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I'm a good person, but with many defects. -- Enrique Iglesias
Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses. -- William Hazlitt
I am Jose Mourinho and I don't change. I arrive with all my qualities and my defects. -- Jose Mourinho
The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success. -- Marquis de Sade
It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others. -- Joseph Addison
All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation. -- John Adams
At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures - be what he is. And, above all, accept these things. -- Albert Camus
Defects are not free. Somebody makes them, and gets paid for making them. -- W. Edwards Deming
Sickness is mankind's greatest defect. -- Georg C. Lichtenberg
Defect-free software does not exist. -- Wietse Venema
Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits. -- W. Somerset Maugham
Thank you for accepting me as I am, with my virtues and defects. -- Jenni Rivera
One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect. -- William Hazlitt
If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon. -- James Russell Lowell
We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects. -- William Hazlitt
Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe. -- Alexander Pope
Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them. -- Jawaharlal Nehru
We don't love qualities; we love a person; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as their qualities. -- Jacques Maritain
We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities. -- Thomas Mann
If we were faultless we should not be so much annoyed by the defects of those with whom we associate. -- Francois Fenelon
The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them. -- Bertrand Russell
Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects. -- Oscar Wilde
We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects. -- Alexis de Tocqueville
There is some risk to increase birth defects if you do a lot of outdoor gardening when you are pregnant. That can increase rates of toxoplasmosis. -- Emily Oster
If we don't see a failure as a challenge to modify our approach, but rather as a problem with ourselves, as a personality defect, we will immediately feel overwhelmed. -- Tony Robbins
Hunger and malnutrition have devastating consequences for children and have been linked to low birth weight and birth defects, obesity, mental and physical health problems, and poorer educational outcomes. -- Marian Wright Edelman
As a father and grandfather, I have witnessed firsthand the joy of new life entering the world. I know the pain and apprehension that goes along with premature births and birth defects. -- Solomon Ortiz
I worked with the March of Dimes to enact legislation for a national birth defects prevention program to provide surveillance, research and preventive services aimed at reducing the rate of birth defects. -- Solomon Ortiz
The Roman Curia has its defects, but it seems to me that people often overemphasize its defects and talk too little about the health of the many religious and laypeople who work there. -- Pope Francis
Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters. -- Margaret Halsey
Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in the judgment; and others, by grasping at all, retain nothing. -- Thomas Fuller
My journey through life has led me through both light and dark places, and it's because of those experiences that I have learned how to work through my character defects and to help others do the same. -- Jessie Pavelka
Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives. -- Saint Teresa of Avila
Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ. -- C. S. Lewis
The so-called modern education, with all its defects, however, does others so much more good than it does the Negro, because it has been worked out in conformity to the needs of those who have enslaved and oppressed weaker peoples. -- Carter G. Woodson
It is a most delightful reflection that if I come to the throne of God in prayer, I may feel a thousand defects, but yet there is hope. I usually feel more dissatisfied with my prayers than with anything else I do. -- Charles Spurgeon
As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex; while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power. -- Thomas Aquinas
The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind, and they are in continual danger of breaking the skin and bursting out again. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Each year, several million children either die or suffer irreparable developmental defects because of vitamin A deficiency. Countless others are harmed by malnutrition and starvation. Yet many of these deaths would be preventable if we addressed them head on and used the tools that exist to stop them. -- Richard J. Roberts
There is a serious defect in the thinking of someone who wants - more than anything else - to become rich. As long as they don't have the money, it'll seem like a worthwhile goal. Once they do, they'll understand how important other things are - and have always been. -- Anita Loos
I'm a man with many defects. I love. I sing. I dream. I was born in the poor countryside. I was raised in the countryside, planting corn and selling sweets made by my grandmother. My children, my two daughters are with me and I want a better world for my grandchildren, for your grandchildren. -- Hugo Chavez
If I say I've got two versions of Word - that old one from 1982 that's perfect, with zero defects; or the new one that's got all this cool new stuff, but there might be a few bugs in it - people always want the new one. But I wouldn't want them to operate a plane I was on with software that happened to be the latest greatest release! -- Nathan Myhrvold
Man is a robot with defects. -- Emile M. Cioran
We all have the defects of our qualities ... -- Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon
The defects of a preacher are soon spied. -- Martin Luther
All authors to their own defects are blind. -- John Dryden
Never judge a work of art by its defects. -- Washington Allston
Faults and defects every work of man must have. -- Samuel Johnson
Only the great can afford to have great defects. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Passions are defects or virtues in the highest power. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Children have but little charity for one another's defects -- Mark Twain
In a true zero-defects approach, there are no unimportant items. -- Phil Crosby
There are certain defects which, well-mounted, glitter like virtue itself. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
[On golf:] One of the most distressing defects of civilization. -- Winifred Holtby
There are more defects in temperament than in the mind. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Zero defects is a super highway going down the tube. -- W. Edwards Deming
All the advantages of Christianity and alcohol; none of their defects. -- Aldous Huxley
The defects of the children mirror the defects of the parents. -- Herbert Spencer
In our plain defects we already know the brotherhood of man. -- Christopher Fry
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One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range. -- Victor Hugo
Fools are apt to imitate only the defects of their betters. -- Jonathan Swift
You marry the day you realize the human defects of your love. -- Anais Nin
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No one finds fault with defects which are the result of nature. -- Aristotle
It is the prerogative of great men only to have great defects. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Absence of defects does not necessarily build business... Something more is required. -- W. Edwards Deming
Product quality has almost nothing to do with defects or their lack. -- Tom DeMarco
Getting into a new relationship is like pouring Miracle-Gro on your character defects. -- Anne Lamott
Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
About 90 percent of the downtime comes from, at most, 10 percent of the defects. -- Barry Boehm
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Women are as they are; they necessarily have the defects of their virtues. -- Honore de Balzac
All the defects are obstacles that anchors the mind to the external senses. -- Samael Aun Weor
Gold is the fool's curtain, which hides all his defects from the world. -- Owen Feltham
The person I like most is the one who points out my defects -- Umar
Use your faults, use your defects; then you're going to be a star. -- Edith Piaf
The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
One of the biggest defects in life is the inability to ask for help. -- Robert Kiyosaki
Like pictures, men should be judged by their merits and not by their defects. -- Bainbridge Colby
People are drawn deeper into tragedy not by their defects but by their virtues. -- Haruki Murakami
We can talk frankly about our defects only to those who recognise our qualities. -- Andre Maurois
A man must thank his defects, and stand in some terror of his talents. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable. -- Voltaire
The experiences show us just as we are; they make us see our own defects. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Revolution cleanses men, improving them as the experimental farmer corrects the defects of his plants. -- Che Guevara
Your defects are the ways that glory gets manifested ... That's where the Light enters you. -- Rumi
If you have so many defects, why are you surprised to find defects in others? -- Josemaria Escriva
We should endeavor practically in our lives to correct all the defects which our imagination detects. -- Henry David Thoreau
Medicines cannot drug away the cellular defects that develop in response to improper nutrition throughout life. -- Joel Fuhrman
Whatever their defects, Christian fundamentalists have lived peacefully among us in America for several hundred years. -- Maggie Gallagher
Whoever recounts to you the faults of your neighbour will doubtless expose your defects to others. -- Saadi
What one discovers in life, I find, is that one's personality defects don't come and go. -- Lynne Truss
That friend a great man's ruin strongly checks, who rails into his belief all his defects. -- John Webster
I have all the defects of other people yet everything they do seems to me inconceivable. -- Emile M. Cioran
If we deliver on time, but the product has defects, we have not delivered on time. -- Phil Crosby
Gravity is a mysterious carriage of the body invented to cover the defects of the mind. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I have a deep fascination with human nature, with all its virtues and all its defects. -- Edgar Ramirez
Each one projects his own defects over the others, each one see in other his own defects. -- Samael Aun Weor
Comparative criticism teaches us that moral and aesthetic defects are more nearly related than is commonly supposed. -- James Russell Lowell
Miracles' rely on their observer's ignorance. 'Perfection' relies on the observer's failure to notice the observed's defects. -- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become toward the defects of other people. -- Francois Fenelon
The weakest man is the one who is able to correct his moral defects, but doesn't take action. -- Ali ibn Abi Talib
If we wish to keep peace with our neighbor, we should never remind anyone of his natural defects. -- Philip Neri
When the defects of others are perceived with so much clarity, it is because one possesses them oneself. -- Jules Renard
So I'm half deaf - and dyslexic. How about that? Nobody's perfect, and I'm proud of my defects. -- Carmen Busquets
We are made ridiculous less by our defects than by the affectation of qualities which are not ours. -- John Lancaster Spalding
One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called "weasel words." -- Theodore Roosevelt
One of the great defects of English books printed in the last century is the want of an index. -- Lafcadio Hearn
It is one of the defects of my character that I cannot altogether dislike anyone who makes me laugh. -- W. Somerset Maugham
One of the most serious human defects in all ages is procrastination, an unwillingness to accept personal responsibilities now. -- Spencer W. Kimball
Taking pre-natal vitamins can minimise birth defects and can lower the chances both of morning sickness and premature delivery. -- Heidi Murkoff
We tend to see our character flaws as simple defects, and the simple defects of others as character flaws. -- Mardy Grothe
One of these grand defects, as I humbly conceive, is this, that children are habituated to learning without understanding. -- Jonathan Edwards
those two wholesome defects of the French people, malice and curiosity, both of which are essential to its greatness. -- Marthe Bibesco
The care of the critic should be to distinguish error from inability, faults of inexperience from defects of nature. -- Samuel Johnson
With all of its defects, the global market makes war less likely, even between the U.S.A. and China. -- Umberto Eco
A satyagrahi turns the searchlight inward relentlessly to weed out all the defects that may be lying hidden there still. -- Mahatma Gandhi

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