Best failing & faults Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Be patient with everyone, but above all with yourself. I mean do not be disheartened by your imperfections, but always rise up with fresh courage. How are we to be patient in dealing with our neighbour's faults if we are impatient in dealing with our own? He who is fretted by his own failings will not correct them. All profitable correction comes from a calm and peaceful mind.”

Ifs Mind Mean Courage Failing Faults Patient Calm Peaceful Imperfection Be Patient Profitable Neighbour Impatient Corrections Peaceful Mind Disheartened

Author:Saint Francis de Sales

“Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so much attention that a husband and wife, concentrating on their children, fail to notice each other's faults.”

Way Children Helping Together Numbers Attention Wife Failing Husband Demand Faults Instance Husband And Wife Concentrating Armour Husband Wife

Author:Richard Armour

“A man only goes and confesses his faults to the world when his self will not acknowledge or listen to them. WYNDHAM LEWIS, Tarr Two persons will not be friends long if they are not inclined to pardon each other's little failings.”

Ifs Men World Littles Persons Long Two Self Failing Faults Acknowledge Pardon Self Will

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“Canada regards herself as responsible to all mankind for the peculiar ecological balance that now exists so precariously in the water, ice and land areas of the Arctic archipelago. We do not doubt for a moment that the rest of the world would find us at fault, and hold us liable, should we fail to ensure adequate protection of that environment from pollution or artificial deterioration.”

“If the members of a class do not understand -- if those directly addressed fail to listen, or listening, fail to recognize a power in the voice -- surely the fault lies with the speaker, who, having attempted to secure their attention and enlighten their understandings, has failed in the attempt.”

Ifs Lying Understanding Voice Attention Class Failing Listening Members Faults Secure Speakers Enlightening

Book:The Principles of Success in Literature

Source: The Principles of Success in Literature

“It is the condition of our present state to see more than we can attain; the exactest vigilance and caution can never maintain a single day of unmingled innocence.”

Ifs Writing May Ideas States Failing Conditions Example Objects Duty Perfection Faults Innocence Caution Atonement Hinder Endeavour Vigilance Contagion Admonition

Author:Samuel Johnson

“A man who becomes used to deluding himself, who fails to face his own faults with revolutionary honesty and even lies to himself, is the most likely to become a traitor, since lying is the beginning of treachery.”

Men Faces Used Lying Failing Honesty Faults Revolutionary Traitor Treachery

Author:Ashraf Dehghani

“I am not without faults and I am far short of perfect. I am dealing with my behavior and personal failings behind closed doors with my family. Those feelings should be shared by us alone.”

Should Feelings Perfect Behinds Failing Doors Behavior My Family Faults Closed Doors Behind Closed Doors

Author:Tiger Woods

“It is one of my faults, that though my tongue is sometimes prompt enough at an answer, there are times when it sadly fails me in framing an excuse; and always the lapse occurs at some crisis, when a facile word or plausible pretext is specially wanted to get me out of painful embarrassment.”

Sometimes Enough Wanted Answers Failing Crisis Faults Painful Excuse Tongue Embarrassment Prompts Plausible Pretext Lapses Framing

Book:Jane Eyre

Source: Jane Eyre

“There are some people upon whom their very faults and failings sit gracefully; and there are others whose very excellencies and accomplishments do not become them.”

People Grace Failing Faults Accomplishment Charm

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“One of man's greatest failings is that he looks almost always for an excuse, in the misfortune that befalls him through his own fault, before looking for a remedy-which means he often finds the remedy too late.”

Men Looks Mean Failing Late Faults Excuse Too Late Misfortunes Remedy

Author:Jean Francois Paul de Gondi

“Say of him what you please, but I know my child's failings. I do not love him because he is good, but because he is my little child. How should you know how dear he can be when you try to weigh his merits against his faults? When I must punish him he becomes all the more a part of my being. When I cause his tears to come my heart weeps with him. I alone have a right to blame and punish, for he only may chastise who loves.”

Knows Should Trying Heart May Children Littles Causes Know How Failing Tears My Heart Please Blame Faults Dear My Children Merit

Book:Delphi Collected Works of Rabindranath Tagore (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Works of Rabindranath Tagore (Illustrated)

“You can't expect everyone to laugh or applaud you for doing edgy things. Sometimes you'll miss. But I think comedians are artists and there's a value in failure. It kind of works both ways between comedians and audiences. The audience has to understand that comedians are going to sometimes tell a joke that doesn't work out with dark subjects, and the comedian has to understand that sometimes they 'll fail and it's not the audience's fault for not getting it or loving it.”

Thinking Way Kind Sometimes Artist Values Dark Audience Laughing Failing Subjects Missing Jokes Faults Work Out Comedian Edgy

Author:Anthony Jeselnik

“What distinguishes a human being from a computer? The ability to add up numbers? The ability to understand language? The ability to be logical? It is, of course, none of the above. It is the ability to play. Computers cannot have fun. They cannot fantasize. They cannot dream, they cannot experience emotion or summon intuition. These rare, precious qualities come naturally to every child on this earth yet they tend to be seen, by well meaning adults, as faults, foibles and failings. In pushing tiny toddlers to 'perform', we rob them of the ability to imagine.”

“If our designs are failing due to the constant rain of changing requirements, it is our designs that are at fault. We must somehow find a way to make our designs resilient to such changes and protect them from rotting.”

Ifs Way Learning Failing Design Protect Rain Constant Faults Simplicity Dues Programming Requirements Resilient Computer Programming Programming Languages Computer Language Rotting

Author:Robert Cecil Martin

“There is no more reason to accuse ourselves excessively of our failings than to excuse them overmuch. He who goes overboard in self-criticism often does so in order not to suffer others' criticisms, or else does so out of a kind of vanity that wishes to make others believe that he knows how to confess his faults.”

Knows Believe Kind Doe Self Reason Suffering Order Belief Wish Know How Failing Criticism Faults Excuse Vanity Self Criticism Overboard

Author:Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

“When the liver is diseased, the eyesight fails; when the kidneys are diseased, the hearing is adversely affected. The disease is not visible, but its effects are. Therefore, enlightened people, wishing to be free from obvious faults, first get rid of hidden faults.”

People Firsts Wish Failing Effects Disease Faults Obvious Hearing Visible Enlightened Taoism Affected Liver Kidneys Diseased Eyesight

Author:Zicheng Hong

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