Motivational Quotes

Faults

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

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Faults

The essence of a man is found in his faults.

Picabia, Francis

Only the great can afford to have great defects.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Voltaire

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Horace

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

Confucius

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

Paul, Jean

Bad people excuse their faults; wise people leave them.

Johnston, Ben

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

Hazlitt, William

10.

He has not a single redeeming defect.

Disraeli, Benjamin

11.

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

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

Proverb

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

14.

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.

15.

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

Addison, Joseph

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Men's faults to themselves seldom appear.

Shakespeare, William

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Lessing, Doris

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

Langbien

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

Hoffa, Jimmy

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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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A fault is sooner found than mended.

Fulwell, Ulpian

24.

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

SeVigne, Marquise De

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Proverb, Scottish

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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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Faults are beauties in a lovers eye.

Theocritus

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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When looking for faults use a mirror, not a telescope

36.

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

Confucius

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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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Don't find fault, find a remedy.

Ford, Henry

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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