Shortcomings Quotes

202 Shortcomings quotes by 180 unique authors

Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings,… — Anne Frank
The best attitude to take toward back talk is to reach out and embrace it with love, compassion, and understanding. No need to criticize it… — Gay Hendricks
If you teach the Negro that he has accomplished as much good as any other race he will aspire to equality and justice without regard… — Carter G. Woodson
I feel a kind of reverence for the first books of young authors. There is so much aspiration in them, so much audacious hope and… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Be an example to your men, in your duty and in private life. Never spare yourself, and let the troops see that you don'tin your… — Erwin Rommel
But if you didn't have more urgent things to do after supper [in boot camp], you could write a letter, loaf, gossip, discuss the myriad… — Robert A. Heinlein
Perhaps the greatest charity comes when we are kind to each other, when we don’t judge or categorize someone else, when we simply give each… — Marvin J. Ashton
My shadow is only half of what it should be." "Everyone has their shortcomings. — Haruki Murakami
Women and men communicate differently, often on entirely different planes. But just as men have failed us, we have failed them. It has been one… — Norah Vincent
A physical shortcoming could produce a kind of mental excess. The process, it seemed, was reversible. Mental excess could produce, for its own purposes, the… — Aldous Huxley
I laughed. It was just like Owen to make excuses for someone else’s shortcomings. Even fictional characters. Owen found my tendency to speak my mind… — Rachel Vincent
I exist, I am, I am here, I am becoming, I make my own life and no one else makes it for me. I must… — Leo Buscaglia
I am not shy about admitting my modest talents. For example, I am happy to admit that I am better than average at clever remarks,… — Jeff Lindsay
But the economic meltdown should have undone, once and for all, the idea of poverty as a personal shortcoming or dysfunctional state of mind. The… — Barbara Ehrenreich
You have to get away from them. You have to get as far away as you can otherwise they'll kill you with their lives. They… — Henry Rollins
I'd always found goodness more interesting then evil, though I was aware this wasn't the most general view. To my mind, it took more work… — Dick Francis
You're not eating anything," said Marilla sharply, eying her as if it were a serious shortcoming. Anne sighed. I can't. I'm in the depths of… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
We had the great good fortune and shortcomings of character that marked every generation that had never seen war. — Joshua Ferris
but very little achievement is required in order to pity another man's shortcomings. — George Eliot
Undergraduates today can select from a swathe of identity studies.... The shortcoming of all these para-academic programs is not that they concentrate on a given… — Tony Judt
Let me see. What are my other shortcomings? — Arthur Conan Doyle
Judgement is the forbidden objectivization of the other person which destroys single-minded love. I am not forbidden to have my own thoughts about the other… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The people knew what had made them human. It was not their shortcomings, but their hearts. — Vanna Bonta
No human beings, regardless of who they might be, want to look directly at their own shortcomings. — Tatsuhiko Takimoto
Plainly, this unwillingness to give ground even on unimportant disagreements is the symptom of some deepseated insecurity, as was my one-time fondness for making teasing… — Christopher Hitchens

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