Gerald of Wales Quotes

I don't always like my own behavior. I haven't known anyone who is perfect all the time.

Look at the United States today. We have made mistakes in the past. We have had shortcomings. We shall make mistakes in the future and fall short of our own best hopes.

I made decisions that I regret, and I took them as learning experiences... I'm human, not perfect, like anybody else.

Literature seems to offer lessons in human nature that help us decode the world around us and be better friends.

I'm not a perfect human being.

We are personalities in the making, limited, and grappling with things too high for us. Obviously we, at very best, will make many mistakes, but these mistakes need not be sins.

Then again, Solomon was human. And that meant he was flawed (Go on, take a look at yourself in the mirror. A good long look, if you can bear it. See? Flawed's putting it mildly, isn't it?)

Maybe I am a jerk sometimes. Maybe I'm not. I think most people are kind of a jerk once in a while.

I'm human, I'm not perfect. I make mistakes all the time, but I guess my job is to keep those mistakes to myself, which I'm already fine doing and just try to be the best I can be for those kids.

I have no regrets, because I've done everything I could to the best of my ability.

I'm a human being. I'm not perfect.

Nobody's perfect, and to try to pretend you're perfect is an exhausting fool's errand.

No one is perfect and everyone wishes they could change something about themselves.

We are all human and fall short of where we need to be. We must never stop trying to be the best we can be.

Some of the things I'm most proud of, it isn't because I think it's my best work; it's because of something that it's taught me.

They are just 100 per cent bear, whereas human beings feel we're not 100 per cent human, that we're always letting ourselves down. We're constantly striving towards something, to some fulfilment.

I'm one of those people that makes a better adult than I did a kid.

I always see where I didn't do things the right way. I only see the heavy lifting. That's a bit of my wisdom, if you want to call it that.

I usually say I did the best I could with what I had. I have no major regrets.

There has never been any country at every moment so virtuous and so wise that it has not sometimes needed to be saved from itself.

In the end, we know what makes us happy. We also know what makes us unhappy. That's the irony. We know and yet we still mess it up. That's part of the human condition, no, and why we need to work on it.

Strong people have strong weaknesses.

Consider your origin; you were not born to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.

Man is never perfect, nor contented.

Obviously, if I could go back and change anything, I would be a perfect man. And I know there's no perfect man.