Kate Atkinson Quotes

It’s tempting to wish for the perfect boss, the perfect parent, or the perfect outfit. But maybe the best any of us can do is not to quit, play the hand we’ve been dealt, and accessorize what we’ve got.

You can't get it all right all the time, but you can try your best. If you've done that, all that's left is to accept your shortcomings and have the courage to try to overcome them.

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

My father taught me not to overthink things, that nothing will ever be perfect, so just keep moving and do your best.

Ultimately it doesn't matter whether you go forwards or backwards: you need to live your life as well as you can.

My grandmother, who passed away at the beginning of November, had a core adage in her life that 'life is not about what happens to you but about what you do with what happens to you.' She recently had been cajoling me and challenging me to do more with my life. To lead more of a purposefully public life.

We do not have to make it perfect; we just have to do as best we can.

My goals for the next part of my life: Whatever I'm handed, I'm gonna make the most of it. If it's good for me, I'm gonna take it.

Don't try to be perfect. Do the best you can. Enlist help!

I accept that today may be imperfect... I accept that I may be as well. What I don't accept is that imperfection should be the crutch I use to excuse myself from participating in joy.

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

I think that not being perfect has given me the freedom to keep getting better.

We don't think of ourselves as being perfectionists, really. To us it's more about desperately trying to have it sound more or less OK.

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.

He didn't think he belonged here, so she was making him face some uncomfortable facts. People adapt. People change. You can grow where you're planted.

What is perfect? Journey, a thing doesn't have to be perfect to be fine. That goes for a picture. That goes for life....Things can be good enough.

I would never felt good if I hadn't experienced losing, because losing is part of your life. And it something that if I could teach people to understand that I think it could help them a lot.

Life calls the tune, we dance.

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

I quite like mistakes. I think they're human.

I learned the importance of being nonjudgmental, taking what happens and trying to make it work.That's something you should apply to life.

We can either try to change everything or just make the most of whatever time we have.

We get a little further from perfection each year. I think that's called character. I think that's just how it goes.

I'm not sure anyone's life turns out exactly the way they imagine. All we can do is to try to make the best of it. Even when it seems impossible.

I think if your goal is for everything to be okay, that's a mistake. To achieve that goal, the only obstacle you'd have to face tomorrow is to eliminate all risk ... I've made the decision that I'm never trying to make everything okay. I'm trying for there to be more loose ends, not fewer loose ends.