Top 54 Quotes About Character Flaws
#2. All of us have areas of weakness. God wants these character flaws to show us how totally dependent we are upon Him. When we handle them properly, they drive us into a deeper, more intimate relationship with the Lord. But uncontrolled weakness wreaks havoc in a person's life.
Charles Stanley
#3. The artist must reckon with his own character flaws, which do not disappear just because he has been called to be an artist.
Eric Maisel
#4. A Christian's duty, Lewis believed, is not simply to tolerate "X" but to make life with "X" an occasion to work on one's own character flaws.
Philip Zaleski
#5. A civil tongue speaks the language of masters. An uncivil tongue reveals character flaws of its master.
John R. Dallas Jr.
#6. I do not believe we can blame genetics for adultery, homosexuality, dishonesty and other character flaws.
Jerry Falwell
#7. An alcoholic 47-year-old woman with teenagers who thinks a guy in his mid-20s is a good prospect as a partner definitely has some judgment and character flaws.
Emily Yoffe
#8. I'm troubled by how much I like Rowan Williams. I think it reveals character flaws in myself that I'd rather not think about. The softly spoken soon-to-be-former Archbishop of Canterbury is my secret crush, my weird pash, and my guilty pleasure.
Robert Webb
#9. heart she faced the wrenching truth: Impulsiveness and recklessness, her two greatest faults, had brought her to this dire end - the same two character flaws that had
Judith McNaught
#10. When I was growing up, we learned our history almost as lives of the saints. And it came as a shock, "Oh, Jefferson had slaves?" It always comes as a shock to us that elevation to the White House didn't somehow cleanse them of all their deep character flaws.
Harry Shearer
#11. the only character flaws that can really destroy you are the ones you won't admit.
Timothy J. Keller
#13. While one can love an irresponsible friend or a person with character flaws, alliances are built on respect, the responsibilities which arise out of that and knowing that together we can be stronger.
Gisela Hausmann
#14. Hitler's success was not based on his extraordinary gifts alone. His genius was an intuitive sense of the mushiness, the character flaws, the weakness masquerading as morality that was in the hearts of the statesmen who stood in his path.
Pat Buchanan
#15. I also happened to identify with Julien Sorel. Sorel's basic character flaws had all cemented by the age of fifteen, a fact which further elicited my sympathy. To have all the building blocks of your life in place by that age was, by any standard, a tragedy.
Haruki Murakami
#16. I don't think - I begin, but then I stop there. Strangely enough, this sounds like a full, declarative sentence, as if I'm standing in a bar shouting out one of my most obvious character flaws. I don't think!
Matthew Norman
#17. We tend to see our character flaws as simple defects, and the simple defects of others as character flaws.
Mardy Grothe
#18. It's possible to overlook character flaws of in-laws for the simple reason that you feel neither responsible for them nor genetically implicated.
Richard Russo
#19. I hate alcoholics and AA (alcoholics anonymous). If you can't drink responsibly, don't drink at all. Don't go to meetings, whine about your character flaws and blame the fact that you are a sociopath on booze.
Roseanne Barr
#20. While your character flaws may have created mild problems for other people, they will create major problems for your spouse and your marriage.
Timothy Keller
#21. No god worthy of worship would be associated with such character flaws as vanity, jealousy, vengeance, or wrath. God should be above such deadly sins and would not be encumbered by them.
Aron Ra
#22. Robert Ashford possessed one of the key character flaws necessary to a traitor. He thought he was smarter than everyone else. This allowed the overeducated career bureaucrat to sell out his own country, because he believed he knew what was best for his nation and its people.
Brad Thor
#24. Lord, save me from the sins of my tongue and the flaws of character that fuel them. Make my words honest (by taking away my fear), few (by taking away my self-importance), wise (by taking away my thoughtlessness), and kind (by taking away my indifference and irritability). Amen.
Timothy Keller
#25. If you are humble enough to admit to your flaws then you are capable of correcting them.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#26. New York, I thought, was a city defined by its flaws. In every possible way, its virtues were overwhelmed by its vices, as Jekyll was by Hyde. Yet it was these very vices that gave the city its character - like tar in an oak barrel lending its flavor to Scotch.
Miles Watson
#27. I like characters with flaws, who have shadow.
Matt Bomer
#28. To recognize yourself in a character onscreen, and to connect with them, you gotta recognize their flaws; they gotta feel like a real person.
Ryan Coogler
#29. I do like characters that have flaws, some sort of pathos to them that they are trying to sort out.
Nicolas Cage
#30. 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
#31. Flaws reveal a lot about a character and who people are. The flawed elements of a character are where I find their humanity. Those are the things I tend to identify with - the weaknesses. I don't know why, but I identify with struggle more than with success.
Liev Schreiber
#32. Think of all the smart people made stupid by flaws of character. The finest watch isn't fine long when used as a hammer.
James Richardson
#33. I have always believed there is great value in studying the flaws of mankind and men - even fictional characters. All of us are flawed. All of us are diminished by some form of prejudice and bias. If a fictional character is to be realistic, he must struggle with imperfections and weaknesses.
K. Lee Lerner
#34. Dickens enjoyed human beings as he found them, unregenerate, peculiar and incorrigibly themselves.
John N. Gray
#35. My point is that when you fall in love it's with a real person with flaws. Not with a perfect character from a fairy tale.
Mette Ivie Harrison
#36. All of us want something in life, all of us have flaws, and all of us have strengths. So, I always try to discover those things in a character and then try to expose it in one way or another.
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
#37. To me the interesting main character is never the one without flaws.
J.J. Abrams
#38. My most serious character flaw is that I don't deny myself much.
Andy Rooney
#39. Call it a character flaw
when under attack, I counter attack. Always.
Richard Marcinko
#40. I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.
Charlotte Bronte
#41. I don't want a perfect character, I want a character who has, as strange as it sounds, some humanity, some flaws, some needs.
Nicolas Cage
#42. Even Bertrand Russell, who fancied he saw flaws in Christ's character, confessed nonetheless that 'What the world needs is love, Christian love, or compassion.' But this belies a belief in what most others acknowledge, namely, that Christ was the perfect manifestation of the virtue of love.
Norman Geisler
#43. Flaws weren't pariah; foibles were badges of character. Not something to be brushed away in Photoshop.
Peter Tieryas
#44. The true Mason is ever vigilant for subtle traces of character and personality flaws which daily experience brings out.
William Howard Taft
#45. Quality of character doesn't make a leader, but the lack of it flaws the entire process.
Peter Drucker
#46. I am not an angel,' I asserted; 'and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, you must neither expect nor exact anything celestial of me - for you will not get it, any more than I shall get it of you: which I do not at all anticipate.
Charlotte Bronte
#47. A perfect character might be attended with the inconvenience of being envied and hated; and that a benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance.
Benjamin Franklin
#48. Love is everything unusual about a usual person.
Warren Eyster
#49. 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
#50. A man whose every exertion is bent upon showing up the flaws in his wife's character must be at least partially responsible for some of them.
Phyllis Bottome
#51. Also, in my acting, I feel very much like a storyteller, exploring the flaws of the characters that I interpret. I look for the imperfections, and I love a character that is just so flawed.
Danny Huston
#52. We all are men, in our own natures frail, and capable of our flesh; few are angels.
William Shakespeare
#53. My thing was always more character-driven comedies, not sketch comedy - not that there's not room for both or one isn't enjoyable, just my personal taste, I like movies that comedy comes from out of flaws of people, things that are uncomfortable, out of tragedy.
Vince Vaughn
#54. What makes a strong female character is a character who has weaknesses, who has flaws, who is maybe not immediately likable, but eventually relatable.
Tavi Gevinson
