Faults quotes
877 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize?"
"We love ourselves notwithstanding our faults, and we ought to love our friends in like manner."
"A commander-in-chief cannot take as an excuse for his mistakes in warfare an order given by his sovereign or his minister when the person giving the order is absent from the field of operations and is imperfectly aware or wholly unaware of the latest state of affairs. It follows that any commander-in-chief who undertakes to carry out a plan which he considers defective is at fault; he must put forward his reasons, insist on the plan being changed, and finally tender his resignation rather than be the instrument of his army's downfall."
"It's not my fault if reality is Marxist"
"How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them."
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"Our worst fault is our preoccupation with the faults of others."
"Many of the faults you see in others, dear reader, are your own nature reflected in them."
"If you limit your actions in life to things that nobody can possibly find fault with, you will not do much!"
"Don't say you miss me when it's your fault I'm gone!"
"You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults."
"We should never insult others on account of their faults, for it is our duty to show charity and respect to everyone."
"Life is for living and working at. If you find anything or anybody a bore, the fault is in yourself."
"I’m lost. And it’s my own fault. It’s about time I figured out that I can’t ask people to keep me found."
"I'm just human, I have faults like anyone"
"Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none."
"Happy are those who find fault with themselves instead of finding fault with others."
"I'm not conceited. Conceit is a fault and I have no faults."
"The planet is asleep and it's the fault of musicians who are untrue to themselves."
"The business of popularizing crime is how we expose the faults in our justice system. It's how we expose police misconduct."
"Wherever we see the Word of God purely preached and heard, there a church of God exists, even if it swarms with many faults."
"Never count your faults. Just see that your love for God is deeply sincere. For God doesn't mind your imperfections: He minds your indifference."
"Use encouragement. Make the fault seem easy to correct."
"Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries."
"When you notice a fault in your neighbour, search for the same in yourself."
"This world was not created piecemeal. Africa was born no later and no earlier than any other geographical area on this globe. Africans, no more and no less than other men, possess all human attributes, talents and deficiencies, virtues and faults."
