Faults Quotes - Page 8

• I am so infinitely happy that he loves me so much, and I pray that it will always be like this. It won't be my fault if he ever stops loving me.

  Eva Braun

  Praying, Loving Me, Loving Deeply

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• I've had every advantage in the world, despite the 18 years of silence which were nobody's fault but mine.

  Gordon Getty

  Years, Silence, World

  "'I want to make the world better'". Interview with Vadim Prokhorov, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2005.

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• To find out a girl's faults, praise her to her girlfriends.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Girl, Women, 4th Of July

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• I'm a grenade and at some point I'm going to blow up and I would like to minimize the casualties, okay?

  John Green

  Real, Blow, Casualties

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.72, Penguin UK

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• Oh, I wouldn't mind, Hazel Grace. It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.

  John Green

  Romantic, Heartbreak, Stars

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• It's a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don't give it the power to do its killing.

  John Green

  Real, Giving, Teeth

  John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.230, Penguin

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• I want more numbers than I’m likely to get, and God, I want more numbers for Augustus Waters than he got. But, Gus, my love, I cannot tell you how thankful I am for our little infinity. I wouldn’t trade it for the world. You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I’m grateful.

  John Green

  Grateful, Numbers, Water

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.168, Penguin UK

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• There is nothing that will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself.

  George Eliot

  Pride, Men, Fault Finders

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• Of course in war all madness's come out in a man. That is the fault of war not of a man or a nation.

  Frieda Lawrence

  War, Men, Madness

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• All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, it will not change you.

  Wayne Dyer

  Spiritual, Responsibility, Matter

  "Words With Wayne Dyer". Interview with Karl Saliter, www.elephantjournal.com. May 4, 2014.

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• Sexism is not the fault of women - kill your fathers, not your mothers

  Robin Morgan

  Inspiring, Mothers Day, Father

  Robin Morgan (2014). “The Word of a Woman: Feminist Dispatches”, p.39, Open Road Media

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• A man's personal defects will commonly have with the rest of the world precisely that importance which they have to himself. If he makes light of them, so will other men.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Light, World

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.230

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• And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but perceivest not the beam that is in thine own eye?

  Luke the Evangelist

  Jesus, Brother, Eye

  New Testament, Luke 6:41,

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• Its very difficult to determine whether this is the fault of the world that has abandoned the Church, or the Church that does not know how to relate to the world.

  Angelo Scola

  Church, Doe, World

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• If you commit a big crime then you are crazy, and the more heinous the crime the crazier you must be. Therefore you are not responsible, and nothing is your fault.

  Peggy Noonan

  Crazy, Insanity, Madness

  Peggy Noonan (1990). “What I Saw at the Revolution: A Political Life in the Reagan Era”, Random House (NY)

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• We are more tied to our faults than to our virtues.

  Mason Cooley

  Virtue, Tied

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• More faults are often committed while we are trying to oblige than while we are giving offense.

  Tacitus

  Giving, Trying, Committed

  Tacitus (2007). “The Annals & The Histories”, p.317, Modern Library

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• The great fault in women is to desire to be like men.

  Joseph de Maistre

  Women, Desire, Men

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• My days of whining and complaining about others have come to an end. Nothing is easier than fault finding. All it will do is discolor my personality so that none will want to associate with me. That was my old life. No more.

  Og Mandino

  Personality, Complaining, Want

  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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• It is not so much the being exempt from faults as the having overcome them that is an advantage to us; it being with the follies of the mind as with weeds of a field, which if destroyed and consumed upon the place where they grow, enrich and improve it more than if none had ever sprung there.

  Jonathan Swift

  Weed, Mind, Fields

  Jonathan Swift (1843). “Works: Containing Interesting and Valuable Papers Not Hitherto Published”, p.836

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• Use encouragement. Make the fault seem easy to correct.

  Dale Carnegie

  Encouragement, Use, Easy

  Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to win friends & influence people”, p.194, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• I have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper.

  Moliere

  Literature, Littles, Sincere

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• Something goes wrong, I yell at them -'Fix it'- whether it's their fault or not. You can only really yell at the players you trust.

  Bill Parcells

  Trust, Player

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• Nobody can be perfect unless he admits his faults, but if he has faults how can he be perfect?

  Laurence J. Peter

  Perfect, Literature, Ifs

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• Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Parent, Luck, Psychological

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