Quotes About Faults

Meg, I give you your faults." "My faults!" Meg cried. "Your faults." "But I'm always trying to get rid of my faults!" "Yes," Mrs. Whatsit said. "However, I think you'll find they'll come in very handy on Camazotz.

The most generous and merciful in judgment upon the faults of others are always the most free from faults themselves.

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

A rich man's faults are covered with money, but a surgeon's faults are covered with earth.

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

Be like the sun for grace and mercy. Be like the night to cover others' faults. Be like running water for generosity. Be like death for rage and anger. Be like the Earth for modesty. Appear as you are. Be as you appear.

I can forgive a man’s past faults, his present shortcomings, and his future failures if every minute of every day he loves me like it’s his religion.

There is nothing to do with men [and women] but to love them; to contemplate their virtues with admiration, their faults with pity and forbearance, and their injuries with forgiveness.

I am not sure that Christ would have been very satisfied to foresee that He would be looked upon principally as a redeemer and nailed forever upon the cross by human ignorance. It seems to me that He above all desired to bring men a message of truth, that He wanted to heal them of their faults by making an appeal to all their energy; He shook them as much as He could, He did not seek to spare them the trouble.

Who mix'd reason with pleasure, and wisdom with mirth: If he had any faults, he has left us in doubt.

You must purge yourself before finding faults in others.

In vain I have looked for a single man capable of seeing his own faults and bringing the charge home against himself.

I never knew a critic who made it his business to lash the faults of other writers that was not guilty of greater himself--as the hangman is generally a worse malefactor than the criminal that suffers by his hand.

It's when you are down that you learn about your faults.

Never talk about the faults of others, no matter how bad they may be. Nothing is ever gained by that. You never help one by talking about his fault; you do him an injury, and injure yourself as well.

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

The United States, for all its faults, is till the greatest nation in the country.

There are certain people who will always seek to criticize. This has nothing to do with you. It must be hard to be inside their head, you know? I mean if they find so much fault in everyone around them... then one can only imagine the faults they must see in themselves.

I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about my faults.

Among those whose reputation is exhausted in a short time by its own luxuriance are the writers who take advantage of present incidents or characters which strongly interest the passions, and engage universal attention. It is not difficult to obtain readers, when we discuss a question which every one is desirous to understand, which is debated in every assembly, and has divided the nation into parties; or when we display the faults or virtues of him whose public conduct has made almost every man his enemy or his friend.

We are great and our faults are great and therefore our problems great and great are our consolations.

Michael had once read to her how God had cast a man and woman out of paradise. Yet, for all their human faults and failures. God had shown them the way back in.

Because those, who twit others with their faults, should look at home.

And oft, my jealousy shapes faults that are not.

Self-respect is often mistaken for arrogance when in reality it is the opposite. When we can recognize all our good qualities as well as our faults with neutrality, we can start to appreciate ourselves as we would a dear friend and experience the comfortable inner glow of respect. To embrace the journey towards our full potential we need to become our own loving teacher and coach. Spurring ourselves on to become better human beings we develop true regard for ourselves and our life will become sacred.

Nobody stopped believing that other people were more guilty than they were. Why do people have so much trouble seeing their own faults but such an easy time seeing everyone else's?

No weakness of the human mind has more frequently incurred animadversion, than the negligence with which men overlook their own faults, however flagrant, and the easiness with which they pardon them, however frequently repeated.

Great men should not have great faults.

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

Appearing better than others is always dangerous, but most dangerous of all is to appear to have no faults or weaknesses. It is smart to occasionally display defects, and admit to harmless vices, in order to deflect envy and appear more human and approachable. Only gods and the dead can seem perfect with impunity.

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.

Better the occasional faults of a government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a government frozen in the ice of its own indifference.

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

We are people with all the hopes, dreams, passions, and faults of everyone else. Eighty percent of us are born into families with no history of dwarfism.

Focus on remedies, not faults.

I think you can measure how pathetic your life is by how much joy you get from learning about other people's faults and troubles.

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.

Impatience is not the least of your faults, Malik, it is a kind of greed and someday it may see you undone.

Jealousy is, I think, the worst of all faults because it makes a victim of both parties.

There are three ways to correct our faults:We can change through behavior We can change through understanding We can change heart

When we associate with the virtuous we form ourselves in imitation of their virtues, or at least lose, every day, something of our faults.

Remember God is not surprised by your inabilities, your imperfections, or your faults. He has always known everything about you that you are just now finding out, and he chose you on purpose for himself.

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.

sometimes the very faults of parents produce a tendency to opposite virtues in their children.

Scan not a friend with a microscopic glass, you know his faults, now let the foibles pass.

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

With all our horrors and faults, somewhere in us there is a shining.