Shortcomings Quotes

I think it's easiest to teach by example. My dad didn't tell us to work hard; we just saw how hard he worked. I know I have shortcomings - like a short fuse - but I've learned you can't come home from a long day of work and snap at the kids.

It was irritating to have one's physical shortcomings pointed out quite so plainly twice in one evening, once by a beautiful girl and once by a dying badger.

Even as we enumerate their shortcomings, the rigor of raising children ourselves makes clear to us our mothers' incredible strength. We fear both. If they are not strong, who will protect us? If they are not imperfect, how can we equal them?

You have to look at the discrepancy between what you hoped and imagined and the reality of yourself and all your shortcomings.

Some might think that George W. Bush had his shortcomings, but let me tell you something - history's going to be kind to George W. Bush.

History proves that all dictatorships, all authoritarian forms of government are transient. Only democratic systems are not transient. Whatever the shortcomings, mankind has not devised anything superior.

The ability of discerning high quality unavoidably implies the ability of identifying shortcomings.

The shortcomings of America's political leaders do not stop at our borders.

To such idle talk it might further be added: that whenever a certain exclusive occupation is coupled with specific shortcomings, it is likewise almost certainly divorced from certain other shortcomings.

It didn't take long to recognise the shortcomings of the Soviet regime and to see the values of the free world.

The Committee's review of a series of intelligence shortcomings, to include intelligence prior to 9/11 and the pre-war intelligence on Iraq, clearly reveal how vital a diverse intelligence workforce is to our national security.

I had my shortcomings - crazy hair, braces, bad skin and all that stuff. I went through it all.

One of my few shortcomings is that I can't predict the future.

The God we serve does not seek out the perfect, but instead uses our imperfections and our shortcomings for his greater good. I am humbled by my own limitations. But where I am weak, He is strong.

Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters.

The man who cannot endure to have his errors and shortcomings brought to the surface and made known, but tries to hide them, is unfit to walk the highway of truth.

Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings.

The Arab representatives and their followers were not interested in the persecuted millions throughout the world; they were fixed on a political agenda that distracted the world from their own serious shortcomings in the human-rights department.

And I believe we need heroes, I believe we need certain people who we can measure our own shortcomings by.

Humility is not my forte, and whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters.

I have many shortcomings. I feel very lucky to have been able to have what I've had.

Ideal conversation must be an exchange of thought, and not, as many of those who worry most about their shortcomings believe, an eloquent exhibition of wit or oratory.

The only laugh that man will ever get in his life is by stripping and showing off his shortcomings.

Never underestimate the capacity of another human being to have exactly the same shortcomings you have.

The Pilgrim and the Puritan whom we honor tonight were men who did a great deal of work in the world. They had their faults and their - shortcomings, but they were not slothful in business and they were most fervent in spirit.

No shortcomings of other people cause us to be more intolerant than those which are caricatures of our own.

A woman may have a witty tongue or a stinging pen but she will never laugh at her own individual shortcomings.

A brother who recognizes that we have shortcomings, we, in the struggle, have faults, and that he wanted to reconcile differences.

I like men. They are hugely entertaining, but they have a lot of shortcomings and you just have to bear those in mind.

We live in a constant fear that our shortcomings will be exposed to family, to friends and to the world.