Faults Quotes - Page 5

• Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Inspirational, Trust, Being Yourself

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• The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.

  Marquis de Sade

  Men, Birth Defects, May

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• The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Funny, Lying, Humor

  George Bernard Shaw (2012). “Major Barbara”, p.26, Courier Corporation

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• A cake is a very good test of an oven: if it browns too much on one side and not on the other, it's not your fault - you need to have your oven checked.

  Delia Smith

  Cake, Tea, Needs

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• Although I do wrong, I do not the wrongs that I am charged with doing; the wrong that I do is through the frailty of human nature, like other men. No man lives without fault.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Men, Human Nature, Frailty

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• It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy.

  James Thurber

  Kindness, Kind

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• As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.

  John Green

  Love, Romantic, Stars

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.75, Penguin

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• Learn to know every man under you, get under his skin, know his faults. Then cater to him - with kindness or roughness as his case may demand.

  John McGraw

  Kindness, Men, Skins

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• We're not perfect; we all have things that people might not like to see, and I like to show my faults.

  Grace Jones

  People, Perfect, Might

  "Grace Jones: 'God I'm scary. I'm scaring myself'". Interview With Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. April 16, 2010.

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• Self-respect is often mistaken for arrogance when in reality it is the opposite. When we can recognize all our good qualities as well as our faults with neutrality, we can start to appreciate ourselves as we would a dear friend and experience the comfortable inner glow of respect. To embrace the journey towards our full potential we need to become our own loving teacher and coach. Spurring ourselves on to become better human beings we develop true regard for ourselves and our life will become sacred.

  Rajneesh

  Teacher, Healing, Journey

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• To discern what weaknesses and faults separate you from God, you must enter into your own inward ground and then confront yourself.

  Johannes Tauler

  Weakness, Inward

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• It's easy to see the faults in people, I know; and it's harder to see the good. Especially when the good isn't there.

  Will Cuppy

  People, Easy, Hardest

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• If I'm in danger then it's usually my fault and it's up to me to get myself out of it. I am not in it just to get an adrenalin rush. No way!

  Kate Adie

  Literature, Way, Danger

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• Just as a child respects his father even when he perceives his weaknesses and faults, so a German will not despise the old Germany which was once a symbol of greatness to him.

  Gustav Stresemann

  Children, Father, Greatness

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• That's one of our biggest problems, it's always somebody else's fault instead of our own fault.

  Don Young

  Problem

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• Exaggerated self-importance is deemed an individual fault, but a racial virtue.

  Kelly Miller

  Self, Virtue, Individual

  Kelly Miller (1908). “Race Adjustment: Essays on the Negro in America”

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• I have this desire to keep improving, so I find fault.

  Heston Blumenthal

  Desire, Improving

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

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• Heaven knows that I have done all that a mortal could do, to save the people, and the failure was not my fault, but the fault of others.

  Davy Crockett

  People, Heaven, Done

  "David Crockett: The Man and the Legend". Book by James Atkins Shackford, p. 106, 1994.

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• Our friends don't see our faults, or conceal them, or soften them.

  Joseph Addison

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• What is like a smelly fart, that, although invisible is obvious? One's own faults, that are precisely As obvious as the effort made to hide them.

  7th Dalai Lama

  Humility, Pride, Effort

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• Tomorrow, every Fault is to be amended; but that Tomorrow never comes.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Time, Tomorrow Never Comes, Poor Richard

  Benjamin Franklin (1945). “A Benjamin Franklin Reader”

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• We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Inspirational, Order, Blame

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• To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.

  Simone Weil

  Friendship, Art, Joy

  Simone Weil (2015). “First and Last Notebooks: Supernatural Knowledge”, p.43, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• there is no shortage of fault to be found amid our stars

  John Green

  Stars, Found, Shortage

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.68, Penguin

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• Love your Enemies, for they tell you your Faults.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Love, Leadership, Wise

  Benjamin Franklin (2012). “Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.38, Courier Corporation

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