Dinah Maria Mulock Quotes

Wisdom never kicks at the iron walls it can't bring down.

Human nature must not be altered in order to have a problem-free world. Man is not just a problem-solving being, as behaviorists would wish us to believe, but a problem-recognizing and -accepting being.

I do the best with what exists.

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.

Sometimes you're looking to play perfect tennis but it's not going to happen all the time and you have to accept it.

We have to achieve what we can, and if we haven't yet learned that we are not always going to get our way this could be frustrating.

I realize I'm not a machine. I'm going to make mistakes.

There is a great deal of human nature in man.

Life is never going to be perfect, as much as we want it to be, and I have to lead by example.

I became an optimist when I discovered that I wasn't going to win any more games by being anything else.

I've learned over the years that people are human and have mood swings, regardless of how talented they are. Today, I'm looking at life from a realistic point of view instead of the way I would want things to be.

I'm human. I mean, I'm not always happy.

I'm not Pollyanna. Nobody has a magic wand.

At the end of the day, I know I'm not Superman.

There's always going to be something. Can't be perfect.

I'm trying to just take things as they come, not to try to expect too much, just do my job and hope things work out.

I'm a normal person, and I'm going to make mistakes. I think people have to accept that.

I want to be able to show people that I have flaws and they have flaws, too. And you know what that means? No one out there is perfect.

Not everything can be perfect.

No one is perfect.

I don't pretend to be perfect.

We will not think noble because we are not noble. We will not live in beautiful harmony because there is no such thing in this world, nor should there be. We promise only to do our best and to live out our lives. Dear God, that's all we can promise in truth.

Well, nobody's perfect.

Maturity, as I conceived it, was recognizing what was bad or peculiar in life, admitting it has to stay that way, and going ahead with the best of things.

Live in the world you inhabit. Look upon things as they are. Take them as you find them. Make the best of them. Turn them to your advantage.