Quotes About Faults

To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.

Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind.

For all its faults we love this city.' Then, after a pause, she added: 'After all, we built it.

Think of your faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and the faults of others the latter part of the night when you are asleep.

I wanted to warn my husbands that one couldn't depend on a man who plucked frailty and desire so easily out of his heart. How could he have compassion for the faults of others, or understand their need?

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.

Dishonest people conceal their faults from themselves as well as others, honest people know and confess them

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.

Great vices are the proper objects of our detestation, smaller faults of our pity, but affectation appears to be the only true source of the ridiculous

For I hope my Friends will pardon me, when I declare, I know none of them without a Fault; and I should be sorry if I could imagine, I had any Friend who could not see mine. Forgiveness, of this Kind, we give and demand in Turn.

Your religion...serves you only for an excuse for your faults, but is no incentive to your virtue.

The imperfections of a man, his frailties, his faults, are just as important as his virtues. You can't separate them. They're wedded.

Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues.

Noticing other people's faults arises from dissatisfaction with ourselves. Often, in criticizing our neighbour, we fall into making the same error for which we have just criticized someone else. Those people who are not concerned about the salvation of their soul and who do not attempt to improve themselves can easily fall into temptation and be seduced into following the example of others. From Pious Thoughts

Our own faults are those we are the first to detect, and the last to forgive, in others.

Translations increase the faults of a work and spoil its beauties.

A perfect Judge will read each work of Wit With the same spirit that its author writ: Survey the Whole, nor seek slight faults to find Where nature moves, and rapture warms the mind.

You can't be a great comedian without having self-awareness about others or your own faults. You need a strong sense of self and view on the world. That's what great actors have, too.

While fools shun one set of faults they run into the opposite one.

Dat had always told her that whenever you got angry at another person, it was an opportunity to take a glimpse of your own faults.

A great artist is conscious of the talent and the power he possesses, otherwise he would not see his faults, and so would not be able to improve.

Some people find fault like there is a reward for it

It's tough, him getting it like that. Miles had his faults same as the rest of us, but I guess he must've had some good points too.

They say best men are molded out of faults, And, for the most, become much more the better For being a little bad