Faults Quotes - Page 8

• Unless I accept my faults, I will most certainly doubt my virtues.

  Hugh Prather

  Acceptance, Doubt, Virtue

  Hugh Prather, James Baldwin (1983). “Notes to Myself”

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• Remember that no talent, no self-denial, no brains, no character, are required to set up in the fault-finding business. Nothing external can have any power over you unless you permit it.

  Og Mandino

  Character, Self, Over You

  Og Mandino (2010). “A Better Way to Live: Og Mandino's Own Personal Story of Success Featuring 17 Rules to Live By”, p.117, Bantam

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• Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.

  Martial

  Caring, World, Caregivers

  "Epigrams" by Martial, III, 42, c. 80 - 104 AD.

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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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• He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.

  Honore de Balzac

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Peace

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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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• 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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• Let none find fault with others; let none see the omissions and commissions of others. But let one see one's own acts, done and undone.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Omission, Done

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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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• Dogs' lives are too short. Their only fault, really.

  Agnes Sligh Turnbull

  Life, Dog, Pet

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

  Mason Cooley

  Virtue, Tied

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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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• 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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• 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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• Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie: a fault which needs it most, grows two thereby.

  George Herbert

  Truth, Honesty, Lying

  Jeremy Taylor, John Wheeldon, George Herbert (1768). “Sacred Prolusions: Or, Select Pieces from Bishop Taylor and Mr. Herbert. By the Rev. John Wheeldon, ... With a Preface and a Discourse on Rev.xviii. 21. By the Editor”, p.98

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• My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.

  Jack Kerouac

  Wisdom, Failure, Passion

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• If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.

  Jack Kerouac

  Wisdom, Empathy, Apathy

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• It is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to hang their peculiar beatnik theories on.

  Jack Kerouac

  Writing, Peculiar, Elements

  The New York Journal-American, December 8, 1960.

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