My Imperfections And Failures Quotes

#1. My imperfections and failures are as much a blessing from God as my successes and my talents and I lay them both at his feet.

Mahatma Gandhi

#2. It can be depressing when no one takes interest, and a lack of response makes the writer question why they're writing at all. To have one's writing rejected is like you, yourself, are being rejected.

Elizabeth Clements

#3. Prayer is speaking to God - but sometimes He uses our times of prayerful silence to speak to us in return.

Billy Graham

#4. My books are inspired by children - sometimes my own.
My writing is powered by chocolate - not always my own!

Cas Lester

#5. I tell you and you forget. I show you and you remember. I involve you and you understand.

Eric Butterworth

#6. God's forgiveness allows us to be honest with ourselves. We recognize our imperfections, admit our failures, and plead to God for clemency.

Jonathan Sacks

#7. It helps parents to feel better if we remind them of our failures with them! And how they turned out just fine despite our imperfections ... We never get over needing nurturing parents. The more we comfort our own adult children, the more they can comfort our grandchildren.

Eda LeShan

#8. there was yet another date, of greater importance to her than those; that of her own death, when all these charms would had disappeared; a day which lay sly and unseen among all the other days of the year, giving no sign or sound when she annually passed over it; but not the less surely there

Thomas Hardy

#9. Speak not in high commendation of any man to his face, nor censure any man behind his back; but if thou knowest anything good of him, tell it unto others; if anything ill, tell it privately and prudently to himself.

William Burkitt

#10. Only those who are grounded can truly learn;
one has to walk before one can fly.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#11. Just go. When you're on your deathbed you're gonna wish you could get back all the time you spent waiting on other people.

David Wong

#12. It's not necessary, in order to be a complete person, that I have a man. It's not the end-all, be-all of my life.

Cher

#13. We must choose. Be a child of the past with all its crudities and imperfections, its failures and defeats, or a child of the future, the future of symmetry and ultimate success.

Frances E. Willard

#14. Auld Nature swears the lovely dears Her noblest work she classes, O; Her 'prentice han' she tried on man, And then she made the lasses, O!

Robert Burns

#15. Knowledge can be a subtle curse. When we learn about the world, we also learn all the reasons why the world cannot be changed. We get used to our failures and imperfections. We become numb to the possibilities of something new

Jonah Lehrer