Yesterday’s faults become today’s lessons. Today’s dreams become tomorrow’s reality.

And here’s the surprising truth: As you gaze at yourself in the mirror held by another, you will see far more than your flaws. You also will see the beauty that is uniquely you; beauty...

BEFORE pointing to the faults of others, examine yourselves and assure yourselves that you are free from faults. That alone gives you the right; but the wonder is that you discover faults in others only...

The ancient commission of the writer has not changed. He is charged with exposing our many grievous faults and failures, with dredging up to the light our dark and dangerous dreams for the purpose of...

When we make mistakes, we simply say sorry. And saying the words would cost us our pride most of the time.

He well knew his mind’s natural tendency to be endlessly on a thousand subjects at once, to flit from this to that and to the next thing to no particular purpose–indeed, he called it his...

Even when I don’t know the people, I still find their faults. Or invent them.

The ant is no lender; that is the least of her faults.

men do not suspect faults which they do not commit

THERE are three types of persons: those, who confess their own faults and mention the excellence of others, are the highest type; those, who highlight their own excellence and decry the faults of others, are...

Men who do not forgive women their little faults will never enjoy their great virtues.

To my mind the most interesting thing in art is the personality of the artist; and if that is singular, I am willing to excuse a thousand faults.

ARTThe world is full of confusion and contradiction. We cannot expect to do anything that is absolutely right. We can only measure rightness by the truth within ourselves. And our own truth will never be...

You’ll notice you don’t have both feet on the ground when you don’t have any friends around

People often attribute their successes to skill, and their failures to unfortunate circumstances. It’s like if I win it’s because I’m good, and if I lose it’s because I’m unlucky. With every victory, I amplify...

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.

To what faults do you feel most indulgent? To the ones that arise from urgent material needs.

Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.

I was calling double faults on girls from Russia I’d never seen before in my life, … For a while it got so bad that I go scared. I literally scared me. I was getting...

We only care about our faults when we realize them.

Perhaps, if you weren’t so busy regarding my shortcomings, you’d find that I do possess redeeming qualities, discreet as they may be. I notice when the sky is blue. I smile down at children. I...

I am a hopeless romantic. A silly, ridiculous, foolish romantic. I live in a fantasy land. I need to get real. And now, for the first time, I want to get real. I want a...

Yet the human heart is disheartened by the most unreasonable self-judgments, because even when we take on giants, we too often confuse failure with fault, which I know too well. The only way back from...

Most writers deserve the reputation posterity has bestowed upon them: You can’t for long conceal the toxic spots on your character—Philip Larkin is Exhibit A—nor can you conceal your dignity, your humanism, your regard for...

It was not curiosity that killed the goose who laid the golden egg, but an insatiable greed that devoured common sense.

We all have to face our faults and mistakes, and then choose to overcome them or let them drag us down.

But, ah me! where is the faultless human creature who can persevere in a good resolution, without sometimes failing and falling back?

When anyone is going wrong, it is a mistake to warn him not to go further. It is also a mistake to leave him alone. The proper course is to call his attention to something...

Oh, how clearly I see your faults! Such distinctly highlighted flaws; it’s as if the sun and moon mean to keep them illuminated in my eyes. My mind is quick to spell out a simple...

Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults.

Jealousy is, I think, the worst of all faults because it makes a victim of both parties.

Consider a man’s good qualities, and consider his faults; and judge his character by that which is more.

I like characters who have faults. I’m drawn to darker people.

And God does have a personality. He can’t hide from us. His personality shines through every Hebrew letter, on every page. Sometimes we forget that God is a person–not a fleshly person, but a person...

The desire to criticise becomes less and less as the character is developed. It is the mark of a fine character never to be critical and to mention but rarely the faults of others. A...

rare sitcom wife who has her own paranoia and faults and downfalls.

Blame it on a simple twist of fate.

It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch one another and find sympathy. We differ widely enough in our nobler qualities. It is in our follies that we are...

There is nothing that will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself.

Our natures own predilections and antipathies alike strange. There are people from whom we secretly shrink, whom we would personally avoid, though reason confesses that they are good people: there are others with faults of...

I could be anything but for the faults that I’ve acquired on my way.

Immodest creature, you do not want a woman who will accept your faults, you want the one who pretends you are faultless – one who will caress the hand that strikes her and kiss the...

Do not exaggerate the faults of others, but give them a wide margin and see them as small; exaggerate yours, see them big and strive to remove them fast.

Because he has never forgiven himself any fault, he can forgive no one else’s.

I may not like the things you do, but I love you.

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...

Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality.

Focus on remedies, not faults.

It is advisable to never find faults, flaws and follies in others till it is acceptable to see them either getting closer together or each of them garnering more support of many people like his...

Children do not find fault with their parents until later. In the beginning, the love you get is the love that sets.