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Quotes About Weaknesses

My only sanction is the love and affection in which you hold me. But it has its weaknesses, as it has its strengths.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Out of respect for things that I was never destined to do, I have learned that my strengths are a result of my weaknesses, my success is due to my failures and my style is directly related to my limitations
~ Billy Joel
Commanders have an eye not just for what they do, but for what those around them do. Commanders size up people's strengths and weaknesses. They know where someone will shine and where they will collapse. Other warriors will obey a true commander because they can tell that the commander knows what he- or she- is doing.
~ Tamora Pierce
He caught himself. These were the Shataiki. Vermin. They were meant to be beaten, not coddled. But, as the histories had so eloquently recorded, to defeat your enemy you must know him. He would speak to the big beautiful one only. And he would pretend to be a friend. In this way he would outwit the creature by learning his weaknesses, then return one day and be rid of him. And he would do it holding the colored wood.
~ Ted Dekker
Throughout history, wars were won and lost based on maps — who had the best maps, who had the inaccurate ones, who owned the boundary lines, who knew the terrain. And I knew the terrain of my family intimately, our private fears, our embarrassing weaknesses, our cached secrets.
~ Justina Chen
If we do not move in divine forgiveness, we will walk in much deception. We will presume we have discernment when, in truth, we are seeing through the veil of a "critical spirit." We must know our weaknesses, for if we are blind to our sins, what we assume we discern in men will merely be the reflection of ourselves. Indeed, if we do not move in love, we will actually become a menace to the body of Christ.
~ Francis Frangipane
Another example of this is astrology. Multitudes of believers are subconsciously bound to the characteristics and weaknesses of their "zodiac sign." In their search for identity, this mixture of deceptive facts and illusions was absorbed into their soul, where it continues to stand even today in direct opposition to God's work of transformation. As Christians, the
~ Francis Frangipane
Recognizing our internal weaknesses is the first step toward recovery. When we look beyond ourself, we see that there are others who have struggled with an addiction and recovered. We know that they, too, were unable to heal themselves, yet they now live free of addictive behaviors. We conclude that there must be a greater Power that helped them. Since we can see the similarities between their struggles and our own, we come to believe that our powerful God can restore us to sanity.
~ Stephen Arterburn
Accept yourself, your strengths, your weaknesses, your truths, and know what tools you have to fulfill your purpose."
~ Steve Maraboli
So often Christian artists feel that their role is to take on the enemy, whereas they would produce better and more accessible work if they dealt with the contradictions, waverings, and weaknesses within themselves.
~ Steve Turner
How a SWOT Impacts the Plan Is the SWOT just an intellectual exercise, or is the information used during other parts of the planning activity? As you can see in the diagram that follows, the SWOT does frequently come into play during the planning activity. Strengths and opportunities often become strategies. Weaknesses and threats often show up as barriers.
~ Michael Wilkinson
We are all specialized forms of survivor, Peter reminded himself. We lack what we fundamentally need and forge ahead regardless, hurriedly hiding our wounds, disguising our ineptitude, bluffing our way through our weaknesses.
~ Michel Faber
I love all my characters. I love their weaknesses and flaws. I feel like they're all my best friends and I adore being with them.
~ Sophie Kinsella
It is rather pointless to go head to head with strong and entrenched competition. But numerous opportunities can be found in the marketplace for a company to maximize its unique qualities, differentiate its products and services, and go after a specific market segment where its competitors are weak and where you can develop superiority, where you can win battles.
~ Brian Tracy
Humans were still possessed of the same weaknesses that had brought about their destruction in the old days. Theirs was a race destined to be short-lived. They would find new ways to destroy themselves or to enable the demons and their servants to destroy them.
~ Terry Brooks
A man can learn all of an opponent's weaknesses on that board,' said Gilt. 'Really?' said Vetinari, raising his eyebrows. 'Should not he be trying to learn his own?
~ Terry Pratchett
True love includes a sense of responsibility and accepting the other person as she is, with all her strengths and weaknesses. If you only like the best things in a person, that is not love.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
they'd fought like hellions, crashed into each other like two giant stones. That eventually they'd eroded each other into the perfect fit, become a single wall, nestled into each other's curves and hollows, her strengths chinking his weaknesses, her weaknesses reinforced by his strengths.
~ Karen Marie Moning
It's better to admit your weaknesses and make provision for them than to pretend you're something you're not and suffer the consequences when your true character surfaces. Caring about not hurting girls or tempting boys you've not yet dated trains you toward compassion. And compassion will serve you very well in marriage.
~ Gary L. Thomas
It is a sophisticated spiritual challenge to not compare your spouse's weakness with another spouse's strength.
~ Gary L. Thomas
Spiritual purpose and mission can overcome weaknesses in character because God redeems our characters...
~ Gary L. Thomas
I wouldn't be surprised if many marriages end in divorce largely because one or both partners are running from their own revealed weaknesses as much as they are running from something they can't tolerate in their spouse.
~ Gary Thomas
Sarai knew her husband and his weaknesses, his sins, but loved him anyway. He was a man of confidence and faith, who still would have lapses of trust. He sometimes sought to control events for his own benefit. Even though El Shaddai had promised him his seed would inherit the land of Canaan, he occasionally felt he had to manage things on his own, because El Shaddai did not seem to be following through.
~ Brian Godawa
Can't cook. Can't, I dunno, do paperwork. I don't know, what else can't we do? I'm not to be trusted with other people's animals.
~ Ted Dwane