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Heartbreaks, disappointments and even our own weaknesses can serve as stepping-stones to the second half of life transformation. Failings are the foundation for growth. Those who have fallen, failed or 'gone down' are the only ones who understand 'up.' -- Richard Rohr
An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind. -- Walter Bagehot
Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself. -- Luc de Clapiers
Ah, beware of snobbery; it is the unwelcome recognition of one's own past failings. -- Cary Grant
Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings. -- Jean de la Bruyere
Hygiene is important. That's one of my failings. So I'm always being called on that. -- Dan Aykroyd
Yet, our achievements also mask many continuing failings and seem to expose more future dangers. -- Hun Sen
In both religion and science, some people are dishonest, exploitative, incompetent and exhibit other human failings. -- Rupert Sheldrake
At least I have the modesty to admit that lack of modesty is one of my failings. -- Hector Berlioz
Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more. -- Nikola Tesla
Friendship is also about liking a person for their failings, their weakness. It's also about mutual help, not about exploitation. -- Paul Theroux
When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger. -- Epictetus
We expect teachers to handle teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, and the failings of the family. Then we expect them to educate our children. -- John Sculley
Parents are perhaps the most common object of resentment, the people who are most frequently blamed for all our failings and failures alike. -- Theodore Dalrymple
Government has a habit of blaming the private sector for its own failings while taking credit for advances we in fact owe to the private sector. -- Thomas Woods
It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch each other, and find sympathy. It is in our follies that we are one. -- Jerome K. Jerome
One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them. -- Thomas Sowell
Moral habits, induced by public practices, are far quicker in making their way into men's private lives, than the failings and faults of individuals are in infecting the city at large. -- Plutarch
Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. -- Bernard Baruch
Scotland is my country, the nation that shaped me, that taught me my values. A nation whose achievements inspired and inspire me, a community whose failings drive me - drive my overwhelming desire to fight for social justice and equality. -- Johann Lamont
Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as it is elating. We must march toward these two goals, painfully but resolutely, certain in advance of our failings on so long a road. -- Albert Camus
The humor is essentially dark for a cartoon and sophisticated. But at the same time, being a cartoon gives the writers more freedom than in a normal sitcom. It always pushes the line that, despite human failings, the Simpsons are really decent people. -- Dan Castellaneta
One of the great failings of our education system is that we tend to focus on those who are succeeding in exams, and there are plenty of them. But what we should also be looking at, and a lot more urgently, is those who fail. -- Michael Morpurgo
I grew up in a family that despised displays of strong emotion, rage in particular. We stewed. We sulked. When arguments did occur, they were full-scale conniptions, and we regarded them as family failings. Afterward, we withdrew from one another and tried our best to strike the event from our memories. -- Koren Zailckas
Prayer provides an opportunity to remind oneself of how one should be living, our responsibilities to others, our own failings, and our relative good fortune, should we have it. This is, I think, a pretty worthwhile practice and it is not something you can only do if you believe you are talking to an unseen creator. -- Julian Baggini
If 'Mystery Train' is my Nixon book and 'Lipstick Traces' my Reagan book, 'Invisible Republic' is my Bill Clinton book. I really liked Clinton. He made me proud to be part of this country again. For all of his failings, the way he put all that he'd done in jeopardy, I supported him from beginning to end. -- Greil Marcus
Work creates an enormous sense of self and I saw that in my mother. She was an enormous, towering figure to me in the best possible way. I picked up a lot of things from her in the way that I work... I also picked up a lot of the failings of when your father doesn't have those things and that results in a house that turns into a minefield. -- Bruce Springsteen
A man is more than his failings. -- Rick Reilly
We all have our strengths and our failings. -- Hannah Simone
Reproof should not exhaust its power upon petty failings. -- Samuel Johnson
Citizendium is based on the failings and unreliability of Wikipedia. -- Larry Sanger
Three of the greatest failings, want of sense, of courage, or of vigilance. -- Thucydides
Only the Liberal Democrats have probed the government's failings consistently, thoroughly and effectively. -- Charles Kennedy
Spontaneous love admits errors, hesitations and human failings. It can be tested and repaired. -- Nancy Friday
For all our failings, despite our limitations and fallibilities, we humans are capable of greatness. -- Carl Sagan
It is always more difficult to fight one's own failings than the power of an adversary. -- Jawaharlal Nehru
When people reproach us, they only increase their own failings even as they are disclaiming them. -- Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de ...
I have no end of failings as a mother, but I have always followed the rules. -- Lionel Shriver
Though just biographical record will touch the failings of the good and the eminent with tenderness. -- Anna Seward
In a nutshell, I am not unaware of my failings. Neither am I a stranger to irony. -- Mordecai Richler
Our errors and failings are chinks in the heart's armor through which our true colors can shine. -- Elizabeth Lesser
Laughter is a celebration of our failings. That's what clowns are for. And that's what I am. -- Emma Thompson
The root of a nation's misfortunes has to be sought in the moral failings of the government. -- Aung San Suu Kyi
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The strengths and failings of a relationship depend entirely on your ability to talk about your feelings. -- Spike Jonze
How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice! -- Honore de Balzac
We own up to minor failings, but only so as to convince others that we have no major ones. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I was very fortunate to have had a mother and father who loved me in spite of my failings. -- George W. Bush
Whining about your own, others', or the world's failings is a main element in what we usually call neurosis. -- Albert Ellis
Expose not the secret failings of mankind, otherwise you must verily bring scandal upon them and distrust upon yourself. -- Saadi
Friends are often chosen for similitude of manners, and therefore each palliates the other's failings because they are his own. -- Samuel Johnson
Whatever Romney's failings, he certainly doesn't suggest that the United States is teetering on the brink of a moral cesspool. -- John Podhoretz
One of the failings of ideologues is their inability to see that everyone else isn't necessarily an ideologue like them. -- Josh Marshall
The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Beauty (was)a gift which, in the eyes of New York, justified every success, and excused a certain number of failings. -- Edith Wharton
Addressing the moral failings of black people while ignoring the centuries-old failings of their governments amounts to a bait and switch. -- Ta-Nehisi Coates
Let us be very gentle with our neighbors' failings, and forgive our friends their debts as we hope ourselves to be forgiven. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
Whatever their failings as a class may be, and however likely to lose their immortal souls, lawyers do not generally lose papers. -- Arthur Cheney Train
we must love those with whom we live and work, and love them for all their failings, manifest and manifold though they be. -- Alexander McCall Smith
It was to carry the American democratic journey beyond these failings that Black citizens and civil rights workers risked unemployment, violence and death. -- Elijah Cummings
A minister full of comforts & free from failings as an angel, though he would be happy, wouldn't be a good or useful preacher -- John Newton
The boldest stroke and best act of friendship is not to disclose our own failings to a friend, but to show him his own. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Too often [the Church] is weighted down and burdened with the sins and failings of her children; too often she appears disfigured and discouraged. -- Pope Benedict XVI
The loftiness of understanding embraces all. It requires as much spirit to suffer the failings of others as it does to appreciate their good qualities. -- Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de ...
The American Way is an amalgam of our compassion, our strengths, our failings and our attempts to build a better world, a more perfect union. -- J. Michael Straczynski
I feel the political failings of the U.S.A. are presidential in length, but the aspirant narrative of the States is millennial in length. -- Jim Crace
...it's easy to express romantic love - harder to manage daily love - to forgive failings close to feelings - to divide self from soul... -- John Geddes
If we want to be excused for our imperfections and personal failings, then we'd better be ready to offer the same grace to our partners. -- Ellen McCarthy
One of the things we might want to learn when considering the failings of others is not to gloat because someone else has tripped up. -- Desmond Tutu
Calamities that are not the result of purely natural phenomena usually have their origins, distant and obscure though they may be, in common human failings. -- Aung San Suu Kyi
There are some people upon whom their very faults and failings sit gracefully; and there are others whose very excellencies and accomplishments do not become them. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
When we hide our failings from others, we seek to hide them from ourselves, and it is in the latter attempt that we are most successful. -- Pierre Nicole
At twenty you have many desires which hide the truth, but beyond forty there are only real and fragile truths - your abilities and your failings. -- Gerard Depardieu
Mamma says if we stay so focused on our past failings, we won't be able to move beyond them and learn what we need to know. -- Annette Bridges
One of the greatest weaknesses in most of us is our lack of faith in ourselves. One of our common failings is to depreciate our tremendous worth. -- L. Tom Perry
How we carry what has gone wrong for us is essential to being at home in ourselves, and present to the world with all of its failings. -- Krista Tippett
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You learn who you really are in a fight - what you're really made of. You have to face yourself and rise above your own fears and failings. -- Tami Hoag
The multiple failings of our flawed financial sector are jeopardizing, not only the retirement security of our nation's savers but the economy in which our entire society participates. -- John C. Bogle
One of the big failings of art schools is that students aren't given any teaching on how to survive as a one-person business, which is what it is. -- Stuart Pearson Wright
We learn as much by others' failings as by their teachings. Examples of imperfection is just as useful for achieving perfection as are models of competence and perfection. -- Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de ...
Working together, they will dig out the truth and nothing but the truth about what happened in '99, to assign responsibility, and to look at the institutional failings. -- Jose Ramos-Horta
As a writer, you have control: You can play around with your own thoughts and when you find those insufficient, draw upon others': their wisdom, their humor, their failings. -- Marty Nemko
When you are offended at anyone's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. By attending to them, you will forget your anger and learn to live wisely. -- Marcus Aurelius
One of the great failings of the American education system (in our view) is that young people can graduate from university without any understanding of poverty at home or abroad. -- Nicholas D. Kristof
There is the expectation that a younger generation has the opportunity to redeem the crimes and failings of their elders and would have the strength and idealism to do so. -- Joyce Carol Oates
Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And even his failings lean'd to Virtue's side. -- Oliver Goldsmith
Such self-referent misgivings creates stress and undermine effective use of the competencies people possess by diverting attention from how best to proceed to concern over personal failings and possible mishaps -- Albert Bandura
Take care, these Italians, full of failings, are neither you, nor me; they are your neighbors, the ones you meet on the staircase and whom you do not like to greet. -- Alberto Sordi
When we talk about the assertion of basically new government privileges with weak or no justification, we don't even have to look at international law to see the failings in them. -- Edward Snowden
Throughout the world today there is a gowing awareness of the failings of the Western model of development and a corresponding desire to look for more human-scale, ecological ways of living. -- Helena Norberg-Hodge
He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame; a passion which is the instinct of all great souls. -- Edmund Burke
It is only when we stand up, with all our failings and sufferings, and try to support others rather than withdraw into ourselves, that we can fully live the life of community. -- Jean Vanier
Sometimes, when you look at an adviser's failings or perceived failings, I think the tough question you have to ask as a journalist is, 'What does this say about the president?' -- Jodi Kantor
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My life is my statement and I try to be true to myself and thusly to other people. Whatever my failings are, they are human and I try to perfect it each day. -- William Shatner
Endeavor to be patient in bearing with the defects and infirmities of others, of what sort 'soever they be; for that thyself also has many failings which must be borned with by others. -- Thomas a Kempis
The confession of our failings is a thankless office. It savors less of sincerity or modesty than of ostentation. It seems as if we thought our weaknesses as good as other people's virtues. -- William Hazlitt
Storytelling has always been at the heart of being human because it serves some of our most basic needs: passing along our traditions, confessing failings, healing wounds, engendering hope, strengthening our sense of community. -- Parker J. Palmer
The young readers I have interacted with carry old concerns repackaged in the skin of a new generation: puzzlement over continuous national moral failings, contradictions with the elders, nostalgia for a nonexistent Kenyan past. -- Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor
The days of looking the other way while despotic regimes trample human rights, rob their nations' wealth, and then excuse their failings by feeding their people a steady diet of anti-Western hatred are over. -- Dick Cheney
I grew up in a family that despised displays of strong emotion, rage in particular. We stewed. We sulked. When arguments did occur, they were full-scale conniptions, and we regarded them as family failings. -- Koren Zailckas
Great merit, or great failings, will make you respected or despised; but trifles, little attentions, mere nothings, either done or neglected, will make you either liked or disliked in the general run of the world. -- Lord Chesterfield
I am not without faults and I am far short of perfect. I am dealing with my behavior and personal failings behind closed doors with my family. Those feelings should be shared by us alone. -- Tiger Woods

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