Faults Quotes - Page 6

• Tomorrow, every Fault is to be amended; but that Tomorrow never comes.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Time, Tomorrow Never Comes, Poor Richard

  Benjamin Franklin (1945). “A Benjamin Franklin Reader”

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• So may he rest, his faults lie gently on him!

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Memorable, May

  'Henry VIII' (1613) act 4, sc. 2, l. 31

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• Not using faults does not mean that one does not have them.

  Antonio Porchia

  Motivational, Mean, Doe

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• there is no shortage of fault to be found amid our stars

  John Green

  Stars, Found, Shortage

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.68, Penguin

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• Endeavor to be always patient of the faults and imperfections of others; for thou hast many faults and imperfections of thine own that require forbearance. If thou art not able to make thyself that which thou wishest, how canst thou expect to mold another in conformity to thy will?

  Thomas a Kempis

  Art, Imperfection, Mold

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• Nothing is easier than fault finding.

  Og Mandino

  Fault Finding, Easier, Findings

  Og Mandino (1988). “The Greatest Salesman in the World: Featuring the Ten Vows of Success. The end of the story”, Bantam Dell Publishing Group

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• We communicate happiness to others not often by great acts of devotion and self-sacrifice, but by the absence of fault-finding and censure, by being ready to sympathize with their notions and feelings, instead of forcing them to sympathize with ours.

  Adam Clarke

  Happiness, Sacrifice, Self

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

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Inspirational, Order, Blame

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• One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Friendship, Gratitude, Real

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• Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, - for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it - not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation.

  Herman Melville

  Strength, Literature, Way

  Herman Melville, Lynn Horth (1993). “Correspondence”, p.196, Northwestern University Press

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• Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.

  Blaise Pascal

  Evil, Add, Investing

  Blaise Pascal, W. F. Trotter, T. S. Eliot (2003). “Pensees”, p.31, Courier Corporation

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

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Men, Annoyed, Suffering

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, Epistolæ Ad Fratrem, I. 1, p. 265-67, 1922.

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• The person I like most is the one who points out my defects

  Umar

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Truth

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• Believing there's no God means I can't really be forgiven except by kindness and faulty memories. That's good; it makes me want to be more thoughtful. I have to try to treat people right the first time around.

  Penn Jillette

  Motivational, God, Forgiveness

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• We are one in Christ; let us be friends with one another; but let us never be friends with one another’s error. If I be wrong, rebuke me sternly; I can bear it, and bear it cheerfully; and if ye be wrong, expect the like measure from me, and neither peace nor parley with your mistakes.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Friends, Religious, Jesus

  Spurgeon, Charles H. (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 5: Sermons 225-285”, p.364, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• I have a list a mile long of faults that sometimes bring me to my knees in self-hatred.

  Frank Langella

  Self, Long, Hatred

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• People who think they're generous to a fault usually think that's their only fault.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Thinking, People, Generosity

  Sydney J. Harris (1964). “ON THE CONTRARY”

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• The world is not a wish-granting factory.

  John Green

  Stars, Truth, Hipster

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.113, Penguin

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• The practice mirror is to be used for the correction of faults, not for a love affair, and the figure you watch should not become your dearest friend.

  Agnes de Mille

  Dance, Mirrors, Practice

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• I’m on a roller coaster that only goes up, my friend.

  John Green

  Stars, Roller Coaster, Coasters

  John Green (2008). “Paper Towns”, p.245, Penguin

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• Find fault, when you must find fault, in private, if possible; and some time after the offense, rather than at the time.

  Sydney Smith

  Offense, Ifs

  "A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith". Volume I,

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• Humankind's chief fault is that they have so many small ones.

  Jean Paul

  Chiefs, Humans, Humankind

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• I'm in love with you, and I'm not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things.

  John Green

  Stars, Love You, Happy Valentines Day

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.90, Penguin

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• A fault is sooner found than mended.

  Ulpian Fulwell

  Found

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• If every day in the life of a school could be the last day but one, there would be little fault to find with it.

  Stephen Leacock

  School, Would Be, Littles

  Stephen Leacock (2012). “Feast of Stephen”, p.96, McClelland & Stewart

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