Inability Quotes
375 quotes by 344 authors
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We are more likely to fail as craftsmen due to our inability to organize obsession than because of our lack of ability.
— Richard Sennett
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The inability to grasp the pathology* of our oligarchic rulers is one of our gravest faults.
— Chris Hedges
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I spent a lot of years trying to outrun or outsmart vulnerability by making things certain and definite, black and white, good and bad. My…
— Brené Brown
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But compassion is a deeper thing that waits beyond the tension of choosing sides. Compassion, in practice, does not require us to give up the…
— Mark Nepo
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The reason was the failure of both Japan and China to understand each other and the inability of America and the European powers to sympathize,…
— Hideki Tojo
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I just have an inability to lie.
— Paloma Faith
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All it takes to make a difference is the courage to stop proving I was right in being unable to make a difference ... to…
— Werner Erhard
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One is called to live nonviolently, even if the change one works for seems impossible. It may or may not be possible to turn the…
— Daniel Berrigan
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The coward’s fear of death stems in large part from his incapacity to love anything but his own body. The inability to participate in others’…
— Sebastian Junger
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Children, by nature, are keen, passionate and curious. What was referred to as laziness is often merely an awakening of sensitivity, a psychological inability to…
— Octave Mirbeau
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Remember God is not surprised by your inabilities, your imperfections, or your faults. He has always known everything about you that you are just now…
— Joyce Meyer
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Solidarity is not a matter of altruism. Solidarity comes from the inability to tolerate the affront to our own integrity of passive or active collaboration…
— Aurora Levins Morales
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Martin Buber suggested that evil prevailed because of the inability of man to imagine the real. Yet human beings do have that capacity. Lord Byron,…
— Bernard Lown
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I ignore polling as a method of government. I think that shows a certain weakness of mind - an inability to chart a course whichever…
— Lee Kuan Yew
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Readiness of speech is often inability to hold the tongue.
— Jean-Baptiste Rousseau
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Every day you preach to yourself a gospel of your loneliness, inability, and lack of resources or you faithfully preach to yourself the gospel of…
— Paul David Tripp
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You may not agree with a woman, but to criticize her appearance — as opposed to her ideas or actions — isn't doing anyone any…
— Hillary Clinton
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High blood pressure, cheeriness at breakfast, a mellowing political philosophy, and an inability to drink more than half a bottle of proof spirits at cocktail…
— Lucius Beebe
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. . . Newton was an unquestioning believer in an all-wise creator of the universe, and in his own inability - like the boy on…
— Isaac Newton
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The scenarios of biological or chemical warfare painted in detail by the American media during the months after September 11 only betray the inability of…
— Jurgen Habermas
Who Wrote These Inability Quotes
344 authors contributed a total of 375 Inability Quotes, led by these top contributors: