The mind's ability to rationalize it's own shortcomings is unlimited; I am no exception.
No matter how much you disagree with your kin, if you are a thoroughbred you will not discuss their shortcomings with the neighbors.
At any age it does us no harm to look over our past shortcomings and plan to improve our characters and actions in the coming year.
A brother who recognizes that we have shortcomings, we, in the struggle, have faults, and that he wanted to reconcile differences.
America is a great country. It has many shortcomings, many social inequalities, and it's tragic that the problem of the blacks wasn't solved fifty or even a hundred years ago, but it's still a great country, a country full of opportunities, of freedom! Does it seem nothing to you to be able to say what you like, even against the government, the Establishment?
The successful leader must be willing to assume responsibility for the mistakes and the shortcomings of his followers.
I don't put myself above anyone, and I have as many shortcomings as any non-believer. I just choose to turn to a higher power to help me gain wisdom and, I hope, improve over time.
The ability of discerning high quality unavoidably implies the ability of identifying shortcomings.
It's not our disadvantages or shortcomings that are ridiculous, but rather the studious way we try to hide them, and our desire to act as if they did not exist.
It is a noble and great thing to cover the blemishes and excuse the failings of a friend; to draw a curtain before his weaknesses and to display his perfections; to bury his shortcomings in silence but to proclaim his virtues on the housetop.
Great talent admits shortcomings.
To the extent that language forces experiences into categories it is a screen between reality and the human being. In a word, we pay for its benefits. . . Therefore, while using language, as we must of necessity, we should be aware of its shortcomings.
I have many shortcomings. I feel very lucky to have been able to have what I've had.
From the cradle to the cubicle, we devote more time to our shortcomings than to our strengths.
A 'weakness,' I now realize, is nothing but a strength not properly developed.
With our own shortcomings, we are in no position to judge anyone else. The best way to forget the faults of others is to remember our own.
One of the greatest and also the commonest of faults is for men to believe that, because they never hear their shortcomings spoken of, or read about them in cold print, others can have no knowledge of them. GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG, The Reflections of Lichtenberg We are often more agreeable through our faults than our good qualities.
Exposing characters and their shortcomings gives me great comfort. Its always great to write about someone more mixed up than yourself.
I am not blind to the shortcomings of our own people.
Never underestimate the capacity of another human being to have exactly the same shortcomings you have.