Character Quote by Jerome K. Jerome

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

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

Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.

— Nikola Tesla

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

We human beings grow through our failures, not our virtues.

— Madeleine L'Engle

Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for them. It is the same with our children. All profound…

— Luc de Clapiers

Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for them. It is the same with our children. All profound…

— George Eliot

Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.

— Luc de Clapiers

It is through weakness and vulnerability that most of us learn empathy and compassion and discover our soul.

— Desmond Tutu

We are, in the end, a sum of our parts, and when the body fails, all the virtues we hold dear go with it.

— Susannah Cahalan

Our virtues are made by love, and our sins caused by the lack of it.

— Hazrat Inayat Khan