Failings Quotes

One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.
Thomas Sowell

Trust, Failure, Dangerous

When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.
Epictetus

Anger, Yourself, Forget

Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.
Nikola Tesla

Matter, Force, Separate

He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame; a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
Edmund Burke

Great, Passion, Fame

Moral habits, induced by public practices, are far quicker in making their way into men's private lives, than the failings and faults of individuals are in infecting the city at large.
Plutarch

Men, Moral, Far

Ah, beware of snobbery; it is the unwelcome recognition of one's own past failings.
Cary Grant

Past, Beware, Snobbery

Friendship is also about liking a person for their failings, their weakness. It's also about mutual help, not about exploitation.
Paul Theroux

Friendship, Help, Person

An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.
Walter Bagehot

Quiet, Stay, Mankind

Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.
Jean de la Bruyere

Long, Two, Friends

It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch each other, and find sympathy. It is in our follies that we are one.
Jerome K. Jerome

Sympathy, Find, Touch

Whatever Romney's failings, he certainly doesn't suggest that the United States is teetering on the brink of a moral cesspool.
John Podhoretz

Moral, Whatever, United

Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.
Luc de Clapiers

Sometimes, Another, Virtue

Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see.
Bernard Baruch

Yourself, Brain, Serve

Work creates an enormous sense of self and I saw that in my mother. She was an enormous, towering figure to me in the best possible way. I picked up a lot of things from her in the way that I work... I also picked up a lot of the failings of when your father doesn't have those things and that results in a house that turns into a minefield.
Bruce Springsteen

Work, Best, Mother

We expect teachers to handle teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, and the failings of the family. Then we expect them to educate our children.
John Sculley

Family, Children, Expect

The stereotypical gay man is someone whose company I enjoy, someone who makes me laugh, someone I'd want my kid to be. The stereotypical gay woman makes me insecure, conscious of my failings as a feminist.
Ayelet Waldman

Gay, Someone, Woman

One of the great failings of our education system is that we tend to focus on those who are succeeding in exams, and there are plenty of them. But what we should also be looking at, and a lot more urgently, is those who fail.
Michael Morpurgo

Education, Great, Focus

The humor is essentially dark for a cartoon and sophisticated. But at the same time, being a cartoon gives the writers more freedom than in a normal sitcom. It always pushes the line that, despite human failings, the Simpsons are really decent people.
Dan Castellaneta

Humor, Time, Freedom

In both religion and science, some people are dishonest, exploitative, incompetent and exhibit other human failings.
Rupert Sheldrake

Religion, Science, Human

But I always wanted my characters to be more than cyphers for the failings of their world. And I never had to look too hard to find a part of myself in them.
Douglas Sirk

Hard, Find, Wanted

Scotland is my country, the nation that shaped me, that taught me my values. A nation whose achievements inspired and inspire me, a community whose failings drive me - drive my overwhelming desire to fight for social justice and equality.
Johann Lamont

Equality, Fight, Justice

Whatever flaws or personal failings afflict them, it remains the case that the overwhelming majority of priests and politicians are honourable and honest - seeking to live out their beliefs and serve society.
Keith O'Brien

Society, Live, Honest

At least I have the modesty to admit that lack of modesty is one of my failings.
Hector Berlioz

Lack, Admit, Modesty

If 'Mystery Train' is my Nixon book and 'Lipstick Traces' my Reagan book, 'Invisible Republic' is my Bill Clinton book. I really liked Clinton. He made me proud to be part of this country again. For all of his failings, the way he put all that he'd done in jeopardy, I supported him from beginning to end.
Greil Marcus

End, Book, Done

There's no more place in the euro zone for well-meaning laxness when dealing with deficits and failings. If the demands on Greece aren't taken seriously, we'll get stuck in quicksand. In the worst case, this would make it acceptable for one tranche to not be paid out. It is in the Greeks own interest not to test that.
Peer Steinbruck

Place, Seriously, Worst

Yet, our achievements also mask many continuing failings and seem to expose more future dangers.
Hun Sen

Future, Seem, Mask

Working together, they will dig out the truth and nothing but the truth about what happened in '99, to assign responsibility, and to look at the institutional failings.
Jose Ramos-Horta

Truth, Nothing, Together

It was to carry the American democratic journey beyond these failings that Black citizens and civil rights workers risked unemployment, violence and death.
Elijah Cummings

Death, Black, American

Though just biographical record will touch the failings of the good and the eminent with tenderness.
Anne Seward

Good, Touch, Though

Take care, these Italians, full of failings, are neither you, nor me; they are your neighbors, the ones you meet on the staircase and whom you do not like to greet.
Alberto Sordi

Care, Full, Nor

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