People who live in the past generally are afraid to compete in the present. I've got my faults, but living in the past is not one of them. There's no future in it.
Sparky Anderson

Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings.
Laurence J. Peter

Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach, but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car.
Edward de Bono

Since, therefore, no man is born without faults, and he is esteemed the best whose errors are the least, let the wise man consider everything human as connected with himself; for in worldly affairs there is no perfect happiness under heaven.
Giraldus Cambrensis

Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms.
James F. Cooper

The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind, and they are in continual danger of breaking the skin and bursting out again.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The desire of talking of ourselves, and showing those faults we do not mind having seen, makes up a good part of our sincerity.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The essence of a man is found in his faults.
Francis Picabia

The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them; they change and everyone looks up to them.
Confucius

The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.
George Bernard Shaw

The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.
Thomas Carlyle

The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults.
Alexis de Tocqueville

The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes.
Madame de Stael

The Pilgrim and the Puritan whom we honor tonight were men who did a great deal of work in the world. They had their faults and their - shortcomings, but they were not slothful in business and they were most fervent in spirit.
Henry Cabot Lodge

The practice mirror is to be used for the correction of faults, not for a love affair, and the figure you watch should not become your dearest friend.
Agnes de Mille

There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
Oliver Goldsmith

There's something so accessible about heroes who have faults.
Laura Dern

To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
Alexander Pope