Character Quote by Heinrich Heine

We are more tied to our faults than to our virtues.

— Mason Cooley

It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch one another and find sympathy. We differ widely enough in…

— Jerome K. Jerome

It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch each other, and find sympathy. It is in our follies…

— Jerome K. Jerome

There is a yearning for people to return to elementary moral virtues, such as integrity and commitment. We distrust people who have no centering…

— Geoff Mulgan

When we associate with the virtuous we form ourselves in imitation of their virtues, or at least lose, every day, something of our faults.

— Pope Agapetus I

“It is undoubtedly the case that the practice of the virtues makes one happier. We’ve somewhat lost sight of that essential truth, now that…

— Alexander McCall Smith

“You will find it less easy to unroot faults than to choke them by gaining virtues. Do not think of your faults, still less…

— John Ruskin

You must cease from looking at human mistakes and look at successes; cease from seeing faults and see virtues.

— Wallace D. Wattles

Unless I accept my faults, I will most certainly doubt my virtues.

— Hugh Prather

Some people are so extremely whiffling and inconsiderable that they are as far from any real faults as from substantial virtues.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Again, the law of balance does not allow anyone to take the lion's share of nature's gifts. Beauty in face is accompanied by deformity…

— Kaiten Nukariya

“This is so true that we rarely confide in those who are better than we. Rather, we are more inclined to flee their society.…

— Albert Camus