Quotes About Character Defects

#1. It was truly amazing what character defects people would tolerate if one had a title, a fortune, and a few interesting scars.

Anne Barton

#2. My experience with age it instills a degree of patience in some, leaves the virtuous spiritually unchanged, feeds the character defects in others, and brings little wisdom to any of us.

James Lee Burke

#3. Getting into a new relationship is like pouring Miracle-Gro on your character defects.

Anne Lamott

#4. A nun I know once told me she kept begging God to take her character defects away from her. After years of this prayer, God finally got back to her: I'm not going to take anything away from you, you have to give it to Me.

Anne Lamott

#5. My journey through life has led me through both light and dark places, and it's because of those experiences that I have learned how to work through my character defects and to help others do the same.

Jessie Pavelka

#6. The principles of Twelve Step recovery are the opposite of our character defects.

Anonymous

#7. It is very humbling to see my own character defects in someone who annoys me. At the end of the day, I realize they have actually prompted positive change in me.

Auliq Ice

#8. Don't be too worthwhile. Always keep a few character defects handy. People love to talk about your frailties.If you must be noble, keep it to yourself

Edward Stone

#9. Your character defects are not where you're bad, but where you're wounded. But no matter who or what causes the wound, it's yours now and you're responsible for it.

Marianne Williamson

#10. If we are not in conflict with Palestine than why are they so afraid of us presenting Palestinian voices? Of course the answer is obvious, and we see it throughout the U.S. and the world, controlling the master narrative of Israel means vigilantly controlling the narrative about Palestine.

Jon Rubin

#11. I don't watch that much TV. I think I should probably watch a little bit more, but I love the ABC Family shows.

Jean-Luc Bilodeau

#12. The mind of a wise man is the safest custody of secrets; cheerfulness is the key to friendship; patience and forbearance will conceal many defects.

Bill Vaughan

#13. In general, we're least aware of what our minds do best.

Marvin Minsky

#14. Indeed envy is a defect; worse than any other.

Rumi

#15. After the maxi yuan depreciation of 1994 and until 2005, exchange-rate fixity was the order of the day, with little movement in the CNY/USD rate.

Steve Hanke

#16. Reflect upon the defects of your character: thoroughly realize their evils and the transient pleasures they give you, and firmly will that you shall try your best not to yield to them the next time.

H. P. Blavatsky

#17. It was in the defects that they [servants] invariably acquired that I learned of my own natural, invariable defects, and their character presented me with a sort of negative proof of my own.

Marcel Proust

#18. I think it's impossible to actually be a role model. I think on some level, you'll have your flaws or defects of character, regardless.

Curtis Jackson

#19. We're always disappointed when we find out someone else has human limits, the same as we do. It's stupid for us to feel that way, and we really ought to know better, but that doesn't seem to slow us down.

Jim Butcher

#20. No one was ever the better for advice: in general, what we called giving advice was properly taking an occasion to show our own wisdom at another's expense; and to receive advice was little better than tamely to another the occasion of raising himself a character from our defects.

Anthony Ashley Cooper

#21. it's human nature to assume that when we see a mistake, it's due to defects in someone else's department, knowledge, or character,

Eric Ries

#22. Talent is often a defect in character.

Karl Kraus

#23. When I draw it, I'm going to make my skin see-through and what you'll see is that all the animals in the zoo of me have broken out of their cages.

Jandy Nelson

#24. There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil, a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome."
"And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody."
"And yours," he replied with a smile, "is wilfully to misunderstand them.

Jane Austen

#25. What distinguishes a technological world is that the terms of nature are obscured; one need not live quite in the present or the local.

Rebecca Solnit

#26. I liked 'Scream of the Banshee' because it was a real challenge. I thought, 'How am I going to pull off this character?' But, I also thought, 'Oh, man, I'm going to go for it.' He's got all the defects of character that an actor loves to play. So, I had a really great time.

Lance Henriksen

#27. "I fear your kind and open communication, which has rendered me more painfully conscious of my own defects, has not improved me," sighed Kate.

Charles Dickens

#28. A man who shows no defect is a fool or a hypocrite, whom we should mistrust. There are defects so bound to fine qualities that they announce them,
defects which it is well not to correct.

Joseph Joubert

#29. I can trust my friends These people force me to examine myself, encourage me to grow.

Cher

#30. I accept my body and its defects.
I accept my character
and its weaknesses.
I love myself as a perfect part
of a perfect Whole.

Human Angels

#31. For some interesting reason, I also like a guy who has a littte bit of a belly. I think that's really cute.

Carmen Electra

#32. We tend to see our character flaws as simple defects, and the simple defects of others as character flaws.

Mardy Grothe

#33. It is one of the defects of my character that I cannot altogether dislike anyone who makes me laugh.

W. Somerset Maugham

#34. No one should be judged by their defects. The great virtues a person has are his or her especially. But their errors are the common weakness of humanity and should never be counted in estimating a person's character.

Swami Vivekananda

#35. Marx's father became a Christian when Marx was a little boy, and some, at least, of the dogmas he must have then accepted seem to have born fruit in his son's psychology.

Bertrand Russell

#36. Every hour you spend on your rear end ... saps your energy and ruins your health.

Tom Rath

#37. I doubt I'll ever pay someone to do a remix again, because there's some amazing stuff just coming out of bedrooms.

Trent Reznor

#38. True friends seek together to live truer, fuller lives by relating to each other authentically and by teaching each other about the limitations of their beliefs and the defects in their character, which are a far greater source of error than mere rational confusion.

Neel Burton

#39. When I go to bed at night, I've got so much grease on my body I wear snow chains to hold up my gown.

Phyllis Diller

#40. You are a creative center from which increase is given off to all.

Wallace D. Wattles

#41. There are sometimes beauties in a character which would never have appeared but for a defect, and defects which would never have appeared but for a beauty.

Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke