Quotes About Flaws

#1. There's a reason we'll all end up with just a handful of true friends in our life. These are the people that have taken the time to look at our heart, so despite any flaws they're forever in our lives.

Ron Baratono

#2. Do not have expectations. We humans are created imperfect, which means that we have flaws

Norhafsah Hamid

#3. He won't be one of those girlishly pretty men with curly gold hair ... He'll be dark, dangerous, too. Brave, certainly, but not without flaws. I like my heroes human.

Nora Roberts

#4. I think that one of the biggest flaws of
mankind is that we become complacent with our lives.

Daniel Willey

#5. It's one of our greatest human flaws: Arrogance. We look up and dare to assume we know, when the universe is unknowable.

Romina Russell

#6. One of my biggest flaws is I don't take advice.

Gary Vaynerchuk

#7. Excellence doesn't come by obeying doctrines. Excellence comes through recognizing the flaws in the prevailing doctrines of the society and throwing them away if necessary in the path of progress.

Abhijit Naskar

#8. If people are innately saddled with certain sins and flaws, like selfishness, prejudice, sort-sightedness, and self-deception, then political reform would seem to be a waste of time.

Steven Pinker

#9. We are flawed creatures, all of us. Some of us think that means we should fix our flaws. But get rid of my flaws and there would be no one left.

Sarah Vowell

#10. The finer the nature, the more flaws it will show through the clearness of it; and it is a law of this universe that the best things shall be seldomest seen in their best form.

John Ruskin

#11. 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

#12. Whatever flaws or personal failings afflict them, it remains the case that the overwhelming majority of priests and politicians are honourable and honest - seeking to live out their beliefs and serve society.

Keith O'Brien

#13. 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

#14. There's no mystery to confidence, it's just about self knowledge. It's savvy to know which of our flaws can be changed, and which ones to accept and let go. Then, asking the best of the good points.

Immodesty Blaize

#15. 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

#16. To be completely honest about your flaws is the only liberation from feelings of inferiority, inadequacy and external manipulation. Your happiness is only a change of conviction away.

Crystal Evans

#17. I always try to find something I like about the bad guys and then try to find the mistakes and the flaws in the good guys.

Mads Mikkelsen

#18. But women had to overlook men's personality flaws, else nobody would ever wed and/or reproduce and the human race would come to an end.

Loretta Chase

#19. Only a minority of science fiction dystopias attempt to plumb the real existential roots of oppression, the flaws in humanity's nature that undermine our best attempts at organizing ourselves into social units.

Paul Di Filippo

#20. I think Baltimore suffers from nostalgia and it keeps us from being honest in talking about what really happened here. A place doesn't have to be perfect to be beloved, and I love this city and I love it better for seeing its flaws.

Laura Lippman

#21. I'd love to stay in baseball, but I won't beg. I'd love to work with young umpires. I think I could teach them, help them develop. I can spot flaws, help them get over the hump. You're striving for perfection every game, yet you never achieve it. If baseball wants me, I'm available.

Doug Harvey

#22. A deep connection starts with interest, open-mindedness, & paying attention to every detail including flaws.

April Mae Monterrosa

#23. When pointing out the flaws in others, people always end up talking about themselves.

Claire Chilton

#24. It was easier to make excuses, to look for reasons and flaws, than to just admit the simple truth.

Romina Russell

#25. I think there's a lot more appreciation and maturity and acceptance of everyone's flaws.

Chad Urmston

#26. Riches are able to solder up abundance of flaws.

Miguel De Cervantes

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

Alexander Pyles

#28. We love to receive praise, but usually we're not certain what message, precisely, we should take from it. On the other hand, when someone points out our flaws, we realize immediately that something needs to change.

Charles Duhigg

#29. I don't look in the mirror and think that I have flaws. I actually look in the mirror and see me. I see a lot of different characters and a lot of different things.

Elisha Cuthbert

#30. The things she thinks are her flaws are the very aspects of her that I adore most.

Laurelin Paige

#31. I think modelling is a very difficult thing. It's glamorous and fun, but underneath it all, you know your flaws, and those are what you focus on.

Pattie Boyd

#32. We all are men, in our own natures frail, and capable of our flesh; few are angels.

William Shakespeare

#33. When I love someone, I am blind for his/her flaws. When I hate someone, I am blind for his/her perfection

Ria Tumimomor

#34. The flaws, the mistakes I make - that's the real me.

Nas

#35. I am something of a contrarian, I suppose. I feel less comfortable when everybody agrees with me. I say, 'I better reexamine my position!' I probably believe that the worst opinions in my court have been unanimous. Because there's nobody on the other side pointing out all the flaws.

Antonin Scalia

#36. Can you imagine what you would be like if you didn't have anyone close who was capable of influencing you? Anyone to point out your flaws, to confront you when you went too far, to correct you when you did something wrong?

Natalia Sanmartin Fenollera

#37. Transmitting one's flaws [through procreation] to someone else is a crime. I could never consent to give life to someone who would inherent my ailments.

Emile M. Cioran

#38. People, generally, are equally insecure. They just show it (or hide it) differently.

Criss Jami

#39. I have no flaws, I'm perfect at being imperfect.

Krystyna Faroe

#40. We must be able to love other people or forever endure the stain of disgraceful loneliness. By recognizing and expressing empathy for other people, we come to accept our own fallibility.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#41. When you love somebody, or something, it's amazing how willing you are to overlook the flaws.

Caroline Knapp

#42. We ought to recognize that our greatest battle is not with one another but with our pain, our problems, and our flaws. To be hurt, yet forgive. To do wrong, but forgive yourself. To depart from this world leaving only love. This is the reason you walk.

Wab Kinew

#43. Affection is when we can't find any flaws in the other. Maybe I could if I really wanted to, but I don't want to, I accept you as you are.

Erika M. Szabo

#44. You see," the lord explained, "everyone else has them. You wouldn't want your child to be the only one who had flaws. What would it be like for them?

Anne Ursu

#45. I do not approve of naval historians who seek out flaws in the losers' battle plans and tactics. The way to profit from history is to put oneself in the shoes of the tactical decision maker as he confronts a many-faceted problem in an atmosphere of uncertainty.

Wayne Hughes

#46. People are made up of flaws.

Amanda Seyfried

#47. I am looking for the human who admits his flaws
Who shocks the adversary
By being kinder not stronger
What would that be like?
We don't even know

Naomi Shihab Nye

#48. To truly love someone you have to see their flaws. See the dark side. The things you don't like.

Lee Monroe

#49. The benefit of this kind of outlining is that you discover a story's flaws before you invest a lot of time writing the first draft, and it's almost impossible to get stuck at a difficult chapter, because you've already done the work to push through those kinds of blocks.

George Stephen

#50. She seemed a series of slight flaws best expressed in a beauty spot above her right lip. And he understood that the sum of all these blemishes was somehow beauty, and there was about this beauty a power, and that power was at once conscious and unconscious.

Richard Flanagan

#51. You are beautiful and magical and perfect, especially because of your flaws. Those cracks are what let the light in, baby.

Dawn Gluskin

#52. Western society has many flaws, and it is good for an educated person to have thought some of these through, even at the expense of losing a lecture or two to tear gas.

Robert B. Laughlin

#53. Learn to see past the flaws and you will understand the perfection of the Universe.

Ka Chinery

#54. Eventually you love people - friends or lovers - because of their flaws.

Karen Allen

#55. Our flaws were what made us unique as individuals; and accepting them and working through our differences was what made us stronger as a couple.

S.C. Miotto

#56. If any religion turns against love of equal partners, there's something flawed with the religion, not the love.

Akilnathan Logeswaran

#57. There are no refunds and no exchanges with love. It comes with flaws and imperfections. It's raw, unfiltered, and sometimes it isn't easy. But I've found the best things in this life are the ones I've had to work hardest for.

Helena Hunting

#58. What seems like a flaw is merely our higher consciousness telling us we're not looking at it in the right light yet.

A.J. Darkholme

#59. His intelligence was relentless and wild, a fire even he couldn't control. It swallowed entire books at a sitting, finding flaws in arguments, gaps in evidence, errors in interpretation, in objects, far from his own.

Ian Caldwell

#60. There is no flaw or vacuum in the amount of the truth - but all is truth without exception; And henceforth I will go celebrate any thing I see or am, And sing and laugh and deny nothing.

Walt Whitman

#61. Embelish your flaws. They will turn into your assets. And if you become one of us, I will teach you to wield them like an assassin wields a knife.

Marie Lu

#62. There are no flaws in the soul of every human being.

Ma Jaya

#63. Every diamond has the ability to shine when there is someone to recognize its good facets and inhibit its flaws.

Wes Fesler

#64. Never trust a shiny surface. They hide a multitude of flaws.

Melissa De La Cruz

#65. Envy yearns to find flaws.

Wayne Gerard Trotman

#66. Tech Jacket shares the same tone as Invincible, but the subject matter is very different. Where Invincible is about perfection, Tech Jacket is about flaws.

Robert Kirkman

#67. Whoever imperfect..finds flaws.

Toba Beta

#68. I've always been interested in our flaws as human beings, just as much as the virtues.

Nicole Kidman

#69. The earliest childhood memories are woven by shadows. And some of these shadows are woven from fire.

Plamen Chetelyazov

#70. Being a dad has made me more aware of myself. I can see all of my virtues and flaws. They become glaringly clear when my daughter communicates with me in the same ways that I communicate with her. I can really tell where and when I went wrong.

Harold Perrineau

#71. When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Aaron McGruder

#72. As long as the vision is flawed, egoism is evident. Therefore, one has to get rid of the flaws.

Dada Bhagwan

#73. I don't know if proud is the right word, but I am somebody who does not, on the whole, have the highest regard for my own stuff in that when I look all I get to see are the flaws.

Neil Gaiman

#74. As always, work with your figure; draping, pleats, and proportion can work miracles when it comes to hiding flaws and enhancing assets.

Nina Garcia

#75. The great thing about irony is that it splits things apart, gets up above them so we can see the flaws and hypocrisies and duplicates.

David Foster Wallace

#76. I'm attached to my children with whatever flaws they have, and if some glorious angel broke through the living room ceiling and offered to exchange them for other, better children, I'd cling to my kids and pray away this specter.

Andrew Solomon

#77. We all have to face our faults and mistakes, and then choose to overcome them or let them drag us down.

Jessica Lave

#78. We don't choose our flaws, unfortunately.

Sophie Kinsella

#79. I'm not good at relationships
I always manage to find the flaws
sometimes in others
but mostly my own.
I foretell the ending
then go and create the cause
save myself
and end up alone

David Levithan

#80. The 14th Amendment was recognized right away to be problematic. The concept of person was both too narrow and too broad, and the courts went to work to overcome both of those flaws.

Noam Chomsky

#81. I sit here and tell everyone else they are beautiful just the way they are flaws and all. Then I turn to the mirror and pick myself apart. Huh I guess everyone is a hypocrite in one way or another.

Kerri E. Lorenz

#82. So far, I haven't been all that impressed by your flaws. You drink more than you should, you have trouble controlling your impulses, and you have a temper. All of those are practically requirements in the Hathaway family.

Lisa Kleypas

#83. Even if I stumble on to the absolute truth of any aspect of the universe, I will not realise my luck and instead will spend my life trying to find flaws in this understanding - such is the role of a scientist.

Brian Schmidt

#84. I don't think I'd feel any more violated if he'd stripped me bare. I might as well have lain down before him openly exposing all my flaws and my fears, inviting him to psychoanalyze me.

Siobhan Davis

#85. In my own life as a reader I experience real moments of alienation when a writer feels too perfect, or like even the flaws they are admitting are somehow noble, or dysfunctional in an overly edgy, aesthetically pleasing way.

Leslie Jamison

#86. It's easier to say (I'm going to be myself and if anyone wants to be with me, then she/he has to accept me as I am ... flaws and all) than it is for us to work at reducing our flaws and making ourselves more acceptable.

Darrell Roberts

#87. I have no intention of flattering people. I like wrinkles and crow's feet and flaws, and somebody should know, if I'm going to photograph them, that's going to show up, you know?

Chuck Close

#88. Flaws in oneself open you up to others with flaws.

Haruki Murakami

#89. Like magnets: opposites attract. People are the same. Everyone has their flaws, their quirks. Rub them together, you get friction. It's the places where they're different that locks them together.

Hiroshi Sakurazaka

#90. God knows I've got so many frailties myself, I ought to be able to understand and forgive them in others. But I don't.

Ava Gardner

#91. He could appreciate the value in something, even if he ultimately rejected that something - and could see the errors and flaws in something, even if he ultimately accepted that something.

Eric Metaxas

#92. I criticise myself an awful lot. I do worry to the point that I don't think it's very healthy. I'm always picking my flaws. It's a terrible anxiety I have. I wish I could pretend nothing fazes me, but it does.

Roxanne McKee

#93. Flaws are awesome - so, 'flawsome!' I love making up a word.

Tyra Banks

#94. The best you can hope for in a relationship is to find
someone whose flaws are the sort you don't mind. It is
futile to look for someone who has no flaws, or someone
who is capable of significant change; that sort of person
exists only in our imaginations.

Scott Adams

#95. Flaws are fascinating so embrace yours.

Jeetendr Sehdev

#96. Though designed as a mere convenience, clothing sizes establish an unintended norm, an ideal from which deviations seem like flaws. There's nothing like a trip to the dressing room to convince a woman - fat, thin, or in between - that she's a freak.

Virginia Postrel

#97. Altruism does not mean mere kindness or generosity, but the sacrifice of the best among men to the worst, the sacrifice of virtues to flaws, of ability to incompetence, of progress to stagnation-and the subordinating of all life and of all values to the claims of anyone's suffering.

Ayn Rand

#98. Maybe this year, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives not looking for flaws, but looking for potential.

Ellen Goodman

#99. I don't want to pretend to be a prophet or a saint. I'm very conscious of my limitations. I know my flaws. But I don't like lying.

Norman Finkelstein

#100. No matter how much you try to maintain order in your life, no matter how careful you are to guard against mistakes, against imperfections, there is always some smudge, some flaw, lurking out of sight. Waiting to surprise you.

Tess Gerritsen