Faults Quotes

When admins have faults, they do not fear to ignore them

It's silly to try to escape other people's faults. They are inescapable. Just try to escape your own.

We do not look at our own faults; the eyes do not see themselves, they see the eyes of everybody else. We human beings are very slow to recognise our own weakness, our own faults, so long as we can lay the blame upon somebody else.

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.

His worst fault is, he's given to prayer; he is something peevish that way.

He is lifeless that is faultless.

We often select envenomed praise which, by a reaction upon those we praise, shows faults we could not have shown by other means.

We often make use of envenomed praise, that reveals on the rebound, as it were, defects in those praised which we dare not exposeany other way.

People are often vain of their passions, even of the worst, but envy is a passion so timid and shame-faced that no one ever dare avow her.

The blindness of men is the most dangerous effect of their pride; it seems to nourish and augment it; it deprives them of knowledge of remedies which can solace their miseries and can cure their faults.

We often pride ourselves on even the most criminal passions, but envy is a timid and shamefaced passion we never dare to acknowledge.

People do not mind their faults being spread out before them, but they become impatient if called on to give them up.

Pride has a greater share than goodness in the reproofs we give other people for their faults; and we chide them not so much to make them mend those faults as to make them believe that we ourselves are without fault.

We confess to little faults only to persuade ourselves we have no great ones.

There is not so good an understanding between any two, but the exposure by the one of a serious fault in the other will produce a misunderstanding in proportion to its heinousness.

To acknowledge our faults when we are blamed, is modesty; to discover them to one's friends in ingenuousness, is confidence; but to preach them to all the world, if one does not take care, is pride.

The defects and faults of 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, and they are in continual danger of breaking the skin and bursting out again.

A true master of politics is able to calculate, down to the smallest fraction, the advantages to which he may put his very faults.

The greatest fault of a penetrating wit is to go beyond the mark.

Men's faults do seldom to themselves appear.

Every man has a bag hanging before him, in which he puts his neighbour's faults, and another behind him in which he stows his own.

There are some faults which, when well managed, make a greater figure than virtue itself.

People will allow their faults to be shown them; they will let themselves be punished for them; they will patiently endure many things because of them; they only become impatient when they have to lay them aside.

All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.

Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.

We endeavor to make a virtue of the faults we are unwilling to correct.

We acknowledge our faults in order to repair by our sincerity the damage they have done us in the eyes of others.

Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.

One of the greatest and also the commonest of faults is for men to believe that, because they never hear their shortcomings spoken of, or read about them in cold print, others can have no knowledge of them. GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG, The Reflections of Lichtenberg We are often more agreeable through our faults than our good qualities.

Men ought to be most annoyed by the sufferings which come from their own faults.

Chance corrects us of many faults that reason would not know how to correct.

We forget our faults easily when they are known to ourselves alone.

A man does not mind being blamed for his faults, and being punished for them, and he patiently suffers much for them; but he becomes impatient if he is required to give them up.

The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them; they change and everyone looks up to them.

Immodest creature, you do not want a woman who will accept your faults, you want the one who pretends you are faultless - one who will caress the hand that strikes her and kiss the lips that lie to her.

Certain faults are necessary to the individual if he is to exist.

The grace of novelty and the length of habit, though so very opposite to one another, yet agree in this, that they both alike keepus from discovering the faults of our friends.

We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.

Make faithfulness and truth thy masters: have no friends unlike thyself: be not ashamed to mend thy faults.

There are people who in spite of their merit disgust us and others who please us in spite of their faults.

In the intercourse of life, we please more by our faults than by our good qualities.

The failure to cultivate virtue, the failure to examine and analyze what I have learned, the inability to move toward righteousness after being shown the way, the inability to correct my faults-these are the causes of my grief.

There are some people upon whom their very faults and failings sit gracefully; and there are others whose very excellencies and accomplishments do not become them.

Weakness is the only fault that is incorrigible.

If we had no faults, we would not derive so much pleasure from noting those of other people.

Our worst fault is our preoccupation with the faults of others.

Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.

Solemnity is a device of the body to hide the faults of the mind.

We easily forget our faults when no one knows them but ourselves.

If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.

Were we faultless, we would not derive such satisfaction from remarking the faults of others.

The greatest part of our faults are more excusable than the methods that are commonly taken to conceal them.

If little faults proceeding on distemperShall not be winked at, how shall we stretch our eyeWhen capital crimes, chewed, swallowed, and digested,Appear before us?

Only great men have great faults.

We should not be much concerned about faults we have the courage to own.

Not to alter one's faults is to be faulty indeed.

The smallest fault of women who give themselves up to love is to love.

We easily forgive our friends those faults that do no affect us ourselves.

We own up to minor failings, but only so as to convince others that we have no major ones.

When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them.