Faults Quotes

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By amending our mistakes, we get wisdom. By defending our faults, we betray an unsound mind. — Huineng
One reason golf is such an exasperating game is that a thing we learned is so easily forgotten, and we find ourselves struggling year after… — Bobby Jones
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
Chance corrects us of many faults that reason would not know how to correct. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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
There are five dangerous faults which may affect a general: recklessness, which leads to destruction; cowardice, which leads to capture; a hasty temper, which can… — Sun Tzu
Now an army is exposed to six several calamities, not arising from natural causes, 1 but from faults for which the general is responsible. These… — Sun Tzu
Be gentle with yourself. Kiss away your (imagined) faults and remember, if you saw you as God sees you, you would smile a lot. — Neale Donald Walsch
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
People do not mind their faults being spread out before them, but they become impatient if called on to give them up. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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
The fool, with all his other faults, has this also, he is always getting ready to live. — Epicurus
We must speak to God as a friend speaks to his friend, servant to his master; now asking some favor, now acknowledging our faults, and… — Ignatius Loyola
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
In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ears that failures are not… — Agnes Repplier
Soldiers have many faults, but they have one redeeming merit; they are never worshippers of force. Soldiers more than any other men are taught severely… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
It is the constant fault and inseparable evil quality of ambition, that it never looks behind it. — Seneca the Younger

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