Fault Finding Quotes

• Never allow anyone to rain on your parade and thus cast a pall of gloom and defeat on the entire day. Remember that no talent, no self-denial, no brains, no character, are required to set up in the fault-finding business. Nothing external can have any power over you unless you permit it. Your time is too precious to be sacrificed in wasted days combating the menial forces of hate, jealously, and envy. Guard your fragile life carefully. Only God can shape a flower, but any foolish child can pull it to pieces.

  Og Mandino

  Life, Children, Hate

  Og Mandino (2010). “A Better Way to Live: Og Mandino's Own Personal Story of Success Featuring 17 Rules to Live By”, p.117, Bantam

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• The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Positive, Philosophical, Faults

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1945). “Hegel's Philosophy of right”

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• All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, it will not change you.

  Wayne Dyer

  Spiritual, Responsibility, Matter

  "Words With Wayne Dyer". Interview with Karl Saliter, www.elephantjournal.com. May 4, 2014.

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• Remember that no talent, no self-denial, no brains, no character, are required to set up in the fault-finding business. Nothing external can have any power over you unless you permit it.

  Og Mandino

  Character, Self, Over You

  Og Mandino (2010). “A Better Way to Live: Og Mandino's Own Personal Story of Success Featuring 17 Rules to Live By”, p.117, Bantam

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

  Plutarch

  May, Faults, Blame

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• Don't find fault, find a remedy.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• So long as we are full of self we are shocked at the faults of others. Let us think often of our own sin, and we shall be lenient to the sins of others.

  Francois Fenelon

  Thinking, Self, Long

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• My days of whining and complaining about others have come to an end. Nothing is easier than fault finding. All it will do is discolor my personality so that none will want to associate with me. That was my old life. No more.

  Og Mandino

  Personality, Complaining, Want

  Og Mandino (1988). “The Greatest Salesman in the World: Featuring the Ten Vows of Success. The end of the story”, Bantam Dell Publishing Group

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• And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but perceivest not the beam that is in thine own eye?

  Luke the Evangelist

  Jesus, Brother, Eye

  New Testament, Luke 6:41,

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• Let us resolve: First, to attain the grace of silence; second, to deem all fault finding that does no good a sin; third, to practice the grade and virtue of praise.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Practice, Silence, Grace

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• Nothing is easier than fault finding.

  Og Mandino

  Faults, Easier, Findings

  Og Mandino (1988). “The Greatest Salesman in the World: Featuring the Ten Vows of Success. The end of the story”, Bantam Dell Publishing Group

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• He has great tranquillity of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men. He will easily be content and pacified, whose conscience is pure. You are not holier if you are praised, nor the more worthless if you are found fault with. What you are, that you are; neither by word can you be made greater than what you are in the sight of God.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Heart, Men, Sight

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• Sometimes discipline, which means 'to teach,' is confused with criticism. Children-as well as people of all ages-improve behavior from love and encouragement more than from fault-finding.

  Susan W. Tanner

  Encouragement, Children, Confused

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• A good traveler leaves no tracks. Good speech lacks fault-finding.

  Laozi

  Life, Track, Speech

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• He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.

  Honore de Balzac

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Peace

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• Love, oneness, is no separation between you and life. It is a progressive letting go, a progressive not fault finding. Just do nothing and love this moment. Its very beautiful and very deep.

  Ajahn Brahm

  Love, Beautiful, Letting Go

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• We communicate happiness to others not often by great acts of devotion and self-sacrifice, but by the absence of fault-finding and censure, by being ready to sympathize with their notions and feelings, instead of forcing them to sympathize with ours.

  Adam Clarke

  Happiness, Sacrifice, Self

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• Frequently the enemy entices Christians to harbor an unforgiving spirit - a very common symptom indeed among God's children. Such bitterness and fault-finding and enmity inflict a severe blow upon spiritual life.

  Watchman Nee

  Forgiveness, Christian, Spiritual

  Watchman Nee (2009). “The Spiritual Man”, p.554, Christian Fellowship Publishers

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• I am acquainted with a wife and mother who is chained securely at the present time to a life-style of murmuring and criticism. She is the first to point out faults in her husband or to repeat neighborhood gossip. How damaging is a habit that permits fault-finding, character assassination, and the sharing of malicious rumors! Gossip and caustic comments often create chains of contention. These chains may appear to be very small, but what misery and woe they can cause!

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Mother, Husband, Character

  Marvin J. Ashton (1987). “Be of Good Cheer”, Deseret Book Co

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• The following story is one which he related recently regarding the practice of fault - finding among creeds: A frog lived in a well. It had lived there for a long time. . . .

  Swami Vivekananda

  Practice, Long, Stories

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• I'm a Christian now. The things that drove me crazy growing up was how everyone works at fault-finding with different religions. The people I don't understand are atheists. I go surfing and snow boarding and I'm always around nature. I look at everything and think, 'Who couldn't believe there's a God? Is all this a mistake?' It just blows me away.

  Paul Walker

  Christian, Atheist, Growing Up

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Best masters for the young writer and speaker are the fault- finding brothers and sisters at home who will not spare him, but willpick and cavil, and tell the odious truth.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Brother, Home, Faults

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Waldo Emerson, Waldo Emerson Forbes (1914). “Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1820-1872 [1876] Ed”

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• We [U.S.S.R. and U.S.A.] can exist peacefully together if we don't indulge in too much mutual fault-finding in all kinds of trifles.

  Joseph Stalin

  Indulge In, Together, Too Much

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• God is not concerned about our plans; He doesn’t ask, “Do you want to go through this loss of a loved one, this difficulty, or this defeat?” No, He allows these things for His own purpose. The things we are going through are either making us sweeter, better, and nobler men and women, or they are making us more critical and fault-finding, and more insistent on our own way. The things that happen either make us evil, or they make us more saintly, depending entirely on our relationship with God and its level of intimacy.

  Oswald Chambers

  Loss, Men, Evil

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.304, Discovery House

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• Sometimes discipline, which means "to teach," is confused with criticism.

  Susan W. Tanner

  Confused, Mean, Discipline

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