Acceptance Quote by Hugh Prather

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

— Mason Cooley

While we are indifferent to our good qualities, we keep on deceiving ourselves in regard to our faults, until we come to look on…

— Heinrich Heine

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

— Wallace D. Wattles

In self-trust all the virtues are comprehended.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“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 will live in a world of responsible beings, who will be as consistent and reliable as facts; the guarantee of their character will…

— Ayn Rand

If, when you charged a person with his faults, you credited him with his virtues too, you would probably like everybody.

— Lawrence G. Lovasik

To many people virtue consists chiefly in repenting faults, not in avoiding them.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

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 a distinction to have many virtues, but a hard lot.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

There are odious virtues; such as inflexible severity, and an integrity that accepts of no favor.

— Tacitus

When virtues are pointed out first, flaws seem less insurmountable.

— Judith Martin