Admit Your Faults Quotes

#1. People tend to scare you pointing out your shortfalls. If you voluntarily admit your faults, then people won't have anything to point out.

Anupam Kher

#2. The fault we admit to is seldom the fault we have, but it has a certain relationship to it, a somewhat similar shape, like that of a sleeve to an arm.

Mignon McLaughlin

#3. People are ready to acknowledge some of their faults, but will admit to others only with reluctance.

Epictetus

#4. People who excuse their faults and claim they didn't deserved to be punished - there are lots of them. But those who don't excuse their faults and admit they didn't deserve to be spared - they are few.

Zhuangzi

#5. We are sometimes as different from ourselves as we are from others.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#6. In a very humbling process, the Swiss have had to admit to their faults and compromise on secrecy, changing the law and releasing the names of bank clients to please the US, as well as signing a dozen double taxation agreements in six months to please the OECD.

Clare O'Dea

#7. One of the most positive things about America is just like what we're all doing here today. We're standing on Jensen Beach, we're watching a beautiful sunrise over the Atlantic. It's all because of men and women who were willing to make a sacrifice so that we can enjoy these freedoms.

Allen West

#8. Surely when a man is painting a picture he ought not refuse to hear any man's opinion ... Since men are able to form a true judgement as to the works of nature, how much more does it behoove us to admit that they are able to judge our faults.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#9. I always say the greats just get better.

Randy Jackson

#10. If you are willing to admit faults, you have one less fault to admit.

Mitchell Symons

#11. Writers write for the same reason readers read. We want to know how it ends, too.

Robynn Tolbert

#12. (those who do not exist cannot regret their non-existence,

Mary Beard

#13. Often it's the deepest pain which empowers you to grow into your highest self.

Karen Salmansohn

#14. He is not likely to learn who is not willing to be taught; for the learner has something to do, as well as the teacher.

Benjamin Whichcote

#15. Burns had his faults, his frailties. He was intensely human. Still, I would rather appear at the "Judgment Seat" drunk, and be able to say that I was the author of "A man's a man for 'a that," than to be perfectly sober and admit that I had lived and died a Scotch Presbyterian.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#16. The truth is harsh." Anubis said. "Spirits come to the Hall of Judgement all the time, and they cannot let go of their lies. They deny their faults, their true feelings, their mistakes ... right up until Ammit devours their souls for eternity. It takes strength and courage to admit the truth.

Rick Riordan

#17. To me there's no difference between writing YA and adult except that in YA I make the book a little shorter and the protagonists are teens. The difference is in the readers.

Charles De Lint

#18. The inquiries of the jurist are in truth prosecuted much as inquiry in physic and physiology was prosecuted before observation had taken the place of assumption.

Henry James Sumner Maine

#19. There are some faults which men readily admit, but others not so readily.

Epictetus

#20. You have it on your noise, but you still need a glass to see it ... We need others to admit our faults.

Amen Muffler

#21. How often one talks not to hear what the other person has got to say, but to hear what one has got to say oneself!

Mary Elizabeth Coleridge

#22. All the satires of the stage should be viewed without discomfort. They are public mirrors, where we are never to admit that we seeourselves; one admits to a fault when one is scandalized by its censure.

Moliere

#23. It's especially hard to admit that you made a mistake to your parents, because, of course, you know so much more than they do.

Sean Covey

#24. Humans have yet to dwell upon the consequences of their
actions. People have yet to admit the bad that they do to
nature, for example. Actually, most people spend their time
finding fault in the action of others, rather than their own.

Masaaki Hatsumi

#25. Nobody can be perfect unless he admits his faults, but if he has faults how can he be perfect?

Laurence J. Peter

#26. Our government needs the church, because only those humble enough to admit they're sinners can bring democracy the tolerance it requires to survive

Ronald Reagan

#27. It makes sense to me that the polyglot wouldn't know what language he dreamed in.

James Arthur

#28. Why, what should be the fear?
I do not set my life at a pin's fee.

William Shakespeare

#29. I'd be the first to admit that I have no shortage of faults.
But if I had to pick one, the one that's gotten me into the most trouble over the years...
...it would be that I sometimes get angry.

Mike Mignola