Shortcomings Quotes

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

Good, God, Strong

Never underestimate the capacity of another human being to have exactly the same shortcomings you have.
Leigh Steinberg

Human, Same, Another

The man who cannot endure to have his errors and shortcomings brought to the surface and made known, but tries to hide them, is unfit to walk the highway of truth.
James Allen

Truth, Made, Cannot

Even as we enumerate their shortcomings, the rigor of raising children ourselves makes clear to us our mothers' incredible strength. We fear both. If they are not strong, who will protect us? If they are not imperfect, how can we equal them?
Anna Quindlen

Strength, Fear, Strong

Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings.
Laurence J. Peter

Parents, Faults, Correct

Hypocrisy is a value that I think has been embraced by the Republican Party. We get lectured by people all day long about moral values by people who have their own moral shortcomings.
Howard Dean

Long, Moral, Value

It may be true, that men, who are mere mathematicians, have certain specific shortcomings, but that is not the fault of mathematics, for it is equally true of every other exclusive occupation.
Carl Friedrich Gauss

History proves that all dictatorships, all authoritarian forms of government are transient. Only democratic systems are not transient. Whatever the shortcomings, mankind has not devised anything superior.
Vladimir Putin

History, Government, Whatever

A brother who recognizes that we have shortcomings, we, in the struggle, have faults, and that he wanted to reconcile differences.
Louis Farrakhan

Struggle, Wanted, Brother

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

Political, America, Stop

For eleven months and maybe about twenty days each year, we concentrate upon the shortcomings of others, but for a few days at the turn of the New Year we look at our own. It is a good habit.
Arthur Hays Sulzberger

Good, Others, Few

I like men. They are hugely entertaining, but they have a lot of shortcomings and you just have to bear those in mind.
Jo Brand

Men, Mind, Bear

Some might think that George W. Bush had his shortcomings, but let me tell you something - history's going to be kind to George W. Bush.
J. C. Watts

History, Tell, Might

To such idle talk it might further be added: that whenever a certain exclusive occupation is coupled with specific shortcomings, it is likewise almost certainly divorced from certain other shortcomings.
Carl Friedrich Gauss

Talk, Might, Almost

I have many shortcomings. I feel very lucky to have been able to have what I've had.
Joshua Lederberg

It didn't take long to recognise the shortcomings of the Soviet regime and to see the values of the free world.
Garry Kasparov

Long, Free, Values

I think it's easiest to teach by example. My dad didn't tell us to work hard; we just saw how hard he worked. I know I have shortcomings - like a short fuse - but I've learned you can't come home from a long day of work and snap at the kids.
Chris O'Donnell

Work, Home, Dad

And I believe we need heroes, I believe we need certain people who we can measure our own shortcomings by.
Richard Attenborough

Heroes, Measure

No shortcomings of other people cause us to be more intolerant than those which are caricatures of our own.
Franz Grillparzer

Cause, Intolerant

I am not blind to the shortcomings of our own people.
Mary Harris Jones

Look at the United States today. We have made mistakes in the past. We have had shortcomings. We shall make mistakes in the future and fall short of our own best hopes.
Henry Cabot Lodge

Best, Future, Today

The Pilgrim and the Puritan whom we honor tonight were men who did a great deal of work in the world. They had their faults and their - shortcomings, but they were not slothful in business and they were most fervent in spirit.
Henry Cabot Lodge

Work, Great, Men

The ability of discerning high quality unavoidably implies the ability of identifying shortcomings.
Edsger Dijkstra

High, Quality, Ability

American foreign policy, for all its shortcomings, has underpinned political stability around the world.
Michael Mandelbaum

Political, Around, American

Ideal conversation must be an exchange of thought, and not, as many of those who worry most about their shortcomings believe, an eloquent exhibition of wit or oratory.
Emily Post

Thought, Worry, Ideal

When conducted with proper preparation, and in a focused and professional manner, oversight of executive branch actions can reveal serious shortcomings by government officials and help prevent recurrence; the 'Waco hearings,' conducted over a two-week period in 1995, stand as an example of such an undertaking.
Bob Barr

Government, Help, Serious

I had my shortcomings - crazy hair, braces, bad skin and all that stuff. I went through it all.
David Boreanaz

Crazy, Bad, Through

The Arab representatives and their followers were not interested in the persecuted millions throughout the world; they were fixed on a political agenda that distracted the world from their own serious shortcomings in the human-rights department.
Jack Schwartz

Political, Serious, Interested

Humility is not my forte, and whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters.
Margaret Halsey

Time, Humility, Rather

We live in a constant fear that our shortcomings will be exposed to family, to friends and to the world.
Keith Miller

Family, Fear, Live

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