George Herbert Quotes

It is easier to enrich ourselves with a thousand virtues, than to correct ourselves of a single fault.

What we cut off from our other faults is very often but so much added to our pride.

It is only an error of judgment to make a mistake, but it argues an infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.

Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.

From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.

It is well to think well; it is divine to act well.

Gladly we desire to make other men perfect, but we will not amend our own fault.

Life is a process of working out what's not working for you and disentangling yourself from it and trying then not walk into the same thing again. Watching your patterns and correcting them if you can.

What, pray, does it profit a man to teach others, and to be prating always about virtue, in high-sounding words, if he fails to give heed to his own instructions?

It is more profitable to be mindful of our own faults than of those of our age.

I'm a good man, and I'm gonna become a better man.

I attempt to do my best and do what's right, but that doesn't mean I'm always right.

Consciousness of error is, to a certain extent, a consciousness of understanding; and correction of error is the plainest proof of energy and mastery.

The wise are not wise because they make no mistakes. They are wise because they correct their mistakes as soon as they recognize them.

A man is not aware of his virtues (if any). Nevertheless, one hopes that they exist.

People will allow their faults to be shown them; they will let themselves be punished for them; they will patiently endure many things because of them; they only become impatient when they have to lay them aside.

To leave this world a better person, and for me to not be the only one who knows it.

When you notice a fault in your neighbour, search for the same in yourself.

Magnify the virtues, minimize the faults.

A wise man watches his faults more closely than his virtues; fools reverse the order.

Analyze thy life's experiences, see thy shortcomings, see thy virtues. Minimize those faults, magnify and glorify thy virtues.

As long as we are human, we are destined to make mistakes. We all fall prey to flawed beliefs and views. What separates a forward-looking person from an intransigent one, a virtuous person from a malevolent one, however, is whether one can candidly admit to ones mistakes and take bold steps to redress them.

Blessed is he whose own faults keep him from seeing the faults of others.

By and large, I seem to have made more mistakes than any others of whom I know, but have learned thereby to make ever swifter acknowledgment of the errors and thereafter immediately set about to deal more effectively with the truths disclosed by the acknowledgment of erroneous assumptions.

It's when you are down that you learn about your faults.