Shortcomings Quotes

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.”

- Theodore Roosevelt

I realize now how very short life is, because I`ve got to be considered to be in the home stretch. But I won`t waste time on recriminations and regrets. And the same goes for my shortcomings and my own failures.

- Gregory Peck

It`s related to acting really. I wish I had his career. I remember being in "Remington Steele" (1982) and seeing Bruce Willis go out there and just do it. I thought, "He`s making movies and I`m still here". I just remember that. I remember, ironically, in 1986, I remember going into the old La Scala in Malibu. Bruce was there with Demi (Demi Moore), I had just been offered the Bond in `86 and he said to me, "Well done, man, you got out, way to go." I said, "Thanks, Bruce". Of course, two months later I was high and dry without any Bond in my life or even "Remington Steele". The next thing I see him and he`s off doing his feature films. I always wanted to do movies. I`ve stopped trying to pick myself. Hopefully, you reach a point in life where you leave yourself alone and make peace with your shortcomings, whatever they may be. Education is something for me. I left school at fifteen, sixteen, so I`m always feeling like I got to catch up, got to catch up, got to catch up. That`s something that, you know, you find yourself in a meeting and you`re like, oh boy, we`re going into deep waters. I haven`t read that piece of literature, that`s a piece of information I should have known.

- Pierce Brosnan

(during an Academy Award presentation. responding to the unexpected entrance of a streaker) Isn`t it fascinating to think that probably the only laugh that man will ever get in his life is by stripping off and showing his shortcomings?

- David Niven

The only laugh that man will ever get in his life is by stripping and showing off his shortcomings.

- David Niven

One of my few shortcomings is that I can`t predict the future.

- Lars Ulrich

Hypocrisy is a value that I think has been embraced by the Republican Party. We get lectured by people all day long about moral values by people who have their own moral shortcomings.

- Howard Dean

A woman may have a witty tongue or a stinging pen but she will never laugh at her own individual shortcomings.

- Irvin S. Cobb

A brother who recognizes that we have shortcomings, we, in the struggle, have faults, and that he wanted to reconcile differences.

- Louis Farrakhan

And I believe we need heroes, I believe we need certain people who we can measure our own shortcomings by.

- Richard Attenborough

You finish a movie and you think, there, you`ve done it, really well, or best you can. But if you watch it, you see it was just bullocks. You have to look at the discrepancy between what you hoped and imagined and the reality of yourself and all your shortcomings. You only see your own failure. I`d rather stick with the first idea - just have the experience of working - and leave it at that. You`ve got to protect the old bravado.

- Richard E. Grant

History proves that all dictatorships, all authoritarian forms of government are transient. Only democratic systems are not transient. Whatever the shortcomings, mankind has not devised anything superior.

- Vladimir Putin

It didn`t take long to recognise the shortcomings of the Soviet regime and to see the values of the free world.

- Garry Kasparov

The man who cannot endure to have his errors and shortcomings brought to the surface and made known, but tries to hide them, is unfit to walk the highway of truth.

- James Allen

When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I`ll have no ego to injure.

- Aaron McGruder

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

- Leigh Steinberg

You have to look at the discrepancy between what you hoped and imagined and the reality of yourself and all your shortcomings.

- Richard Grant

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

Look at the United States today. We have made mistakes in the past. We have had shortcomings. We shall make mistakes in the future and fall short of our own best hopes.

- Henry Cabot Lodge

I began developing the plug-in collection because of several severe shortcomings in Finale that were causing me many hours of tedious manual work.

- Robert Patterson

No matter how much you disagree with your kin, if you are a thoroughbred you will not discuss their shortcomings with the neighbors.

- Tom Thompson

Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people`s characters.

- Adam Markham

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

- Albert Haldemann

No shortcomings of other people cause us to be more intolerant than those which are caricatures of our own.

- Alex Cunningham

The Arab representatives and their followers were not interested in the persecuted millions throughout the world; they were fixed on a political agenda that distracted the world from their own serious shortcomings in the human-rights department.

- Alfred Chan

The Committee`s review of a series of intelligence shortcomings, to include intelligence prior to 9/11 and the pre-war intelligence on Iraq, clearly reveal how vital a diverse intelligence workforce is to our national security.

- Algernon Sidney

It was irritating to have one`s physical shortcomings pointed out quite so plainly twice in one evening, once by a beautiful girl and once by a dying badger.

- Andrew Frank

Undoubtedly, there are many shortcomings in the constitution. I was among those who had reservations on the draft constitution.... Nonetheless, I believe that Iraq has to complete the political process soon so as to achieve positive results in the upcoming elections.

- Angelo Forte

Our experience from Iraq, for example, showed substantial intelligence shortcomings. You`d have to assume we too suffer from enormous intelligence shortcoming vis a vis Iran. That would be a problem.

- Azeem Azhar

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.

- Theodore Roosevelt