sometimes it's not always perfect, and there are mistakes, and you pick yourself up and move on. I've learned you can't be a perfectionist. I still strive to do my best in every area, but I've learned to let go.

It took me a while to learn, but we are allowed to make mistakes and have flaws.

None of us is perfect. Everyone has got a skeleton in the closet that they don't want people to find out. I just let it go, with a bit of humor.

Too late, I found you can't wait to become perfect, you got to go out and fall down and get up with everybody else.

But I am learning that perfection isn't what matters. In fact, it's the very thing that can destroy you if you let it.

I mistrust total competence. I've always felt life is a series of small disasters we try to get through.

There really is "no effort without error and shortcoming" and there really is no triumph without vulnerability.

The weakest goes to the wall.

There will be ups, there will be downs, there will be sideways. I can just tell you I have been hired, I have been fired, I have been lauded, I have been vilified. I've said some of the most brilliant things that just by accident appeared on my tongue, and I've said some of the dumbest things that you could imagine. But each day - even the day that I knew I was going to be fired - I looked forward to because I've always believed that tomorrow was going to be the best day of my life.

When you've fallen on the highway / and you're lying in the rain, / and they ask you how you're doing / of course you'll say you can't complain.

Even challenges are beautiful opportunities in disguise.

If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it.

Circumstances may cause interruptions and delays, but never lose sight of your goal. Prepare yourself in every way you can by increasing your knowledge and adding to your experience, so that you can make the most of opportunity when it occurs.

Fall forward. Here's what I mean: Reggie Jackson struck out 2,600 times in his career - the most in the history of baseball. But you don't hear about the strikeouts. People remember the home runs. Fall forward. Thomas Edison conducted 1,000 failed experiments. Did you know that? I didn't either - because number 1,001 was the light bulb. Fall forward. Every failed experiment is one step closer to success.

We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

You will turn over many a futile new leaf till you learn we must all write on scratched-out pages.

Everyone should be sacked at least once in their career because perfection doesn't exist. It's important to have setbacks, because that is the reality of life.

You learn as much from failure as from success, Dad always says. Though no one admires you for it.

What's important is not the accolades and memories of success but the way you respond when opportunities are denied.

When you reach an obstacle, turn it into an opportunity. You have the choice.

Life is messy, and it's okay if you are too! We all screw up, that doesn't have to define us.

I have a belief that life isn't about balance, because balance is perfection Rather, it's about catching the ball before it hits the floor.