These fault quotes will inspire you. The fault is an unattractive or unsatisfactory feature, especially in a piece of work or in a person’s character.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging fault quotes, fault sayings, and fault proverbs.
Famous Fault Quotes
- “Don’t find fault, find a remedy.” ~ Henry Ford
- “When you are offended at any man’s fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.” ~ Epictetus
- “Never allow anyone to rain on your parade and thus cast a pall of gloom and defeat on the entire day. Remember that no talent, no self-denial, no brains, no character, are required to set up in the fault-finding business. Nothing external can have any power over you unless you permit it. Your time is too precious to be sacrificed in wasted days combating the menial forces of hate, jealously, and envy. Guard your fragile life carefully. Only God can shape a flower, but any foolish child can pull it to pieces.” ~ Og Mandino
- “How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
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“If you’re looking for faults use a mirror, not a telescope” ~ Boonaa Mohammed
- “A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults.” ~ Charles Kingsley
- “All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you. The only thing blame does is to keep the focus off you when you are looking for external reasons to explain your unhappiness or frustration. You may succeed in making another feel guilty about something by blaming him, but you won’t succeed in changing whatever it is about you that is making you unhappy.” ~ Wayne Dyer
- “Teach me to feel another’s woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.” ~ Alexander Pope
- “And oft, my jealousy shapes faults that are not.” ~ William Shakespeare
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“A man’s mother is his misfortune, but his wife is his fault.” ~ Walter Bagehot
- “Everything becomes so problematic because of basic faults: from a discontent with myself.” ~ Anna Freud
- “Be England what she will, With all her faults she is my country still.” ~ Charles Churchill
- “We forget our faults easily when they are known to ourselves alone.” ~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- “Though the bribe be small, yet the fault is great.” ~ Edward Coke
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“The essence of a man is found in his faults.” ~ Francis Picabia
- “It has been the great fault of our politicians that they have all wanted to do something.” ~ Anthony Trollope
- “I tolerate my faults but not at all other people’s.” ~ Camille Claudel
- “Dance must have a precision without fault.” ~ Arielle Dombasle
- “Every true, eternal problem is an equally true, eternal fault; every answer an atonement, every realization an improvement.” ~ Otto Weininger
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“There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behaves any of us to find fault with the rest of us.” ~ James Truslow Adams
- “O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!” ~ Dante Alighieri
- “Our systems, perhaps, are nothing more than an unconscious apology for our faults, a gigantic scaffolding whose object is to hide from us our favorite sin.” ~ Henri Frederic Amiel
- “People who live in the past generally are afraid to compete in the present. I’ve got my faults, but living in the past is not one of them. There’s no future in it.” ~ Sparky Anderson , My fault quotes
- “There’s man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet.” ~ Samuel Beckett
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“I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.” ~ Samuel Beckett
- “Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.” ~ Henry Ward Beecher
- “It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.” ~ Henry Ward Beecher
- “Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach, but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car.” ~ Edward de Bono
- “The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
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“Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.” ~ Thomas Carlyle
- “Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.” ~ Thomas Carlyle
- “Our own self-love draws a thick veil between us and our faults.” ~ Lord Chesterfield
- “I criticize by creation – not by finding fault.” ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
- “The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.” ~ Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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“The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them; they change and everyone looks up to them.” ~ Confucius
- “There’s something so accessible about heroes who have faults.” ~ Laura Dern
- “Oftentimes, in fact, I think this is to my fault, I look at usually scripts as a whole. I should probably pay more attention to the character that I’m going to play and what they do.” ~ Cameron Diaz
- “Parents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them.” ~ Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
- “We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.” ~ George Eliot
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“Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “A brother who recognizes that we have shortcomings, we, in the struggle, have faults, and that he wanted to reconcile differences.” ~ Louis Farrakhan
- “Had we not faults of our own, we should take less pleasure in complaining of others.” ~ Francois Fenelon
- “Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.” ~ Jean de La Fontaine
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“I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won’t presume to probe into the faults of others.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
- “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 Gaskell
- “Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- “Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.” ~ Oliver Goldsmith
- “Greed and globalization aren’t just America’s fault.” ~ Arlo Guthrie
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“It is easier to discover a deficiency in individuals, in states, and in Providence, than to see their real import and value.” ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- “Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes error a fault, and truth discourtesy.” ~ George Herbert
- “Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie: a fault which needs it most, grows two thereby.” ~ George Herbert
- “Nobody can be perfect unless he admits his faults, but if he has faults how can he be perfect?” ~ Laurence J. Peter , Admitting fault quotes
- “If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.” ~ Jack Kerouac
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“It is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to hang their peculiar beatnik theories on.” ~ Jack Kerouac
- “The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it’s their fault.” ~ Henry A. Kissinger
- “I think it would be very boring dramatically to have a film where everybody was a lawyer or doctor and had no faults. To me, the most important thing is to be truthful.” ~ Spike Lee
- “Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.” ~ Doris Lessing
- “If, when you charged a person with his faults, you credited him with his virtues too, you would probably like everybody.” ~ Lawrence G. Lovasik
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“The news media are, for the most part, the bringers of bad news… and it’s not entirely the media’s fault, bad news gets higher ratings and sells more papers than good news.” ~ Peter McWilliams
- “Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, – for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it – not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation.” ~ Herman Melville
- “If I have any justification for having lived it’s simply, I’m nothing but faults, failures and so on, but I have tried to make a good pair of shoes. There’s some value in that.” ~ Arthur Miller
- “I worked very hard, but I think it’s unfair to make it all sound like it’s all David’s fault.” ~ Liza Minnelli
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“I have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper.” ~ Moliere
- “Something goes wrong, I yell at them -‘Fix it’- whether it’s their fault or not. You can only really yell at the players you trust.” ~ Bill Parcells
- “My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.” ~ Jack Kerouac
Fault a bad quality or part of someone’s character.
