Deficiency Quotes

Deficiency motivation doesn't work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.

I am a horrible visual artist. I can't fix a car, sew, knit, cook, etc. Statistically, there is more I don't do than do.

Temperance and bravery, then, are ruined by excess and deficiency, but preserved by the mean.

But something's missing.

Content not thyself that thou art virtuous in the general; for one link being wanting, the chain is defective.

My words are the garment of what I shall never be Like the tucked sleeve of a one-armed boy.

Be assured that, although men of eminent genius have been guilty of all other vices, none worthy of more than a secondary name has ever been a gamester. Either an excess of avarice or a deficiency of what, in physics, is called excitability, is the cause of it; neither of which can exist in the same bosom with genius, with patriotism, or with virtue.

If I feel good about my parenting, I have no interest in judging other people's choices. If I feel good about my body, I don't go around making fun of other people's weight or appearance. We're hard on each other because we're using each other as a launching pad out of our own perceived deficiency.

Where there is too much, something is missing.

Where any one body of educated men, of whatever denomination, are condemned indiscriminately, there must be a deficiency of information, or...of something else.

However gnawing a deficiency, satiety is worse... We are meant to be hungry.

One can aim at honor both as one ought, and more than one ought, and less than one ought. He whose craving for honor is excessive is said to be ambitious, and he who is deficient in this respect unambitious; while he who observes the mean has no peculiar name.

...when people already know they're deficient, they have nothing to lose by trying.

Only a man who cannot conquer his deficiencies feels the need to convince the world that he has none.

to live means to lack something at every moment

Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.

Obviously, Miss Craig, not enough.

All rejection and negation indicates a deficiency in fertility: fundamentally, if only we were good plowland we would allow nothing to go unused, and in every thing, event, and person we would welcome manure, rain, or sunshine.

Being-alone is a deficient mode of being-with; its possibility is a proof for the latter.

He that fancies himself very enlightened, because he sees the deficiencies of others, may be very ignorant, because he has not studied his own.

My shadow is only half of what it should be." "Everyone has their shortcomings.

Wit never appears to greater advantage than when it is successfully exerted to relieve from a dilemma, palliate a deficiency, or cover a retreat.

Anyone is to be pitied who has just sense enough to perceive his deficiencies.

As many suffer from too much as too little.

The obstacle became his alibi for weakness.