faults

Always look at good side of a man. And forget his faults.

Arrogance based on relentless denial of faults eventually makes a person weary.

The true definition of mental illness is when the majority of your time is spent in the past or future, but rarely living in the realism of NOW.

As long as one sees faults with the world, he prevails in the knowledge of the senses. The inner purification has not yet occurred in him.

Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach, but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car.

The heavenly Father knows all my faults. But still forgives all my sins.

Jealousy is, I think, the worst of all faults because it makes a victim of both parties.

It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch each other, and find sympathy. It is in our follies that we are one.

How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.

Keep a watch also on the faults of the patients, which often make them lie about the taking of things prescribed.

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

It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch one another and find sympathy. We differ widely enough in our nobler qualities. It is in our follies that we are at one.

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 mind? You don't care what people think. You don't see your beloved's faults, the slight stinginess, the bit of carelessness, the occasional streak of meanness. You don't mind that he is beneath you socially, educationally, financially, and morally - that's the worst, I think, deficient morals.

Yesterday's faults become today's lessons. Today's dreams become tomorrow's reality.

Too much salt will spoil the curryand too many faults will spoil the harmony.

When anyone is going wrong, it is a mistake to warn him not to go further. It is also a mistake to leave him alone. The proper course is to call his attention to something better, and frame our conversation in such a way that he becomes wholly absorbed in the better. He will then forget his old mistakes, his old faults and his old desires, and will give all his life and power to the building of that better which has engaged his new interest.

He never looks away, searching my eyes for truth. His reaction has left my heart pounding, shocked at how quick he was to dismiss any fault I may have had. I wish he was just as quick to dismiss his own faults, but he isn't.

No weakness of the human mind has more frequently incurred animadversion, than the negligence with which men overlook their own faults, however flagrant, and the easiness with which they pardon them, however frequently repeated.