Motivational Quotes

Faults

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

Best Quotes about Faults

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

Hoffa, Jimmy

Faults are beauties in a lovers eye.

Theocritus

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.

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

A fault is sooner found than mended.

Fulwell, Ulpian

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

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

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

Proverb, Scottish

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

Langbien

10.

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

Confucius

11.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

12.

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

Sade, Marquis De

13.

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

Lynes, Russell

14.

Don't find fault, find a remedy.

Ford, Henry

15.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Horace

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

Addison, Joseph

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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

19.

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

Voltaire

20.

Bad people excuse their faults; wise people leave them.

Johnston, Ben

21.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

22.

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

Confucius

23.

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

Proverb

24.

Only the great can afford to have great defects.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

25.

He has not a single redeeming defect.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Paul, Jean

27.

When looking for faults use a mirror, not a telescope

28.

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

Shakespeare, William

29.

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

30.

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

SeVigne, Marquise De

31.

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

32.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

33.

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

Hazlitt, William

34.

The essence of a man is found in his faults.

Picabia, Francis

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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

36.

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

Proverb, Chinese

37.

Men's faults to themselves seldom appear.

Shakespeare, William

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

Lessing, Doris

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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]