Quotes About Faults

What you must do is love your neighbor as yourself. There is no one who knows your many faults better than you! But you love yourself notwithstanding. And so you must love your neighbor, no matter how many faults you see in him.

For nobody else, gave me thrill-with all your faults, I love you still. It had to be you, wonderful you, it had to be you.

In the matter of animals I love only cats, but I love them unreasonably for their qualities and in spite of their numerous faults. I have only one, but I could not live without a cat.

Were we faultless, we would not derive such satisfaction from remarking the faults of others.

The care of the critic should be to distinguish error from inability, faults of inexperience from defects of nature.

Drop, drop, slow tears, and bathe those beauteous feet Which brought from heaven the news and prince of peace. Cease not, wet eyes, his mercies to entreat; To cry for vengeance sin doth never cease; In your deep floods drown all my faults and fears, Nor let his eye see sin but through my tears.

Black detraction will find faults where they are not.

I'm not conceited. Conceit is a fault and I have no faults.

The hypocrite looks for faults; the believer looks for excuses.

She was getting used to his rhythms and his moods, recognizing the quiet signals that telegraphed who he was. Good and bad, strengths and faults, he was hers forever. As she pulled into the driveway, she spotted Logan coming down the steps from the house, and she waved. She was his forever, too—imperfect as she was. Take it or leave it, she thought. She was who she was. As Logan walked toward her, he smiled as if reading her mind and opened his arms.

Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.

When you are painting you should take a flat mirror and often look at your work within it, and it will then be seen in reverse, and will appear to be by the hand of some other master, and you will be better able to judge of its faults than in any other way.

It is easy to see the faults of others... it is hard to see our own.

To find out a girl's faults, praise her to her girlfriends.

He who boasts of being perfect is perfect in folly. I never saw a perfect man. Every rose has its thorns, and every day its night. Even the sun shows spots, and the skies are darkened with clouds; and faults of some kind nestle in every bosom.

Why should we assume the faults of our friend, or wife, or father, or child, because they sit around our hearth, or are said to have the same blood?

More faults are often committed while we are trying to oblige than while we are giving offense.

Your failures and your faults, they stick with you. They glob into ugly, cancerous growths inside you and make you want to die.

To what faults do you feel most indulgent? To the ones that arise from urgent material needs.

If we had no faults, we would not derive so much pleasure from noting those of other people.

Whosoever does not know how to recognize the faults of great men is incapable of estimating their perfections.

Governments can err, Presidents do make mistakes, but the immortal Dante tells us that divine justice weighs the sins of the cold-blooded and the sins of the warm-hearted in different scales. Better the occasional faults of a Government that lives in a spirit of charity than the constant omission of a Government frozen in the ice of its own indifference.

Those base men who speak of the secret faults of others destroy themselves like serpents that stray onto anthills.

My two major faults are that I row too long and pick up too many women

Certain faults are necessary for the existence of the individual. We would resent it if old friends were to get rid of certain peculiarities.

Within a year after I write a play I forget the experience of having written it. And I couldn't revise or rewrite it if I wanted to. Up until that point, I'm so involved with the experience of having written the play, and the nature of it, that I can't see what faults it might have. The only moment of clear objectivity that I can find is at the moment of critical heat - of self-critical heat when I'm actually writing.

As nice as we are in love, we forgive more faults in that than in friendship.

There is an unfortunate disposition in a man to attend much more to the faults of his companions which offend him, than to their perfections which please him.

History will help to remedy intellectual faults such as excessive concentration on one line of thought, absence of understanding for other points of view, belief in simple solutions, lack of balance of mind, absence of an imaginative understanding.

In a few days I'll have lived one score and three days in this vale of tears. On I plod-always bored, often drunk, doing no penance for my faults-rather do I become more tolerant of myself from day to day, hardening my crystal heart with blasphemous humor and shunning only toothpicks, pathos, and poverty as being the three unforgivable things in life.

We come from fallible parents who were kids once, who decided to have kids and who had to learn how to be parents. Faults are made and damage is done, whether it's conscious or not. Everyone's got their own 'stuff,' their own issues, and their own anger at Mom and Dad. That is what family is. Family is almost naturally dysfunctional.

Love - not dim and blind but so far-seeing that it can glimpse around corners, around bends and twists and illusion; instead of overlooking faults love sees through them to the secret inside.

I have long been disposed to judge men by their average. If it is reasonably high, I am charitable with faults that look pretty black.

Let us fall before the majesty of our great God, acknowledging our faults, and praying that he will make us ever more conscious of them.

If I can let people see a Seungri without any faults for once, then everything I do after that will be a perfect Seungri.

The real fault is to have faults and not amend them.

It has often been said that power corrupts. But it is perhaps equally important to realize that weakness, too, corrupts. Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. Hatred, malice, rudeness, intolerance, and suspicion are the faults of weakness. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from their sense of inadequacy and impotence. We cannot win the weak by sharing our wealth with them. They feel our generosity as oppression.

I have carefully weighed the virtues and the faults of the Filipino and I have come to the conclusion that he is worth dying for.

The most tragic consequence of our criticism of a man is to block his way to humiliation and grace, precisely to drive him into the mechanisms of self justification and into his faults instead of freeing him from them. For him, our voice drowns the voice of God.

It's silly to try to escape other people's faults. They are inescapable. Just try to escape your own.

I have a lot of faults. I often interrupt in meetings. I talk too loud. I talk too fast.

People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people's minds, as if they believe that the world is always contemplating their individual charms and virtues.

The blindness of men is the most dangerous effect of their pride; it seems to nourish and augment it; it deprives them of knowledge of remedies which can solace their miseries and can cure their faults.

Did I, my lines intend for public view,How many censures, would their faults pursue,Some would, because such words they do affect,Cry they're insipid, empty, uncorrect.And many, have attained, dull and untaught,The name of wit, only by finding fault.True judges, might condemn their want of wit,And all might say, they're by a woman writ.

A brother who recognizes that we have shortcomings, we, in the struggle, have faults, and that he wanted to reconcile differences.

Just thinking about a friend makes you want to do a happy dance, because a friend is someone who loves you in spite of your faults.

When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them.

A readiness to excuse some faults, shows a disposition to commit others.