Motivational Quotes

Faults

When looking for faults use a mirror, not a telescope

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Best Quotes about Faults

A fault is sooner found than mended.

Fulwell, Ulpian

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

Sade, Marquis De

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

Confucius

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

Don't find fault, find a remedy.

Ford, Henry

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

SeVigne, Marquise De

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The essence of a man is found in his faults.

Picabia, Francis

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Men's faults to themselves seldom appear.

Shakespeare, William

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

Hoffa, Jimmy

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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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Bad people excuse their faults; wise people leave them.

Johnston, Ben

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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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He has not a single redeeming defect.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Confucius

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Proverb

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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

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When looking for faults use a mirror, not a telescope

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Only the great can afford to have great defects.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Proverb, Scottish

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

Lessing, Doris