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Quotes About Faults

You think we are right to stay?" "Right?" he said. "I think we are all incredibly silly to stay. I think that an atmosphere like this one can find out the flaws and faults and weaknesses in all of us, and break us apart in a matter of days.
~ Shirley Jackson
She compensated for this sense of inferiority by making fun of everything. I did not notice it then, but she never made fun of my faults, only of my virtues;
~ Simone de Beauvoir
... one's own faults are always a heavy chain to drag through life and one can't help groaning under the weight now and then.
~ George Eliot
There are only two things to understand in this world. First is, one's own True Self, and the other is, our faults from the past [life]. Won't these faults have to be broken?
~ Dada Bhagwan
If our eyes could see everything, every man would see his own faults.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
He was speaking more rapidly and confidently and suddenly Charles understood that he was cutting the cloth to fit his faults, as everyone did at some time or other.
~ John P. Marquand
You will find it less easy to unroot faults than to choke them by gaining virtues. Do not think of your faults, still less of others faults; in every person who comes near you look for what is good and strong; honor that; rejoice in it and as you can, try to imitate it; and your faults will drop off like dead leaves when their time comes.
~ John Ruskin
It is hardily credible of how great consequences before God the smallest things are; and what great inconveniences some times follow those which appear to be light faults.
~ John Wesley
All of my favorite hymns are admissions of faults, and finding redemption even in those.
~ Julien Baker
Some human faults are military virtues, like stupidity, and arrogance, and narrow-mindedness.
~ George MacDonald Fraser
Those who have committed no faults want no pardon. We are only defending what we deem our indisputable rights.
~ George Washington
I tolerate my faults but not at all other people's.
~ Camille Claudel
Those partial to drink were hiding faults and dishonesty. They were sloppy souls, even the ones with pleasant manners and fine noses.
~ Sarah Hall
The thing is, when it came to men, I wasn't unrealistic. I knew they all had their faults; I just wanted someone kind, someone I could trust
~ Sarah Webb
Although we honor and revere the Goddess and God, we know that we're free souls with full control and responsibility of our lives. We can't point at an image of an evil god, such as Satan, and blame it for our faults and weaknesses.
~ Scott Cunningham
Nobody stopped believing that other people were more guilty than they were. Why do people have so much trouble seeing their own faults but such an easy time seeing everyone else's?
~ Carol Plum-Ucci
it was the faults which I loved best.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
The cheapest kind of pride, on the other hand, is national pride. For it betrays in those affected by it the lack of individual qualities of which they could be proud, since they would otherwise not grasp at something that they share with so many millions. Rather those who possess significant personal qualities will recognize most clearly the faults of their own nation, since they constantly have them in front of them.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Dünyada gurur duyabileceÄŸi hiçbir ÅŸeyi olmayan zavall? bir adam, son çareye, ait olmakla gurur duyduÄŸu ulusa uzat?r elini; burada kendine gelir ve art?k, ÅŸükran içinde ulusa özgü tüm hatalar? ve aptall?klar? diÅŸiyle t?rna??yla savunmaya haz?rd?r.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
We keep our insignificant blemishes so that we can blame them for our larger defects.
~ Stephen Fry
So perhaps we are all hypocrites. We damn others for what we fear as faults in ourselves. We rehearse the shortcomings of 'people' as a means of warding off the evil spirits that threaten us. It is certainly observable that those who most notice another's excessive drinking, for instance, are those most worried about their own habit.
~ Stephen Fry
Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind.
~ William Blake
Never count your faults. Just see that your love for God is deeply sincere. For God doesn't mind your imperfections: He minds your indifference.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
It is easy to see the faults of others, but difficult to see one's own faults. One shows the faults of others like chaff winnowed in the wind, but one conceals one's own faults as a cunning gambler conceals his dice.5
~ Jonathan Haidt