Defects Quotes

• Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Motivational, Procrastination, Successful

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1960). “Freedom from Fear: Reflections on the Personality and Teachings of Gandhi”

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• No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Change, Character, Angel

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1454, Delphi Classics

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• Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Passion, People

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.171, Simon and Schuster

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• At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures - be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.

  Albert Camus

  Men, Hands, Birth Defects

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• Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Humility, Perfection, Dull

  W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”

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• By nature we have no defect that could not become a strength, no strength that could not become a defect.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Strength, Nature

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1963). “Goethe's world view: presented in his reflections and maxims”

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• It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality.

  Max Beerbohm

  Quality, Easier, Claims

  Max Beerbohm (2015). “The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm”, p.72, New York Review of Books

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• Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Caring, Individuality, Faults

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.761, Delphi Classics

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• Defects are not free. Somebody makes them, and gets paid for making them.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Paid

  "Out Of The Crisis". Book by W. Edwards Deming, p. 11, 1982.

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• One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range.

  Victor Hugo

  Distance, Quality, Range

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• Nature has some perfections to show that she is the image of God, and some defects to show that she is only His image.

  Blaise Pascal

  Nature, Order, Perfection

  "Pascal's Pensées: Selections".

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• If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.

  James Russell Lowell

  Time, Literature, Youth

  James Russell Lowell (1897). “The Writings of James Russell Lowell in Prose and Poetry ...”

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• The most heated defenders of a science, who cannot endure the slightest sneer at it, are commonly those who have not made very much progress in it and are secretly aware of this defect.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Science, Secret, Progress

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook F 8, 1799.

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• I am Jose Mourinho and I don't change. I arrive with all my qualities and my defects.

  Jose Mourinho

  Quality, Mourinho, Don't Change

  "Real Madrid unveil Mourinho as coach". www.cnn.com. May 31, 2010.

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• Defect-free software does not exist.

  Wietse Venema

  Technology, Doe, Software

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• Like pictures, men should be judged by their merits and not by their defects.

  Bainbridge Colby

  Men, Merit, Should

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• If youth is a defect, it is one we outgrow too soon.

  Robert Lowell

  Youth, Ifs

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• I worked with the March of Dimes to enact legislation for a national birth defects prevention program to provide surveillance, research and preventive services aimed at reducing the rate of birth defects.

  Solomon Ortiz

  Birth Defects, Dimes, Research

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• In our struggle to restrain the violence and contain the damage, we tend to forget that the human capacity for aggression is more than a monstrous defect, that it is also a crucial survival tool.

  Katherine Dunn

  Struggle, Survival, Tools

  FaceBook post by Katherine Dunn from Sep 02, 2012

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• I think the best American poetry is the poetry that utilizes the resources of poetry rather than exploits the defects or triumphs of the poet's personality.

  Mark Strand

  Thinking, Personality, Triumph

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• Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.

  John Henry Newman

  Evil, Excess, Substance

  John Henry Newman, Dave Armstrong (2012). “The Quotable Newman: A Definitive Guide to His Central Thoughts and Ideas”, p.151, Sophia Institute Press

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• As a father and grandfather, I have witnessed firsthand the joy of new life entering the world. I know the pain and apprehension that goes along with premature births and birth defects.

  Solomon Ortiz

  Pain, Father, Birth Defects

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• I never yet heard man or woman much abused, that I was not inclined to think the better of them; and to transfer any suspicion or dislike, to the person who appeared to take delight in pointing out the defects of a fellow-creature.

  Jane Porter

  Women, Thinking, Abuse

  "Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks".

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• One of the great defects of English books printed in the last century is the want of an index.

  Lafcadio Hearn

  Book, Want, Lasts

  Lafcadio Hearn (2012). “Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn”, p.160, tredition

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• There is something wrong about the man who wants help. There is somewhere a deep defect, a want, in brief, a need, a crying need, somewhere about that man.

  Herman Melville

  Men, Needs, Want

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