It is always our inabilities ...

It is always our inabilities that vex us.
 Joseph Joubert

Quotes from the same author

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
 Joseph Joubert
If authorities were well organized, there would not be an Unknown Warrior.
 Joseph Joubert
The talkative man speaks from his mouth, the eloquent man speaks from his heart.
 Joseph Joubert
Religion must be loved as a kind of country and nursing-mother. It was religion that nourished our virtues, that showed us heaven, that taught us to walk in the path of duty.
 Joseph Joubert
A maxim is the exact and noble expression of an important and indisputable truth. Good maxims are the germs of all excellence; when firmly fixed on the memory, they nourish the will.
 Joseph Joubert