Faults Quotes

Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind.
William Shakespeare

Love, Mind, Joy

How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.
Benjamin Franklin

Courage, Enough, Few

I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.
Mahatma Gandhi

Good, Men, Others

If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Wish, Show, Loved

I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.
Benjamin Franklin

Life, End, Same

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

Wife, Why, Fault

A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults.
Charles Kingsley

Trust, Best, Blessed

The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them; they change and everyone looks up to them.
Confucius

Change, Person, Sun

Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Needs, Lifetime, Thank

The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.
George Bernard Shaw

Qualities, Burglar

Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on.
Les Brown

Yourself, Mistakes, Forgive

Jealousy is, I think, the worst of all faults because it makes a victim of both parties.
Gene Tierney

Jealousy, Makes, Both

America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still.
e. e. cummings

Mistakes, May, America

It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Fool, Forget, Others

Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same.
Voltaire

Love, Same, Away

It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
Henry Ward Beecher

Love, Friendship, Truth

Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
Henry Ward Beecher

Friends, Keep, Cemetery

The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults.
Alexis de Tocqueville

America, Her, Rather

You should examine yourself daily. If you find faults, you should correct them. When you find none, you should try even harder.
Xi Zhi

Yourself, Daily, Find

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.
Thomas Carlyle

Greatest, Divine, Conscious

To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
Alexander Pope

Angry, Revenge, Others

The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.
Thomas Carlyle

Greatest, Conscious, None

The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind, and they are in continual danger of breaking the skin and bursting out again.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Mind, Care, After

Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
Thomas Carlyle

Source, Egotism, Summary

If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Others, Pleasure, Noticing

All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Love, Makes, Ridiculous

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

Do not think of your faults, still less of other's faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.
John Ruskin

Time, Good, Strong

All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor.
Walt Whitman

May, Him, Perfect

The desire of talking of ourselves, and showing those faults we do not mind having seen, makes up a good part of our sincerity.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Good, Mind, Makes

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