Arthur Helps Quotes

But I am not perfect in my way of putting things Because I lack the divine simplicity Of being only what I appear to be.

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

It's a funny thing about weaknesses....Most people will tell you they know their weaknesses. When asked, they'll tell you, 'Well for one thing, I'm overgenerous.' ... that's what innkeepers are for.

Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.

We all have faults, and mine is being wicked.

Of all the things I could know, my own faults and weaknesses are pretty much the most important.

I think I have a better sense of my weaknesses - being self-important, selfish and having a big ego probably triggers all the other stuff. I can see myself more clearly.

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

Too many athletes do not admit their weaknesses.

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

I'm drawn to playing characters who are terribly flawed and have no idea about it.

I am a man of many flaws and contradictions.

I have a whole phone book of fallibility about myself.

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

I'm very conscious I've got a lot of faults, the same as everyone, and I have done plenty of things wrong.

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

I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.

My greatest strength is to have a great capacity to confront myself no matter how unpleasant. My greatest weakness is that I don't. I know that's enigmatic, but that's sort of a general formula for anyone, actually.

A part of control is learning to correct your own weaknesses. The person doesn't live who was born with everything. Sometimes he has one weak point, generally he has several. The first thing is to know your faults. And then take on a systematic plan of correcting them. You know the old saying about a chain only being as strong as its weakest link. The same can be said in the chain of skills a man forges.

The enemy of the moment is not as important as our own inner weakness. If this is not mended we are already defeated, though no foreign conqueror stands within our walls.

How easy it is to be "deep": all you have to do is let yourself sink into your own flaws.

I deplore my shortcomings, but plan to keep them.

A man does not mind being blamed for his faults, and being punished for them, and he patiently suffers much for them; but he becomes impatient if he is required to give them up.

There are lots of things that you can brush under the carpet about yourself until you're faced with somebody whose needs won't be put off.

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