I laughed. It was just like Owen to make excuses for someone else’s shortcomings. Even fictional characters. Owen found my tendency to… — Rachel Vincent Copy Share Image
By three things the wise person may be known. What three? He sees a shortcoming as it is. When he sees it,… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
The science of psychology has been far more successful on the negative than on the positive side... It has revealed to us… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
Many an irritating fault, many an unlovely oddity, has come of a hard sorrow. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“I assume that defects are weapons in God's arsenal through which he uses to humble and draw mankind closer to himself.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
It is always well to accept your own shortcomings with candor but to regard those of your friends with polite incredulity. — Russell Lynes Copy Share Image
You will never be an inwardly religious and devout man unless you pass over in silence the shortcomings of your fellow men,… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
But the man who is not afraid to admit everything that he sees to be wrong with himself, and yet recognizes that… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
No human beings, regardless of who they might be, want to look directly at their own shortcomings. — Tatsuhiko Takimoto Copy Share Image
I have many shortcomings. I feel very lucky to have been able to have what I've had. — Joshua Lederberg Copy Share Image
History proves that all dictatorships, all authoritarian forms of government are transient. Only democratic systems are not transient. Whatever the shortcomings, mankind… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
The successful leader must be willing to assume responsibility for the mistakes and the shortcomings of his followers. — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
Kitsch tends to wallow in beauty - its shortcoming is not aesthetic, but ethical — Hermann Broch Copy Share Image
Analyze thy life's experiences, see thy shortcomings, see thy virtues. Minimize those faults, magnify and glorify thy virtues. — Edgar Cayce Copy Share Image
Let God talk to you and minister to you, where you get honest with Him - here's what I do well and… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Ron Reagan amazingly qualifies as an honest broker. I asked him if he was a mama's boy and he said no, more… — Eugene Jarecki Copy Share Image
When conducted with proper preparation, and in a focused and professional manner, oversight of executive branch actions can reveal serious shortcomings by… — Bob Barr Copy Share Image
it may be in morals as it is in optics, the eye and the object may come too close to each other,… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
It was irritating to have one's physical shortcomings pointed out quite so plainly twice in one evening, once by a beautiful girl… — Tom Holt Copy Share Image
Oh, the shortcomings and inconsistency of the average human being, especially when this human being is a man trying to manage women's… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
