Top 100 Own Faults Quotes
#1. When the vision becomes right [correct], one sees only his own faults and when the vision is wrong [incorrect], he sees others at fault.
Dada Bhagwan
#2. Of all the things I could know, my own faults and weaknesses are pretty much the most important.
Simon Travaglia
#3. You can often help others more by correcting your own faults than theirs. Remember, and you should, because of your own experience, that allowing God to correct your faults is not easy. Be patient with people, wait for God to work with them as He wills.
Francois Fenelon
#4. It wounds a man less to confess that he has failed in any pursuit through idleness, neglect, the love of pleasure, etc., etc., which are his own faults, than through incapacity and unfitness, which are the faults of his nature.
Lord Melbourne
#5. He never looks away, searching my eyes for truth. His reaction has left my heart pounding, shocked at how quick he was to dismiss any fault I may have had. I wish he was just as quick to dismiss his own faults, but he isn't.
Colleen Hoover
#6. To censure my own faults in some other person seems to me no more incongruous than to censure, as I often do, another's in myself. They must be denounced everywhere, and be allowed no place of sanctuary.
Michel De Montaigne
#7. Many people excuse their own faults but judge other persons harshly. We should reverse this attitude by excusing others' shortcomings and by harshly examining our own.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#8. It is better to find your own faults and rectify them than to find thousands of faults in others.
Debasish Mridha
#9. Such excessive preoccupation with his faults is not a truly spiritual activity but, on the contrary, a highly egoistic one.The recognition of his own faults should make a man humbler, when it is beneficial, not prouder, which the thought that he ought to have been above these faults makes him.
Paul Brunton
#10. No golfer ever gets so consistently good that he can't use some constructive advice. No matter how many trophies he may win, he can't analyze and remedy his own faults.
Byron Nelson
#11. One's own faults are always a heavy chain to drag through life and one can't help groaning under the weight now and then.
George Eliot
#12. You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?
Benjamin Franklin
#13. Abstain from all thinking about other people's faults, unless your duties as a teacher or parent make it necessary to think about them. Whenever the thoughts come unnecessarily into one's mind, why not simply shove them away? And think of one's own faults instead? For
C.S. Lewis
#14. As long as one finds faults with the world, he won't be able to find anything about the Soul (Self). He who sees his own faults is the Soul (Self) himself!
Dada Bhagwan
#15. Knowledge is like the great army that will help us crush the forces of our own faults.
Dalai Lama XIV
#16. To be able to see one's own faults; this is known as Enlightened vision (Samkit; Self-realization; right belief).
Dada Bhagwan
#17. No weakness of the human mind has more frequently incurred animadversion, than the negligence with which men overlook their own faults, however flagrant, and the easiness with which they pardon them, however frequently repeated.
Samuel Johnson
#18. Thinking about the weaknesses or faults of others is forbidden, whether they are present or not. The Prophet said, There is a tree in Paradise reserved for one whose own faults preoccupied him from considering the faults of others.
Hamza Yusuf
#19. If you see in your children most of your own faults, you have failed as a parent, but succeeded as a neurotic.
Mignon McLaughlin
#20. Let us look at our own faults, and not other people's. We ought not to insist on everyone following in our footsteps, nor to take upon ourselves to give instructions in spirituality when, perhaps, we do not even know what it is.
Teresa Of Avila
#21. I winked at my own littleness, as people do at their own faults.
Jonathan Swift
#22. Few behaviors of other people are more irritating than those that display our own faults in an unattractive way.
John Verdon
#23. We can be blind to our own faults. Our own flaws. They call it being human. The universe or whatever you want to call it. I call it human nature. The origins of smoke and mirrors.
Abigail George
#24. 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.
Helen Rowland
#25. In vain I have looked for a single man capable of seeing his own faults and bringing the charge home against himself.
Confucius
#26. He knows his own faults, but also knows his qualities.
Paulo Coelho
#27. We can often do more for other men by trying to correct our own faults than by trying to correct theirs ~ Francois Fenelon
Francois Fenelon
#28. If people scrutinize their own faults as they do the faults of others,Mankind will be freed of all evil.
Thiruvalluvar
#29. He knew himself well enough to know his own faults. Impatient and judgmental and stubborn and often too quick to act: he would try never to crush her, never to overwhelm her or bend her to his will, but if she did not demand only the best from him, it would happen. It might happen. Possibly.
Meredith Duran
#30. Do you know it is a universal affliction of the incompetent to judge another's actions only through the prism of their own faults, never to comprehend that another can react in any way other than how they themselves would?
Tom Wolosz
#31. We do not look at our own faults; the eyes do not see themselves, they see the eyes of everybody else. We human beings are very slow to recognise our own weakness, our own faults, so long as we can lay the blame upon somebody else.
Swami Vivekananda
#32. Misfortunes one can endure
they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults
ah!
there is the sting of life.
Oscar Wilde
#33. Keep up a humble sense of your own faults, and that will make you compassionate to others
Richard Baxter
#34. It is the curse of the powerful to be blind to their own faults.
Robert Fanney
#35. Men ought to be most annoyed by the sufferings which come from their own faults.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#36. Self-love is often equated with self-esteem but when it makes you blind to your own faults and gives you an inflated ego, it is time to introspect.
Balroop Singh
#37. When one sees his own faults, he will not have the time to see the others' faults.
Dada Bhagwan
#38. Glad-tidings to he who knows his own faults more than other people know it.
Ibn Hazm
#39. When you see the members of your household as faultless (nirdosh) and see only your own faults, then true pratikraman will be done.
Dada Bhagwan
#40. There are indeed, in the present corruption of mankind, many incitements to forsake truth: the need of palliating our own faults and the convenience of imposing on the ignorance or credulity of others so frequently occur; so many immediate evils are
Samuel Johnson
#41. I would prefer you did not apologize for anyone else," she said. "My father always says that if we were as quick to own our own faults as we are to apologize for those of others, society might truly advance.
Helen Simonson
#42. People who are open about their own faults, especially, often want to ferret out "inner feelings" beneath the surface and expose any falsehood, and they think that it's in their inner feelings that the truth lies. But I don't think that's the truth.
Mamoru Hosoda
#43. Though men can cover crimes with bold, stern looks, poor women's faces are their own faults' books.
William Shakespeare
#44. When one sees one's own faults, he attains a state of an abode of Self-illuminated Bliss!
Dada Bhagwan
#45. I resolve for 1920 to sit down all by myself and take a personal stock-taking once a month. To be no more charitable in viewing my own faults than I am an viewing the faults of others. To face the facts candidly and courageously. To address myself carefully, prayerfully, to remedying defects.
B.C. Forbes
#46. It is easy to see the faults of others, but difficult to see one's own faults. One shows the faults of others like chaff winnowed in the wind, but one conceals one's own faults as a cunning gambler conceals his dice.5
Jonathan Haidt
#47. And yet, I have this sense that this place is holier than back home. Gluttonous, fat, oversexed, overconsuming, materialist home, where we're too lazy to see our own faults. At least here, Rodriguez has the decency to worry about hell.
Phil Klay
#48. Every man carries two bags about him, one in front and one behind, and both are full of faults. The bag in front contains his neighbors' faults, the one behind his own. Hence it is that men do not see their own faults, but never fail to see those of others.
Aesop
#49. Not to be able to find one's 'own' faults; this is called the world.
Dada Bhagwan
#50. O, happy the soul that saw its own faults.
Rumi
#51. I tell you one thing. If you want peace of mind, do not find fault with others. Rather learn to see your own faults. Learn to make the whole world your own. No one is a stranger, my child; this whole world is your own.
Sarada Devi
#52. The truth had lacerated him to the bone, had punctured his heart, and had ripped through his soul. The truth had slain him and tended to his wounds. The truth had hated him and loved him. The truth had opened his eyes to his own faults.
Brenda Sutton Rose
#53. Psychologically speaking (I'll only wheel out the amateur psychology just this once, so bear with me), encounters that call up strong physical disgust or revulsion are often in fact projections of our own faults and weaknesses.
Haruki Murakami
#54. A man who becomes used to deluding himself, who fails to face his own faults with revolutionary honesty and even lies to himself, is the most likely to become a traitor, since lying is the beginning of treachery.
Ashraf Dehghani
#55. Nobody stopped believing that other people were more guilty than they were. Why do people have so much trouble seeing their own faults but such an easy time seeing everyone else's?
Carol Plum-Ucci
#56. A lifetime can well be spent correcting and improving one's own faults without bothering about others.
Edward Weston
#58. Speak no evil, that thou mayest not hear it spoken unto thee, and magnify not the faults of others that thine own faults may not appear great
Baha'u'llah
#59. Blessed is he whose own faults keep him from seeing the faults of others.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#60. Rate the task above the prize; will not the mind be raised? Fight thine own faults, not the faults of others; will not evil be mended?
Confucius
#61. Dat had always told her that whenever you got angry at another person, it was an opportunity to take a glimpse of your own faults.
Tricia Goyer
#62. In other men we faults can spy,/ And blame the mote that dims their eye;/ Each little speck and blemish find;/ To our own stronger errors blind.
Benjamin Franklin
#63. He who is insolent towards men is insolent towards God ... Respect in man the grand, inestimable image of God and be forbearing towards the faults and errors of fallen man, so that God may be forbearing towards your own ...
John Of Kronstadt
#64. When you are offended at anyone's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. By attending to them, you will forget your anger and learn to live wisely.
Marcus Aurelius
#65. Every man has a bag hanging before him, in which he puts his neighbour's faults, and another behind him in which he stows his own.
William Shakespeare
#66. As long as I am focusing on the faults of others, then I don't have to face my own.
Tullian Tchividjian
#67. Men are almost always cruel in their neighbors' faults; and make others' overthrow the badge of their own ill-masked virtue.
Philip Sidney
#68. Many of the faults you see in others, dear reader, are your own nature reflected in them. As the Prophet said, "The faithful are mirrors to one another." MATHNAWI I, 1319, 1328
Rumi
#69. 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
#70. When someone does
The wrong thing
Observe them as truth
Questions their actions ...
Those whom carry a selfish
Persona will never own their truthful faults,
But the one's of light will fight
To make their wrongs; right.
Nikki Rowe
#71. Human beings can be beautiful. If they are not beautiful it is entirely their own fault. It is what they do to themselves that makes them ugly.
Frank Lloyd Wright
#72. Dwell not on the faults and shortcomings of others; instead, seek clarity about your own.
Gautama Buddha
#73. In my own pursuit of God, I often became preoccupied with ME! It was easy to think that being constantly aware of my faults and weakness was humility. It's not! If I'm the main subject, talking incessantly about my weaknesses, I have entered into the most subtle form of pride.
Bill Johnson
#74. Nothing is more apt to deceive us than our own judgment of our work. We derive more benefit from having our faults pointed out by our enemies than from hearing the opinions of friends.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#75. I know from experience that those least capable of truly assessing any marriage are the children who come out of it. We style them as we need them, to excuse our faults, to insulate ourselves from our own expendability or indispensability.
Anna Quindlen
#78. Since the world never faults a man who refuses to yield ... it is generally recognized that weak men live in obedience to the world's will, while the strong obey only their own.
Giacomo Leopardi
#79. How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.
Benjamin Franklin
#80. Know thy neighbor as thyself. That is, comprehend his hardships and understand his position, deal with his faults as gently as with your own. Do not judge him where you do not judge yourself...this is the meaning of the word LOVE.
Pearl S. Buck
#81. How we love to blame others for our misfortunes! Almost every individual who has lost money in stock speculation has on the tip of his tongue an explanation which he trots out to show that it wasn't his own fault at all ... Hardly one loser has the manliness to say frankly, I was wrong.
B.C. Forbes
#82. I am surprised at three things: 1. [A] man runs from death while death is inevitable. 2. One sees minor faults in others, yet overlooks his own major faults. 3. When there is any defect to one's cattle he tries to cure it, but does not cure his own defects.
Umar
#83. Every one has his faults: but we do not see the wallet on our own backs.
Catullus
#84. Seeing the faults of others is indeed an echo of our own fault; the biggest fault is our own fault. That is known as the mad ego.
Dada Bhagwan
#85. When it's your own fault, things hurt worse than when someone else is to blame.
Malcolm Forbes
#86. There is little I can tell you about Aglaura beyond the things its own inhabitants have always repeated: an array of proverbial virtues, of equally proverbial faults, a few eccentricities, some punctilious regard for rules.
Italo Calvino
#88. Stand up, be bold, and take the blame on your own shoulders. Do not go about throwing mud at others; for all the faults you suffer from, you are the sole and only cause.
Swami Vivekananda
#89. We make mistakes, we have our faults, and God knows some of us have more than our share, but when danger threatens and duty calls, we go smiling to our own funeral.
James Larkin
#90. The intellectual ... must try never to forget the arguments of the adversary, or the uncertainty of the future, or the faults of one's own side, or the underlying fraternity of ordinary men everywhere.
Raymond Aron
#91. Endeavor to be always patient of the faults and imperfections of others; for thou hast many faults and imperfections of thine own that require forbearance. If thou art not able to make thyself that which thou wishest, how canst thou expect to mold another in conformity to thy will?
Thomas A Kempis
#92. Humility is the sure evidence of Christian virtues. Without it, we retain all our faults still, and they are only covered over with pride, which hides them from other men's observation, and sometimes from our own too.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#93. A just person knows how to secure his own reputation without blemishing another's by exposing his faults.
Pasquier Quesnel
#94. Sometimes believers are hampered in their public effectiveness by limitations that are no fault of their own.
Max Anders
#95. Our own self-love draws a thick veil between us and our faults.
Lord Chesterfield
#96. Shakespeare knew the human mind, and its most minute and intimate workings, and he never introduces a word, or a thought, in vain or out of place; if we do not understand him, it is our own fault.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#97. There are no chains like hate ... dwelling on your brother's faults multiplies your own. You are far from the end of your journey.
Gautama Buddha
#98. Now I'm growing and I can see my faults. I can look at myself objectively and say I can't blame anyone else; it was my own damn fault.
Christopher Atkins
#99. Had we not faults of our own, we should take less pleasure in complaining of others.
Francois Fenelon
#100. It's silly to try to escape other people's faults. They are inescapable. Just try to escape your own.
Marcus Aurelius
