Faults Quotes

• Don't find fault, find a remedy.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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

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• When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.

  Epictetus

  Forgiveness, Spiritual, Wisdom

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

  Benjamin Franklin

  Courage, Enough, Resolution

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, p.23, Nayika Publishing

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  In America, with all of its evils and faults, you can still reach through the forest and see the sun. But we don't know yet whether that sun is rising or setting for our country.

  Dick Gregory

  Country, America, Evil

  Dick Gregory, Robert Lipsyte (1990). “Nigger”, p.193, Simon and Schuster

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• When you see a good man, try to emulate his example, and when you see a bad man, search yourself for his faults.

  Confucius

  Wisdom, Fun, Men

  Confucius, Qian Sima (1938). “The wisdom of Confucius”, Modern Library

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• Gladly we desire to make other men perfect, but we will not amend our own fault.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Men, Perfect, Judging

  Thomas a Kempis (1913). “The Imitation of Christ”

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• Not to alter one's faults is to be faulty indeed.

  Confucius

  Inspirational

  Confucius (1950). “The Best of Confucius”

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• A lot of lawyers are set to tell me that it's not my fault I like to eat.

  Neil Cavuto

  Lawyer

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• Only the great can afford to have great defects.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Defects

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• You crystal break, for fear of breaking it: Careless and careful hands like faults commit.

  Martial

  Hands, Crystals, Break

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• Because those, who twit others with their faults, should look at home.

  Plautus

  Home, Looks, Should

  Titus Maccius Plautus, Richard Warner (1872). “Comedies of Plautus”, p.201

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• Condemn the fault and not the actor of it?

  William Shakespeare

  Actors, Measure For Measure

  'Measure for Measure' (1604) act 2, sc. 2, l. 37

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• I will chide no breather in the world but myself, against whom I know most faults.

  William Shakespeare

  World, Judgment, Knows

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Weller Singer, Charles Symmons, Edmond Malone (1826). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: Merchant of Venice. As you like it. All's well that ends well. Taming of the shrew”, p.165

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• Who'd bear to hear the Gracchi chide sedition?

  Juvenal

  Bears

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 265-67, Satires, II, line 24, 1922.

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• Men still had faults, and men will have them still; He that hath none, and lives as angels do, Must be an angel.

  Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon

  Angel, Men, Stills

  Wentworth Dillon (4th earl of Roscommon.) (1749). “The poetical works of ... Wentworth Dillon, earl of Roscommon”, p.46

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• That no one, no one at all, should try to search into himself! But the wallet of the person in front is carefully kept in view.
  [Lat., Ut nemo in sese tentat descendere, nemo!
  Sed praecedenti spectatur mantica tergo.]

  Aulus Persius Flaccus

  Views, Trying, Nemo

  "The Satires". Book by Aulus Persius Flaccus, IV. 24,

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• Default is not in our stars, but in ourselves.

  Paul Krugman

  Stars, Good Luck, Astrology

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

  Israel Zangwill

  Self Respect, Trying, Should

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• Every one has his faults: but we do not see the wallet on our own backs.

  Catullus

  Wallets

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 265-67, Carmina, XXII. 20, 1922.

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• If anyone tells you that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make excuses about what is said of you but answer, "He was ignorant of my other faults, else he would not have mentioned these alone.

  Epictetus

  Philosophy, Humility, Ignorant

  Epictetus (2015). “The Enchiridion”, Xist Publishing

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• Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.

  Confucius

  Life, Success, Mistake

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• My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.

  Solomon Ibn Gabirol

  Friendship, Best Friend, Real Friends

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

  Alexander Pope

  Spiritual, Revenge, Hate

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• It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy's mind from effort.

  Quintilian

  Teacher, Boys, Effort

  Quintilian (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Quintilian (Illustrated)”, p.78, Delphi Classics

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