Character Quote by 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

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 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

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

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

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

— Madeleine L'Engle

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

— Nikola Tesla

“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

“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

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

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

Our virtues themselves are not free and floating qualities over which we retain a permanent control and power of disposal; they come to be…

— Marcel Proust