Top 100 Quotes About Faults

#1. One of the most common ways of not acknowledging our faults is to blame others.

Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

#2. We do not like our friends the worse because they sometimes give us an opportunity to rail at them heartily. Their faults reconcile us to their virtues.

William Hazlitt

#3. Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings.

Laurence J. Peter

#4. You're such a crybaby. (Tee) Let me almost shoot off one of your testicles and see how you cope. (Joe) You shouldn't have moved, Joe. It was your fault. (Tee) Yeah, everything's my fault. (Joe) Good, then we agree. (Tee)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. Few faults of style, whether real or imaginary, excite the malignity of a more numerous class of readers, than the use of hard words.

Samuel Johnson

#8. 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

#9. If youth is a fault, it is one that one gets rid of soon enough.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#10. Most writers deserve the reputation posterity has bestowed upon them: You can't for long conceal the toxic spots on your character - Philip Larkin is Exhibit A - nor can you conceal your dignity, your humanism, your regard for veracity and freedom.

William Giraldi

#11. Small faults and virtues are for daily life. The big ones are for emergencies.

Mason Cooley

#12. Now if the wearing of fine and precious robes were not a fault, word of God would never have so carefully expressed this. For no one seeks costly garments except for vainglory, that he may seem more honorable than others; for no one wishes to be clothed with such, where he cannot be seen by others.

Pope Gregory I

#13. All that mattered in life, that someone loved you even though you had faults.

Pepper Phillips

#14. Picking out Vince Russo's faults could be a full-time job for somebody.

Jim Cornette

#15. The best way to know your faults is to notice which ones you accuse others of.

James Richardson

#16. We are indeed apt to ascribe certain faults to the place or to the time; but those faults will follow us, no matter how we change our place.

Seneca.

#17. We are not greatly pleased that our friends should respect our good qualities if they venture to perceive our faults.

Luc De Clapiers

#18. Do not look at the faults of what others have done or not done; observe what you yourself have done or not done.

Gautama Buddha

#19. For nobody else, gave me a thrill - with all your faults, I love you still. It had to be you, wonderful you, it had to be you. - As sung by Frank Sinatra

Cecily Von Ziegesar

#20. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves. I

Oscar Wilde

#21. Mr. Knightley, in fact, was one of the few people who could see faults in Emma Woodhouse, and the only one who ever told her of them.

Jane Austen

#22. How can I adopt a creed which, preferring the mud to the fish, exalts the boorish proletariat above the bourgeois and the intelligentsia who, with whatever faults, are the quality in life and surely carry the seeds of all human advancement?

John Maynard Keynes

#23. Donald Trump is not my fault. You can blame certain things on me, but not Donald Trump.

Fran Lebowitz

#24. We can often better help another by fanning a glimmer of goodness than by censuring his faults.

Edmund Gibson

#25. All models have faults - that doesn't mean you can't use them as tools for making decisions.

Myron Scholes

#26. We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#27. If the coyote's in your living room pissing on your couch, it's not the coyote's fault. It's your fault for not shooting him.

Ted Nugent

#28. Michael had once read to her how God had cast a man and woman out of paradise. Yet, for all their human faults and failures. God had shown them the way back in.

Francine Rivers

#29. has their faults, right? I wasn't perfect either. But when I was with

Paige Sleuth

#30. No person is ever truly their online or media persona. For better or for worse, the human condition, desires, and faults are so much more robust than pixels on a screen or words beneath a caption.

L. H. Cosway

#31. I always wanted to take the blame. I've always been apologetic for other people's faults.

Lindsay Lohan

#32. If someone is a lesbian, it's man's fault.

Alexander Lukashenko

#33. Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them.

Blaise Pascal

#34. People despite their struggles, flaws and faults are honestly the most beautiful creatures. We are wonderfully-broken pieces of art.

Alexander Pyles

#35. If something about the human body disgusts you, the fault lies with the manufacturer.

Lenny Bruce

#36. There's no man, alive or dead, who's going to fault you for living.

Jeffrey Dean Morgan

#37. Always be humble and gentle. Be patient with each other, making allowance for each other's faults because of your love.

Anonymous

#38. I became a poet at the age of sixteen. I did not intend to do it. It was not my fault.

Margaret Atwood

#39. We are too prone to find fault; let us look for some of the perfections.

Friedrich Schiller

#40. Everything is the director's fault - you can quote me on that. There are no excuses.

Steven Soderbergh

#41. The fault is in the system and not in the men.

Peter Drucker

#42. I just want everybody to know, on a personal note, from me, sincerely, it was all his fault.

Triple H

#43. Want of perseverance is the great fault of women in everything
morals, attention to health, friendship, and so on. It cannot be too often repeated that women never reach the end of anything through want of perseverance.

Suzanne Curchod

#44. What we cut off from our other faults is very often but so much added to our pride.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#45. For all their faults. I am passing out. O bitter ending! I'll slip away before they're up. They'll never see. Nor know. Nor miss me.

James Joyce

#46. Obstinacy is a fault of temperament. Stubbornness and intolerance of contradiction result from a special kind of egotism, which elevates above everything else the pleasure of its autonomous intellect, to which others must bow.

Carl Von Clausewitz

#47. To conduct great matters and never commit a fault is above the force of human nature.

Plutarch

#48. A better wrestler. But not a better citizen, a better person, a better resource in tight places, a better forgiver of faults.

Marcus Aurelius

#49. If I loved you, well that's my fault

Conor Oberst

#50. A man does not mind being blamed for his faults, and being punished for them, and he patiently suffers much for them; but he becomes impatient if he is required to give them up.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#51. When you are painting you should take a flat mirror and often look at your work within it, and it will then be seen in reverse, and will appear to be by the hand of some other master, and you will be better able to judge of its faults than in any other way.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#52. People are more inclined to ask what's wrong than what's right. They note errors and faults, seeing weaknesses before strengths. So expect criticism; it's the nature of the beast.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#53. I know my faults, but I'm comfortable with me.

Roger Daltrey

#54. We're not perfect; we all have things that people might not like to see, and I like to show my faults.

Grace Jones

#55. 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

#56. Everyone puts his fault on the Times.

George Herbert

#57. Strange what love taught you about your
faults.

Maggie Stiefvater

#58. Love is missing the taste of someone's morning breath. Thinking they're beautiful, even when their nose is Rudolph-red and their hair is bird's nest crazy. Love isn't putting up with someone in spite of their faults
it's adoring them because of them.

Emma Chase

#59. To be pleased at correction and reproofs shows that one loves the virtues which are contrary to those faults for which he is corrected and reproved. And, therefore, it is a great sign of advancement in perfection.

Saint Francis De Sales

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

Confucius

#61. Women see faults much more readily in each other than they can discover perfections.

Nicolas Chamfort

#62. Both the artist and the lover know that perfection is not loveable. It is the clumsiness of a fault that makes a person lovable.

Joseph Campbell

#63. Whoever accustoms himself to pass over in silence the faults of his neighbors shall meet with much better quarter from the world when he happens to fall into a mistake himself."14

Walter Isaacson

#64. For he that but conceives a crime in thought,
Contracts the danger of an actual fault.

Thomas Creech

#65. We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.

George Eliot

#66. A fault is sooner found than mended.

Ulpian Fulwell

#67. Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes.

Seneca The Younger

#68. Remorse is impotent; it will repeat its faults. Repentance only is a true force; it puts an end to everything.

Honore De Balzac

#69. A great revolution is never the fault of the people, but of the government.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#70. His only fault is that he has no fault.

Pliny The Elder

#71. Of all our faults, the one we avow most easily is idleness; we persuade ourselves that it is allied to all the peaceable virtues,and as for the others, that it does not destroy them utterly, but only suspends the exercise of their functions.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#72. Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults.

Socrates

#73. If you're looking for faults use a mirror, not a telescope

Boonaa Mohammed

#74. For anyone approaching any one of the cast albums, if they don't like what they hear, it's not the performer's fault.

Stephen Sondheim

#75. I don't tolerate whining, I look at people & say 'you're a victim, it's not your fault' figure our how to survive!

Allan Sloan

#76. I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.

Mahatma Gandhi

#77. When a hypothesis enters a scientist's mind, he checks it by calculation and experiment, that is, by the mimicry and the pantomime of truth. It's plausibility infects others, and the hypothesis is accepted as the true explanation for the given phenomenon, until someone finds its faults.

Vladimir Nabokov

#78. Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book ...

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#79. It is within your power to see that all you have experienced, trials, errors, faults, deceptions, passions, your love and your hope, shall be merged wholly in your aim.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#80. God saw your entire life from beginning to end, birth to hearse, and in spite of what he saw, he still dreams of having you by his side. Even with your faults and failures. Despite your muddles and missteps. He still stands near, arms open wide, ready to embrace you with a Father's love.

Max Lucado

#81. have you noticed that people are slow to see the good things you do but quick to see your faults. The Highway Patrol for example.

Thomas Madachik

#82. Jealousy is, I think, the worst of all faults because it makes a victim of both parties.

Gene Tierney

#83. The blindness of men is the most dangerous effect of their pride; it seems to nourish and augment it; it deprives them of knowledge of remedies which can solace their miseries and can cure their faults.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#84. If we had no faults, we would not derive so much pleasure from noting those of other people.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#85. There's a massive part of me that can be bold and courageous ... very strong and very assertive and independent, almost to a fault sometimes.

Evangeline Lilly

#86. Before we congratulate ourselves upon the absence of certain faults from our nation or society, we ought to ask ourselves why it is that these faults are absent. Are we without the fault because we have the opposite virtue? Or are we without the fault because we have the opposite fault?

G.K. Chesterton

#87. 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

#88. Just thinking about a friend makes you want to do a happy dance, because a friend is someone who loves you in spite of your faults.

Charles M. Schulz

#89. You love another person not because of his virtues- that is infatuation- but in spite of his faults," he said to her. "Love has no place for idealization.

Sudhir Kakar

#90. 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

#91. It seemed that no matter what her faults were, he was willing to accept her for who she was, and who she was not.

Lisa Kleypas

#92. Just as lavishness leads easily to presumption, so does frugality to meanness. But meanness is a far less serious fault than presumption.

Confucius

#93. The fault is as great as hee that is faulty.

George Herbert

#94. If extravagance were a fault, it would not have a place in the festivals of the gods.

Aristippus

#95. To love with understanding and without understanding. To love blindly, and to folly. To see only what is loveable. To think only of these things. To see the best in everyone around, their virtues rather than their faults. To see Christ in them!

Dorothy Day

#96. The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind, and they are in continual danger of breaking the skin and bursting out again.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#97. If there is but little water in the stream, it is the fault, not of the channel, but of the source.

St. Jerome

#98. 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

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

Laurence J. Peter

#100. I am not given to finding fault, for there are innumerable fools.

Plato

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