How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them. Votes: 4
Benjamin FranklinFaults! I adore faults! I can never find too many in any creature. Votes: 3
Pearl Mary Teresa CraigieA Man consumes the Time you make him Wait In thinking of your Faults-so don't be late! Votes: 3
Arthur GuitermanFaults are committed within the walls of Troy and also without. [There is fault on both sides.] Votes: 3
HoracePsychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings. Votes: 2
Laurence J. PeterIf you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues. Votes: 2
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron LyttonAnd oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse. Votes: 2
William ShakespeareAll the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones. Votes: 2
Francois de La RochefoucauldI think people who have faults are a lot more interesting than people who are perfect. Votes: 2
Spike LeeEvery man should have a fair-sized cemetary in which to bury the faults of his friends. Votes: 2
Henry AdamsTis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his. Votes: 2
Benjamin FranklinJealousy is, I think, the worst of all faults because it makes a victim of both parties. Votes: 2
Gene TierneyNegroes are human beings with exactly the same faults and virtues as members of the other races. Votes: 2
Ethel WatersIt is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own. Votes: 2
Marcus Tullius CiceroA man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault. Votes: 2
John Henry NewmanThe faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess Votes: 1
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeMore faults are often committed while we are trying to oblige than while we are giving offense Votes: 1
Publius Cornelius TacitusWe see men fall from high estate on account of the very faults through which they attained it Votes: 1
Jean de la BruyereYesterday's faults become today's lessons. Today's dreams become tomorrow's reality. Votes: 0
B.J. NeblettWhy do we discover faults so much more readily than perfection. Votes: 0
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de SevigneOur own self-love draws a thick veil between us and our faults. Votes: 0
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of ChesterfieldWe easily forget our faults when no one knows them but ourselves. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldCertain faults are necessary to the individual if he is to exist. Votes: 0
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheYou don't love if you don't take the beloved's faults for virtues. Votes: 0
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWe forget our faults easily when they are known to ourselves alone. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldWe rather confess our moral errors, faults, and crimes than our ignorance. Votes: 0
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess. Votes: 0
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeOf all our faults, the one that we excuse most easily is idleness. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldVulgar people take huge delight in the faults and follies of great men. Votes: 0
Arthur SchopenhauerWe easily forgive our friends those faults that do no affect us ourselves. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldHe that avoideth not small faults, by little and little falleth into greater. Votes: 0
Thomas a KempisTo many people virtue consists chiefly in repenting faults, not in avoiding them. Votes: 0
Georg C. LichtenbergThe mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes. Votes: 0
Madame de StaelSome people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldA friend should always underestimate your virtues and an enemy overestimate your faults Votes: 0
Mario PuzoEverything becomes so problematic because of basic faults: from a discontent with myself. Votes: 0
Anna FreudSolemnity is a device of the body to hide the faults of the mind. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldHe loves not who does not see the faults of the beloved as virtues. Votes: 0
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheFortune mends more faults in us than ever reason would be able to do. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldWe endeavor to make a virtue of the faults we are unwilling to correct. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldWe should not be much concerned about faults we have the courage to own. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldBlessed is he whose own faults keep him from seeing the faults of others. Votes: 0
Ali ibn Abi TalibGreat men too often have greater faults than little men can find room for. Votes: 0
Walter Savage LandorChance corrects us of many faults that reason would not know how to correct. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldWe confess to little faults only to persuade ourselves we have no great ones. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldThe faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives. Votes: 0
Sidonie Gabrielle ColetteIf you see faults in others, look the other way. Don't linger on imperfection. Votes: 0
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount CherwellSmall faults and virtues are for daily life. The big ones are for emergencies. Votes: 0
Mason CooleyIt requires less character to discover the faults of others, than to tolerate them. Votes: 0
Jean Antoine Petit-SennOnly those faults which we encounter in ourselves are insufferable to us in others. Votes: 0
Sophie SwetchineWomen see faults much more readily in each other than they can discover perfections. Votes: 0
Nicolas ChamfortOne mend-fault is worth two find-faults, but one find-fault is better than two make-faults. Votes: 0
Benjamin FranklinEvil and faults are corrected by good, by love, kindness, meekness, humility, and patience. Votes: 0
John of KronstadtParents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them. Votes: 0
Marie Von Ebner EschenbachParents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them. Votes: 0
Marie von Ebner-EschenbachA human being should beware how he laughs, for then he shows all his faults. Votes: 0
Ralph Waldo EmersonTo copy beauty forfeits all pretense to fame; to copy faults is want of sense Votes: 0
Charles ChurchillMost of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldWe are dismayed when we find that even disaster cannot cure us of our faults. Votes: 0
Luc de ClapiersWe only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldA hero without faults is like an omelet without little bits of eggshell in it. Votes: 0
Colin CotterillTo copy beauty forfeits all pretense to fame; to copy faults is want of sense. Votes: 0
Charles ChurchillOur faults are apt to assume giant and exaggerated forms to our eyes in youth. Votes: 0
Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyOne of the most common ways of not acknowledging our faults is to blame others. Votes: 0
Geshe Kelsang GyatsoThe blood of Christ is necessary to purge the faults clinging to our best works. Votes: 0
John CalvinMen ought to be most annoyed by the sufferings which come from their own faults. Votes: 0
Marcus Tullius CiceroThe United States, for all its faults, is till the greatest nation in the country. Votes: 0
Spiro T. AgnewLook, the justice system is made up of people. People have faults. It's not perfect. Votes: 0
Nancy GraceWomen will sometimes confess their sins, but I never knew one to confess her faults. Votes: 0
Thomas Chandler HaliburtonA wise man watches his faults more closely than his virtues; fools reverse the order. Votes: 0
Napoleon HillMen who do not forgive women their little faults will never enjoy their great virtues. Votes: 0
Kahlil GibranHappy the innocent whose equal thoughts are free from anguish as they are from faults. Votes: 0
Edmund WallerMen who do not forgive women their little faults will never enjoy their great virtues. Votes: 0
Khalil GibranYou don't love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults. Votes: 0
William FaulknerDon't tell friends their social faults; they will cure the fault and never forgive you. Votes: 0
Logan Pearsall SmithPublish not men's secret faults, for by disgracing them you make yourself of no repute. Votes: 0
SaadiI criticize myself ruthlessly, but never mention the faults of which I am truly ashamed. Votes: 0
Mason CooleyWrong people are wrong not because of their faults but because of their presumed virtues. Votes: 0
William A. DembskiMy loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues. Votes: 0
Khalil GibranThere are some faults which, when well managed, make a greater figure than virtue itself. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldDwell not on the faults and shortcomings of others; instead, seek clarity about your own. Votes: 0
Gautama BuddhaI always wanted to take the blame. I've always been apologetic for other people's faults. Votes: 0
Lindsay LohanYou crystal break, for fear of breaking it: Careless and careful hands like faults commit. Votes: 0
MartialTime shall unfold what pleated cunning hides: Who cover faults, at last shame them derides. Votes: 0
William ShakespeareEveryone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them. Votes: 0
Jean de La FontaineTime shall unfold what plaited cunning hides: Who cover faults, at last shame them derides. Votes: 0
William ShakespeareWere we faultless, we would not derive such satisfaction from remarking the faults of others. Votes: 0
Francois de La Rochefoucauldsometimes the very faults of parents produce a tendency to opposite virtues in their children. Votes: 0
Maria EdgeworthI have many unrecognized talents, but my faults have somehow succeeded in securing wide recognition. Votes: 0
Ashleigh BrilliantAs nice as we are in love, we forgive more faults in that than in friendship. Votes: 0
Henry Home, Lord KamesNo man can tell another his faults so as to benefit him, unless he loves him. Votes: 0
Henry Ward BeecherThe best way to know your faults is to notice which ones you accuse others of. Votes: 0
James RichardsonIf you are looking for Christ in folks you will not be dwelling on their faults. Votes: 0
Charles E. FullerWe are more prone to murmur at the punishment of our faults than to lament them. Votes: 0
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of BlessingtonA man has virtues enough if he deserves pardon for his faults on account of them. Votes: 0
Georg C. LichtenbergHad we not faults of our own, we should take less pleasure in complaining of others. Votes: 0
Francois FenelonIn the intercourse of life, we please more by our faults than by our good qualities. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldIf we love each other enough, we will bear with each otherâs faults and burdens. Votes: 0
Dorothy DayEvery man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends. Votes: 0
Henry Ward BeecherForgive, forget. Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours. Votes: 0
Phillips BrooksStupidity is to have amnesia over your own faults when the person you hate makes theirs. Votes: 0
Shannon L. AlderJust so far as we are pleased at finding faults, are we displeased at finding perfection. Votes: 0
Johann Kaspar LavaterA rich man's faults are covered with money, but a surgeon's faults are covered with earth. Votes: 0
Abraham VergheseIf my faults deserve punishment, my youth at least, and my imprudence were worthy of excuse Votes: 0
Leanda de LisleThe inability to grasp the pathology* of our oligarchic rulers is one of our gravest faults. Votes: 0
Chris HedgesBy amending our mistakes, we get wisdom. By defending our faults, we betray an unsound mind. Votes: 0
HuinengWe love ourselves notwithstanding our faults, and we ought to love our friends in like manner. Votes: 0
Cyrus the GreatWith your faults, dont hurry. Dont correct them thoughtlessly. What would you put in their place? Votes: 0
Henri MichauxWhoever recounts to you the faults of your neighbour will doubtless expose your defects to others. Votes: 0
SaadiHow easy it is to see your brother's faults, How hard it is to face your own. Votes: 0
Gautama BuddhaA mom forgives us all our faults, not to mention one or two we don't even have. Votes: 0
Robert BreaultI work for him despite his faults and he lets me work for him despite my deficiencies. Votes: 0
Bill MoyersThe fool, with all his other faults, has this also, he is always getting ready to live. Votes: 0
EpicurusWe all need to improve, to change for the better. Lent helps us fight against our faults. Votes: 0
Pope FrancisKeep up a humble sense of your own faults, and that will make you compassionate to others Votes: 0
Richard BaxterScan not a friend with a microscopic glass, you know his faults, now let the foibles pass. Votes: 0
George HarrisonAll models have faults - that doesnt mean you cant use them as tools for making decisions. Votes: 0
Myron ScholesMany of the faults you see in others, dear reader, are your own nature reflected in them. Votes: 0
RumiTo what faults do you feel most indulgent? To the ones that arise from urgent material needs. Votes: 0
Christopher HitchensTears throw a veil over our faults and allow us to accuse fate without fear or contradiction. Votes: 0
Italo SvevoAfter people have gone, you forget their faults, and you recall the ideal more than the person. Votes: 0
Ann AguirreWe can often better help another by fanning a glimmer of goodness than by censuring his faults. Votes: 0
Edmund GibsonMore faults are often committed while we are trying to oblige than while we are giving offense. Votes: 0
TacitusWith all its faults, the American political system is the freest and most democratic in the world. Votes: 0
Eldridge CleaverWorse than a true evil is it to bear the burden of faults that are not truly yours. Votes: 0
EuripidesWhat we cut off from our other faults is very often but so much added to our pride. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldI have a list a mile long of faults that sometimes bring me to my knees in self-hatred. Votes: 0
Frank LangellaIf the best man's faults were written on his forehead, he would draw his hat over his eyes. Votes: 0
Thomas GrayIf we had no faults, we would not derive so much pleasure from noting those of other people. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldWe only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldOf all the things I could know, my own faults and weaknesses are pretty much the most important. Votes: 0
Simon TravagliaThe honor of a country depends much more on removing its faults than on boasting of its qualities. Votes: 0
Giuseppe MazziniGod loves to use ordinary people just like you and me, faults and all, to do extraordinary things. Votes: 0
Joel OsteenAs long as I am focusing on the faults of others, then I don't have to face my own. Votes: 0
Tullian TchividjianLet me be a little kinder, Let me be a little blinder to the faults of those around me. Votes: 0
Edgar GuestI have a lot of faults. I often interrupt in meetings. I talk too loud. I talk too fast. Votes: 0
Aaron LevieLet us not write at a loose rambling rate, in hope the world will wink at all our faults. Votes: 0
Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of RoscommonI'm going to show you my faults, I'm going to show you my insecurities, I'm going to be real. Votes: 0
Kevin DurantNobody can be perfect unless he admits his faults, but if he has faults how can he be perfect? Votes: 0
Laurence J. PeterWe are keenly aware of the faults of our friends, but if they like us enough it doesn't matter. Votes: 0
Mignon McLaughlinIt is good to have a reason for every action you perform other than blaming others for your faults. Votes: 0
Auliq IceIf you want a person's faults, go to those who love him. They will not tell you, but they know. Votes: 0
Robert Louis StevensonIf we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldAs a matter of fact, we are none of us above criticism; so let us bear with each other's faults. Votes: 0
L. Frank BaumIt is not so much the being exempt from faults, as having overcome them, that is an advantage to us. Votes: 0
Alexander PopeIt is a well-known fact that we see the faults in other's works more readily than we do in our own. Votes: 0
Pablo PicassoWe must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects. Votes: 0
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheI made Man with too many faults. Yet I love him. And if he wishes, I have a home above for him. Votes: 0
Stevie SmithI learned from my mistakes; I was able to accept the things that were my fault and to be able to grow from that. You have to be able to see growth from your experiences, and I've done that. Votes: 1 LisaRaye McCoy-Misick
Nobody can be perfect unless he admits his faults, but if he has faults how can he be perfect? Votes: 1 Laurence J. Peter
I can feel pretty critical of people, and I understand that sort of feeling of when you're going through something that's painful, taking it out on the world and projecting onto other people, finding faults with other people because it's harder to find faults in yourself. Votes: 3 Noah Baumbach