Personal Faults Quotes

The essence of a man is found in his faults.

We forget our faults easily when they are known to ourselves alone.

Because those, who twit others with their faults, should look at home.

You can often help others more by correcting your own faults than theirs. Remember, and you should, because of your own experience, that allowing God to correct your faults is not easy. Be patient with people, wait for God to work with them as He wills.

We easily forget our faults when no one knows them but ourselves.

They who get off on tangents and ride hobby horses to death are they who become fanatic. Let them understand that they must be tolerant of others faults but never accept as justifiable their own.

People accuse me of being Methody, but I'm not at all. The one thing I don't want people to see is me. I don't want them to be able to recognize my faults and failures and qualities, and I won't use those things to spark off emotions or to illustrate.

Certain faults are necessary for the existence of the individual. We would resent it if old friends were to get rid of certain peculiarities.

One of the greatest and also the commonest of faults is for men to believe that, because they never hear their shortcomings spoken of, or read about them in cold print, others can have no knowledge of them.

Everything becomes so problematic because of basic faults: from a discontent with myself.

There is no end to one's faults. To think of them makes one humble.

I have a special grudge against those who have the same faults as I do.

Only those faults which we encounter in ourselves are insufferable to us in others.

I was living an extremely burdensome life, because every time I prayed, I became more clearly aware of my faults. On the one hand, God was calling me. On the other, I was following the way of the world. Doing what God wanted made me happy; but I felt bound by the things of this world.

Many people excuse their own faults but judge other persons harshly. We should reverse this attitude by excusing others' shortcomings and by harshly examining our own.

A private sin is not so prejudicial in the world as public indecency.

O, happy the soul that saw its own faults.

Everyone knows that weeds eat out the life of the garden and of the productive fields. It's like that in the building and developing of character. No one knows our own faults and tendencies better than we do ourselves, so that it is up to each one of us to keep the weeds out, and to keep all growth vigorous and fruitful.

I think we have to face right in the center of the hurricane, if you will, Martin Luther King, Jr.'s foibles and faults. I think that we do no good to ourselves and do no honor to him by pretending that he did not fail, that he did not wrestle greatly and, at times, surrender to his own sins and his own faults and failures.

it may be in morals as it is in optics, the eye and the object may come too close to each other, to answer the end of vision. There are certain faults which press too near our self-love to be even perceptible to us.

Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.

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

Our foibles are really what make us lovable.

All of my favorite hymns are admissions of faults, and finding redemption even in those.