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How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them. -- Benjamin Franklin
A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults. -- Charles Kingsley
Faults are soon copied. -- Horace
Faults that are rich are fair. -- William Shakespeare
Faults are beauties in a lovers eye. -- Theocritus
Faults are beauties in a lover's eye. -- Theocritus
Faults are beauties, when survey'd by love. -- Theocritus
Love your Enemies, for they tell you your Faults. -- Benjamin Franklin
Faults and defects every work of man must have. -- Samuel Johnson
Faults of ignorance are excusable only where the ignorance itself is so -- Sacha Guitry
Faults! I adore faults! I can never find too many in any creature. -- Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie
A Man consumes the Time you make him Wait In thinking of your Faults-so don't be late! -- Arthur Guiterman
Faults are committed within the walls of Troy and also without. [There is fault on both sides.] -- Horace
Faults in English prose derive not so much from lack of knowledge, intelligence or art as from lack of thought, patience or goodwill. -- Robert Graves
I was surprised to find myself so much fuller of Faults than I had imagined, but I had the Satisfaction of seeing them diminish. -- Benjamin Franklin
Faults of the head are punished in this world, those of the heart in another; but as most of our vices are compound, so also is their punishment. -- Charles Caleb Colton
Focus on remedies, not faults. -- Jack Nicklaus
Don't find fault, find a remedy. -- Henry Ford
All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor. -- Walt Whitman
Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries. -- Thomas Carlyle
Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on. -- Les Brown
Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings. -- Laurence J. Peter
I'm not conceited. Conceit is a fault and I have no faults. -- David Lee Roth
If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about. -- William Hazlitt
And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse. -- William Shakespeare
All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I think people who have faults are a lot more interesting than people who are perfect. -- Spike Lee
Every man should have a fair-sized cemetary in which to bury the faults of his friends. -- Henry Adams
Negroes are human beings with exactly the same faults and virtues as members of the other races. -- Ethel Waters
Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his. -- Benjamin Franklin
Jealousy is, I think, the worst of all faults because it makes a victim of both parties. -- Gene Tierney
It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Keep a watch also on the faults of the patients, which often make them lie about the taking of things prescribed. -- Hippocrates
The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms. -- James F. Cooper
A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault. -- John Henry Newman
When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger. -- Epictetus
You should examine yourself daily. If you find faults, you should correct them. When you find none, you should try even harder. -- Unknown
They say best men are molded out of faults, And, for the most, become much more the better For being a little bad -- William Shakespeare
I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me. -- Alexander Pope
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
A man can become so accustomed to the thought of his own faults that he will begin to cherish them as charming little 'personal characteristics.' -- Helen Rowland
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
Sometimes bad luck hits you like in an ancient Greek tragedy, and it's not your own making. When you have a plane crash, it's not your fault. -- Werner Herzog
If some years were added to my life, I would give fifty to the study of the Yi, and then I might come to be without great faults. -- Confucius
The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them; they change and everyone looks up to them. -- Confucius
Moral habits, induced by public practices, are far quicker in making their way into men's private lives, than the failings and faults of individuals are in infecting the city at large. -- Plutarch
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
I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first. -- Benjamin Franklin
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
Do not think of your faults, still less of other's faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes. -- John Ruskin
Just as the British subject loves England despite her faults, so we must insist that all Germans who were part of the old Germany and helped shape her, recognize the greatness and worthiness of present-day Germany. -- Gustav Stresemann
Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so much attention that a husband and wife, concentrating on their children, fail to notice each other's faults. -- Richard Armour
This world was not created piecemeal. Africa was born no later and no earlier than any other geographical area on this globe. Africans, no more and no less than other men, possess all human attributes, talents and deficiencies, virtues and faults. -- Haile Selassie
Since, therefore, no man is born without faults, and he is esteemed the best whose errors are the least, let the wise man consider everything human as connected with himself; for in worldly affairs there is no perfect happiness under heaven. -- Giraldus Cambrensis
The Pilgrim and the Puritan whom we honor tonight were men who did a great deal of work in the world. They had their faults and their - shortcomings, but they were not slothful in business and they were most fervent in spirit. -- Henry Cabot Lodge
I'm human, I feel, I understand. That's the highest level of love, is understanding - when you can understand someone, when you can love them with their flaws and their faults. So I understand, I consider. I may speak the truth, but I'll consider your feelings, too. -- Tracy Morgan
I see no faults in the Church, and therefore let me be resurrected with the Saints, whether I ascend to heaven or descend to hell, or go to any other place. And if we go to hell, we will turn the devils out of doors and make a heaven of it. -- Joseph Smith, Jr.
I was living an extremely burdensome life, because every time I prayed, I became more clearly aware of my faults. On the one hand, God was calling me. On the other, I was following the way of the world. Doing what God wanted made me happy; but I felt bound by the things of this world. -- Saint Teresa of Avila
One who is kind is sympathetic and gentle with others. He is considerate of others' feelings and courteous in his behavior. He has a helpful nature. Kindness pardons others' weaknesses and faults. Kindness is extended to all - to the aged and the young, to animals, to those low of station as well as the high. -- Ezra Taft Benson
In beauty, faults conspicuous grow; the smallest speck is seen on snow -- John Gay
The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
More faults are often committed while we are trying to oblige than while we are giving offense -- Publius Cornelius Tacitus
We see men fall from high estate on account of the very faults through which they attained it -- Jean de la Bruyere
Every fault of the mind becomes more conspicuous and more guilty in proportion to the rank of the offender -- Juvenal
Think of your own faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and the faults of others the latter part of the night when you are asleep -- Chinese Proverbs
Blush at your faults. -- Dario Fo
She abounds with lucious faults. -- Quintilian
Mistakes remember'd are not faults forgot. -- Robert Henry Newell
Magnify the virtues, minimize the faults. -- Edgar Cayce
No man is born without faults. -- Horace
Only great men have great faults. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Where love fails we espy all faults. -- John Ray
There are faults we would fain pardon. -- Horace
Great men should not have great faults. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
For youthful faults ripe virtues shall atone. -- William Wordsworth
To copy faults is want of sense. -- Charles Churchill
...faultless in spite of all her faults... -- Jane Austen
Vikings don't have faults, they have clubs. -- Tara Brown
Love blinds us to faults, hatred to virtues. -- Moses ibn Ezra
Strange what love taught you about your faults. -- Maggie Stiefvater
The faultfinder will find faults even in paradise. -- Henry David Thoreau
Finding faults is for those with tired minds. -- Rumi
Tediousness is the most fatal of all faults. -- Samuel Johnson
A husband without faults is a dangerous observer. -- George Savile
Cats are only human, they have their faults. -- Kingsley Amis
Be real and unashamed. Even of your faults. -- Amy Bloom
I'm just human, I have faults like anyone -- Nina Simone
Complaining is finding faults, wisdom is finding solutions -- Ajahn Brahm
Black detraction will find faults where they are not. -- Philip Massinger
Wink at small faults; remember thou hast great ones. -- Benjamin Franklin
You must purge yourself before finding faults in others. -- B.K.S. Iyengar
God loves His people despite their sins and faults. -- Jim George
There's something so accessible about heroes who have faults. -- Laura Dern
Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I'm very judgmental person. It's one of my faults. -- Laurell K. Hamilton
Critics are our friends, they show us our faults. -- Benjamin Franklin
No one likes to be pitied for his faults. -- Luc de Clapiers
I know my faults, but I'm comfortable with me. -- Roger Daltrey
I have not hated the man, but his faults. -- Martial
O, happy the soul that saw its own faults. -- Rumi
We all have faults, and mine is being wicked. -- James Thurber
Not to alter one's faults is to be faulty indeed. -- Confucius
Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults. -- Antisthenes
Confession of our faults is the next thing to innocence. -- Publilius Syrus
Good and bad, strengths and faults, he was hers forever. -- Nicholas Sparks
Never exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that. -- Bob Edwards
The hypocrite looks for faults; the believer looks for excuses. -- Al-Ghazali
I might have faults but I'm not a big head. -- Wayne Rooney
He knows his own faults, but also knows his qualities. -- Paulo Coelho
Fortune cures us of many faults that reason could not. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The essence of a man is found in his faults. -- Francis Picabia
Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves. -- Ramsey Clark
When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them. -- Confucius
men do not suspect faults which they do not commit -- Samuel Johnson
Those faults we do not have, do not bother us. -- Miguel de Unamuno
I tolerate my faults but not at all other people's. -- Camille Claudel
Yesterday's faults become today's lessons. Today's dreams become tomorrow's reality. -- B.J. Neblett
Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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