Faults Quotes - Page 11

• And oft, my jealousy shapes faults that are not.

  William Shakespeare

  Jealousy, Envy, Shapes

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Alexander Pope, George Steevens (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.357

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• Everything becomes so problematic because of basic faults: from a discontent with myself.

  Anna Freud

  Discontent

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• Some directors don't tell you that it's not your fault, so you get increasingly depressed that you're not delivering what's required, and then you discover it's not you at all, it's something in the background that's out of focus.

  Ian Mckellen

  Focus, Directors, Backgrounds

  Source: collider.com

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• Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on.

  Les Brown

  Inspirational, Moving On, Forgiveness

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• Many people excuse their own faults but judge other persons harshly. We should reverse this attitude by excusing others' shortcomings and by harshly examining our own.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Attitude, Yoga, People

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• If you're looking for faults use a mirror, not a telescope

  Boonaa Mohammed

  Mirrors, Use, Telescopes

  Twitter post from Jan 15, 2017

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• We forget our faults easily when they are known to ourselves alone.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Forget, Known

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• I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

  William Hazlitt

  Friendship

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1921, Delphi Classics

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• Though the bribe be small, yet the fault is great.

  Edward Coke

  Bribery, Bribe

  Sir Edward Coke (1797). “Institutes of the laws of England: containg the exposition of many ancient and other statutes ...”, p.147

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• Focus on remedies, not faults.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Inspirational, Life, Golf

  Jack Nicklaus, Ken Bowden (1990). “The Short Cuts to Lower Scores”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

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• A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.

  John Henry Newman

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Motivational Sports

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• I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.

  Samuel Beckett

  Teaching, Learning, Tunes

  Samuel Beckett (2009). “Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable”, p.329, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The essence of a man is found in his faults.

  Francis Picabia

  Men, Essence, Found

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• It has been the great fault of our politicians that they have all wanted to do something.

  Anthony Trollope

  Politician, Wanted, Has Beens

  'Phineas Finn' (1869) ch. 13

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• I tolerate my faults but not at all other people's.

  Camille Claudel

  People, Tolerate

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• Every true, eternal problem is an equally true, eternal fault; every answer an atonement, every realisation an improvement.

  Otto Weininger

  Answers, Improvement, Problem

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• We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.

  Voltaire

  Death, Forgiveness, Nature

  Voltaire (1824). “A Philosophical Dictionary: From the French”, p.272

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• There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behaves any of us to find fault with the rest of us.

  James Truslow Adams

  Wisdom, Peace, Gossip

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A man's mother is his misfortune, but his wife is his fault.

  Walter Bagehot

  Mother, Women, Inspiration

  Walter Bagehot (1910). “Literary Studies (Miscellaneous Essays): Hartley Coleridge. Shakespeare, the man. William Cowper. The first Edinburgh reviewers. Edward Gibbon. Percy Bysshe Shelley”

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• Be England what she will, With all her faults she is my country still.

  Charles Churchill

  Country, England, Stills

  The Farewell l. 27 (1764)

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• Dance must have a precision without fault.

  Arielle Dombasle

  Precision

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• O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!

  Dante Alighieri

  Littles, Bitterness, Christianity

  Dante Alighieri (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Dante Alighieri (Illustrated)”, Delphi Classics

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• Our systems, perhaps, are nothing more than an unconscious apology for our faults, a gigantic scaffolding whose object is to hide from us our favorite sin.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Apology, Atheism, Belief

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• People who live in the past generally are afraid to compete in the present. I've got my faults, but living in the past is not one of them. There's no future in it.

  Sparky Anderson

  Volleyball, Past, People

  Sparky Anderson, Dan Ewald (1990). “Sparky!”, Prentice Hall

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• There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet.

  Samuel Beckett

  Life, Hate, Men

  Samuel Beckett (2012). “Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts”, p.27, Faber & Faber

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