Personal Flaws Quotes

Stalin is too coarse, and this fault, though tolerable in dealings among us Communists, becomes unbearable in a General Secretary. Therefore I propose to the comrades to find some way of removing Stalin from his position and appointing somebody else who differs in all respects from Comrade Stalin in one characteristic-namely, someone more tolerant, more loyal, more polite and considerate to his comrades, less capricious, etc.

Wilt thou whip thine own faults in other men?

The hardest thing for - not only an artist but for anybody to do is look themselves in the mirror and acknowledge, you know, their own flaws and fears and imperfections and put them out there in the open for people to relate to it.

Mostly the problems when I was down were caused by myself. There were times when I was not responsible enough or decisive enough.

[President John F.] Kennedy must be a strange character—obstinate, sensitive, ruthless and highly sexed.

He that accuses all mankind of corruption ought to remember that he is sure to convict only one.

It's not that I'm a very good person. It's that I think I should at least look at the ways in which I am not a good person, the ways in which I so readily become the person who would not notice that the wonderful clothing I'm wearing someone is probably dying for.

Men's faults do seldom to themselves appear.

I was a pretty bad person early in my life.

Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.

Nobody else is stupid enough to get themselves into the straits that I get into.

I am a flawed human being - a far more flawed human being than you realize.

It is the evil that lies in ourselves that is ever least tolerant of the evil that dwells within others.

The evil which assails us is not in the localities we inhabit but in ourselves.

You've never met a more flawed guy than me.

Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

If you've raged, if you've mistreated somebody, if you've ever thought only about yourself - these are things that all human beings struggle with and judge themselves for.

We have to try to cure our faults by attention and not by will.

I have little feet because nothing grows in the shade.

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

A man's hatred is always concentrated upon that which makes him conscious of his bad qualities.

No one is born without vices, and he is the best man who is encumbered with the least.

I never could keep a promise. I do not blame myself for this weakness, because the fault must lie in my physical organization. It is likely that such a very liberal amount of space was given to the organ which enables me to make promises that the organ which should enable me to keep them was crowded out. But I grieve not. I like no half-way things. I had rather have one faculty nobly developed than two faculties of mere ordinary capacity.

The reason I say I'm a horrible person is I don't want myself to be presented as somebody who's a great Catholic.