Fault Quotes

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Begin with praise and honest appreciation. Call attention to people's mistakes indirectly. Talk about your own mistakes before criticizing the other person. Ask questions instead… — Dale Carnegie
The great fault of all ethics hitherto has been that they believed themselves to have to deal only with the relations of man to man.… — Albert Schweitzer
We communicate happiness to others not often by great acts of devotion and self-sacrifice, but by the absence of fault-finding and censure, by being ready… — Adam Clarke
I tell you one thing. If you want peace of mind, do not find fault with others. Rather learn to see your own faults. Learn… — Sarada Devi
An expert is a man who tells you a simple thing in a confused way in such a fashion as to make you think the… — William Castle
We had an electrical fault about 500 miles into the trip and lost more than half our fuel. We had a fire on the roof.… — Richard Branson
If words of command are not clear and distinct, if orders are not thoroughly understood, the general is to blame. But if his orders are… — Sun Tzu
In the eyes of mercy, no one should have hateful thoughts. Feel pity for the man who is even more at fault. The area and… — Yamamoto Tsunetomo
You should not have a favourite weapon. To become over-familiar with one weapon is as much a fault as not knowing it sufficiently well. — Miyamoto Musashi
We have to stand up for these issues when it's tough, and that's what I've done. I did it when I was in the state… — Barack Obama
The real fault is to have faults and not amend them. — Confucius
If anything goes wrong, the customer doesn't care whose fault it is. He's the one who's going to suffer anyway. — Jan Carlzon
I have learned more from my mistakes than from my successes. — Humphry Davy
It's too easy when you're not winning to look for excuses and point at others for reasons. You ca say 'Oh well, it's this guys… — Sean Burke
If every day in the life of a school could be the last day but one, there would be little fault to find with it. — Stephen Leacock
It is the constant fault and inseparable evil quality of ambition, that it never looks behind it. — Seneca the Younger
Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues. — Quintilian
There is nothing that will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself. — George Eliot
I do not plan in any way to whitewash my sin. I do not call it a mistake, a mendacity; I call it sin. I… — Jimmy Swaggart
The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you. — John Mortimer

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