I have a list a mile long of faults that sometimes bring me to my knees in self-hatred.

Such excessive preoccupation with his faults is not a truly spiritual activity but, on the contrary, a highly egoistic one.The recognition of his own faults should make a man humbler, when it is beneficial, not...

Was there ever a great true love? Anyone who became the object of my obsession and not simply my affections?…I could not let myself become that unmindful. Isn’t that what love is – losing your...

A brother who recognizes that we have shortcomings, we, in the struggle, have faults, and that he wanted to reconcile differences.

I know my faults, but I’m comfortable with me.

Do not be concerned with the faults of other persons. Do not see others’ faults with a hateful mind. There is an old saying that if you stop seeing others’ faults, then naturally seniors and...

People do not mind their faults being spread out before them, but they become impatient if called on to give them up.

My biggest fault is that the faults I was born with grow bigger each year.

Seek out your faults and others’ merits. Seeking others’ faults is dire sin.

We want the qualities of fools that our faults devour, then us. (Nous voulons qualités des fous – Que nos défauts dévorent, puis nous.)(The Cheetah / Le Guépard)

You don’t grow up, she reasoned now, until you begin to evaluate yourself, to recognize your good traits and acknowledge that you have a few faults.

When you only know your faults and failures, you allow yourself and others to downgrade your dreams and belittle your wants.

I am responsible for my life, my happiness, and my joy. I am responsible for my faults, which will destroy.

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

Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.

Some people didn’t like the old mouse. We have many faults, but we listen. We are moving from what some people called the worst mouse to the best mouse in the industry,

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.