Quotes
Quotes about Fault
View the whole scene, with critic judgment scan, And then deny him merit if you can. Where he falls short, 'tis Nature's fault alone Where he succeeds, the merit's all his own.
Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.
No one finds fault with defects which are the result of nature.
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.
Love blinds us to faults, but hatred blinds us to virtues.
A fault is sooner found than mended.
I may have faults, but being wrong ain't one of them.
When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them.
There are fine things which you mean to do some day, under what you think will be more favorable circumstances. But the only time that is surely yours is the present, hence this is the time to speak the word of appreciation and sympathy, to do the generous deed, to forgive the fault of a thoughtless friend, to sacrifice self a little more for others. Today is the day in which to express your noblest qualities of mind and heart, to do at least one worthy thing which you have long postponed, and to use your God-given abilities for the enrichment of someone less fortunate. Today you can make your life - significant and worthwhile. The present is yours to do with as you will. -Grenville Kleiser.
But there are times when patience proves at fault.
Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null, dead perfection; no more.
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 of the first.
Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began.
Be England what she will, with all her faults she is my country still.
Pride (of all others the most dang'rous fault) Proceeds from want of sense, or want of thought.
Pride is the mask of one's own faults.
The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. Whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles.
It has often been said that power corrupts. But it is perhaps equally important to realize that weakness, too, corrupts. Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. Hatred, malice, rudeness, intolerance, and suspicion are the faults of weakness. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from their sense of inadequacy and impotence. We cannot win the weak by sharing our wealth with them. They feel our generosity as oppression.
It is better to correct your own faults than those of another.
Since nothing we intend is ever faultless, and nothing we attempt ever without error, and nothing we achieve without some measure of finitude and fallibility we call humanness, we are saved by forgiveness.
Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on.
There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behaves any of us to find fault with the rest of us.
Find fault when you must find fault in private, and if possible sometime after the offense, rather than at the time.
Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.
It is strange that we do not temper our resentment of criticism with a thought for our many faults which have escaped us.
