Top 55 Flaw Quotes

I’ll be really tough on myself. Someone will be like, ‘Oh that’s really cool’ and I’ll be like, ‘Yeah, but there’s this one flaw.’

I always say, ‘Perfection is the flaw. It doesn’t exist.’ I saw something somewhere about ‘porcelain pores’ – you’re not even allowed to have pores anymore!

If there is a flaw in the academy system it’s that they try to tell them everything. Kids are taught the same. They look the same. So you’re constantly looking for the X factor. It’s the hardest thing, that mystical ingredient, instinct, the four-second hit, like/dislike, it can come unbelievably quickly.

I just want everyone to like me. That’s my main flaw.

There is a central flaw in contemporary culture and a corresponding and related inability to address it. Society seems somehow unable to adequately help or protect itself. Normal citizens feel powerless, isolated and disturbed.

The problem with people is that no matter how good you are at what you do, it’s never enough for them. There will always be someone to point out some flaw. Someone will always find something lacking in you.

I would say that my fatal flaw, as a human being, is that I need people to like me, and if they don’t like me, I will obsess over it – and try to change my personality until they like me – even if they don’t like me for reasons that have nothing to do with me, and even if they’re strangers.

I’m a bitter-ender. It’s potentially my fatal flaw that I do not give up on something. I will not rest. I work and work and work until I can no longer and someone has to remove me from the premises.

The biggest fatal flaw in most fictional portrayals of nanotech – what sends those books arcing across the room – is ignoring that the nanobots need energy to do… anything.

Although engineers want always to make everything better, they cannot make anything perfect. This basic characteristic flaw of the products of the profession’s practitioners is what drives change and makes achievement a process rather than simply a goal.

I don’t listen to my songs. The only time I do it is when someone points out a flaw in the end product.

The human element, the human flaw and the human nobility – those are the reasons that chess matches are won or lost.

I have done my best. I saw a fatal flaw in the camera industry. We did our best to address it.

In an era of instant communication, a flaw or non-perfect product creates immediate bad buzz.

In the production, it’s my job to find every flaw and the ones that can’t be fixed, and that’s why my job kind of sucks. My first reaction to everything is: here’s the 20 things that are wrong with it. Unfortunately, that’s how I have to live.

By my count, more business leaders have failed and derailed because of arrogance than any other character flaw.

Some counterfeits reproduce so very well the truth that it would be a flaw of judgment not to be deceived by them.

If you met Faith Hill in person, you would think she’s absolutely beautiful. And when you take her picture, you will see every flaw that you never saw in person. Those flaws not only become visible but magnified.

Any affectation whatsoever in dress implies, in my mind, a flaw in the understanding.

I think inherently, a little bit, I’m a bit of a pleaser, and I want people to like me and be nice, and to not ruffle feathers and just make everybody happy and stuff. It’s a personality flaw.

I have a very deep belief that all the problems in society are not because some people are bad and some people are good and we have to get rid of all the wrong people. Everything that we want to fix is because of a flaw in humans in general, something that humans together do incorrectly.

I had seen some films made about the underground music world in Tehran, and most of them were short documentaries about 30 or 40 minutes long. And I always wondered why they weren’t publicized more. Really, their only flaw was they were short documentaries.

I feel like it’s always about embracing what it is that you think is wrong with you. It’s often times your greatest ‘flaw’ which actually forays into what is also your greatest strength.

I can’t stand confrontation, which maybe is a character flaw. But having said that, I do feel like when I do get upset – which is rare, as my husband and family would say – I have a hard time letting go.

I’m calling for a cultural change in how we think about addiction. For far too long people have thought about addiction as a character flaw or a moral failing.

The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

You see someone on the street, and essentially what you notice about them is the flaw.

There’s nothing in the American dream about character. It’s a serious flaw.

When another editorial pops up denouncing millennials for some perceived generational flaw, I take it with a Miley Cyrus-sized grain of salt.

I’m not an easy customer. My attention to detail could probably drive you mad. My eye still always goes toward the single flaw.

I like the fact that in ancient Chinese art the great painters always included a deliberate flaw in their work: human creation is never perfect.

People say that forgiving is my flaw, but I really believe that holding grudges and anger is a waste of energy.

It’s such a weird thing: to sit and look at yourself is so distracting to the psyche. It would be like me standing in front of a mirror and looking at myself all day, trying to find a flaw.

The fact that a man is a newspaper reporter is evidence of some flaw of character.

I do public appearances. I’m bluff, hearty, goofy. I wear loud clothes, and I read the funny bits. I occasionally get taken to task for one thing or another, and I acknowledge my fault, my flaw, my failure, and I move on.

I guess that’s a flaw in my career, that I like to work too much.

It’s always more interesting to take on someone that’s going to have hidden sides or a fatal flaw, because there’s going to be more to play with – more conflict, internally or in and around them – but it’s probably the thing of finding the positive in there.

And what’s great is, you know, while ‘Mike and Molly’ are working on their health, that’s their flaw, the people that surround them are actually- that’s the mess. Those two have it together the most.

The flaw in, say, austerity, is that its success is predicated on the relative exactitude of math rather than the shifting, liquid imperfection of people’s lives.

Cost is the spectre haunting health reform. For many decades, the great flaw in the American health-care system was its unconscionable gaps in coverage.

I don’t think cellulite is great – that’s not a flaw that I want in a photo by any means! I retouch that crap out. But I tell women that I’m retouching it out.

All creatures are flawed, but out of the flaw may come the universe.

I was a very, I think, lonely kid, very introspective. I felt very much at odds with my environment and my culture… Probably a genetic flaw. I can’t really explain it.

There isn’t a flaw in his golf or his makeup. He will win more majors than Arnold Palmer and me combined. Somebody is going to dust my records. It might as well be Tiger, because he’s such a great kid.

We should not let those with a political agenda use London’s growing population to support their anti-immigration rhetoric, and we should challenge those who want to label London’s global attraction a flaw rather than a strength.

Everybody has been told already that they’re too shy, too aggressive, too emotional, too reserved. They know what their fatal flaw is. They know the one thing to do to get better. But they just don’t commit to changing because they feel a little bit in love with it, a little bit in love with the way they’ve been.

Han Solo is more interesting than Superman because he’s flawed. Superman’s flaw is kryptonite, and that’s it. He can make time go backwards, for God’s sake, but with Han Solo or Indiana Jones, there’s a bit of humanity there.

I think my biggest flaw is my insecurity. I’m terribly insecure. I’m plagued with insecurities 24/7.

That’s my main flaw: I always think authority figures or my boss is going to think something I do is funny. And usually they don’t.

No mainstream politician believes in open borders, but a policy that uses its prolonged treatment of detained people as an ongoing deterrent to others has a deep flaw at its heart.

I like to wear things that don’t need ironing. It seems a fundamental design flaw when clothing needs ironing. There are loads of fabrics these days that don’t need ironing, so I stick to those.

I regard gratitude as an asset and its absence a major interpersonal flaw.

The whole idea of a trade deal is to build a fence around participants inside and give them an advantage over the outside. So there’s a conceptual flaw in that, one of many conceptual flaws in NAFTA.

Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.

The action carries a sense of incompleteness and frustration, but not of guilt. Victorious living does not mean perfect living in the sense of living without flaw, but it does mean adequate living, and that can be consistent with many mistakes.