quotations about faults
Nothing is easier than to find a fault, and nothing more difficult than the ability to substitute the proper correction.
NORMAN MACDONALD
Maxims and Moral Reflections
We should not be much concerned about faults we have the courage to own.
FRANÇOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
Moral Maxims
One always looking for flaws leaves too little time for construction.
LEWIS F. KORNS
Thoughts
Those base men who speak of the secret faults of others, destroy themselves like the serpents in ant-hills.
CHANAKYA
Vridda-Chanakya
A man only goes and confesses his faults to the world when his self will not acknowledge or listen to them.
WYNDHAM LEWIS
Tarr
Anyone is to be pitied who has just sense enough to perceive his deficiencies.
WILLIAM HAZLITT
Characteristics
Make no man your idol, for the best man must have faults; and his faults will insensibly become yours, in addition to your own.
WASHINGTON ALLSTON
Lectures on Art and Poems
Most men experience greater pleasure in correcting the faults of others, than they share grief at the detection of equal defects in themselves.
NORMAN MACDONALD
Maxims and Moral Reflections
It is well that there is no one without a fault; for he would not have a friend in the world. He would seem to belong to a different species.
WILLIAM HAZLITT
Characteristics
Although it is vastly disagreeable to be accused of faults, yet no person ought to be offended when such accusations are delivered in the spirit of friendship.
ABIGAIL ADAMS
letter to John Adams, April 19, 1764
A readiness to excuse some faults, shows a disposition to commit others.
NORMAN MACDONALD
Maxims and Moral Reflections
One usually recognizes the least his greatest fault.
LEWIS F. KORNS
Thoughts
We must not be timid from a fear of committing faults: the greatest fault of all is to deprive oneself of experience.
LUC DE CLAPIERS
MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES, Reflections and Maxims
Our faults are not without vanity, any more than our virtues.
NORMAN MACDONALD
Maxims and Moral Reflections
We are not greatly pleased that our friends should respect our good qualities if they venture to perceive our faults.
LUC DE CLAPIERS, MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES
Reflections and Maxims
People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people's minds, as if they believe that the world is always contemplating their individual charms and virtues.
ELIZABETH GASKELL
Wives and Daughters
Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH
The Vicar of Wakefield
Nothing shows our weakness more than to be so sharp-sighted at spying other men's faults, and so purblind about our own.
WILLIAM PENN
Some Fruits of Solitude
Faults are like the headlights of your car--those of others seem more glaring.
DENNIS & BARBARA RAINEY
Moments Together for Intimacy
It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. If you are angry with a man, or hate him, it is not hard to go to him and stab him with words; but so to love a man that you cannot bear to see the stain of sin upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words--that is friendship. But few have such friends. Our enemies usually teach us what we are, at the point of the sword.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Life Thoughts