Motivational Quotes

Faults

A man's personal defects will commonly have with the rest of the world precisely that importance which they have to himself. If he makes light of them, so will other men.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Faults

If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Humankind's chief fault is that they have so many small ones.

Paul, Jean

He has not a single redeeming defect.

Disraeli, Benjamin

Some faults are so closely allied to qualities that it is difficult to weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.

Goldsmith, Oliver

A man can become so accustomed to the thought of his own faults that he will begin to cherish them as charming little personal characteristics.

Rowland, Helen

It is well that there is no one without a fault; for he would not have a friend in the world.

Hazlitt, William

It is always well to accept your own shortcomings with candor but to regard those of your friends with polite incredulity.

Lynes, Russell

Wink at small faults, for you have great ones yourself.

Proverb, Scottish

Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind.

Shakespeare, William

10.

The greatest of all faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.

Carlyle, Thomas

11.

The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.

Sade, Marquis De

12.

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

Confucius

13.

No one is worse, for knowing the worst of themselves.

Proverb

14.

Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.

Lessing, Doris

15.

A fault that humbles a man is of greater value than a virtue that puffs him up.

16.

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

17.

Only the great can afford to have great defects.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

18.

Humility is not my forte, and whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters.

Halsey, Margaret

19.

When looking for faults use a mirror, not a telescope

20.

While fools shun one set of faults they run into the opposite one.

Horace

21.

Not to alter one's faults is to be faulty indeed.

Confucius

22.

They say men are molded out of faults, and for the most, become much more the better; for being a little bad. [Measure For Measure]

Shakespeare, William

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Faults are beauties in a lovers eye.

Theocritus

24.

Bad people excuse their faults; wise people leave them.

Johnston, Ben

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A fault is sooner found than mended.

Fulwell, Ulpian

26.

Don't find fault, find a remedy.

Ford, Henry

27.

I may have faults, but being wrong ain't one of them.

Hoffa, Jimmy

28.

Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without one.

Proverb, Chinese

29.

Men's faults to themselves seldom appear.

Shakespeare, William

30.

We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies it is the first law of nature.

Voltaire

31.

Fools can find fault, but they can't act anymore wisely.

Langbien

32.

The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them; they change and everyone looks up to them.

Confucius

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A man's personal defects will commonly have with the rest of the world precisely that importance which they have to himself. If he makes light of them, so will other men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

34.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

35.

Why do we discover faults so much more readily than perfection.

SeVigne, Marquise De

36.

Our friends don't see our faults, or conceal them, or soften them.

Addison, Joseph

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A spirit to find fault is an enemy to your peace and comfort, and also to the happiness of those around you. It is the key to your destruction.