Personal Weaknesses Quotes

He [John Adams] is vain, irritable, and a bad calculator of the force and probable effect of the motives which govern men. That is all the ill that can be said of him.

At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures - be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.

I know the kind of street I'm going down. I know my own strengths and weaknesses.

A flawed candidate with a strong character versus a strong candidate with a flawed character.

Community life is not easy for somebody like me, who is used to living by himself and doing what he wants. It's a demanding life, and you quickly get in touch with your own handicaps and weaknesses.

Each person assesses each other person's credibility on different dimensions, because people are strong and weak in different things.

People and organizations don't grow much without delegation and completed staff work because they are confined to the capacities of the boss and reflect both personal strengths and weaknesses.

I am more stupid about some things than others; not equally stupid in all directions; I am not a well-rounded person.

We all have strengths, weaknesses and blind spots. In fact, an average person has 3.4 blind spots.

Some of our weaknesses are born in us, others are the result of education; it is a question which of the two gives us most trouble.

Predominantly, crimes and horrible, horrible, horrible judgment don't have to do with sociopaths. It has to do with people who are not capable of maintaining or managing their frailties.

Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.

Most people are good at a handful of things and utterly miserable at most.

We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.

Everybody has to think for himself. A right way for a big man may not be a right way for a small man. A right way for someone who is slow may not be a right way for someone who is quick. Each person must understand his weaknesses and his strengths.

I do think I have a thing or two to improve myself although it is difficult to reach your full potential at an average team.

I have strengths, and I have weaknesses. I don't pretend to be able to write a great thesis or doctorate - I have no pretensions in that direction.

Everyone has their weaknesses. Some people smoke. I collect stuffed penguins. If you won't tell, I won't.

American newspapers disregard principles to seize on people, following them into their private lives and laying bare their weaknesses and their vices.

All of us want something in life, all of us have flaws, and all of us have strengths. So, I always try to discover those things in a character and then try to expose it in one way or another.

I'm the type of guy who gets on the end of things. I need to work on my heading and sometimes my concentration is poor but you need someone to finish off moves.

I'm really spectacularly thick in all areas of my life except comedy and science. I'm crap at everything else.

I had a terrible temper, after all, and though it rarely erupted, when it did it frightened me and anyone near its epicenter. It was the only crack, but a disturbing one, in the otherwise vacuum-sealed casing of my behavior.

If you look at the Kennedys, if you look at Bill Clinton, I think our country has decided or learned that we are all flawed, that we all have imperfections, and if all of that were revealed about each one of us, we would all be tainted.

My not-so-fun traits are that I get very impatient and I can be really stubborn.