Defects Quotes - Page 4

• It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.

  Joseph Addison

  Inspiring, Perfect, Excellence

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• The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become toward the defects of other people.

  Francois Fenelon

  People, Perfect, Quiet

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• If we were faultless we should not be so much annoyed by the defects of those with whom we associate.

  Francois Fenelon

  Annoyed, Should, Associates

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• We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects.

  William Hazlitt

  Tired, Ridicule, Grows

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1921, Delphi Classics

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• One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect.

  William Hazlitt

  Shining, Excellence, Quality

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1486, Delphi Classics

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• Only a kind person is able to judge another justly and to make allowances for his weaknesses. A kind eye, while recognizing defects, sees beyond them.

  Lawrence G. Lovasik

  Eye, Judging, Judgement

  Lawrence G. Lovasik (1999). “The Hidden Power of Kindness: A Practical Handbook for Souls who Dare to Transform the World, One Deed at a Time”, p.124, Sophia Institute Press

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• 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.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Taken, Mind, Skins

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• The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.

  Bertrand Russell

  Children, Dad, Father

  Sceptical Essays (1928) "Freedom versus Authority in Education"

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• Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves

  Francois Fenelon

  Children, Forgiving, Excellent

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• If we don't see a failure as a challenge to modify our approach, but rather as a problem with ourselves, as a personality defect, we will immediately feel overwhelmed.

  Tony Robbins

  Motivational, Spiritual, Mistake

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.101, Simon and Schuster

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• As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex; while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Sex, Powerful, Perfect

  St Thomas Aquinas (2013). “Summa Theologica, Volume 1”, p.466, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives.

  Teresa of Avila

  Peace, Motivation, Real

  St. Teresa of Avila (2014). “The Interior Castle (Annotated Edition)”, p.38, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.

  Alexander Pope

  Friendship, Trust, Knowledge

  Alexander Pope (1867). “Poetical Works, with Life of the Author and Notes”, p.36

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• There is also a perfection of degrees, by which a person performs all the commands of God, with the full exertion of all his powers, without the least defect. This is what the law of God requires, but what the saints cannot attain to in this life.

  Charles Buck

  Law, Perfection, Degrees

  Charles Buck (1807). “A Theological Dictionary”, p.238

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• There is a serious defect in the thinking of someone who wants - more than anything else - to become rich. As long as they don't have the money, it'll seem like a worthwhile goal. Once they do, they'll understand how important other things are - and have always been.

  Anita Loos

  Appreciation, Money, Thinking

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• Even though I love my mother, I didn't want to make an idealized portrait of her. I'm fascinated more by her defects - they are funnier than her other qualities.

  Pedro Almodovar

  Mother, Quality, Portraits

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• I see only defects because I'm not following the scene as it were. I'm not following the other person. It's like the best thing to clarify this is the theater.

  Omar Sharif

  Scene, Theater, Following

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• Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters.

  Margaret Halsey

  Character, People, Littles

  Margaret Halsey (1938). “With Malice Toward Some”

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• These technologies can make life easier, can let us touch people we might not otherwise. You may have a child with a birth defect and be able to get in touch with other parents and support groups, get medical information, the latest experimental drugs. These things can profoundly influence life. I'm not downplaying that.

  Steve Jobs

  Children, Technology, Birth Defects

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• It is a defect of God's humor that he directs our hearts everywhere but to those who have a right to them.

  Tom Stoppard

  Heart, Arcadia

  Tom Stoppard (2013). “Arcadia”, p.91, Faber & Faber

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• It is the common defect of modern art study. Too many students do not know why they draw.

  Robert Henri

  Art, Drawing, Students

  "The art spirit".

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• We rightly scorn those who have no made use of their defects, who have not exploited their deficiencies, and have not been enriched by their losses, as we despise any man who does not suffer at being a man or simply at being. Hence no graver insult can be inflicted than to call someone 'happy', no greater flattery than to grant him a 'vein of melancholy'... This is because gaiety is link to no important action and because, except for the mad, no one laughs when he is alone.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Loss, Men, Mad

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• Again I take a taxi to Clichy address, but feel that I do not want to go on loving Henry more actively than he loves me (having realized that nobody will ever love me in that overabundant, overexpressive, overthoughtful, overhuman way I love people), and so I will wait for him. So I ask taxi driver to drop me at the Galeries Lafayette, where I begin to look for a new hat and to shop for Christmas. Pride? I don't know. A kind of wise retreat. I need people too much. So I bury my gigantic defect, my overflow of love, under trivialities, like a child. I amuse myself with a new hat.

  Anais Nin

  Wise, Children, Pride

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• The sense of tragedy - according to Aristotle - comes, ironically enough, not from the protagonist's weak points but from his good qualities. Do you know what I'm getting at? People are drawn deeper into tragedy not by their defects but by their virtues. ... [But] we accept irony through a device called metaphor. And through that we grow and become deeper human beings.

  Haruki Murakami

  People, Tragedy, Quality

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• Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. If the dispositions of the parties are ever so well known to each other or ever so similar beforehand, it does not advance their felicity in the least. They always continue to grow sufficiently unlike afterwards to have their share of vexation; and it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life.

  Jane Austen

  Party, Doe, Littles

  "Pride and Prejudice". Book by Jane Austen. Chapter 6, 1813.

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