Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.
Benjamin Disraeli

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.
William James

A man may lack everything but tact and conviction and still be a forcible speaker; but without these nothing will avail... Fluency, grace, logical order, and the like, are merely the decorative surface of oratory.
Charles Horton Cooley

If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful; he revolts the imagination by his lack of unity, and even the good in him is hardly accepted.
Charles Horton Cooley

And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness; and he will never come to utter ruin.
Aeschylus

In the lack of judgment great harm arises, but one vote cast can set right a house.
Aeschylus

The struggles waged by nations are weak only when they lack support in the hearts of their women.
Jose Marti

It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy - from lack of character.
Dag Hammarskjold

I lack the magnificent richness of color that animates nature.
Paul Cezanne

No delusion is greater than the notion that method and industry can make up for lack of mother-wit, either in science or in practical life.
Thomas Huxley

I always preferred to hang out with the outcasts, 'cause they were cooler; they had better taste in music, for one thing, I guess because they had more time to develop one with the lack of social interaction they had!
John Hughes

What I think is different today is the lack of political connection between the black middle class and the increasing numbers of black people who are more impoverished than ever before.
Angela Davis

I'm not good enough, technically, to be a classic musician. I lack discipline.
Ritchie Blackmore

This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubts on their existence. Or lack thereof.
Neil Gaiman

Poverty and lack of knowledge must be challenged.
Russell Simmons

My hope is that people will be repulsed by the character's complete lack of ethics and obsession with consumerism - that's what I was saying about the difference between the character's message and the film's message.
Christian Bale

More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic.
Simone Weil

What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.
Charles de Montesquieu

Some persons have lived manly or womanly lives, and they lack but one thing - open confession of the Lord Jesus Christ. Some men think that they must come to him in a certain way - that they must be stirred by emotion or something like that.
Billy Sunday

More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent.
Billy Sunday