We all carry fault within.
-Hannah Arendt
The mystery of existence is the connection
between our faults and our misfortunes.
-Madame de Stael
All our faults are committed in darkness
when our consciousness is obscured.
-Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov
No one would do wrong
if he knew the wrong of it.
-Hazrat Inayat Khan
We give way to our faults
by being passive towards them.
-Hazrat Inayat Khan
Every little fault is a flag for the little self,
for its own dominion.
-Hazrat Inayat Khan
If we plant a flower or a shrub and water it daily
it will grow so tall
that in time we shall need a spade and a hoe to uproot it.
It is just so, I think, when we commit a fault, however small, each day,
and do not cure ourselves of it.
-Teresa of Avila
Few are the faults we flatter
when alone.
-Edward Young
Faults are thick
where love is thin.
-James Howell
You have within yourself
all the faults which you scorn in others.
-Will Durant
There are some faults which men readily admit,
but others not so readily.
-Epictetus
We confess small faults,
in order to insinuate that we have no great ones.
-Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We try to make virtues out of the faults
we have no wish to correct.
-Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Those who try to make virtues out of their faults
grope further and further in to darkness.
-Hazrat Inayat Khan
Almost all our faults are more pardonable
than the methods we resort to to hide them.
-Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Our worst fault
is our preoccupation with the faults of others.
-Kahlil Gibran
We hate those faults most in others
which we are guilty of ourselves.
-William Shenstone
One should be able to see the faults of others
without hatred.
-Aurobindo Ghose.
The greatest of all faults, I should say,
is to be conscious of none.
-Thomas Carlyle
You should examine yourself daily.
If you find faults, you should correct them.
If you find none, you should try even harder.
-Xi Zhi
He whose faults are not told to him
ignorantly things his defects are virtues.
-Sa'di
Only through the eyes of others
can you see your flaws.
-Chinese Proverb
Look upon the man who tells thee thy faults
as if he told thee of a hidden treasure.
-The Dhammapada
Happy is the man
who sees his faults in his youth.
-Proverb
If you hear that someone is speaking ill of you,
instead of trying to defend yourself you should say:
'He obviously does not know me very well,
since there are so many other faults he could have mentioned.'
-Epictetus
One's own faults are one's mortal enemies.
It follows that to guard against them
is life's gravest concern.
-Tiruvalluvar
The real fault is to have faults
and not to amend them.
-Confucius
Blaming your faults on your nature
doesn't change the nature of your faults.
-Indian Proverb
When you have faults
do not fear to abandon them.
-Confucius
The way to overcome error is, first to admit one's fault;
and next, to refrain from repeating it.
-Hazrat Inayat Khan
Never concentrate on your faults.
By doing so you identify yourself with them.
-Yogananda
You will find it less easy to uproot faults
than to choke them out by gaining virtue.
-John Ruskin
Every man in his lifetime
needs thank his faults.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are all full of weaknesses and errors;
let us mutually pardon each other our follies.
-Voltaire
Be like an eye always seeing your own faults,
Be like a blind person toward the faults of others.
-Atisha
Overlook the greatest fault of another,
but do not partake of it in the smallest degree.
-Hazrat Inayat Khan
