Quotes on Flaws

A monomaniac is a sick person whose mentality is perfectly healthy in all respects but one; he has a single flaw, clearly localized. At times, for example, he has an unreasonable and absurd desire to drink or steal or use abusive language; but all his other acts and all his other thoughts are strictly correct.

Flaws and all, I believe the free press is our country's most important institution - one I am more than happy to defend. One I did, in fact, defend for 37 years.

By the time I was 22, I was a professional. A young and flawed professional, but not an amateur.

Does such a thing as "the fatal flaw," that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature?

We are flawed creatures, all of us. Some of us think that means we should fix our flaws. But get rid of my flaws and there would be no one left.

The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

I have met many entrepreneurs who have the passion and even the work ethic to succeed - but who are so obsessed with an idea that they don't see its obvious flaws. Think about that. If you can't even acknowledge your failures, how can you cut the rope and move on?

But to love something despite. To know the flaws and love them too. This is rare and pure and perfect.

I don't know why women aren't allowed to have the same sort of breadth and scope and flaws of men.

Maybe this year, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives not looking for flaws, but looking for potential.

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.

America is a nation with many flaws, but hopes so vast that only the cowardly would refuse to acknowledge them.

I don’t know a perfect person. I only know flawed people who are still worth loving.

I have too many flaws to be perfect. But i have too many blessings to be ungrateful.

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.

Countless women are alive today because of ideas stimulated by a design flaw in the Hubble Space Telescope.

Christmas it seems to me is a necessary festival; we require a season when we can regret all the flaws in our human relationships: it is the feast of failure, sad but consoling.

I never ask my wife about my flaws. Instead I try to get her to ignore them and concentrate on my sense of humor.

Make peace with your body, it's not manmade, there are no flaws, there are no mistakes.

We get stuck in old thought and behavior patterns that may have been effective when we were twelve months or twelve years old, but now only serve to hold us back. And, while those around us may have no problem correcting our minor flaws, they let the big ones slide, because it would mean attacking who we are.

Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for confession.