Defects Quote by Marquis de Sade

By how much one man has more experience of things past, than another, by so much also he is more prudent, and his expectations…

— Thomas Hobbes

A man's personal defects will commonly have with the rest of the world precisely that importance which they have to himself. If he makes…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The errors of young men are the ruin of business, but the errors of aged men amount to this, that more might have been…

— Francis Bacon

A man is more than his failings.

— Rick Reilly

A man must thank his defects, and stand in some terror of his talents.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is the prerogative of great men only to have great defects.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I often think when a man's once past a certain age, the older he grows the tougher he gets, and women the same or…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

A man must thank his defects, and stand in some terror of his talents. A transcendent talent draws so largely on his forces as…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“And yet this very singleness of vision and thorough one-ness with his age is a mark of the successful man. It is as though…

— W.E.B. Du Bois

The better a man is, the more mistakes he will make, for the more new things he will try.

— Peter Drucker

The better a man is the more mistakes will he make – for the more new things he will try.

— Peter Drucker

Man matures through work which inspires him to difficult good.

— Pope John Paul II