Quotes About Shortcomings

Human legs, Annie, are always too short, toes never fit, and people are thankfully almost always totally preoccupied with either subversion, defiance or escape.

Beauty reminds us of our inadequacies, of our mortality, of our limits. Beauty tells us of our short-comings, but also of what is possible.

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

Speaking nothing of how we often fall short in keeping our promises, we frequently play an unnecessary game of politics with key issues - using must-pass legislation such as disaster relief as a vehicle to sweeten unrelated, contentious bills that may not otherwise pass as stand-alone measures.

Stupidity and human incompetence are the great evils, not ambition and glory.

Man's shortcomings and sins are all due to substance of the body and not to its form, while all his merits are exclusively due to his form.

Because of its shortcomings - driving range, cost, and recharging time - the electric vehicle is not a viable replacement for most conventional cars.

For the support and help from the people of Indonesia that I received during my leadership, I ask for forgiveness if there have been any mistakes or shortcomings. Hopefully the people of Indonesia will remain victorious based on Pancasila and the 1945 Constitution.

Ours was the first nation to be founded on the idea that all are created equal and all deserve equal treatment under the law. Despite our missteps and shortcomings, these ideals still inspire hope among the oppressed and give us pride in being Americans.

Our shortcomings drive us, motivate us – to work harder or realize another purpose/talent.

As Paul makes the case that every person has sinned and that every person falls short of the glory of God, he cites homosexuality as a prime example of wickedness.

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.

Failing and laughing at your own shortcomings are the hallmarks of a sane parent.

They seemed to have thought of everything, but they were human, and therefore they had definitely not thought of everything.

of praise in the faces around you. When you fall short of others' expectations, you replay your failures again and again. On your better days, your successes almost seem to balance your screwups. On your darker days, you suspect that your shortcomings have forever skewed everyone's opinion of you — even God's — and you wonder what it will take to regain God's good

Christmas can have a real melancholy aspect, 'cause it packages itself as this idea of perfect family cohesion and love, and you're always going to come up short when you measure your personal life against the idealized personal lives that are constantly thrust in our faces, primarily by TV commercials.

Film as a medium has limitations, you must understand its strong points and its shortcomings. Conflict and movement are close to its soul. But peace, hope and great truths are all of a static nature and can be but poorly served by the film medium.

'Character Doesn't Count' has become a de facto G.O.P. motto. 'Virtue Doesn't Matter' might be another. But character does count, and virtue does matter, and Trump's shortcomings prove it daily.

The science of psychology has been far more successful on the negative than on the positive side... It has revealed to us much about man's shortcomings, his illnesses, his sins, but little about his potentialities, his virtues, his achievable aspirations, or his psychological health.

Social democrats are characteristically modest - a political quality whose virtues are overestimated. We need to apologise a little less for our shortcomings and speak more assertively of achievements. That these were always incomplete should not trouble us.

Every day they met with constant, irritating reminders of their shortcomings, from the petty annoyance of not being able to ask for a cup of coffee in a restaurant, to the sobering knowledge that they couldn't hear cars careening around corners, and that deaf people had been shot in the back by policemen when they hadn't heard a command to halt.

Thus it is I accept without much grumble their failings and my own: the abuse of my enemies, the lapses of my friends; the growing pains in both my legs, my goatly seizures, my errors of fact and judgement, my failures of resolve–all these and more, the ineluctable shortcomings of mortal studenthood.

And you will have greater credibility with your leader if you admit your shortcomings and refrain from making excuses.

All of those shortcomings are the result of character, not capacity. Character growth determines the height of your personal growth. That's the Law of the Ladder.