Quotes About Shortcoming

The chief shortcoming of the old public services was the restrictive regulations and facilities—one-size-fits-all—with

Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.

Apologizing. — A very desperate habit, — one that is rarely cured. Apology is only egotism wrong side out. Nine times out of ten, the first thing a man's companion knows of his shortcoming is from his apology. It is mighty presumptuous on your part to suppose your small failures of so much consequence that you must make a talk about them.

Looked at absolutely, we must frankly acknowledge that we have fallen very far short indeed of the high ideal we should have reached. Looked at relatively, it must also be said that we have done better than any other nation or race working under our conditions.

To sin is to fall short of a perfect action; hence to be able to sin is to be able to fall short in action, which is repugnant to omnipotence.

Mohammad, left a lot to be desired.

I think that a failure of statistical thinking is the major intellectual shortcoming of our universities, journalism and intellectual culture.

For, so inconsistent is human nature, especially in the ideal, that not to undertake a thing at all seems better than to undertake and come short.

It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy.

He's too short, he's too... tall, he's... just not going to work.

It might be perception of a few people, but I strongly believe that there is no shortcoming in Bihar's law and order in Nitish regime.

The trouble with all this, she said to him, is that it leaves so much out.

The attempt to beautify doubt is men's sinful way to justify their shortcoming, to delay correction, and even to refuse repentance. We

Being unhoused in America must no longer be viewed as an individual shortcoming, but rather as an unacceptable, life-threatening policy failure.

We tend to deny our humanity because in accepting the fullness of it, we would need to confess how little we've done with it.

Täydellisyys mitataan puutteilla. Joka ei epäonnistu usein, se ei onnistu koskaan.