#shortcomings

The Pilgrim and the Puritan whom we honor tonight were men who did a great deal of work in the world. They had their faults and their - shortcomings, but they were not slothful in business and they were most fervent in spirit. ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge

#deal #did #faults #fervent #great

I think it's easiest to teach by example. My dad didn't tell us to work hard; we just saw how hard he worked. I know I have shortcomings - like a short fuse - but I've learned you can't come home from a long day of work and snap at the kids. ↗

— Chris O'Donnell

#dad #day #easiest #example #fuse

The God we serve does not seek out the perfect, but instead uses our imperfections and our shortcomings for his greater good. I am humbled by my own limitations. But where I am weak, He is strong. ↗

— Rick Perry

#does #god #good #greater #his

Even as we enumerate their shortcomings, the rigor of raising children ourselves makes clear to us our mothers' incredible strength. We fear both. If they are not strong, who will protect us? If they are not imperfect, how can we equal them? ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#children #clear #enumerate #equal #even

Never underestimate the capacity of another human being to have exactly the same shortcomings you have. ↗

— Leigh Steinberg

#being #capacity #exactly #human #human being

For eleven months and maybe about twenty days each year, we concentrate upon the shortcomings of others, but for a few days at the turn of the New Year we look at our own. It is a good habit. ↗

— Arthur Hays Sulzberger

#concentrate #days #each #eleven #few

Some might think that George W. Bush had his shortcomings, but let me tell you something - history's going to be kind to George W. Bush. ↗

— J. C. Watts

#bush #george #george w #going #had

The ability of discerning high quality unavoidably implies the ability of identifying shortcomings. ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

#discerning #high #high quality #identifying #implies

We live in a constant fear that our shortcomings will be exposed to family, to friends and to the world. ↗

— Keith Miller

#constant fear #exposed #family #fear #friends

Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings. ↗

— Laurence J. Peter

#correct #enables #faults #our #parents