Shortcomings Quotes - Page 4

• Every nation, every race, has not only its own creative, but its own critical turn of mind; and is even more oblivious of the shortcomings and limitations of its critical habits than of those of its creative genius.

  T. S. Eliot

  Race, Creative, Mind

  T.S. Eliot (2010). “The Waste Land and Other Poems”, p.84, Broadview Press

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• You will never be an inwardly religious and devout man unless you pass over in silence the shortcomings of your fellow men, and diligently examine your own weaknesses.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Religious, Men, Silence

  23 Copy quote

• If every man, ...ceased to hate and blame every other man for his own failures and shortcomings, we would see the end of every evil in the world, from war to backbiting.

  Grace Metalious

  Hate, War, Men

  Grace Metalious (2011). “Peyton Place”, p.281, UPNE

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• The ego searches for shortcomings and weaknesses. Love watches for any sign of strength. It sees how far each one has come and not how far he has to go.

  Gerald Jampolsky

  Ego, Weakness, Watches

  34 Copy quote

• Charity is having patience with someone who has let us down. It is resisting the impulse to become offended easily. It is accepting weaknesses and shortcomings. It is accepting people as they truly are. It is looking beyond physical appearances to attributes that will not dim through time. It is resisting the impulse to categorize others.

  Thomas S. Monson

  People, Weakness, Charity

  56 Copy quote

• It's human nature to blame someone else for your shortcomings or upsets.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Upset, Blame Someone, Financial

  6 Copy quote

• Those who influenced me the most are not those who pointed out all my faults, but those who knew God was bigger than my shortcomings. Those who influenced me the most didn't just point a finger, they held out a helping hand.

  Phil Callaway

  Wisdom, Hands, Faults

  Phil Callaway (2009). “Making Life Rich Without Any Money”, p.194, Harvest House Publishers

  19 Copy quote

  Show source

• If tournament popularity was the most important consideration, then I think we would create a Smash Bros game that included a multitude of fast moves with complicated controls. However, I believe this is actually the greatest shortcoming of fighting games at present, and that is the reason why I don’t do it.

  Masahiro Sakurai

  Believe, Moving, Fighting

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  20 Copy quote

  Show source

• As Latter-day Saints we must ever be vigilant. The way for each person and each family to guard against the slings and arrows of the Adversary and to prepare for the great day of the Lord is to hold fast to the iron rod, to exercise greater faith, to repent of our sins and shortcomings, and to be anxiously engaged in the work of His kingdom on earth, which is The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Herein lies the only true happiness for all our Father's children.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Jesus, Children, Lying

  8 Copy quote

• The faults and shortcomings we see in the members of our own ward or branch are of less consequence to us than one of the smallest in ourselves.

  Jacob de Jager

  Judging, Branches, Faults

  4 Copy quote

• I have my shortcomings. But the message, it has no shortcomings. The message of Liberty is what America is all about.

  Ron Paul

  America, Liberty, Messages

  4 Copy quote

• There really is "no effort without error and shortcoming" and there really is no triumph without vulnerability.

  Brené Brown

  Errors, Empathy, Effort

  Brené Brown (2012). “Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, andLead”, p.249, Penguin

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The shortcomings of economics are not original error but uncorrected obsolescence. The obsolescence has occurred because what is convenient has become sacrosanct. Anyone who attacks such ideas must seem to be a trifle self-confident and even aggressive. The man who makes his entry by leaning against an infirm door gets an unjustified reputation for violence. Something is to be attributed to the poor state of the door.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Men, Errors, Doors

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1969). “The affluent society”, Hamish Hamilton

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Possibly, over the course of time, the brain capacity of homo sapiens will have made such great progress, that complications as contained in this game can be fathomed instantly with a shrug and a smile. Then, not only will the game of chess have ceased to exist, but also will the remembrance of frequently missed objectives elicit pity, as a reaction to the shortcomings of a lower organized form of life.

  Lodewijk Prins

  Games, Remembrance, Brain

  4 Copy quote

• One who changes a body from the error of the way not only brings peace and harmony but saves a soul and covers a multitude of shortcomings.

  Edgar Cayce

  Spiritual, Errors, Soul

  18 Copy quote

• Whatever folly men commit, be their shortcomings or their vices what they may, let us exercise forbearance; remember that when these faults appear in others it is our follies and vices that we behold.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Exercise, Men, Vices

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer”, p.224, Simon and Schuster

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Isn't this the truth of any good mother? That in all of our lives. We worry only about those we brought into this world, regardless of whether they loved us back or treated us fairly or understood our shortcomings.

  Adriana Trigiani

  Mom, Mother, Worry

  Adriana Trigiani (2001). “Big Cherry Holler: A Big Stone Gap Novel”, p.278, Random House

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Ralph Nader

  America, Leader, Political

  "The Good Fight". Book by Ralph Nader, 2004.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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.

  Rick Perry

  Strong, Perfect, Doe

  "Perry to GOP Convention: Not Riding Into Sunset" by Morgan Smith, www.texastribune.org. June 7, 2012.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think that a failure of statistical thinking is the major intellectual shortcoming of our universities, journalism and intellectual culture.

  Steven Pinker

  Thinking, Intellectual, Culture

  "Steven Pinker: fighting talk from the prophet of peace". Interview with John Naughton, www.theguardian.com. 15 October 2011.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• For all its shortcomings, Wikipedia does have strong governance and deliberative mechanisms; anyone who has ever followed discussions on Wikipedia's mailing lists will confirm that its moderators and administrators openly discuss controversial issues on a regular basis.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Strong, Issues, Wikipedia

  4 Copy quote

• 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 for its shortcomings or to waste time in recriminations. Just give a loving nod and a hug to any back talk you get, and move on to the joyful creation of your fulfilled life.

  Gay Hendricks

  Attitude, Moving, Loving Life

  Gay Hendricks (2010). “Five Wishes: How Answering One Simple Question Can Make Your Dreams Come True”, p.131, New World Library

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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 mental shortcomings of sergeants and, dearest of all, talk about the female of the species (we became convinced that there was no such creatures, just mythology created by inflamed imaginations - one boy in our company claimed to have seen a girl, over at regimental headquarters; he was unanimously judged a liar and a braggart).

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Girl, Liars, Writing

  4 Copy quote

• 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 voluntary blindness and deafness of deliberate solitude, the artificial impotence of asceticism.

  Aldous Huxley

  Solitude, Purpose, Excess

  Peter Edgerly Firchow, Aldous Huxley (1984). “The end of Utopia: a study of Aldous Huxley's Brave new world”, Bucknell Univ Pr

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Literature often gets taught nowadays as a record of the sins and shortcomings of the past. I see literature and the arts very differently: as essential to being human and to human progress, individual and collective.

  Brian Boyd

  Art, Past, Progress

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source