Failings Quotes at BrainyQuote.com

Ah, beware of snobbery; it is the unwelcome recognition of one's own past failings.
Cary Grant

An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.
Walter Bagehot

At least I have the modesty to admit that lack of modesty is one of my failings.
Hector Berlioz

But I always wanted my characters to be more than cyphers for the failings of their world. And I never had to look too hard to find a part of myself in them.
Douglas Sirk

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 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

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

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

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

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

Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.
Luc de Clapiers

Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.
Nikola Tesla

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

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

Though just biographical record will touch the failings of the good and the eminent with tenderness.
Anne Seward

Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.
Jean de la Bruyere

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

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

When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.
Epictetus

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