People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people's minds, as if they believe that the world is always contemplating their individual charms and virtues.
Elizabeth GaskellTags: self-esteem faults
We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.
François de La RochefoucauldTags: faults
Do not be concerned with the faults of other persons. Do not see others' faults with a hateful mind. There is an old saying that if you stop seeing others' faults, then naturally seniors and venerated and juniors are revered. Do not imitate others' faults; just cultivate virtue. Buddha prohibited unwholesome actions, but did not tell us to hate those who practice unwholesome actions.
DōgenTags: love forgiveness faults
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.
Samuel JohnsonTags: criticism double-standards faults censure character-flaws
Of all our faults, the one that we excuse most easily is idleness.
François de La RochefoucauldHe well knew his mind's natural tendency to be endlessly on a thousand subjects at once, to flit from this to that and to the next thing to no particular purpose--indeed, he called it his "butterfly mind.
Eric MetaxasMy biggest fault is that the faults I was born with grow bigger each year.
Haruki MurakamiTo what faults do you feel most indulgent? To the ones that arise from urgent material needs.
Christopher HitchensTags: sympathy materialism faults
Such excessive preoccupation with his faults is not a truly spiritual activity but, on the contrary, a highly egoistic one.The recognition of his own faults should make a man humbler, when it is beneficial, not prouder, which the thought that he ought to have been above these faults makes him.
Paul BruntonTags: spiritual humility sin pride ego faults
But, ah me! where is the faultless human creature who can persevere in a good resolution, without sometimes failing and falling back?
Wilkie CollinsTags: human-nature failure steadfastness constancy faults faultlessness
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