Motivational Quotes

Faults

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

- Goldsmith, Oliver

Best Quotes about Faults

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

Horace

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

Lessing, Doris

A fault is sooner found than mended.

Fulwell, Ulpian

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

Paul, Jean

There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Proverb

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

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

10.

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

Proverb, Scottish

11.

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

Confucius

12.

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

SeVigne, Marquise De

13.

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

Proverb, Chinese

14.

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

Sade, Marquis De

15.

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

16.

Bad people excuse their faults; wise people leave them.

Johnston, Ben

17.

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

Langbien

18.

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

19.

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

Hoffa, Jimmy

20.

Don't find fault, find a remedy.

Ford, Henry

21.

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.

22.

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

Shakespeare, William

23.

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

24.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

25.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

26.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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