Quotes About Faults

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.

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.

Evil and faults are corrected by good, by love, kindness, meekness, humility, and patience.

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.

Downplaying their faults is pretty much the point of campaigns. But we do count on them living with the constant terror of public rejection.

What we cut off from our other faults is very often but so much added to our pride.

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

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

Those 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.

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.

We 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.'

Any 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.

This body, full of faults, Has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

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

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

And oft, my jealousy shapes faults that are not.

I have no confidence in a man whose faults you cannot see.

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

By 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.

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.

It requires less character to discover the faults of others, than to tolerate them.

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

Those partial to drink were hiding faults and dishonesty. They were sloppy souls, even the ones with pleasant manners and fine noses.

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

Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.

Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes.

Truly it is reasonable to make a great distinction between the faults that come from our weakness and those that come from our wickedness.

Perfect 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.

With all their faults, trade-unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed.

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

When 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.

Our 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.

It 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.

True penance consists in regretting without ceasing the faults of the past, and in firmly resolving to never again commit that which is so deplorable.

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

Complaining is finding faults, wisdom is finding solutions

Whoe'er he be That tells my faults, I hate him mortally.

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

All models have faults - that doesnt mean you cant use them as tools for making decisions.

A lifetime can well be spent correcting and improving one's own faults without bothering about others.

Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings.

We 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.

I 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.

Men are almost always cruel in their neighbors' faults; and make others' overthrow the badge of their own ill-masked virtue.

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

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.

I'm not unfaithful, darling. I've plenty of faults but I'm very faithful. You'll be sick of me I'll be so faithful.