You should examine yourself daily. If you find faults, you should correct them. When you find none, you should try even harder. ~By Xi Zhi ~
We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection. ~By Jean Paul ~
O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault! ~By Dante Alighieri ~
The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none. ~By Thomas Carlyle ~
Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, - for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it - not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation. ~By Herman Melville ~
Be England what she will, with all her faults she is my country still. ~By Charles Churchill ~
At the same, we need to remain sensitive to the reality that we are still an African society in which the majority of the people and communities live under severe deprivations and afflictions that are no fault of theirs. ~By Ibrahim Babangida ~
Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse. ~By Oliver Goldsmith ~
God's forgiveness is the only thing. And, well, I take full responsibility for the adultery. It was my fault and, you know, no matter what went on, the man has to take responsibility; and I do. ~By Jim Bakker ~
The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms. ~By James F. Cooper ~
Life begins at 40 - but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times. ~By Helen Rowland ~
But, after all, we are a young nation, and vanity is a fault of youth. ~By Rebecca H. Davis ~
I have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper. ~By Moliere ~
The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed. ~By John Mortimer ~
I went through a long period of time in that marriage when I didn't believe anything was my fault. I had to face what my part was, and only because of that difficult work was I able to trust a man again. ~By Connie Sellecca ~
Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends. ~By Henry Ward Beecher ~
Nobody can be perfect unless he admits his faults, but if he has faults how can he be perfect? ~By Laurence J. Peter ~
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. ~By Richard Armour ~
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. ~By Giraldus Cambrensis ~
I think the aim - and certainly the aim of what I've tried to do since leaving - is not political and certainly not a witch hunt at individuals. It's to try to direct our attention at what I believe is a fundamental fault analysis that we must now examine. ~By David Kay ~
It's easy to see the faults in people I know; it's hardest to see the good. Especially when the good isn't there. ~By Will Cuppy ~
This is a fault common to all singers, that among their friends they will never sing when they are asked; unasked, they will never desist. ~By Horace ~
When I was playing the game we never had the benefit of TV or video to analyse our techniques or look at faults, we depended on other cricketers to watch us and then tell us what they thought we were doing wrong. ~By Geoffrey Boycott ~
To be suspicious is not a fault. To be suspicious all the time without coming to a conclusion is the defect. ~By Lu Xun ~
For support, I fall back on my heart. Has a man any fault a woman cannot weave with and try to change into something better, if the god her man prays to is a mother holding a baby? ~By Haniel Long ~
Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel. ~By Doris Lessing ~
The populations of Central America are very, very small indeed, so that while no one was denying and this was one of the great debates we used to have, whose fault was it that there were communists were able to do so well down there, well, that wasn't the point. ~By John Negroponte ~
This is the great fault of wine; it first trips up the feet: it is a cunning wrestler. ~By Titus Maccius Plautus ~
Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes error a fault, and truth discourtesy. ~By George Herbert ~
Discernment is God's call to intercession, never to faultfinding. ~By Corrie Ten Boom ~
My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them. ~By Jack Kerouac ~
It's my fault in many cases because I don't initiate the contact to talk with a lot of other musicians. ~By Frank Morgan ~
However, yes, especially as one gets older, you know, you really hope that your music will become more generally available, even though some of the performances might be riddled with faults. ~By John Eaton ~
Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing. ~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue. ~By Oliver Goldsmith ~
Oftentimes, in fact I think this is to my fault, I look at usually scripts as a whole. I should probably pay more attention to the character that I'm going to play and what they do. ~By Cameron Diaz ~
We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment. ~By George Eliot ~
That's one of our biggest problems, it's always somebody else's fault instead of our own fault. ~By Don Young ~
My general plan is good, though in the detail there may be faults. ~By Adam Weishaupt ~
The basic fault lines today are not between people with different beliefs but between people who hold these beliefs with an element of uncertainty and people who hold these beliefs with a pretense of certitude. ~By Peter L. Berger ~
We make mistakes, we have our faults, and God knows some of us have more than our share, but when danger threatens and duty calls, we go smiling to our own funeral. ~By James Larkin ~
To copy beauty forfeits all pretense to fame; to copy faults is want of sense. ~By Charles Churchill ~
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. ~By Joseph Smith, Jr. ~
The practice mirror is to be used for the correction of faults, not for a love affair, and the figure you watch should not become your dearest friend. ~By Agnes de Mille ~
The thing I always default to is that I'll always be here to write songs. ~By Alanis Morissette ~
The news media are, for the most part, the bringers of bad news... and it's not entirely the media's fault, bad news gets higher ratings and sells more papers than good news. ~By Peter McWilliams ~
We easily forgive our friends those faults that do no affect us ourselves. ~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
I must work hard to make my singing above reproach; there must be no faults which hard work would take care of. ~By Kate Smith ~
The play is always fresh to me. It's not the audience's fault that I've said the words before. ~By Theodore Bikel ~
My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private. ~By Solomon Ibn Gabirol ~
I feel greatly at fault in not having made a loud public protest about Belle Glade before this. ~By Marjory Stoneman Douglas ~
I like to think I would not have approved those methods in the past, but I do not fault those who made the decisions at that time, and I will absolutely defend those who carried out the interrogations within the orders they were given. ~By Dennis C. Blair ~
It is much easier to find fault with others, than to be faultless ourselves. ~By Samuel Richardson ~
I think the one thing this picture shows that's new is the psychological disproportion of the kids' demands on the parents. Parents are often at fault, but the kids have some work to do, too. ~By James Dean ~
In the beginning, everybody that gets to work with me, thinks I'm nice. But three weeks later, they hear a bell ringing. Then they realise I meant everything I said during that first week. It's not my fault people are not taking me serious from the first moment. ~By Andrew Eldritch ~
Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries. ~By Thomas Carlyle ~
Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves. ~By Ramsey Clark ~
We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change. ~By Katharine Hepburn ~
I'm not suggesting that the play is without fault; all of my plays are imperfect, I'm rather happy to say-it leaves me something to do. ~By Edward Albee ~
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. ~By Benjamin Franklin ~
Destiny is something men select; women achieve it only by default or stupendous suffering. ~By Harriet Rosenstein ~
Tomorrow, every Fault is to be amended; but that Tomorrow never comes. ~By Benjamin Franklin ~
It is tragic that the Fuehrer should have the whole nation behind him with the single exception of the Army generals. In my opinion it is only by action that they can now atone for their faults of lack of character and discipline. ~By Alfred Jodl ~
For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible. ~By Arthur Schopenhauer ~
To find a fault is easy; to do better may be difficult. ~By Louis Nizer ~
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. ~By Confucius ~
And I know this happens because I took economics, and I'd explain it to ya, but I flunked that course. Not my fault. They taught it at 8 o'clock in the morning. And there is absolutely nothing you can learn out of one bloodshot eye. ~By Lewis Black ~
My fault now is making my plays too short. ~By Beth Henley ~
She's generous to a fault - if it's her own. ~By Bugs Baer ~
Although I do wrong, I do not the wrongs that I am charged with doing; the wrong that I do is through the frailty of human nature, like other men. No man lives without fault. ~By Joseph Smith, Jr. ~
To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves. ~By Alexander Pope ~
Many persons have been confused and discouraged at the very outset of the study by the great variety and the delicate distinctions of the openings: and this has constituted a fault in many otherwise excellent manuals for the learner. ~By Howard Staunton ~
A major fault, for example, is the fact that, along with the materialist principle, Darwin introduced into his theory of evolution reactionary Malthusian ideas. ~By Trofim Lysenko ~
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. ~By Henri Frederic Amiel ~
Every true, eternal problem is an equally true, eternal fault; every answer an atonement, every realisation an improvement. ~By Otto Weininger ~
All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor. ~By Walt Whitman ~
Of course in war all madnesses come out in a man, that is the fault of war not of a man or a nation. ~By Frieda Lawrence ~
I've had every advantage in the world, despite the 18 years of silence which were nobody's fault but mine. ~By Gordon Getty ~
I criticize by creation - not by finding fault. ~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
Sexism is not the fault of women - kill your fathers, not your mothers. ~By Robin Morgan ~
So far I, at least, have no fault to find with implications of Hamilton's Federalism, but unfortunately his policy was in certain other respects tainted with a more doubtful tendency. ~By Herbert Croly ~
You find that all men are successes or failures. Success is the stamp of truth. I will say all men who fail to place their feet on the dome of facts do so by not sieving all truth and throwing the faulty to one side. ~By Andrew Taylor Still ~
The German experience, as you can see, did move me very much. Seeing that terrible destruction and seeing the miserable state of the people, how they had been beaten down by the war through no fault of their own probably. ~By James Laughlin ~
Don't let anything stand in the way of you claiming and manifesting the life that you choose rather than the life you have by default. ~By Joy Page ~
And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse. ~By William Shakespeare ~
To us Americans much has been given; of us much is required. With all our faults and mistakes, it is our strength in support of the freedom our forefathers loved which has saved mankind from subjection to totalitarian power. ~By Norman Thomas ~
I'm empathetic to a fault. I really do - embarrassingly enough - tear up when someone squishes a bug in front of me. ~By Kristen Bell ~
Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults. ~By Antisthenes ~
The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults. ~By Alexis de Tocqueville ~
I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about. ~By William Hazlitt ~
Exaggerated self-importance is deemed an individual fault, but a racial virtue. ~By Kelly Millar ~
This is a do-it-yourself test for paranoia: you know you've got it when you can't think of anything that's your fault. ~By Robert M. Hutchins ~
Greed and globalization aren't just America's fault. ~By Arlo Guthrie ~
It is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to hang their peculiar beatnik theories on. ~By Jack Kerouac ~
We are people with all the hopes, dreams, passions, and faults of everyone else. Eighty percent of us are born into families with no history of dwarfism. ~By Billy Barty ~
A woman should say: "Have I made him happy? Is he satisfied? Does he love me more than he loved me before? Is he likely to go to bed with another woman?" If he does, then it's the wife's fault because she is not trying to make him happy. ~By Barbara Cartland ~
But in answer to your question about the conspiracy angle, I think that any historian worth his salt, and this is where I fault Stephen Ambrose and a lot of these guys who attack me - not all of life is a result of conspiracy by any means! Accident occurs alongside conspiracy. ~By Oliver Stone ~
When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger. ~By Epictetus ~
I pretty much only write by default, because I want to make certain projects so instead of trying to wait and find them, I create them, but I'm not really a writer. ~By Sara Gilbert ~
Keep a watch also on the faults of the patients, which often make them lie about the taking of things prescribed. ~By Hippocrates ~
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