Quotation Explorer - 'Faults'

You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults. - William Faulkner
Don't allow the faults you've made in the past define the person you are today. - Mya Waechtler
They say, best men are moulded out of faults, And, for the most, become much more the better For being a little bad. - William Shakespeare
The defects and faults in the mind are like wounds in the body. After all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Perfection can be achieved by no one, because perfection is achieved from faults- yet faults tear away the perfection in you.
Trust that your child is trying to be the best he can be and that he will do this more readily without your criticism. Know that he usually sees his own faults without you continually pointing them out.
Be real and be unashamed, even of your faults. I do truly know what my husband is made of and vice versa. - Amy Bloom
It is the curse of the powerful to be blind to their own faults. - Robert Fanney
Endeavor to be always patient of the faults and imperfections of others for thou has many faults and imperfections of thine own that require forbearance. If thou are not able to make thyself that which thou wishest, how canst thou expect to mold another in conformity to thy will? - Thomas a Kempis
We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection.
It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship. - Henry Ward Beecher
But I can't help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves. - Oscar Wilde
Solemnity is a device of the body to hide the faults of the mind. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Stupidity is to have amnesia over your own faults when the person you hate makes theirs. - Shannon L. Alder
Self-love is often equated with self-esteem but when it makes you blind to your own faults and gives you an inflated ego, it is time to introspect. - Balroop Singh
Those who have committed no faults want no pardon. We are only defending what we deem our indisputable rights. - George Washington
Be to her virtues very kind. Be to her faults a little blind. - Matthew Prior
To reprove small faults within due vehemence, is as absurd as if a man should take a great hammer to kill a fly on his friend's forehead.
The reason why some of us love when it rain is because it fills in the faults of our broken hearts and makes us feel complete, even if it is temporary. - Vanshicca Dhyani
To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves. - Alexander Pope
To see others’ faults is a terrible mistake! - Dada Bhagwan
All day long, no one is at fault for anything. Whatever faults we see; we see them because of our own defects. - Dada Bhagwan
Be like the sun for grace and mercy. Be like the night to cover others' faults. Be like running water for generosity. Be like death for rage and anger. Be like the Earth for modesty. Appear as you are. Be as you appear. - Jalaluddin Rumi
As long as one sees faults with the world, he prevails in the knowledge of the senses. The inner purification has not yet occurred in him. - Dada Bhagwan
Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends. - Henry Ward Beecher
Seeing the faults of others is indeed an echo of our own fault; the biggest fault is our own fault. That is known as the mad ego. - Dada Bhagwan
It is strange that we do not temper our resentment of criticism with a thought for our many faults which have escaped us.
Unless I accept my faults, I will most certainly doubt my virtues. - Hugh Prather
Our critics are our friends; they show us our faults. - Benjamin Franklin
My mother remains unmatched in quality, competent in business process, and is never contested for any faults - Priyavrat Thareja
I wish for all of us the blindness of love that makes us see no faults in the other. - Kamand Kojouri
True friends are those who love you not in spite of your faults and imperfections, but because of them. - Randa Abdel-Fattah
Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings. - Laurence J. Peter
Observe your enemies for they first find out your faults. - Antisthenes
It is better to find your own faults and rectify them than to find thousands of faults in others. - Debasish Mridha
People who have no faults are terrible; there is no way to take advantage of them - Anatole France
Do not think of your faults, still less of others' faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes. - John Ruskin
Faults are soon copied. - Horace
Critics are our friends, they tell us our faults. - Benjamin Franklin
When one sees one’s own faults, he attains a state of an abode of Self-illuminated Bliss! - Dada Bhagwan
In this world, it is not worth finding anyone’s faults. One becomes bound (by karma) by finding faults. - Dada Bhagwan
Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults. - Antisthenes
ACKNOWLEDGE, v.t. To confess. Acknowledgement of one another's faults is the highest duty imposed by our love of truth. - Ambrose Bierce
Where we see the same faults followed regularly by the same misfortunes, we may reasonably think that if we could have known the first we might have avoided the others. - James Madison
Vikings don't have faults, they have clubs. - Tara Brown
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 improvement."[Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech] - John Steinbeck
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
Not to be able to find one’s ‘own’ faults; this is called the world. - Dada Bhagwan
To be able to see one’s own faults; this is known as Enlightened vision (Samkit; Self-realization; right belief). - Dada Bhagwan
When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them. - Confucius
If anyone tells you that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make excuses about what is said of you but answer, "He was ignorant of my other faults, else he would not have mentioned these alone. - Epictetus
As long as one finds faults with the world, he won’t be able to find anything about the Soul (Self). He who sees his own faults is the Soul (Self) himself! - Dada Bhagwan
Our faults irritate us most when we see them in others. - Dutch Proverb
Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first. - Benjamin Franklin
Better the occasional faults of a government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a government frozen in the ice of its own indifference. - Franklin D. Roosevelt
Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel. - Doris Lessing
God loves His people despite their sins and faults. - Jim George
Do not find faults, only forgive. - Lailah Gifty Akita
When you see a good man, try to emulate his example, and when you see a bad man, search yourself for his faults. - Confucius
We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We can only find those faults in others that already exist within us, and the same goes for those things we admire about them. - Stephen Richards
When one sees his own faults, he will not have the time to see the others’ faults. - Dada Bhagwan
We all have our state of mind- happy or sad,sources of both are so relatable.Despite showing someone’s faults & flaws we need to cherish them. cause, we all are into an e n d l e s s l o o p. - ayushi jain
When you only know your faults and failures, you allow yourself and others to downgrade your dreams and belittle your wants. - Shannon L. Alder
Flaw laden intellect shows faults in others. If you deviate even slightly in the wrong direction, you will see everyone at fault. - Dada Bhagwan
The most tragic consequence of our criticism of a man is to block his way to humiliation and grace, precisely to drive him into the mechanisms of self justification and into his faults instead of freeing him from them. For him, our voice drowns the voice of God. - Paul Tournier
Love your enemies; for they shall tell you all your faults. - Benjamin Franklin
Such Excessive Preoccupation With The Faults Of Others Only Manages To Bring The Spotlight To Shine Bright On Whatever It Is You May Have Hiding Behind All Your Self Perceived Glory. - Marcie Leeper
Rare is the person who can weigh the faults of others without putting his thumb on the scales.
The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none. - Thomas Carlyle
The man who willeth to do well... we should extol his virtues and speak not of his faults behind his back.
I can't help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves. - Oscar Wilde
All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor. - Walt Whitman
Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults. - Benjamin Franklin
Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults. - Socrates
Focus on remedies, not faults. - Jack Nicklaus
We love ourselves notwithstanding our faults, and we ought to love our friends in like manner. - Cyrus the Great
Look not to the faults of others, nor to their omissions and commissions. But rather look to your own acts, to what you have done and left undone. - Gautama Buddha
Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book... - Dwight D. Eisenhower
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
I like a friend better for having faults that one can talk about. - William Hazlitt
So may he rest, his faults lie gently on him! - William Shakespeare
People who excuse their faults and claim they didn't deserved to be punished - there are lots of them. But those who don't excuse their faults and admit they didn't deserve to be spared - they are few. - Zhuangzi
I am responsible for my life, my happiness, and my joy. I am responsible for my faults, which will destroy. - Debasish Mridha
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
A good marriage is good because one or both of them have learned to overlook the other's faults, to love the other as they are and to not attempt to change them or bring them to repentance. - Debi Pearl
Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his. - Benjamin Franklin
Criticism is the disapproval of people, not for having faults, but having faults different from your own.
Discover how wonderful you are. Love who you are, with all your faults. Focus on the unique gifts you bring to the people around you, to the world. Making this a daily practice will shift your life. - Eileen Anglin
Forgiveness is accepting someone's faults with love and kindness. - Debasish Mridha
We all have to face our faults and mistakes, and then choose to overcome them or let them drag us down. - Jessica Lave
In the very end, all we have left to atone for our faults are words. - Kamand Kojouri
The chaos in me is the chaos in you. Like the love in you is the love in me. So maybe we’re both a little crazy. Enough to believe we’re found where dreams are born and beneath our faults remain a science, where you and I will run away and leave nothing behind. - Robert M. Drake
Where there is love, there are no faults. Where the love of give-and-take (dealer) arose, all faults will be seen there. - Dada Bhagwan
men do not suspect faults which they do not commit - Samuel Johnson
It is never too late with us, so long as we are aware of our faults and bear them impatiently.
Our talents don't define us any more than our faults. - Marty Rubin
If we had no faults of our own, we would not take so much pleasure in noticing those of others. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I could be anything but for the faults that I've acquired on my way. - Matchbox 20
You're overconfident, mysterious, dark, picky, edgy, cold and have sixty-nine more faults. That's why you're perfect. - TheDauntlessReader
The Right Knowledge reduces pain-and-suffering, and increases happiness. If we fall short of having acquired the Right Knowledge, the faults is ours’, isn’t it? - Dada Bhagwan
It is good to have a reason for every action you perform other than blaming others for your faults. - Auliq Ice
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