Character Quote by Nikola Tesla

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

— Madeleine L'Engle

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

— Luc de Clapiers

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

— Mason Cooley

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

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

We are human beings, at the end of the day. Success and failure are a part and parcel of our life.

— Hima Das

The defects of human nature afford us opportunities of exercising our philosophy, the best employment of our virtues. If all men were righteous, all…

— Moliere

The essence of man is imperfection. Failure is simply a price we pay to achieve success. If we learn to embrace that new definition…

— Norman Cousins

“It always seemed strange to me that the things we admire in men: kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants…

— John Steinbeck

Fail I alone, in words and deeds? Why, all men strive and who succeeds?

— Robert Browning

Our virtues make us; but virtues are not enough, we must deploy our vices at times

— Hilary Mantel

Two great virtues . . . give a man power with the heavens - integrity and purity of character. Let a man possess these,…

— Wilford Woodruff