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Pride has a greater share than goodness in the reproofs we give other people for their faults; and we chide them not so much to make them mend those faults as to make them believe that we ourselves are without fault.
Francois de La RochefoucauldI 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.
Lord ByronEvil and faults are corrected by good, by love, kindness, meekness, humility, and patience.
John of KronstadtWe rather confess our moral errors, faults, and crimes than our ignorance.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheLet us not write at a loose rambling rate, in hope the world will wink at all our faults.
Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of RoscommonDownplaying their faults is pretty much the point of campaigns. But we do count on them living with the constant terror of public rejection.
Gail CollinsWhat we cut off from our other faults is very often but so much added to our pride.
Francois de La RochefoucauldFaults are committed within the walls of Troy and also without. [There is fault on both sides.]
HoraceThose who influenced me the most are not those who pointed out all my faults, but those who knew God was bigger than my shortcomings. Those who influenced me the most didn't just point a finger, they held out a helping hand.
Phil CallawayI 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.
Joseph AddisonWe are guilty of many errors and many faults, But our worst crime is abandoning the children, Neglecting the fountain of life. Many of the things we need can wait. The child cannot. Right now is the time his bones are being formed, His blood is being made, And his senses are being developed. To him we cannot answer 'Tomorrow.' His name is 'Today.'
Gabriela MistralAny man or woman who neglects to maintain inward vigilance, and only makes an outward show of holiness in dress, speech, and behavior, is a wretched creature. For they watch the doings of other people and criticize their faults, imagining themselves to be something when in reality they are nothing. In this way they deceive themselves. Be careful to avoid this, and devote yourself inwardly to His likeness by humility, charity, and other spiritual virtues. In this way you will be truly converted to God.
Walter HiltonThis body, full of faults, Has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.
Ralph Waldo EmersonMore faults are often committed while we are trying to oblige than while we are giving offense.
TacitusSome would find fault with the morning, if they ever got up early enough.. The fault find faults even in Paradise.
Henry David ThoreauBy some mysterious method, Susan Carr's gossip gave the listener a gentler feeling towards his kind. When she spoke of her neighbors' faults, one knew that somehow they were simply virtues gone to seed.
Margaret DelandIt'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.
Will CuppyIt requires less character to discover the faults of others, than to tolerate them.
Jean Antoine Petit-SennThose partial to drink were hiding faults and dishonesty. They were sloppy souls, even the ones with pleasant manners and fine noses.
Sarah HallHow few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.
Benjamin FranklinEveryone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.
Jean de La FontaineWhy will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes.
Seneca the YoungerTruly it is reasonable to make a great distinction between the faults that come from our weakness and those that come from our wickedness.
Michel de MontaignePerfect concordance among reformers is not to be expected; and men who are honestly struggling towards the light cannot hope to attain at one bound to the complete truth. There is always a danger lest the fascination of a new discovery should lead us too far. Men of science, being human, are apt, like lovers, to exaggerate the perfections and be a little blind to the faults of the object of their choice.
Thomas George BonneyWith all their faults, trade-unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed.
Clarence DarrowWhen you descant on the faults of others, consider whether you be not guilty of the same. To gain knowledge of ourselves, the best way is to convert the imperfections of others into a mirror for discovering our own.
Henry Home, Lord KamesOur Lord wanted us to be Christ-like. Christ-like doesn't mean not having faults. It means that you do actually have a capacity to draw out the good that is in others.
Desmond TutuIt is undoubtedly true, though it may seem paradoxical,--but, in general, those who are habitually employed in finding and displaying faults are unqualified for the work of reformation.
Edmund BurkeTrue penance consists in regretting without ceasing the faults of the past, and in firmly resolving to never again commit that which is so deplorable.
Bernard of ClairvauxJealousy is, I think, the worst of all faults because it makes a victim of both parties.
Gene TierneyAll models have faults - that doesnt mean you cant use them as tools for making decisions.
Myron ScholesA lifetime can well be spent correcting and improving one's own faults without bothering about others.
Edward WestonPsychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings.
Laurence J. PeterWe may observe in humorous authors that the faults they chiefly ridicule have often a likeness in themselves. Cervantes had much of the knight-errant in him; Sir George Etherege was unconsciously the Fopling Flutter of his own satire; Goldsmith was the same hero to chambermaids, and coward to ladies that he has immortalized in his charming comedy; and the antiquarian frivolities of Jonathan Oldbuck had their resemblance in Jonathan Oldbuck's creator.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron LyttonI look back at the Clinton administration as eight years of a fundamental transformation in the direction of the country - toward favoring big business, and toward almost frontal assaults on the most underprivileged members of the society. It was much more than cutting the social safety net. Clinton followed that by the abuse of those at the lowest rungs of our society - in ways that I don't think Bush, for all of his manifest faults, has done to the same degree.
Jeffrey St. ClairMen are almost always cruel in their neighbors' faults; and make others' overthrow the badge of their own ill-masked virtue.
Philip Sidney