Fault Quotes

When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself.
Tecumseh

Life, Morning, Strength

We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change.
Katharine Hepburn

Change, School, Yourself

Don't find fault, find a remedy.
Henry Ford

And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.
William Shakespeare

Worse, Excuse, Oftentimes

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Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.
Alexander Pope

Others, Another, Show

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

Tomorrow, Amended

You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?
Benjamin Franklin

Wife, Why, Bear

The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.
Benjamin Franklin

Present, Nor, Excuse

Our DNA is as a consumer company - for that individual customer who's voting thumbs up or thumbs down. That's who we think about. And we think that our job is to take responsibility for the complete user experience. And if it's not up to par, it's our fault, plain and simply.
Steve Jobs

Experience, Job, Down

When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.
Epictetus

Anger, Yourself, Forget

If it's never our fault, we can't take responsibility for it. If we can't take responsibility for it, we'll always be its victim.
Richard Bach

I never blame myself when I'm not hitting. I just blame the bat and if it keeps up, I change bats. After all, if I know it isn't my fault that I'm not hitting, how can I get mad at myself?
Yogi Berra

Change, Blame, After

It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Great, Thankful, Give

Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Long, Last, Side

It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Loved, Realize, Almost

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, Since, Full

If we go on the way we have, the fault is our greed and if we are not willing to change, we will disappear from the face of the globe, to be replaced by the insect.
Jacques Yves Cousteau

Change, Greed, Face

Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything.
Anita Brookner

Good, Women, Bad

I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Creation, Finding, Criticize

Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Wish, Dangerous, Correct

This is a do-it-yourself test for paranoia: you know you've got it when you can't think of anything that's your fault.
Robert M. Hutchins

The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it's their fault.
Henry A. Kissinger

Nice, Celebrity, Bore

To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.
Plutarch

May, Find, Difficult

For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Time, Him, Same

There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behaves any of us to find fault with the rest of us.
James Truslow Adams

Good, Best, Bad

This is a fault common to all singers, that among their friends they will never sing when they are asked; unasked, they will never desist.
Horace

Friends, Common, Sing

I think the one thing this picture shows that's new is the psychological disproportion of the kids' demands on the parents. Parents are often at fault, but the kids have some work to do, too.
James Dean

Work, Parents, Kids

When you blame yourself, you learn from it. If you blame someone else, you don't learn nothing, cause hey, it's not your fault, it's his fault, over there.
Joe Strummer

Yourself, Someone, Nothing

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

Failure, Control, Lack

There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet.
Samuel Beckett

Feet, Blaming, Boots

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