35 Quotes About Shortcomings

Sometimes it seems, we are so diminished by our own shortcomings we are unable to celebrate the success of others.

Let me see—what are my other shortcomings? I get in the dumps at times, and don't open my mouth for days on end. You must not think I am sulky when I do that. Just let me alone, and I'll soon be right. What have you to confess now? It's just as well for two fellows to know the worst of one another before they begin to live together.

It is easy to discuss the faults in others, and hard to disseminate our own shortcomings.

I once was a man with promise and potential. Then doubt whispered in my ear and I became less than I could have been, all because I listened and believed.

I guess that I have been thinking about how graceful you were, and although it is none of my business, I wondered whether you might not be paying a price for being that way. . . . People want to have an easy fix on other people, and since you are Cindi Coeur, it's easy to assume that someone who satirizes our shortcomings has set herself above us.

I knew that part of friendship consisted in accepting a friend’s shortcomings, which sometimes included his parents.

the greatest sin is carelessness.

Vices are simply overworked virtues ...