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Quotes About Weaknesses

People and organizations don't grow much without delegation and completed staff work because they are confined to the capacities of the boss and reflect both personal strengths and weaknesses
~ Stephen Covey
Life is an aspiration. Its mission is to strive after perfection, which is self-realization. The ideal must not be lowered because of our weaknesses or imperfections.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.
~ Charles Dickens
In an interview when asked about becoming a fantasy creature] You know, it might be fun to be Sanguinarius Meyerii (better known as "sparklers"). They have all of the vampire superpowers and almost none of the weaknesses: no burning up in sunlight, no vulnerability to garlic, etc. As for my demise, I have no idea what you're talking about. Once I get this kind of power, I'm planning to live forever. It's the only way I'll catch up on my reading!
~ Jim C. Hines
Others said this was a sign the Glorious Revolution had born bitter fruit. We had become accustomed to lies, blind loyalty, too obsessed with appearing strong to openly discuss our weaknesses.
~ Jim Geraghty
I wish I could say I was a victim but I willingly played into the devil's hands. My reasons weren't always right and my justifications weren't just, but my weaknesses were common.
~ Jimmy Gleacher
But this is my old game, isn't it? Comparing, judging, evaluating, liking and disliking, approving and disapproving. There are, I sense, inseparable strengths and weaknesses in whatever way you go, and the point ultimately is just to go.
~ Joan Tollifson
Love does not require taking an uncritical stance toward the object of one's affections. In truth, it often requires the opposite. We can't be of real service to the hopes we have for places—and people, ourselves included—without a clear-eyed assessment of their (and our) strengths and weaknesses.
~ Annette Gordon-Reed
the very vanities that had not long ago been contemptible weaknesses
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
America is a messy, ragged, unequal country with dramatic strengths and weaknesses. It could be better governed and more equitable, but it remains incredibly strong, at least as measured by traditional metrics of power. What has shifted noticeably in recent years is America's "soft power"—often defined as its appeal, example, and capacity to set the agenda.
~ Fareed Zakaria
We're all flawed, but basically, effective managers are people whose flaws are not fatal under the circumstances. Maybe the best managers are simply ordinary, healthy people who aren't too screwed up.
~ Henry Mintzberg
Sometimes you have to resist working on your strengths in favour of your weaknesses. The decathlon requires a wide range of skills.
~ Daley Thompson
Genetics, not lack of willpower, is the major reason why people differ in BMI. Success and failure, credit and blame, in overcoming problems should be calibrated relative to genetic strengths and weaknesses.
~ Robert Plomin
The curse takes a hundred forms, twisting each good thing that should be Orico's according to the weaknesses of its nature. A wife grown barren instead of fertile. A chief advisor corrupt instead of loyal. Friends fickle instead of true, food that sickens instead of strengthening, and on and on.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
This is how we are: we fall in love with each other's strengths, but love deepens towards permanence when we fall in love with each other's weaknesses.
~ Salman Rushdie
This is how we are: we fall in love with each other's strengths, but love deepens toward permanence when we fall in love with each other's weaknesses.
~ Salman Rushdie
You can't take credit for your talents, but it matters that you use them. You can't really be blamed for your weaknesses, but it matters that you correct them. So pride and shame don't make a lot of sense, in the final analysis, but they weren't much fun anyway.
~ Sam Harris
If you are not prepared to look at your pupils strength's, don't touch their weaknesses.
~ Reuven Feuerstein
Our strength is that we don't have any weaknesses. Our weakness is that we don't have any real strengths.
~ Frank Broyles
Leading with integrity is embracing honesty! We should always use our weaknesses to point others to Christ's strength.
~ Perry Noble
Losing strengthens you. It reveals your weaknesses so you can fix them
~ Pat Summitt
Know your strengths, weaknesses, and needs.
~ Pat Summitt
Just make the right estimation of your own strengths and weaknesses, and also that of your opponent.
~ Anatoly Karpov
In our thoughts and words we create our own weaknesses and our own strengths.
~ Betty Eadie