Faults Quotes - Page 27

• 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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• Put an Englishman into the garden of Eden, and he would find fault with the whole blasted concern; put a Yankee in, and he would see where he could alter it to advantage; put an Irishman in, and he would want to boss the thing; put a Dutchman in, and he would proceed to plant it.

  Josh Billings

  Garden, Yankees, Eden

  "Josh Billings, Hiz Sayings". Book by Josh Billings, 1865.

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• A writer like me must have an utter confidence, an utter faith in his star. It's an almost mystical feeling, a feeling of nothing-can-happen-to me, nothing-can-touch-me.... I once had it. But through a series of blows, many of them my own fault, something happened to that sense of immunity and I lost my grip.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Stars, Blow, Feelings

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• I believe in my neighbors. I know their faults and I know that their virtues far outweigh their faults.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Believe, Virtue, Neighbor

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• I beseech you to correct one fault - severe speech of others; never speak evil of any man, no matter what the facts may be.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Evil, May

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• Seen from a lower point of view, the Constitution, with all its faults, is very good; the law and the courts are very respectable;even this State and this American government are, in many respects, very admirable, and rare things, to be thankful for, such as a great many have described them; but seen from a point of view a little higher, they are what I have described them; seen from a higher still, and the highest, who shall say what they are, or that they are worth looking at or thinking of at all?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Thinking, Law, Government

  Henry David Thoreau (2004). “Walden and Other Writings”, p.108, Bantam Classics

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• Human beings can be beautiful. If they are not beautiful it is entirely their own fault. It is what they do to themselves that makes them ugly.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Beautiful, Ugly, Humans

  "A Living Architecture: Frank Lloyd Wright and Taliesin Architects". Book by John Rattenbury, 2000.

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• I became a poet at the age of sixteen. I did not intend to do it. It was not my fault.

  Margaret Atwood

  Age, Sixteen, Poet

  "Margaret Atwood: Writing Philosophy". Margaret Atwood's Waterstone's poetry lecture at Hay On Wye in Wales, canpoetry.library.utoronto.ca. June 1995.

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• With all our horrors and faults, somewhere in us there is a shining.

  John Steinbeck

  Shining, Horror

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• It is assumed that when anyone gets into debt, the fault is entirely and always the fault of the lender.

  Bernard Levin

  Debt, Lenders

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• The problem with fault-findingIs that he who finds fault with othersIs in no way a happy person Even after he has successfully Accomplished his task.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Tasks, Way, Problem

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• Magnify the virtues, minimize the faults.

  Edgar Cayce

  Virtue

  Edgar Cayce (2010). “Planetary Influences & Sojourns”, p.48, ARE Press

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• If you believe there is a God, a God that made your body, and yet you think that you can do anything with that body that's dirty, then the fault lies with the manufacturer.

  Lenny Bruce

  Lying, Believe, Dirty

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• How can I adopt a creed which, preferring the mud to the fish, exalts the boorish proletariat above the bourgeois and the intelligentsia who, with whatever faults, are the quality in life and surely carry the seeds of all human advancement?

  John Maynard Keynes

  Quality, Advancement, Mud

  John Maynard Keynes, Royal Economic Society (Great Britain) (1972). “The collected writings of John Maynard Keynes”

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• Will is the measure of power. To a great genius there must be a great will. If the thought is not a lamp to the will, does not proceed to an act, the wise are imbecile. He alone is strong and happy who has a will. The rest are herds. He uses; they are used. He is of the Maker; they are of the Made. Will is always miraculous, being the presence of God to men. When it appears in a man he is a hero, and all metaphysics are at fault.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Strong, Hero

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.3094, Delphi Classics

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• Never allow any unnecessary or vain thought to occupy your mind. This is more easily said than done. You cannot make your mind a blank all at once. So in the beginning try to prevent evil or idle thoughts by occupying your mind with the analysis of your own faults, or the contemplation of the Perfect Ones.

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Evil, Perfect, Mind

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• Obstinacy is a fault of temperament. Stubbornness and intolerance of contradiction result from a special kind of egotism, which elevates above everything else the pleasure of its autonomous intellect, to which others must bow.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Special, Bows, Kind

  Carl von Clausewitz (2008). “On War”, p.108, Princeton University Press

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• Seems I used to do everything like I was on a mission. If it was alcohol, I wanted to drink till I couldn't see straight. If it was golf, I wanted to beat everybody's brains out. If it was driving, I can get there faster'n you can. It's not anybody's fault, I guess. I was stubborn as hell. I had no direction.

  John Daly

  Golf, Alcohol, Brain

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• If my team isn't motivated, it's my fault. I can't consider myself the best of the best until my team is able to get out of the first round.

  Jermaine O'Neal

  Team, Able, Firsts

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• Though the biggest fault of the big man is tolerated easily, the smallest fault of the little man is not endured at all!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Men, Littles, Bigs

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• Finding faults is for those with tired minds.

  Rumi

  Tired, Mind, Findings

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• There's no man, alive or dead, who's going to fault you for living.

  Jeffrey Dean Morgan

  Men, Alive

  "Fictional character: William". "P.S. I love you", www.imdb.com. 2007.

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• Like most young people, these two attributed to the world their own intelligence and virtues. Youth who knows no failure has no mercy on the faults of other people; but it has also a sublime faith in them.

  Honore de Balzac

  Two, People, Sublime

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• Life and perfection, joy and repose and whatever all the senses desire, lie in the distinguishing spirit, and from it they have everything that they have. Even if the organs lose in power and the life in them decreases in activity, it does not decrease in the distinguishing spirit, from which they receive the same life, when the fault or infirmity is removed.

  Nicholas of Cusa

  Lying, Perfection, Joy

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• This country provides opportunities. If you don't take advantage of them, it's your own fault.

  Sam Huff

  Country, Opportunity, Advantage

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