Motivational Quotes

Faults

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

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Faults

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

Lessing, Doris

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

Horace

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

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

He has not a single redeeming defect.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Hazlitt, William

Bad people excuse their faults; wise people leave them.

Johnston, Ben

Faults are beauties in a lovers eye.

Theocritus

10.

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

11.

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

Hoffa, Jimmy

12.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

13.

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

Sade, Marquis De

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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

15.

The essence of a man is found in his faults.

Picabia, Francis

16.

Don't find fault, find a remedy.

Ford, Henry

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

Proverb, Chinese

18.

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

Confucius

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

Lynes, Russell

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When looking for faults use a mirror, not a telescope

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

24.

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

SeVigne, Marquise De

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

Paul, Jean

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

Voltaire

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Men's faults to themselves seldom appear.

Shakespeare, William

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

Addison, Joseph

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Only the great can afford to have great defects.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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.

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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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Proverb, Scottish

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A fault is sooner found than mended.

Fulwell, Ulpian

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Langbien

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

Confucius

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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