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You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife? -- Benjamin Franklin
Gladly we desire to make other men perfect, but we will not amend our own fault. -- Thomas a Kempis
That's one of our biggest problems, it's always somebody else's fault instead of our own fault. -- Don Young
Of all the things I could know, my own faults and weaknesses are pretty much the most important. -- Simon Travaglia
It is no small misfortune and disgrace that, through our own fault, we neither understand our nature nor our origin. -- Saint Teresa of Avila
When the soul, through its own fault... becomes rooted in a pool of pitch-black, evil smelling water, it produces nothing but misery and filth. -- Saint Teresa of Avila
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
It wounds a man less to confess that he has failed in any pursuit through idleness, neglect, the love of pleasure, etc., etc., which are his own faults, than through incapacity and unfitness, which are the faults of his nature. -- Lord Melbourne
Your own guilt is your own fault. -- Katerina Stoykova-Klemer
If you follow the rules, it's your own fault. -- Marty Rubin
You can bear anything-if it isn't your own fault -- Katherine Fullerton Gerould
If you're bored in New York, it's your own fault. -- Myrna Loy
If nobody loves you, be sure it is your own fault. -- Philip Doddridge
Every damn thing is your own fault, if you are any good. -- Ernest Hemingway
Humanity is fortunate, because no man is unhappy except by his own fault. -- Seneca the Younger
It is the curse of the powerful to be blind to their own faults. -- Robert Fanney
When it's your own fault, things hurt worse than when someone else is to blame. -- Malcolm Forbes
It's your own fault for being so camera-ready," I tell Gale. If looks could kill. -- Suzanne Collins
This country provides opportunities. If you don't take advantage of them, it's your own fault. -- Sam Huff
Stupidity is to have amnesia over your own faults when the person you hate makes theirs. -- Shannon L. Alder
It is man's own fault, it is from want of use, if his mind grows torpid in old age. -- Samuel Johnson
My heart bleeds for them when someone gets killed. But it's their own fault at the end of the day. -- Rob Ford
it's your own fault for encouraging him..., you know. Now he thinks he's a human being. Neal of Queens cove -- Tamora Pierce
It is no small misfortune and disgrace that, through our own fault, we neither understand our nature nor our origin. -- Saint Teresa of Avila
If a man is unhappy, remember that his unhappiness is his own fault, for God made all men to be happy. -- Epictetus
We can often do more for other men by trying to correct our own faults than by trying to correct theirs. -- Francois Fenelon
I always try to make myself as widely understood as possible; and if I don't succeed, I consider it my own fault. -- Dmitri Shostakovich
When the soul, through its own fault... becomes rooted in a pool of pitch-black, evil smelling water, it produces nothing but misery and filth. -- Saint Teresa of Avila
When the soul, through its own fault... becomes rooted in a pool of pitch-black, evil smelling water, it produces nothing but misery and filth. -- Saint Teresa of Avila
He wouldn't hurt her. Never on purpose. Nev was going to hurt her accidentally, and when he did it would be her own fault. -- Ruthie Knox
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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
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
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
If anyone is unhappy, remember that his unhappiness is his own fault... Nothing else is the cause of anxiety or loss of tranquility except our own opinion. -- Epictetus
We are suffering from our own Karma. It is not the fault of God. What we do is our own fault, nothing else. Why should God be blamed?. . . -- Swami Vivekananda
Nothing can work damage to me except myself; the harm that I sustain I carry about with me and never am a real sufferer except by my own fault. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
For disappointments, that come not by our own folly, they are the trials or corrections of Heaven: and it is our own fault, if they prove not our advantage. -- William Penn
An expert is a man who tells you a simple thing in a confused way in such a fashion as to make you think the confusion is your own fault. -- William Castle
There comes a morning in life when you wake up a new person; that is to say, you wake up the same person but you realize it's your own fault. -- Robert Breault
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
Pay attention, people! There's no excuse for making the same mistakes that others have made. If you do, it's your own fault and you should expect no sympathy, no compassion. -- Donald Trump
... when we are misunderstood it is always our own fault. What the reader wants most of all is to be able to grasp what we think; but you loftily refuse to comply. -- George Sand
Never ask a man where's he's been. If he's out on legitimate business, he doesn't need an alibi. And, girls, if he has been out on illegitimate business, it's your own fault. -- Mae West
No weakness of the human mind has more frequently incurred animadversion, than the negligence with which men overlook their own faults, however flagrant, and the easiness with which they pardon them, however frequently repeated. -- Samuel Johnson
Disappointments that aren't a result of our own foolishness are a testing of our faith or a correction from heaven, and it is our own fault if these disappointments don't work for our own good. -- William Penn
Oliver has stated many times his dislike of hearing advice from his younger sister, so it is his own fault if he has not got sense enough to see which way the wind is blowing. -- Patricia C. Wrede
I'm very lucky that I get to make a living out of acting, which is what I love, and the level of attention I receive has sometimes been my own fault and sometimes not been. -- Sienna Miller
Philosophers conceive of the passions which harass us as vices into which men fall by their own fault, and, therefore, generally deride, bewail, or blame them, or execrate them, if they wish to seem unusually pious. -- Baruch Spinoza
One of man's greatest failings is that he looks almost always for an excuse, in the misfortune that befalls him through his own fault, before looking for a remedy-which means he often finds the remedy too late. -- Jean Francois Paul de Gondi
I've slept with a couple of people and made some poor choices and put things in jeopardy with... what I was happy with, and that's my own fault. I've got no one else to blame about that stuff. -- Shane Warne
Shakespeare knew the human mind, and its most minute and intimate workings, and he never introduces a word, or a thought, in vain or out of place; if we do not understand him, it is our own fault. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I've slept with a couple of people and made some poor choices and put things in jeopardy with [...] what I was happy with, and that's my own fault. I've got no one else to blame about that stuff. -- Shane Warne
What we call Life is a condition of the soul. And the soul must improve in happiness and wisdom, except by its own fault. These tears in our eyes, these faintings of the flesh, will not hinder such improvement. -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
You'll understand, I'm sure that I'm chasing the merest sliver of color. It's my own fault. I want to grasp the intangible. It's terrible how the light runs out. Color, any color, lasts a second, sometimes 3 or 4 minutes at most... -- Claude Monet
There are indeed, in the present corruption of mankind, many incitements to forsake truth: the need of palliating our own faults and the convenience of imposing on the ignorance or credulity of others so frequently occur; so many immediate evils are -- Samuel Johnson
People who won't help others in trouble "because they got into trouble through their own fault" would probably not throw a lifeline to a drowning person until they learned whether that person fell in through his or her own fault or not. -- Sydney J. Harris
I am an arrogant and impatient listener, but in the case of a few composers, a very few, when I hear a work I do not like, I am convinced that it is my own fault. Verdi is one of those composers. -- Benjamin Britten
Lustful Desire (although 'twere rather fit To some brute creature to attribute it) Shall be presented in the second place, Because it shrouds a vile deformed face Beneath love's vizard, and assumes that name, Hiding its own fault with the other's blame. -- George Wither
My own fault. The equipment had safeties but your primary piece of protective equipment was your brain. There was a presumption that anyone entering this room was intelligent enough to keep away from hot things, sharp things, and things carrying large stores of momentum. -- Max Barry
If friends disappoint you over and over, that's in large part your own fault. Once someone has shown a tendency to be self-centered, you need to recognize that and take care of yourself; people aren't going to change simply because you want them to. -- Oprah Winfrey
He never looks away, searching my eyes for truth. His reaction has left my heart pounding, shocked at how quick he was to dismiss any fault I may have had. I wish he was just as quick to dismiss his own faults, but he isn't. -- Colleen Hoover
I was most happy when pen and paper were taken from me and I was forbidden from doing anything. I had no anxiety about doing nothing by my own fault, my conscience was clear, and I was happy. This was when I was in prison. -- Daniil Kharms
I've got plenty of arthritis. But if you keep moving, it won't bother you that much. That's why old guys stiffen up. They forget they have to get out of their chairs and do something. You let the moss grow over, it's your own fault. -- Dick Van Dyke
The thing is, it's my own fault. I just can't put up with a person that won't go out of his way for me. And that's what a man is. Somebody that won't go out of his way for you. I bet it says that in the dictionary. -- Barbara Kingsolver
She's generous to a fault - if it's her own. -- Arthur Baer
Our own self-love draws a thick veil between us and our faults. -- Lord Chesterfield
Had we not faults of our own, we should take less pleasure in complaining of others. -- Francois Fenelon
How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them. -- Benjamin Franklin
It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
To discern what weaknesses and faults separate you from God, you must enter into your own inward ground and then confront yourself. -- Johannes Tauler
When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger. -- Epictetus
As a child, I've always been in trouble with men and the police have always had to get involved, through no fault of my own. -- Katie Price
Extending federal unemployment insurance is vital for millions of Americans laid off through no fault of their own, and it serves as an important economic stimulus. -- Sander Levin
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 I don't have fun, it's my own damn fault. -- Susan Messing
It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity. -- Seneca the Younger
It is not my fault that my parents own the world's largest collection of black Santas. -- John Green
Sometimes believers are hampered in their public effectiveness by limitations that are no fault of their own. -- Max Anders
Finding fault in others, just for the sake of finding fault, we will pollute our own minds. -- Mata Amritanandamayi
Some people think there's a woman to blame, but I know - it's my own damn fault -- Jimmy Buffett
I'll pour you the first one and after that, if you don't have one, it's your own f****** fault. You know where it is. -- Kingsley Amis
Let none find fault with others; let none see the omissions and commissions of others. But let one see one's own acts, done and undone. -- Gautama Buddha
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We can all control our own destiny. And I think sometimes it's a copout to say, "Well, it's this person's fault or another person's fault." -- Joel Osteen
If you get mad about how your voice sounds when it comes out of your own mouth, it's not really my fault. Go ahead and be yourself. -- Samantha Bee
Mickey's a nice fellow who never does anyone any harm, who gets into scrapes through no fault of his own but always manages to come up grinning. -- Walt Disney
Tax credits are designed to help people who work hard but who, through no fault of their own, don't earn enough to keep their families out of poverty. -- Nicola Sturgeon
I was a lawyer for 10 years, and several of my clients had the misfortune, through no fault of my own, of going to prison. I visited them occasionally. -- John Grisham
Now I'm growing and I can see my faults. I can look at myself objectively and say I can't blame anyone else; it was my own damn fault. -- Christopher Atkins
You never hear a prophecy start with the gods were in error.. If it's good, thank the gods - but if it's bad, it's your own damn fault! -- Gregory S. Close
Every year, it takes more brains to navigate this complicated world. More people are falling below what I call the 'incompetence line' through no fault of their own. -- Scott Adams
I could spend my whole life prying loose the secrets of the insane. These people are honest to a fault, and their naivety has no peer but my own. -- Andre Breton
The same is true of ranking him thus against any work of literature. [Bob Dylan] has been made, through no fault of his own, the object of odious tokenism. -- David Bennun
When you are offended at anyone's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. By attending to them, you will forget your anger and learn to live wisely. -- Marcus Aurelius

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