David Gemmell Quotes

My weaknesses... I wish I could come up with something. I'd probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they're the same thing.

I tell the truth, and I expose myself as a weak, misguided, misdirected, dysfunctional human being I used to be.

What we cut off from our other faults is very often but so much added to our pride.

All of us have schnozzles... if not in our faces, then in our character, minds or habits. When we admit our schnozzles, instead of defending them, we begin to laugh, and the world laughs with us.

Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues.

I can tell more about my weaknesses than my strengths.

People tend to scare you pointing out your shortfalls. If you voluntarily admit your faults, then people won't have anything to point out.

I know I'm not perfect.

I think I'm probably a very sad man wrapped in a very joyful package, and I think I'm very resilient, and I think I'm quite generous, sometimes to a fault. And I'm very bad with money, but I don't see that too much of a flaw.

While I was writing 'The Spare Room,' I thought, 'I'm going to look really bad in this book - there's no redeeming this kind of awful, ugly emotion', and I thought, 'I'm not going to change it. I'll call the character 'Helen' and admit to those feelings.' I think this is a reason why people write.

It's important to air your concerns and fears with someone you trust. When you're honest about how you can change and grow, and where your weaknesses are, then you open the door for improvement and change.

You can't deny your limitations.

Anyone who knows me well will tell you that arrogance is one of my flaws.

What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.

The price of confessing is to be confronted with the truth of who you are - you have to bear your faults, your frailties.

I have trouble admitting I'm wrong.

I am a man of many flaws and contradictions.

Anybody can act. Correction. Anybody can act if they know their own weaknesses.

It's not a weakness to admit that you're wrong.

Part and parcel of trying to understand and recognise your strengths and weaknesses is to be brutally honest with how you reflect on what you are yourself. I can't fundamentally change what I am.

I'm not trying to act like I'm Superman or better than anybody else in the game. I'm just telling my story, showing my strengths and weaknesses - as a human, as a person, as a man.

Sometimes I feel drawn to writing about my shortcomings because I'm chock full of them.

I trust you to find the good in me, but the bad I must be sure you don't overlook.

I think it would do a lot of people good just to realize how vulnerable they are.

Some weak people are so sensible of their weakness as to be able to make a good use of it.