Failings Quotes

115 Failings quotes by 106 unique authors

One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it… — Thomas Sowell
Work creates an enormous sense of self and I saw that in my mother. She was an enormous, towering figure to me in the best… — Bruce Springsteen
The American Way is an amalgam of our compassion, our strengths, our failings and our attempts to build a better world, a more perfect union. — J. Michael Straczynski
Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more. — Nikola Tesla
Friendship is also about liking a person for their failings, their weakness. It's also about mutual help, not about exploitation. — Paul Theroux
The doctor's wife wasn't a bad woman. She was sufficiently convinced of her own importance to believe that God actually did watch everything she did… — Diane Setterfield
I don't mind pointing out some of the failings of old age, because we are all headed in that direction, unless of course we take… — Amy Sedaris
It will make you powerful. But it will also make you weak. Your prowess in combat will be beyond any mortal's, but your weaknesses, your… — Rick Riordan
It is only when we stand up, with all our failings and sufferings, and try to support others rather than withdraw into ourselves, that we… — Jean Vanier
It is an occult law moreover, that no man can rise superior to his individual failings without lifting, be it ever so little, the whole… — H. P. Blavatsky
But all the while, there was one thing we most needed even from the start, and certainly will need from here on out into the… — Robert Farrar Capon
Why do they blame me for all their little failings? They use my name as if I spent my entire days sitting on their shoulders,… — Neil Gaiman
Here was a boy who liked flaws, who saw them not as failings but as strengths. Who knew such a person could exist, or what… — Sarah Dessen
I wasn’t a fabulous cook. I didn’t have a boyfriend, much less a husband. And I wasn’t a big financial success. I could live with… — Janet Evanovich
To be shown love is to feel ourselves the object of concern: our presence is noted, our name is registered, our views are listened to,… — Alain de Botton
I have no end of failings as a mother, but I have always followed the rules. — Lionel Shriver
It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch one another and find sympathy. We differ widely enough in our… — Jerome K. Jerome
In short, Israel is the measure of our failings and our incompetence. We have waited for a great leader for years, but none came; we… — Edward Said
One of the great failings of the American education system (in our view) is that young people can graduate from university without any understanding of… — Nicholas D. Kristof
Reproof should not exhaust its power upon petty failings. — Samuel Johnson
At twenty you have many desires which hide the truth, but beyond forty there are only real and fragile truths - your abilities and your… — Gerard Depardieu
The true test of the American ideal is whether we're able to recognize our failings and then rise together to meet the challenges of our… — Barack Obama
Government has a habit of blaming the private sector for its own failings while taking credit for advances we in fact owe to the private… — Thomas Woods
I grew up in a family that despised displays of strong emotion, rage in particular. We stewed. We sulked. When arguments did occur, they were… — Koren Zailckas
We all have our strengths and our failings. — Hannah Simone

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