Salman Rushdie Quotes

I may not be perfect, but I'm trying.

I'm a work in progress. I'm trying to be better.

If I can give myself credit for anything, it's that I do try to learn from the bad. I've never felt so sure that I'm in the right place doing what I'm supposed to be doing as I am right now.

Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

Well. I'm probably not loving myself like I should, but I'm really trying.

Acceptance of one's life has nothing to do with resignation; it does not mean running away from the struggle. On the contrary, it means accepting it as it comes, with all the handicaps of heredity, of suffering, of psychological complexes and injustices.

I think the most productive thing to do during times of change is to be your best self, not the best version of someone else.

Difficulty creates the opportunity for self-reflection and compassion.

Just knowing you don't have the answers is a recipe for humility, openness, acceptance, forgiveness, and an eagerness to learn - and those are all good things.

The world around me has changed, and I have learned to adapt but not change. But I'm changing into the woman I am meant to be.

Any criticism, you should pay attention to. Whether you accept it and change or you take it and move on is the choice, but criticism is not a bad thing.

What's amiss I'll strive to mend,And endure what can't be mended.

Be not disgusted, nor discouraged, nor dissatisfied, if thou dost not succeed in doing everything according to right principles; but when thou bast failed, return back again, and be content if the greater part of what thou doest is consistent with man's nature, and love this to which thou returnest

Try to learn to let what is unfair teach you.

I ain't no perfect man I'm tryna do the best that I can with what it is I have.

That’s what learning is, after all; not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we’ve changed because of it, and what we take away from it that we never had before, to apply to other games. Losing, in a curious way is winning.

Anyone who isn't embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn't learning enough.

I'm doing the best I can with the ravages of time on my body and I'm a work in progress. I can't write a memoir because I can't do it this week or next week... I try to be an inspiration to the young to respect their older people; we can't stay the same, but we do the best we can with what's left. You can't whine about stuff, you have to learn to eat humble pie along the way and keep going, because the alternative is going to happen.

As a therapist, I know that when you're vulnerable, the best way to move on is to admit your vulnerability, don't beat yourself up for it, and try to find a way to analyze your vulnerability. Pull up your socks and try to do better for you and your family.

He who remembers the evils he has undergone, and those that have threatened him, and the slight causes that have changed him from one state to another, prepares himself in that way for future changes and for recognizing his condition. The life of Caesar has no more to show us than our own; an emperor's or an ordinary man's, it is still a life subject to all human accidents.

I try my best to learn from other people's mistakes. I have a lot of respect for people who can change.

I am the age that I am and I am trying to do the best with what I got.

Every failure teaches a man something, if he will learn; and you are too sensible a man not to learn from this failure.

Learn not only to find what you like, learn to like what you find.

I haven't always done a good job, and I haven't always been successful - but I know that I have tried.