We hold onto our flaws because they are insurance for our failures. Every fear serves a purpose. When we cling to unhelpful beliefs and old fears, we can blame failure on them. Growth requires the...

A man’s shortcomings are taken from his epoch; his virtues and greatness belong to himself.

Often, our relationships become an unrealized quest for what is perfect, unfettered, and free of flaws. We expect our partners, spouses, and our friends to avoid missteps and to be magical mind readers. These secret...

For the believer, humility is honesty about one’s greatest flaws to a degree in which he is fearless about truly appearing less righteous than another.

Have you ever thought for once that when you look in the mirror you are hyper aware of your flaws? When the rest of us may see something different. Like a teenager with a pimple....

You are perfect, Avery. Just like you are, flaws and everything.

Old Korean adage, “Even jade has flaws.” Or, in other words: Nothing in life is ever perfect.

Your flesh is not a reflection of your soul. So when you look in the mirror, remember that your light outshines your flaws.

Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks.

Why would anyone want perfection when growth comes from flaws?

It’s easy to romanticize the people in our lives that mean something to us. We elevate them onto a higher plane that the rest of humanity. They appear glorious and pristine and full of wonders...

I think that one of the biggest flaws ofmankind is that we become complacent with our lives.

It pained her that a few hundred words in an also-ran newspaper could get her kicked out. That damned article.And Rook.Her sharpest agony. She had invested in this guy. Waited for this guy. Felt something...

Woman lost (skin deep) like a damn fine thread in the fireWoman of the world caught up in your black machinationsI was a woman who cried alone at night, who gave it all away when...

People, generally, are equally insecure. They just show it (or hide it) differently.

In this world we are all pretenders, and Society is our game

You deserve all that and more. It made me happy to see you suffer. I would do it all over again if I could.’ I realized I was shaking as the words tumbled out of...

A perfect character might be attended with the inconvenience of being envied and hated; and that a benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance.

God is too great to be glorified only through the lives of His victorious children. He is glorified by our suffering and even by our sin. His sustaining strength is glorified when we walk through...

Dickens enjoyed human beings as he found them, unregenerate, peculiar and incorrigibly themselves.

It’s easy to point out other people flaws, but it takes TRUE courage and strength take a look in the mirror, admit personal flaws AND strive to do and be better. That’s growth!

I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.

… one flaw throws the loveliness of [everything else] into focus. I remember reading that Shakers deliberately introduced a mistake into the things they made, to show that man shouldn’t aspire to the perfection of...

When I watch myself on-screen, I always look for the flaws.

God knows I’ve got so many frailties myself, I ought to be able to understand and forgive them in others. But I don’t.

n our perfection-obsessed, air-brushed society, it can be tempting to measure our self-worth against its set of impossible standards. However, organic beauty is in the flaws that make us vulnerable, human and fallible. We are...

There is a spike in front. You pick up any flaws in manufacturing in the first 90 days; it flattens out [soon thereafter], then rises, especially with a mobile product.

Self-love is not the process of ignoring things, paying attention to fewer flaws or forcing yourself to look away from the parts of you that you perceive as ugly or unwanted. Self-love is the process...

Accept yourself: flaws, quirks, talents, secret thoughts, all of it, and experience true liberation.

We learned we’re not untouchable. But there are flaws on this team.

Many studies, especially some of the older ones, have significant methodological flaws, which render the conclusions questionable.

No matter how cleverly we disguise our anxieties they bear witness to the imperfect nature of the human heart. To be is to become. To become is not to be. We are a work-in-progress, incomplete,...

I have faults enough, but they are not, I hope, of understanding. My temper I dare not vouch for. It is, I believe, too little yielding— certainly too little for the convenience of the world....

They established best practices for double-checking software for potential security flaws.

The living are made of nothing but flaws. The dead, with each passing day in the afterlife, become more and more impeccable to those who remain earthbound.

One who enjoys finding errors will then start creating errors to find.

We are all flawed, my dear. Every one of us. And believe me, we’ve all made mistakes. You’ve just got to take a good hard look at yourself, change what needs to be changed, and...

And yet I wasn’t sure what his weakness was. We all do that as we get to know someone. Like a tabloid editor, we search for both greatness and weakness, jotting down notes in our...

When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I’ll have no ego to injure.

I admire from a distance. Too close and the flaws form a craterous landscape and the charm is lost. Who do you think I am, Neil Armstrong?

The human beings at the helm of the new nation [USA], whatever their limitations [slave owners, anti-democracy], were truly revolutionary. The theory of liberty born in that era, the seed of the idea, was perfect.More...

I am not an angel,’ I asserted; ‘and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, you must neither expect nor exact anything celestial of me – for you...

It may well be that we can never fully adapt to our own deformities. Unable tofind a place inside ourselves for the very real pain and suffering that these deformities cause, we come here to...

They need to be reviewing existing code, training programmers to be more precise, and reviewing the code for security flaws. They need to be doing better testing of code that’s been documented in the literature.

Well, to tell you the truth, I’ve thought of it often and often before, but he’s such devilish good company is Huntingdon, after all – you can’t imagine what a jovial good fellow he is...

To be acceptable is for one to ignore his weakness while knowing his strength, to cover the scar even though it’s always there, however, to be impossible is for one to see his weakness as,...

People who say you are ugly, may be true, because to them, you look like a monster. People who say you are beautiful, may also be true, because to them, you look like an angel.

I only accept your mistakes and flaws to the degree that I accept my own.

Writing isn’t about creating perfect characters. There’s no such thing. It’s about creating characters that are real; flawed– yet beautiful, in that they know they need another person. Needing someone else doesn’t make them weak;...

Isn’t it awkward how some people constantly make fun of other people’s weaknesses while ignoring to improve on theirs?