All men have their frailties; and whoever looks for a friend without imperfections, will never find what he seeks. — Cyrus the Great
I love it when ugliness is beautiful. I love character flaws. — Marcia Gay Harden
Like all real heroes, Charley had a fatal flaw. He refused to believe that he had gonorrhea, whereas the truth was that he did. — Kurt Vonnegut
Our flaws are what makes us human. If we can accept them as part of who we are, they really don't even have to be an issue. — Ellen DeGeneres
These flattering mirrors reflect imperfectly what is within; the countenance is often a gay deceiver. What defects of mind lie hidden under its beauty! What fair exteriors conceal base souls! — Pierre Corneille
The flaws, the mistakes I make - that's the real me. — Sayings
The real fault is to have faults and not amend them. — Confucius
Everyone is critical of the flaws of others, but blind to their own. — Arabic Proverbs
Our worst fault is our preoccupation with the faults of others. — Kahlil Gibran
The worst of our faults is our interest in other people's faults. — Ali ibn Abi Talib
Short Character Flaws Quotes
No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions. — Augusten Burroughs
There's something ugly about the flawless. — Dennis Lehane
Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them. — Francois de la Rochefoucauld
We’ve all got weaknesses. Me, for instance. I’m tragically funny and good-looking. — Rick Riordan
Great abilities produce great vices as well as virtues — Greek Proverbs
We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
All interesting heroes have an Achilles heel. — Jo Nesbo
Our shortcomings are the eyes with which we see the ideal. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Pride is the mask of one's own faults. — Yiddish Proverbs
Character Flaws Image Quotes
We are what we believe we are.
Personality Flaws Quotes
If you don’t find a way to love a flawed person, secretly you’re teaching yourself that you are not lovable because of your flaws. — T. D. Jakes
Anyone can find fault. It is the wise person who finds that which encourages another in the turmoils and strifes of the day. — Edgar Cayce
As a politician who cherishes religious conviction in his personal sphere, but regards politics as a domain belonging outside religion, I believe that this view is seriously flawed. — Recep Tayyip Erdogan
You're a work of art. Not everyone will understand you, but the ones who do, will never forget about you.
I don’t know a perfect person. I only know flawed people who are still worth loving. — John Green
Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself. — Charles De Gaulle
The true Mason never hesitates to use the working tools to correct personal flaws. — William Howard Taft
When someone disrespects you, beware the impulse to win their respect. For disrespect is not a valuation of your worth but a signal of their character.
The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, Imagination, Individuality and Independence. — Eddie Rickenbacker
I want love to be simple. I want to trust without thinking. I want to be generous with my affection and patience and love unconditionally. It is easier to love a person with their flaws than to weed through them. I want to love the whole person, not parts; and this is how I want to be loved. — Jewel
Whenever I tell people I'm a misanthrope they react as though that's a bad thing, the idiots. I live in London, for God's sake. Have you walked down Oxford Street recently? Misanthropy's the only thing that gets you through it. It's not a personality flaw, it's a skill. — Charlie Brooker
Fear of being a flawed person lay at the root of my trance, and I had sacrificed many moments over the years in trying to prove my worth. Like the tiger Mohini, I inhabited a self-made prison that stopped me from living fully. — Tara Brach
Defects Of Character Quotes
Any system of education...which limits instruction to the arts and sciences and rejects the aids of religion in forming the characters of citizens, is essentially defective. — Noah Webster
A nun I know once told me she kept begging God to take her character defects away from her. After years of this prayer, God finally got back to her: I'm not going to take anything away from you, you have to give it to Me. — Anne Lamott
By practicing the virtues we cultivate the soil from which healthy emotions sprout; by letting go of our character defects we drain the swamp in which diseased emotions breed. — Ray Allen
A mistake that makes you humble is better than an achievement that makes you arrogant.
Reflect upon the defects of your character: thoroughly realize their evils and the transient pleasures they give you, and firmly will that you shall try your best not to yield to them the next time. — H. P. Blavatsky
Reflect upon the defects of your character: thoroughly realize their evils and the transient pleasures they give you, and firmly will that you shall try your best not to yield to them the next time. — Helen P. Blavatsky
Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. — Jacqueline Bisset
Accept both compliments and criticism. It takes both sun and rain for a flower to grow.
All the advantages of Christianity and alcohol; none of their defects. — Aldous Huxley
part of the problem with a war on poverty today is that many Americans have decided that being poor is a character defect, not an economic condition. — Anna Quindlen
In one point the plan was fatally defective, since it involved the deadly enmity of a race whose character and whose power were as yet but ill understood,--the fiercest, boldest, most politic, and most ambitious savages to whom the American forest has ever given birth. — Francis Parkman
Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters. — Margaret Halsey
Weakness Of Character Quotes
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character. — Albert Einstein
Great advantage is drawn from knowledge of your adversary, and when you know the measure of his intelligence and character, you can use it to play on his weakness. — Frederick the Great
Boredom is a sign of satisfied ignorance, blunted apprehension, crass sympathies, dull understanding, feeble powers of attention, and irreclaimable weakness of character. — James Bridie
To be yourself in a world that in constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Let us learn how the love of Christ, received into the heart, triumphs gradually but surely over all sin, transforms character, turning even its weakness into strength, and so, from the depths of transgression and the very gates of hell, raises men to God. — Alexander Maclaren
It is only persons of firmness that can have real gentleness. Those who appear gentle are, in general, only a weak character, which easily changes into asperity. — Francois de la Rochefoucauld
Ordinary people, even weak people, can do extraordinary things through temporary courage generated by a situation. But the person of character does not need the situation to generate his courage. It is a part of his being and a standard approach to all life's challenges. — Michael Josephson
There is a battle of two wolves inside us all. One is evil. It is anger, jealousy, greed, resentment, lies, inferiority and ego. The other is good. It is joy, peace, love, hope, humility, kindness, empathy and truth. The wolf that wins? The one you feed.
True faith takes its character and quality from its object. Its strength therefore depends on the character of Christ. Even those of us who have weak faith have the same strong Christ as others! — Sinclair B. Ferguson
People with really weak characters cause an immense amount of suffering in the world. They destroy whole civilisations. — Bessie Head
People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life. — Leonardo da Vinci
Women's strong qualities have become despised because of their weakness. The obvious remedy is to create a feminine character with all the strength of Superman plus all the allure of a good and beautiful woman. — William Moulton Marston
The flaw in our character is our insistence on separating blue-collar jobs from white-collar jobs, and encouraging one form of education over another. — Mike Rowe
Being stubborn is a virtue when you're right; it's only a character flaw when you're wrong. — Chuck Noll
I’m not sure I could trust a man who would bypass an Oreo in favor of vanilla wafers. It’s a fundamental character flaw, possibly a sign of true evil. — Jonathan Maberry
Call it a character flaw -- when under attack, I counter attack. Always. — Richard Marcinko
Why not provoke some thought and get people talking about things? I like characters that are flawed because we all are. When people break up in a script, you think, Oh, right, there must be tears shed here. But maybe the fact of the matter is that they're both laughing. — Michael Fassbender
There's nothing in the American dream about character. It's a serious flaw. — Sayings
What makes a strong female character is a character who has weaknesses, who has flaws, who is maybe not immediately likable, but eventually relatable. — Sayings
The real character of a man is found out by his amusements. — Joshua Reynolds
All of us have areas of weakness. God wants these character flaws to show us how totally dependent we are upon Him. When we handle them properly, they drive us into a deeper, more intimate relationship with the Lord. But uncontrolled weakness wreaks havoc in a person's life. — Charles Stanley
Even Bertrand Russell, who fancied he saw flaws in Christ's character, confessed nonetheless that 'What the world needs is love, Christian love, or compassion.' But this belies a belief in what most others acknowledge, namely, that Christ was the perfect manifestation of the virtue of love. — Norman Geisler
People often ask me if I feel discriminated against as a black female director. I don't. I'm actually offered a ton of stuff. But I only want to direct what I write. And I prefer to focus on black female characters. What's most important to me is to put characters up onscreen who are not perfect, but who are human and flawed. — Gina Prince-Bythewood
To recognize yourself in a character onscreen, and to connect with them, you gotta recognize their flaws; they gotta feel like a real person. — Ryan Coogler
There's a remarkable amount of sexism on TV. When male characters are flawed, they're interesting, deep and complex. But when female characters are flawed, they're just a mess. It's good to put more flawed but interesting female characters out there because it promotes equality. — Ellen Pompeo
Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency. — Quentin Crisp
The fact that a man is a newspaper reporter is evidence of some flaw of character. — Lyndon B. Johnson
Dyslexia is a neurological issue, not a character flaw. — James Redford
Make sure your main characters are likeable. They can be flawed, but your readers need to be able to root for them. — Janet Evanovich
By my count, more business leaders have failed and derailed because of arrogance than any other character flaw. — Harvey Mackay
The true Mason is ever vigilant for subtle traces of character and personality flaws which daily experience brings out. — William Howard Taft
It's not a character flaw to become an adult. — Kenneth Lonergan
While your character flaws may have created mild problems for other people, they will create major problems for your spouse and your marriage. — Timothy Keller
Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it. — John Lubbock
A woman's character is as delicate as her eye; it can bear no flaw. — George Augustus Henry Sala
The artist must reckon with his own character flaws, which do not disappear just because he has been called to be an artist. — Eric Maisel
Humanity can be divided into madmen and cowards. My personal tragedy is in being born into a world where sanity is held to be a character flaw. — Mark Lawrence
We’re miserable because we think that we are mere individuals, alone with our fears and flaws and resentments and mortality. We wrongly believe that our limited little egos constitute our whole entire nature. We have failed to recognize our deeper divine character. — Elizabeth Gilbert
When a well-rounded character takes over, he doesn't lecture you about his history and how he is misunderstood. He lives his life, does things that are unexpected, and makes you laugh and cry because of his human flaws and foibles. — Andrew Lam
Certain trifling flaws sit as disgracefully on a character of elegance as a ragged button on a court dress. — Johann Kaspar Lavater
I like flawed characters very much. A lot of times I get asked to do parts that are kind of small but key - three-scene roles that are three kick-ass scenes. Growing up, watching as many movies as I did, I was always into character actors like that. — Bobby Cannavale
Flawed characters... a ticking clock... morally questionable acts on all sides... moody, evocative art... oh yeah, this the stuff crime noir fans love! — Christos Gage
Hitler's success was not based on his extraordinary gifts alone. His genius was an intuitive sense of the mushiness, the character flaws, the weakness masquerading as morality that was in the hearts of the statesmen who stood in his path. — Pat Buchanan
Quality of character doesn't make a leader, but the lack of it flaws the entire process. — Peter Drucker
Everyone loves characters that are relatable or who have unique quirks or tragic flaws. — Joe Madureira
Flaws make us all human, and you're rooting for characters because of those flaws. It's ageless if you're interested in relationships and the way people can or can't relate to each other. — Lynn Shelton
Also, in my acting, I feel very much like a storyteller, exploring the flaws of the characters that I interpret. I look for the imperfections, and I love a character that is just so flawed. — Danny Huston
My most serious character flaw is that I don't deny myself much. — Andy Rooney
No true Dharma Master behaves with rage, hate, ranting, self- importance. These are signs of mental instability, a character flaw. Never follow such a one as that. — Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo
In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die. — Sayings
My worst character flaw that I'm conscious of is that I tend to think my way into circles instead of resolving anything. It's paralyzing and boring for people around me. — David Foster Wallace
. . .and every native has a story of winter – stories that usually begin, You call this a storm? And grow in the telling like battle tales shared by graying war veterans. It’s a peculiar character flaw to those of us from cold climates that we feel superior to those who have the sense to live elsewhere. — Richard Paul Evans
I don't look in the mirror and think that I have flaws. I actually look in the mirror and see me. I see a lot of different characters and a lot of different things. — Elisha Cuthbert
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