We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.
Defect Quotes
In a true zero-defects approach, there are no unimportant items.
We believe that the defects of so many perverse and so many frivolous people, who make up society, are organic, and society is a hospital of incurables.
A small demerit extinguishes a long service.
By nature we have no defect that could not become a strength, no strength that could not become a defect.
Humility is not my forte, and 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.
Any one is to be pitied who has just sense enough to perceive his deficiencies.
One shining quality lends a luster to another, or hides some glaring defect.
We can forgive a man the defects of his qualities, if only he has the qualities of his defects.
If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.
