Faults Quotes - Page 20

• I have been rich, and I have been broke. Some of it is my fault for choosing bad management and making bad investments. But that is life - we all take risks.

  Ronnie Wood

  Risk, Management, Rich

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• The greatest gift God has given me is the capacity of love for people. I have so many faults, but caring about people is not one of them.

  Barbara Mandrell

  Caring, People, Capacity

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• I was an executive running a pretty substantial group before becoming CEO, and I had no idea what it was like. When something goes wrong, people say, 'It's all your fault.' Your reaction is, 'It's not my fault.' But what do you mean? I was the founder, I hired everybody in the company, I was managing it.

  Ben Horowitz

  Running, Mean, Ideas

  "HOROWITZ TELLS ALL: This Guy Just Raised A $1.5 Billion Fund". Interview with Matt Rosoff, www.businessinsider.com. January 31, 2012.

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• In Republican fantasy world, everything is always Obama's fault. Somehow, he's weak and he's ineffective, and yet he pulls the strings on everything in the world.

  Bill Maher

  World, Fantasy, Republican

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• Pride is a fault that great men blush not to own: it is the ennobled offspring of self-love; though, it must be confessed, grave and pompous vanity, Iike a fat plebeian in a rove of office, does very often assume its name.

  Joanna Baillie

  Pride, Men, Names

  Joanna Baillie (1851). “The Dramatic and Poetical Works of Joanna Baillie ; Complete in One Volume”, p.209

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• A great hitter isn't born, he's made. He's made out of practice, fault correction, and confidence.

  Rogers Hornsby

  Practice, Born, Made

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• Suffering may be someones fault or it may not be anyones fault. But if given to God, our suffering becomes an opportunity to experience the power of God at work in our lives and to give glory to Him.

  Anne Graham Lotz

  Opportunity, Giving, Suffering

  Anne Graham Lotz (2009). “Just Give Me Jesus”, p.164, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• One of the myths about Dad was that he was mean. That simply wasn't true. I always found him generous to a fault but he wasn't reckless with his money, which was rather rare in Hollywood. He'd grown up with nothing and he wasn't about to fritter it all away.

  Jennifer Grant

  Dad, Mean, Hollywood

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I dislike nothing more than finding fault with a man's nature or talent; it only depresses and worries and does no good; one cannot add a cubit to one's stature, all striving and struggling are useless there, so one has to be silent about it, and let the responsibility rest with God.

  Felix Mendelssohn

  Depressing, Struggle, Responsibility

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• There is no end to one's faults. To think of them makes one humble.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Humble, Thinking, Ends

  Hazrat Inayat Khan (1960). “The Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan: The Alchemy of Happiness”, p.134, Library of Alexandria

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• I don't tolerate whining, I look at people & say 'you're a victim, it's not your fault' figure our how to survive!

  Allan Sloan

  People, Looks, Whining

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• The true poet is called to take in the splendor of the world and for that reason will always be inclined to praise rather than tofind fault.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Poetry, World, Splendor

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• If youth is a fault, it is one that one gets rid of soon enough.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Soon Enough, Youth, Ifs

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Certain faults are necessary for the existence of the individual. We would resent it if old friends were to get rid of certain peculiarities.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Friends, Individual, Certain

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• If [being confident stems from] a self-esteem issue, it's important to embrace the things you might define as so-called imperfections - because something that you might call an imperfection, someone else might find so amazing and so beautiful. It's all in how you embrace yourself, your faults, and your mistakes in life. There's no better way to learn and become a better person than to go through those moments.

  John Slattery

  Beautiful, Mistake, Self Esteem

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Sexually-transmitted diseases is caused by sexual activity and promiscuity it spreads diseases. That's been known, you know, about 400 or 500 years, that somehow these diseases are spread. If fault comes with people because of their personal behavior but it isn't to be placed on a burden on other people, innocent people, why should they have to pay for the consequences?

  Ron Paul

  Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Years, People

  "Reps. Ron Paul, Michele Bachmann and Gov. Rick Perry on Final Push in Iowa". "Fox News Sunday With Chris Wallace", www.foxnews.com. January 1, 2012.

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• Truly it is reasonable to make a great distinction between the faults that come from our weakness and those that come from our wickedness.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Evil, Weakness, Wickedness

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• The lack of closeness among friends is a fault that cannot be reprimanded without becoming incurable.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Friendship, Becoming, Closeness

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• This surface good-nature which captivates a new acquaintance and is no bar to treachery, which knows no scruple and is never at fault for an excuse, which makes an outcry at the wound which it condones, is one of the most distinctive features of the journalist. This camaraderie (the word is a stroke of genius) corrodes the noblest minds; it eats into their pride like rust, kills the germ of great deeds, and lends a sanction to moral cowardice.

  Honore de Balzac

  Work, Pride, Mind

  "A Daughter of Eve". Book by Honoré de Balzac, 1839.

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• The honor of a country depends much more on removing its faults than on boasting of its qualities.

  Giuseppe Mazzini

  Country, Honor, Quality

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• When it's your own fault, things hurt worse than when someone else is to blame.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Hurt, Blame

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• In a world which furnishes so many employments which are useful, and so many which are amusing, it is our own fault if we ever know what ennui [boredom] is, or if we are ever driven to the miserable resource of gaming, which corrupts our dispositions, and teaches us a habit of hostility against all mankind.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Gambling, Boredom, Employment

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• Small faults and virtues are for daily life. The big ones are for emergencies.

  Mason Cooley

  Character, Emergencies, Daily Life

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• The definition of good prose is proper words in their proper places; of good verse, the most proper words in their proper places.The propriety is in either case relative. The words in prose ought to express the intended meaning, and no more; if they attract attention to themselves, it is, in general, a fault.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Poetry, Attention, Definitions

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1835). “Specimens of the Table Talk of the Late Samuel Taylor Coleridge: In Two Volumes”, p.214

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• Shakespeare had no tutors but nature and genius. He caught his faults from the bad taste of his contemporaries. In an age still less civilized Shakespeare might have been wilder, but would not have been vulgar.

  Horace Walpole

  Age, Genius, Might

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