Advantage Quote by Jonathan Swift

What sort of faults may we retain, nay, even cherish in ourselves? Those faults which are rather pleasant than offensive to others.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is easier to enrich ourselves with a thousand virtues, than to correct ourselves of a single fault.

— Jean de la Bruyere

Wherever there is failure, there is some giddiness, some superstition about luck, some step omitted, which, Nature never pardons.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The more we study mind and matter scientifically the more we see that all things follow a natural sequence, a sequence as liable to…

— Llewelyn Powys

Some people find fault like there is a reward for it

— Zig Ziglar

“If you care for your mind, if you nurture it and if you cultivate it just like a fertile, rich garden, it will blossom…

— Robin S. Sharma

If we plant a flower or a shrub and water it daily it will grow so tall that in time we shall need a…

— Teresa of Avila

The earth flourishes, or is overrun with noxious weeds and brambles, as we apply or withhold the cultivating hand. So fares it with the…

— Horace Mann

“Before we congratulate ourselves upon the absence of certain faults from our nation or society, we ought to ask ourselves why it is that…

— G.K. Chesterton

A person who undertakes to grow a garden at home, by practices that will preserve rather than exploit the economy of the soil, has…

— Wendell Berry

“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

Next to selfishness the principal cause which makes life unsatisfactory is want of mental cultivation.

— John Stuart Mill