Quotes About Faults

We are exceptionally good at seeing the faults in others and exceptionally adept at ignoring the faults in ourselves.

For youthful faults ripe virtues shall atone.

We all have faults, and mine is being wicked.

We forget our faults easily when they are known to ourselves alone.

Not using faults does not mean that one does not have them.

He wanted to be loved for being just what he was. In this community of Yskalnari there was harmony, but no love. He no longer wanted to be the greatest, strongest or cleverest. He had left all that far behind. He longed to be loved just as he was, good or bad, handsome or ugly, clever or stupid, with all his faults - or possibly because of them. But what was he actually? He no longer knew. So much have been given to him in Fantastica, and now, among all these gifts and powers, he could no longer find himself.

The Lord does not measure out our afflictions according to our faults, but according to our strength, and looks not what we have deserved, but what we are able to bear.

Well, the reality of her father was that he was a very diseased alcoholic, who died at the age of 34. And one always has to pause to wonder how much you have to drink to die at 34. And he was a really tragic father. I mean, he was absolutely unreliable. He was absolutely involved with various people. He had outside families, outside children, outside wives. He made his wife's life miserable. And she [Eleanor Roosevelt]ignored all of his faults and retained this sense of him as the perfect father.

Be real and be unashamed, even of your faults. I do truly know what my husband is made of and vice versa.

Let us not write at a loose rambling rate, in hope the world will wink at all our faults.

Do not try to excuse your faults; try to correct them

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.

I tolerate my faults but not at all other people's.

Faults are committed within the walls of Troy and also without. [There is fault on both sides.]

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

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.

You should examine yourself daily. If you find faults, you should correct them. When you find none, you should try even harder.

I thank God that you know the art of tearing yourself apart - I mean the way to humble yourself truly by recognizing and realizing your faults. You are right in believing yourself to be as you describe and to be most unsuitable for any kind of duty; it is on this foundation that Our Lord will base the execution of His plans for you.

Echo waits with art and care And will the faults of song repair.

Where love fails we espy all faults.

I run an academy in Spain for young footballers who are released by their clubs and who, in my opinion, deserve a second chance. It is a rewarding job for me, but one that also reveals many of the faults in the English game.

To love with understanding and without understanding. To love blindly, and to folly. To see only what is loveable. To think only of these things. To see the best in everyone around, their virtues rather than their faults. To see Christ in them!

men do not suspect faults which they do not commit

The inability to grasp the pathology* of our oligarchic rulers is one of our gravest faults.

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

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.

How easy it is to see your brother's faults, How hard it is to face your own.

To copy beauty forfeits all pretense to fame; to copy faults is want of sense

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

There's something called the physiology of forgiveness. Being unable to forgive other people's faults is harmful to one's health.

The ancient commission of the writer has not changed. He is charged with exposing our many grievous faults and failures, with dredging up to the light our dark and dangerous dreams for the purpose of improvement.

How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.

To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.

One of the greatest faults of the women of the present time is a silly fear of things, and one object of the education of girls should be to give them knowledge of what things are really dangerous.

You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?

The way to acquire lasting esteem is not by the fewness of a writer's faults, but the greatness of his beauties, and our noblest works are generally most replete with both.

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

If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.

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.

England, with all thy faults I love thee still, My country!

We easily forgive our friends those faults that do no affect us ourselves.

There are faults we would fain pardon.

it may be in morals as it is in optics, the eye and the object may come too close to each other, to answer the end of vision. There are certain faults which press too near our self-love to be even perceptible to us.

Friend, my enemy, I call you out. You, you, you there with a bad thorn in your side. You there, my friend, with a winning air. Who pawned the lie on me when he looked brassly at my shyest secret. With my whole heart under your hammer. That though I loved him for his faults as much as for his good. My friend were an enemy upon stilts with his head in a cunning cloud. -Dylan Thomas

The nature of the universe has by no means been made through divine power, seeing how great are the faults that mar it.

My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.

The only faults considered grave are the following: not respecting the rights of one's neighbor, letting oneself be paralyzed by fear, feeling guilty, thinking one does not deserve the good and bad which occurs in life, and being a coward.

Communication between band-mates is imperative. Communication is the key to any healthy relationship. If I need to be checked, I expect to hear it put in plain words what my faults are, and give my band-mates the ultimate consideration by shutting up and listening, then acting on the advice given. Same goes for anyone else in any band.