Motivational Quotes

Faults

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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Best Quotes about Faults

There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce 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

A fault is sooner found than mended.

Fulwell, Ulpian

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

Voltaire

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

Horace

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

SeVigne, Marquise De

Men's faults to themselves seldom appear.

Shakespeare, William

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

Sade, Marquis De

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

Hoffa, Jimmy

10.

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

Langbien

11.

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

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

Paul, Jean

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Addison, Joseph

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

Lessing, Doris

18.

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

Confucius

19.

Don't find fault, find a remedy.

Ford, Henry

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When looking for faults use a mirror, not a telescope

21.

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

Proverb, Scottish

22.

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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The essence of a man is found in his faults.

Picabia, Francis

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

Confucius

25.

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

Proverb, Chinese

26.

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

Hazlitt, William

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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

28.

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

30.

Bad people excuse their faults; wise people leave them.

Johnston, Ben

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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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Only the great can afford to have great defects.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De