Shortcoming Quotes

#1. Being aware of a single shortcoming within yourself is far more useful than being aware of a thousand in someone else.

Dalai Lama

#2. Shortcoming shouldn't be in Longman's vocabulary.

Natalya Vorobyova

#3. The lack of historical memory is a serious shortcoming in our society. A mentality that can only say, "Then was then, now is now", is ultimately immature. Knowing and judging past events is the only way to build a meaningful future. Memory is necessary for growth.

Pope Francis

#4. But even we, with our supposed mastery of the English language, were not immune to the shortcoming of our vocabularies.
Words can only help you if you speak them.

Bianca Phipps

#5. The shortcoming of hanging pawns is that they present a convenient target for attack. As the exchange of men proceeds, their potential strength lessens and during the endgame they turn out, as a rule, to be weak.

Boris Spassky

#6. I think it's a huge shortcoming of mine - this disconnect between the world of human and animals. We are animals.

Rachel Zucker

#7. Do not be discouraged by the ways in which you fall short. Every shortcoming is to me an opportunity for your growth.

Julia Cameron

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

Steven Pinker

#9. To be aware of a single shortcoming in oneself is more useful than to be aware of a thousand in someone else.

Dalai Lama

#10. I do believe I can forgive almost any shortcoming a person may have except lack of enthusiasm ...

Venita VanCaspel

#11. There really is "no effort without error and shortcoming" and there really is no triumph without vulnerability.

Brene Brown

#12. The shortcoming of purely political discourse between Christians and Jews arises from the fact that it is largely built upon the perception of a common enemy.

David Novak

#13. (he pulled her hand back up and set it over his heart) This tightening in my chest that you can't see? That's something I've never felt before. You've got something no one else has. You don't have a shortcoming, sweetheart. You have an advantage.

Sylvia Day

#14. There is no effort without error or shortcoming.

Theodore Roosevelt

#15. It's so much easier to tell other people how to do their job than fix one's own shortcoming, isn't it?

Helen Simonson

#16. With automobile accidents, mechanical failure is seldom the cause; and most often, operator error. I find the same to be true with corporate failings ... . the people are rarely the issue ... the shortcoming is most often found in the leadership.

Steve Maraboli

#17. Kitsch tends to wallow in beauty - its shortcoming is not aesthetic, but ethical

Hermann Broch

#18. I hadn't hold out much hope for myself; if my counterpart existed, he'd be amazingly talented to make up for my shortcoming, and that would condemn me to a life of living in his shadows; or he'd match my feeble powers and be so weak that we'd barely sense each other.

Joss Stirling

#19. A man's shortcoming lies in the belief that he must always assert his manliness. A woman's shortcoming lies in the belief that she must always repress it.

Kamand Kojouri

#20. The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function.

Albert A. Bartlett

#21. The fact that we cannot write down all the digits of pi is not a human shortcoming, as mathematicians sometimes think.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#22. Women are still not reaching the most senior levels of corporations. This is not the shortcoming of women. We're talented and smart.

Ruth Porat

#23. The vision of Van Helsing as a vampire is one before which my imagination balks; this is doubtless only a shortcoming on my part; he may have been well fitted for the role, since as we have seen he had already the power, by means of speech, to cast his victims into a stupor.

Fred Saberhagen

#24. A physical shortcoming could produce a kind of mental excess. The process, it seemed, was reversible. Mental excess could produce, for its own purposes, the voluntary blindness and deafness of deliberate solitude, the artificial impotence of asceticism.

Aldous Huxley

#25. Everyone had something - some fear, some shortcoming, some problem. And some people had multiples in each area. The problems were what made people human beings - they fostered compassion and encouraged growth. What would be the point if everyone was perfect?

Karen McQuestion

#26. A major shortcoming of the Resistance is the outnumbering, before long, of the genuine warriors by camera-carrying midgets intent on leaving a record of their purported heroism.

Coco Chanel

#27. Fashions change, and with the new psychoanalytical perspective of the postwar period [WWII], child rearing became enshrined as thespecial responsibility of mothersany shortcoming in adult life was now seen as rooted in the failure of mothering during childhood.

Sylvia Ann Hewlett

#28. I write from a thorough conviction that it is the duty of me, and with the belief that, after every drawback and shortcoming, I do my best, all things considered
that is for me, and, so being, the not being listened to by one human creature would, I hope, in nowise affect me.

Robert Browning

#29. Although he liked nearly everything else about himself, Keith hated his redeeming features. In his view they constituted his only major shortcoming -his one tragic flaw.

Martin Amis

#30. The impact of human intention on physical systems within as well as outside the body has been scientifically demonstrated and reveals a shortcoming of the conventional medical paradigm and highlights a strength of the energy medicine paradigm.

Jed Diamond

#31. If someone finds a flaw [shortcoming] in us, know that there is imperfection [defect] in us. However, it is a different matter if that person has a habit of talking negatively, but generally that is not the case.

Dada Bhagwan

#32. By three things the wise person may be known. What three? He sees a shortcoming as it is. When he sees it, he tries to correct it. And when another acknowledges a shortcoming, the wise one forgives it as he should.

Gautama Buddha

#33. Some people are born flight risks. It is no shortcoming of yours that they cannot keep their feet on the ground. It is not your fault that they cannot seem to stand in place. They are not leaving you; they are just leaving.

Trista Mateer