Quotes About Faults

Blaming your faults on your nature does not change the nature of your faults. After growing up on a dairy farm, everything in life seemed easy

Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.

We rather confess our moral errors, faults, and crimes than our ignorance.

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

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

We would willingly have others perfect, and yet we amend not our own faults. We would have others severely corrected and will not be corrected ourselves. The large liberty of others displeases us, and yet we will not have our own desires denied us. We will have others kept under by strict laws, but in no sort will ourselves be restrained. And thus it appears how seldom we weigh our neighbor in the same balance with ourselves.

One of the baffling things about life is that the purposes of institutions may be ideal, while their administration, dependent upon the faults and weaknesses of human beings, may be bad.

You must purge yourself before finding faults in others.

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

I'm a sinner just like everybody else and I have my faults and I've been through my dark times in my life to where I wasn't walking the walk and talking the talk, or I may have been talking the talk, but I wasn't walking the walk.

The effect of every burden laid down is to leave us relieved; and when the soul has laid down that of its faults at the feet of God, it feels as though it had wings.

We in the media are just people with all of people's faults.

As long as one is following the right way, one should never be concerned about the reproaches of those who like to find faults.

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

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

I'm sure if one turned one's mind back from grandiose faults to what is happening to the average man or woman or child in the rural areas, we will probably find that's where the energy for development is.

It's easy to see the faults in people, I know; and it's harder to see the good. Especially when the good isn't there.

The desire to criticise becomes less and less as the character is developed. It is the mark of a fine character never to be critical and to mention but rarely the faults of others. A strong character does not resist evil, but uses their strength in building the good. They know that when the light is made strong, the darkness will disappear of itself.

Speaking of New York as a traveller I have two faults to find with it. In the first place there is nothing to see; and in the second place there is no mode of getting about to see anything.

He knows his own faults, but also knows his qualities.

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.

We can stop picking on ourselves for picking on ourselvesWe can cherish ourselves and our lives. We can nuture ourselves and love ourselves. We can accept our wonderful selves, with all our faults, foibles, strong points, weak points, feelings, thoughts, and everything else. It's the best thing we've got going for us. It's who we are, and who we were meant to be. And it's not a mistake. We are the greatest thing that will ever happen to us. Believe it. It makes life much easier.

We do not like our friends the worse because they sometimes give us an opportunity to rail at them heartily. Their faults reconcile us to their virtues.

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

I think that it's always great for any actor to play somebody who breathes and lives and is just a regular guy and has faults like we all do.

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

The grace of novelty and the length of habit, though so very opposite to one another, yet agree in this, that they both alike keepus from discovering the faults of our friends.

Faults and defects every work of man must have.

A man has virtues enough if he deserves pardon for his faults on account of them.

Because He moves against faults, God is said to be angered, although He is moved by no disturbance of equanimity.

Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.

What if your husband’s faults are God’s tools to shape you? What if the very thing that most bugs you about your man constitutes God’s plan to teach you something new? Are you willing to accept that your marriage makeover — the process of moving a man — might begin with you?

Tears throw a veil over our faults and allow us to accuse fate without fear or contradiction.

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

I criticize myself ruthlessly, but never mention the faults of which I am truly ashamed.

We often select envenomed praise which, by a reaction upon those we praise, shows faults we could not have shown by other means.

I can't help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves.

I think we as believers can be secure in our relationship with Christ. I'm not saying that sin isn't sin. I'm not saying that people should live in unrepentant sin. I'm not saying that that's a mark of a mature believer at all. Certainly if someone looks at my life, they will see that I have surrendered my heart, my life to Jesus Christ. I'll be very glad to tell them what my faults and my weaknesses are and the areas that I pray about in my life every day.

We don't necessarily stand by our faults every time, but we will always stand by our methodologies and ethos.

Happy the innocent whose equal thoughts are free from anguish as they are from faults.

Now I'm growing and I can see my faults. I can look at myself objectively and say I can't blame anyone else; it was my own damn fault.

The future is unwritten. Cyberspace is the funhouse mirror of our own society, reflects our values and our faults, sometimes in terrifying exaggerations. It doesn't matter who you are today, if you don't show up in that mirror you are just not going to matter very much. Our kids have to show up in the mirror.

I consider as lovers of books not those who keep their books hidden in their store-chests and never handle them, but those who, by nightly as well as daily use thumb them, batter them, wear them out, who fill out all the margins with annotations of many kinds, and who prefer the marks of a fault they have erased to a neat copy full of faults.

O, we all acknowledge our faults, now; 'tis the mode of the day: but the acknowledgment passes for current payment; and therefore we never amend them.

Our worst fault is our preoccupation with the faults of others.

Be bold, and try not to fall in love with your faults. Don't be so afraid of giving yourself away, either, for if yo write, you must. And if you can't face that, better not write.

Just as a child respects his father even when he perceives his weaknesses and faults, so a German will not despise the old Germany which was once a symbol of greatness to him.

My biggest fault is that the faults I was born with grow bigger each year.