Faults Quotes

Our systems, perhaps, are nothing more than an unconscious apology for our faults, a gigantic scaffolding whose object is to hide from us our favorite sin

~ Henri-Frédéric Amiel

The earlier you admit to your mistakes, the more time you would have to learn and grow from them.

~ Hafiz

...their relationship was a point of near-constant discussion in Night Vale, all of their imperfections and faults, which made them individuals worth loving. They had built those faults into the usual messy, comfortable, patched-up, beautiful structure that any functioning long-term relationship ended up being.

~ Joseph Fink

Consider a man’s good qualities, and consider his faults; and judge his character by that which is more.

~ Thiruvalluvar

Do not be concerned with the faults of other persons. Do not see others' faults with a hateful mind. There is an old saying that if you stop seeing others' faults, then naturally seniors and venerated and juniors are revered. Do not imitate others' faults; just cultivate virtue. Buddha prohibited unwholesome actions, but did not tell us to hate those who practice unwholesome actions.

~ Dōgen

Because he has never forgiven himself any fault, he can forgive no one else's.

~ Linda Berdoll

As a matter of fact, we are none of us above criticism; so let us bear with each other's faults.

~ L. Frank Baum

Aging is not our fault, but we certainly are guilty of feeling it.

~ Munia Khan

People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people's minds, as if they believe that the world is always contemplating their individual charms and virtues.

~ Elizabeth Gaskell

When you only know your faults and failures, you allow yourself and others to downgrade your dreams and belittle your wants.

~ Shannon L. Alder

But, ah me! where is the faultless human creature who can persevere in a good resolution, without sometimes failing and falling back?

~ Wilkie Collins

Never say never or it becomes a vice, and there you have it, you just did it twice.

~ Ana Claudia Antunes

The desire to criticise becomes less and less as the character is developed. It is the mark of a fine character never to be critical and to mention but rarely the faults of others. A strong character does not resist evil, but uses their strength in building the good. They know that when the light is made strong, the darkness will disappear of itself.

~ Christian D. Larson

You're overconfident, mysterious, dark, picky, edgy, cold and have sixty-nine more faults. That's why you're perfect.

~ Thedauntlessreader

And here's the surprising truth: As you gaze at yourself in the mirror held by another, you will see far more than your flaws. You also will see the beauty that is uniquely you; beauty that others see clearly and you may hardly know exists. That is also part of the truth about you.

~ Steve Goodier

Do not find faults, only forgive.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

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

The ancient commission of the writer has not changed. He is charged with exposing our many grievous faults and failures, with dredging up to the light our dark and dangerous dreams for the purpose of improve

~ John Steinbeck

Maturity is when you're able to say, 'It's not just them. It's me.

~ Criss Jami

And God does have a personality. He can't hide from us. His personality shines through every Hebrew letter, on every page. Sometimes we forget that God is a person--not a fleshly person, but a person nonetheless. (page iii)

~ Michael Ben Zehabe

Unconditional Love is a perpetual emotion machine. It inspires us to include others. The longer I am bathed in its radiance, the more I find myself looking at others with an open heart. I can look past their faults and love them. I can say, “I may not like the things you do, but I love you.

~ Rosa Marchisella

Yet the human heart is disheartened by the most unreasonable self-judgments, because even when we take on giants, we too often confuse failure with fault, which I know too well. The only way back from such a bleak despondency is to shape humiliation into humility, to strive always to triumph over the darkness while never forgetting that the honor and the beauty are more in striving than in winning. When triumph at last comes, our efforts alone could not have won the day without that grace which surpasses all understanding and which will, if we allow it, imbue our lives with meaning.

~ Dean Koontz

As a matter of fact, when it comes to seeing, men display two tendencies: they see what they wish to see, what is useful to them, what is agreeable. The second is the tendency toward inhibition; they do not see what they do not wish to see, what is useless to them, or disagreeable.

~ Rémy De Gourmont

When we make mistakes, we simply say sorry. And saying the words would cost us our pride most of the time.

~ Rscruz

All of us sport an invisible sign around our necks -- “AS IS.” It means, take me as I am. I may not become what you want me to be. And I’m far, far from perfect. But I have some great qualities, too, as well as my share of faults. You will have to take me “AS IS” and I’ll take you that way, too.

~ Steve Goodier

He well knew his mind's natural tendency to be endlessly on a thousand subjects at once, to flit from this to that and to the next thing to no particular purpose--indeed, he called it his butterfly mind.

~ Eric Metaxas

Perhaps, if you weren't so busy regarding my shortcomings, you'd find that I do possess redeeming qualities, discreet as they may be.  I notice when the sky is blue.  I smile down at children.  I laugh at any innocent attempt at humor.  I quietly carry the burdens of others as though they were my own.  And I say 'I'm sorry' when you don't.  I am not without fault, but I am not without goodness either.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Oh, how clearly I see your faults! Such distinctly highlighted flaws; it's as if the sun and moon mean to keep them illuminated in my eyes. My mind is quick to spell out a simple remedy for those defects. But alas, poor me! My own faults―which I only assume to have because all do―are blurred and obscured by a mental fog. I've no eyes with which to gaze back at myself. The sun and moon refuse their illumination, and my mind offers no sure elixir but a complex recipe scribbled in foreign words I scarcely comprehend.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

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

~ Jessica Lave

I saw the light blinking in my living room and changed it over and over, at the end I realized it was my eye blinking.

~ Paul Karan

You don't grow up, she reasoned now, until you begin to evaluate yourself, to recognize your good traits and acknowledge that you have a few faults.

~ Maud Hart Lovelace

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

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

When anyone is going wrong, it is a mistake to warn him not to go further. It is also a mistake to leave him alone. The proper course is to call his attention to something better, and frame our conversation in such a way that he becomes wholly absorbed in the better. He will then forget his old mistakes, his old faults and his old desires, and will give all his life and power to the building of that better which has engaged his new interest.

~ Christian D. Larson

Too much salt will spoil the curryand too many faults will spoil the harmony.

~ Aram Seriteratai

Yesterday's faults become today's lessons. Today's dreams become tomorrow's reality.

~ B.j. Neblett

Was there ever a great true love? Anyone who became the object of my obsession and not simply my affections?...I could not let myself become that unmindful. Isn't that what love is - losing your mind? You don't care what people think. You don't see your beloved's faults, the slight stinginess, the bit of carelessness, the occasional streak of meanness. You don't mind that he is beneath you socially, educationally, financially, and morally - that's the worst, I think, deficient morals.

~ Amy Tan

It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch one another and find sympathy. We differ widely enough in our nobler qualities. It is in our follies that we are at one.

~ Jerome K. Jerome

Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.

~ Jean De La Fontaine

Keep a watch also on the faults of the patients, which often make them lie about the taking of things prescribed.

~ Hippocrates