Shortcomings Quotes - Page 9

• Some of the most unkind,judgmental people I've ever known go to church every Sunday and read the Bible. I don't know how some people are able to disassociate their own cruelty and shortcomings from their religious obligations and convictions, but many are able to do that.

  Judith McNaught

  Religious, Sunday, People

  Judith McNaught (2003). “Someone to Watch Over Me”

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• We think we understand another person's struggle until God reveals the same shortcomings in our lives.

  Oswald Chambers

  Struggle, Helping Others, Thinking

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.46, Discovery House

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

  Irvin S. Cobb

  Witty, Women, Laughing

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• I am not blind to the shortcomings of our own people.

  Mother Jones

  People, Blind, Blindness

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• Beginnings could happen more than once or in different ways. You could think you were starting something afresh, when actually what you were doing was carrying on as before. He had faced his shortcomings and overcome them and so the real business of walking was happening only now.

  Rachel Joyce

  Real, Thinking, Overcoming

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• The habit of looking for beauty in everything makes us notice the shortcomings of things, our sense, hungry for complete satisfaction, misses the perfection it demands.

  George Santayana

  Beauty, Perfection, Missing

  George Santayana (2012). “The Sense of Beauty”, p.77, Courier Corporation

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• I can forgive a man’s past faults, his present shortcomings, and his future failures if every minute of every day he loves me like it’s his religion.

  Nicole Williams

  Past, Men, Forgiving

  Nicole Williams (2012). “Clash”, p.148, Simon and Schuster

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• Work hard to seem infallible and others will work to find our flaws. Admit our shortcomings and others will work to help us be infallible.

  Simon Sinek

  Work, Admitting, Helping

  FaceBook post by Simon Sinek from Sep 16, 2015

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• From the cradle to the cubicle, we devote more time to our shortcomings than to our strengths.

  Tom Rath

  Cubicles, Cradle, More Time

  "StrengthsFinder 2.0". Book by Tom Rath, 2007.

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• Gold has two significant shortcomings, being neither of much use nor procreative.

  Warren Buffett

  Money, Two, Gold

  "How Does The Cult Of Buffett Compare To The Cult Of Gold?". www.businessinsider.com. April 10, 2012.

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• The shortcoming of hanging pawns is that they present a convenient target for attack. As the exchange of men proceeds, their potential strength lessens and during the endgame they turn out, as a rule, to be weak.

  Boris Spassky

  Men, Target, Chess

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• 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 and more courage to be good, an opinion continually reinforced by my own shortcomings.

  Dick Francis

  Views, Evil, Interesting

  Dick Francis (2010). “Comeback”, p.16, Penguin

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• Their incompatible appearances have actually made them more compatible ... Some people said that when a couple comes together ... they will compliment each others shortcomings

  Bae Yong-joon

  Couple, Drama, People

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• We are really doing our very best. There are no doubt many mistakes and shortcomings. A lot of things are done none too well. Some things that ought to be done have not yet been done...[But Britain's effort has] justly commanded the wonder and admiration of every friendly nation in the world.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Mistake, Effort

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• We must learn to be honest with ourselves, and know our shortcomings. We will acquire cohesion but we will pay dearly for being a slow pupil.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Justice, Diversity, Pay

  Zora Neale Hurston (2002). “Zora Neale Hurston: A Life in Letters”, Doubleday Books

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• My mother and father are the only people on the whole planet for whom I will never begrudge a thing. Should I achieve great things, it is the work of their hands; they are splendid people and their absolute love of their children places them above the highest praise. It cloaks all of their shortcomings, shortcomings that may have resulted from a difficult life.

  Anton Chekhov

  Mother, Children, Father

  Letter to M.M. Chekhov, July 29, 1877.

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• A sense of humor judges one's actions and the actions of others from a wider reference. It pardons shortcomings, it consoles failure.

  Thornton Wilder

  Humor, Judging, Action

  "The Eighth Day". Book by Thornton Wilder, 1967.

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• I am not blind to the shortcomings of our own people. I am not unaware that leaders betray, and sell out, and play false. But this knowledge does not outweigh the fact that my class, the working class, is exploited, driven, fought back with the weapon of starvation, with guns and with venal courts whenever they strike for conditions more human, more civilized for their children, and for their children's children.

  Mother Jones

  Children, Knowledge, Gun

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• Nothing is more cheerful than talking about our friends' shortcomings.

  Mason Cooley

  Funny Relationship, Talking, Cheerful

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• 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 trembling fear, so much of the heart's history, that all errors and shortcomings are for a while lost sight of in the amiable self assertion of youth.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Book, Reading, Heart

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1873). “Prose Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.453

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• The fault we admit to is seldom the fault we have, but it has a certain relationship to it, a somewhat similar shape, like that of a sleeve to an arm.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Faults, Shapes, Arms

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.56, BookBaby

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• Vices are simply overworked virtues.

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Vices, Virtue

  Laura Ingalls Wilder, Stephen W. Hines (1991). “Little house in the Ozarks: a Laura Ingalls Wilder sampler : the rediscovered writings”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Sins cut boldly up through every class in society, but mere misdemeanours show a certain level in life.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Short Life, Cutting, Class

  Elizabeth Bowen (1938). “The death of the heart”, Viking Pr

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• Oh, the shortcomings and inconsistency of the average human being, especially when this human being is a man trying to manage women's affairs!

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Men, Average, Trying

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Harriot (Stanton). Blatch (Mrs) (1922). “Elizabeth Cady Stanton as revealed in her letters, diary and reminiscences”

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• A 'weakness,' I now realize, is nothing but a strength not properly developed.

  Fay Weldon

  Weakness, Realizing

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