Quotes About Faults

You can be happy with someone who likes you despite your faults - until you meet someone who likes your faults.

Blessed is he whose own faults keep him from seeing the faults of others.

Nobody can be perfect unless he admits his faults, but if he has faults how can he be perfect?

We all have faults, and mine is being wicked.

Men are to be guided only by their self-interests. Good government is a good balancing of these; and, except a keen eye and appetite for self-interest, requires no virtue in any quarter. To both parties it is emphatically a machine: to the discontented, a taxing-machine; to the contented, a machine for securing property. Its duties and its faults are not those of a father, but of an active parish-constable.

I think the worst woman that ever existed would have made a man of very passable reputation -- they are all better than us and their faults such as they are must originate with ourselves.

Women have many faults, but the worst of them all is that they are too pleased with themselves and take too little pains to please the men.

A good drawing has immense vitality because it is explanatory. In a good drawing even its faults have become virtues.

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

The desire of talking of ourselves, and showing those faults we do not mind having seen, makes up a good part of our sincerity.

Black detraction will find faults where they are not.

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

The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.

We have to try to cure our faults by attention and not by will.

A hero without faults is like an omelet without little bits of eggshell in it.

Few faults of style, whether real or imaginary, excite the malignity of a more numerous class of readers, than the use of hard words.

O, happy the soul that saw its own faults.

I think it would be very boring dramatically to have a film where everybody was a lawyer or doctor and had no faults. To me, the most important thing is to be truthful.

Where love fails we espy all faults.

A just person knows how to secure his own reputation without blemishing another's by exposing his faults.

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?

Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And even his failings lean'd to Virtue's side.

Some would find fault with the morning, if they ever got up early enough.. The fault find faults even in Paradise.

If, when you charged a person with his faults, you credited him with his virtues too, you would probably like everybody.

Our own self-love draws a thick veil between us and our faults.

The love of Christ always helps us see beyond the faults of others.

Great men should not have great faults.

It is tragic that the Fuehrer should have the whole nation behind him with the single exception of the Army generals. In my opinion it is only by action that they can now atone for their faults of lack of character and discipline.

We love a girl for very different qualities than understanding. We love her for her beauty, her youth, her mirth, her confidingness, her character, with its faults, caprices and God knows what other inexpressible charms; but we do not love her understanding.

I am terrified by this dark thing That sleeps in me; All day I feel its soft, feathery turnings, its malignity. Clouds pass and disperse. Are those the faces of love, those pale irretrievables? Is it for such I agitate my heart? I am incapable of more knowledge. What is this, this face So murderous in its strangle of branches? - Its snaky acids kiss. It petrifies the will. These are the isolate, slow faults That kill, that kill, that kill.

We are dismayed when we find that even disaster cannot cure us of our faults.

Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach, but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car.

I tell you one thing. If you want peace of mind, do not find fault with others. Rather learn to see your own faults. Learn to make the whole world your own. No one is a stranger, my child; this whole world is your own.

A blessed thing it is to have a friend; one human soul whom we can trust utterly; who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults; who will speak the honest truth to us, while the world flatters us to our face, and laughs at us behind our back; who will give us counsel and reproof in a day of prosperity and self-conceit; but who, again, will comfort and encourage us in days of difficulty and sorrow, when the world leaves us alone to fight our own battle as we can.

You don't love if you don't take the beloved's faults for virtues.

So may he rest, his faults lie gently on him!

Confession of our faults is the next thing to innocence.

Focus on remedies, not faults.

Though the day of my Destiny 's over, And the star of my Fate hath declined, Thy soft heart refused to discover The faults which so many could find.

Fear is not at the heart of Christianity nor of our nation. The very essence of Christian faith lies in forgiveness. Christians believe that Jesus died so we may live. He took upon himself our sins so that we may be forgiven and thereby gave us a model of forgiveness for others. This is a cycle that allows civility and progress in the face of man's faults and imperfectability.

We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.

No golfer ever gets so consistently good that he can't use some constructive advice. No matter how many trophies he may win, he can't analyze and remedy his own faults.

Advice to Young Journal Keepers. Be lenient with yourself. Conceal your worst faults, leave out your most shameful thoughts, actions, and temptations. Give yourself all the good and interesting qualities you want and haven't got. If you should die young, what comfort would it be to your relatives to read the truth and have to say: It is not a pearl we have lost, but a swine?

Chance corrects us of many faults that reason would not know how to correct.

No man can tell another his faults so as to benefit him, unless he loves him.

Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing.

Writing a diary every evening before going to bed is a good habit. We can record in the diary how much time we have devoted to our spiritual practice. The diary should be written in a way that helps us see our mistakes and correct them. It should not be a mere document of other peoples' faults or our daily transactions.

Why would anybody connect to someone who has everything going for them? It's the person who has faults that people want to connect to. So people identify with certain insecurities on stage and just by me talking about my diabetes people come up to me after the show and tell me "Gabe, my blood sugar is out of control and I feel you". That's the first thing they say, they say "I feel you!".