"People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people's minds, as if they believe that the world is always contemplating their individual charms and virtues."
— Elizabeth Gaskell

"Do not be concerned with the faults of other persons. Do not see others' faults with a hateful mind. There is an old saying that if you stop seeing others' faults, then naturally seniors and venerated and juniors are revered Do not imitate others' faults; just cultivate virtue. Buddha prohibited unwholesome actions, but did not tell us to hate those who practice unwholesome actions."
— Zen Master Dogen

""I want to be loved, not in spite of my faults, but because of them.""
— Lise Bennett

"Of all our faults, the one that we excuse most easily is idleness."
— François de La Rochefoucauld

"He well knew his mind's natural tendency to be endlessly on a thousand subjects at once, to flit from this to that and to the next thing to no particular purpose--indeed, he called it his "butterfly mind."
— Eric Metaxas (Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery)

"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."
— François de La Rochefoucauld

"If you are willing to admit faults, you have one less fault to admit."
— Proverb