Quotes About Faultfinding

Faultfinding is of little use and scant profit, for it is the mark of a shameless mind to prefer the role of the censorious critic to that of the creative poet. —FROM COPERNICUS'S Letter Against Werner, JUNE 3, 1524

the most censorious are generally the least judicious; who, having nothing to recommend themselves, will be finding fault with others. No man envies the merit of another, that has any of his own.

Discernment is God's call to intercession, never to faultfinding.

Envy yearns to find flaws.

It is easier to be critical than correct.

Critics are critics: their job is to find things wrong with people.

Discord or jealousy inhibits the ability of the Holy Ghost to teach us and inhibits our ability to receive light and truth. And the feelings of disappointment that invariably follow are the seeds of greater discord and faultfinding among those who expected a learning experience that did not come.

When people are lame, they love to blame.

The manners that apply specifically during courtship come to be replaced over the course of marriage by a different set of manners, embodying the residual pettiness, complaining, and faultfinding of childhood.

There is, however, a far more common ailment among us—and that is pride from the bottom looking up. It is manifest in so many ways, such as faultfinding, gossiping, backbiting, and murmuring, living beyond our means, envying, coveting, withholding gratitude and praise that might lift another, and being unforgiving and jealous.

Some people do really find fault like there's a reward for it.

When people are lame, they love to blame.

The all-or-nothing mind-set leads Perfectionists to transform every setback they encounter into a catastrophe, an assault on their very worth as human beings. Their sense of self inevitably suffers as their faultfinding turns inward.

One has so many more opinions about what has gone wrong than about what is perfect.

Watch out for the joy-stealers: gossip, criticism, complaining, faultfinding, and a negative, judgmental attitude.

Some people find fault like there is a reward for it

Worse, the deadly accuracy of filial faultfinding is facilitated by access, by trust, by willing disclosure, and so constitutes a double betrayal.

Some people find fault like there is a reward for it

Discernment is God's call to intercession, never to faultfinding.

grandmother used to say, you can always find something wrong with someone else if you really want to.

The world is only too glad to discover anything to carp at.