Shortcomings Quotes - Page 8

• Let God talk to you and minister to you, where you get honest with Him - here's what I do well and don't do well; here are my shortcomings, my strengths, and my gifts.

  John C. Maxwell

  Letting Go, Honest, Ministers

  Source: enrichmentjournal.ag.org

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• I always feel it is a shortcoming of mine as a reader and as a writer that I frankly need to like somebody.

  Ann Patchett

  Needs, Reader, Feels

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I think that the FIDE leaders have to reconsider the current drawing rules - their advantages aren't very clear, but their shortcomings are obvious. Artificial drawing of the lots is detrimental for everyone.

  Mikhail Tal

  Thinking, Drawing, Leader

  Source: www.chess.com

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• It's not our disadvantages or shortcomings that are ridiculous, but rather the studious way we try to hide them, and our desire to act as if they did not exist.

  Giacomo Leopardi

  Desire, Trying, Way

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• Morbid attention is when we focus only on the shortcomings that come with aging, which are inevitable, and think that everything that is wrong is a result of aging.

  Laura Huxley

  Thinking, Focus, Attention

  Source: www.whitelotus.org

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• I would especially like to appeal to my country's media that we should stop looking at everything in India from the prism of Pakistan. India is an independent country. It is a country of 125 crore people. Whenever it approaches any country, it will only be concerned about its own interests. It has been our biggest shortcoming and mistake that we have been tagging ourselves with another country and trying to do things.

  Narendra Modi

  Country, Mistake, Independent

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.in

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• What we look forward to, and the great promise of the gospel, is that whatever our inclinations are here, whatever our shortcomings are here, whatever the hindrances to our enjoying a fullness of joy here, we have the Lord's assurance for every one of us that those in due course will be removed. We just need to remain faithful.

  Lance B. Wickman

  Joy, Faithful, Promise

  Source: www.mormonnewsroom.org

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• Our mistakes, blunders, flaws, and shortcomings notwithstanding, the world America made after 1945 and 1989 has enjoyed the longest period of general peace in the west since Roman times, and decades of prosperity.

  Daniel Fried

  Mistake, America, World

  Source: www.politico.com

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• If America is to compete effectively in world markets, its corporate leaders must strategically position their companies in the right businesses, and then manage their workforces in the right ways. However, the nation has a shortage of business leaders who understand the importance of utilizing human capital to gain competitive advantage, let alone the know-how to do so. In the future, that shortcoming promises to be exacerbated because few business schools today teach aspiring executives how to create the kind of high-involvement organizations.

  James O'Toole

  School, Leader, Promise

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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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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• My shadow is only half of what it should be." "Everyone has their shortcomings.

  Haruki Murakami

  Shadow, Half, Should

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• 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 of our great collective female shortcomings to presume that whatever we do not perceive simply isn't there, or that whatever is not communicated in our language is not intelligible speech.

  Norah Vincent

  Men, Female, Different

  Norah Vincent (2006). “Self-Made Man: One Woman's Year Disguised as a Man”, p.118, Penguin

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• I knew that part of friendship consisted in accepting a friend’s shortcomings, which sometimes included his parents.

  John Knowles

  Parent, Sometimes, Accepting

  John Knowles (2014). “A Separate Peace”, p.169, Simon and Schuster

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• A close, daily intimacy between two people has to be paid for: it requires a great deal of experience of life, logic, and warmth of heart on both sides to enjoy each other’s good qualities without being irritated by each other’s shortcomings and blaming each other for them.

  Ivan Goncharov

  Heart, Two, People

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• 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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• 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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• 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'm very open about my shortcomings. It's nothing for me. People think I'm so brave for being like this. But I'm just being me, I'll take it.

  Stacy Barthe

  Thinking, People, Brave

  Source: youknowigotsoul.com

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• Well, I think the way you feel as a teenager stays with you, forever. I really believe that. And we try to change and we hope that we change, but we don't really in big ways, in serious ways. I think the personality is formed at that time, for the good and for the bad. ... We all want to grow up and move on and appear to be different to people. And we want people to see us in a different way. But, I don't know, I think the personality is very, very strongly cemented, and we just bear whatever shortcomings we have and learn to live with it.

  Steven Morrissey

  Growing Up, Teenager, Believe

  Radio Interview with Jed the fish, 1997.

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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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• 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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