Quotes About Weaknesses

You don't "succeed" because you have no weaknesses; you succeed because you find your unique strengths and focus on developing habits around them.

Godly relationships flourish best between two humble people who acknowledge their weaknesses and sins and their need for grace.

All the girls in the world were divided into two classes: one class included all the girls in the world except her, and they had all the usual human feelings and were very ordinary girls; while the other class -herself alone- had no weaknesses and was superior to all humanity.

In short, every child develops in ways that best allow them to compensate for weakness;

I'm not a good one-on-one player.

One who occupies his mind with an unholy interest in the moral weaknesses of others actually rouses and stimulates his own sleeping prenatal baser instincts.

People are what they can do and what they can't help.

there was one "meta" ability that emerged: self-awareness. Chief executives need this ability to assess their own strengths and weaknesses, and so surround themselves with a team of people whose strengths in those core abilities complement their own.

Um lado mais obscuro da empatia cognitiva emerge quando alguém a usa para localizar as fraquezas de alguém, aproveitando-se delas. Esta estratégia caracteriza os sociopatas, que usam a sua empatia cognitiva para manipular. Não sentem ansiedade, pelo que a ameaça do castigo não os dissuade.

In the matter of learning, the difference between the earnest and the careless student stands out clearly. The same holds true in the mastering of passion and the weaknesses to which our nature is subject, as in the acquiring of virtue.

Every age has its temptations, its weaknesses, its dangers. Ours is in the line of the snobbish and the sordid.

But the Third Reich owed nothing to the fortunes of war or to foreign influence. It was inaugurated in peacetime, and peacefully, by the Germans themselves, out of both their weaknesses and their strengths. The Germans imposed the Nazi tyranny on themselves

I understood the infamous spiritual terror which this movement exerts, particularly on the bourgeoisie, which is neither morally nor mentally equal to such attacks; at a given sign it unleashes a veritable barrage of lies and slanders against whatever adversary seems most dangerous, until the nerves of the attacked persons break down… This is a tactic based on precise calculation of all human weaknesses, and its result will lead to success with almost mathematical certainty…

In the human heart, there is always a great tendency to glorify one's own weaknesses with some convenient angelic name and divine pose.

weaknesses—the tendency to get lost in analysis.

Yes, there is something a little defeatist about accepting one's slacking ways rather than trying to fix them. That's a worry, though, for another month. The healthiest, most productive approach to writing is to acknowledge your weak spots early on, and build a writing plan that plays to your strengths and works around your liabilities.

She and Jon had been startled and a little frighented by his misery. What happened when you were married, she realized, was that, although you began as two independent people, you eventually grew in certain ways to accommodate your partner's weaknesses and let other parts of you atrophy in deference to his strengths. It was a fine system as long as it endured, but if you extricated yourself from it you couldn't help but be, a least for a time, deformed.

This is why she doesn't put much stock in so-called secrets, or the meaningfulness of untold recollections that become, in their airtight echo chambers, the supposed stuff of secrets. They are only a way to become retrospectively enraged at someone else so that your own adult weaknesses can be tidily excused.

Leading with presence involves being authentic, owning our strengths as well as our weaknesses, and speaking up on issues with integrity and passion.

We bless others naturally through our strengths. But we bless others supernaturally through our weaknesses.

There are no weaknesses which we so thoroughly despise as those to which ourselves have yielded.

Thus, Norse society's structure created a conflict between the short-term interests of those in power, and the long-term interests of the society as a whole. Much of what the chiefs and clergy valued proved eventually harmful to the society. Yet the society's values were at the root of its strengths as well as of its weaknesses. The Greenland Norse did succeed in creating a unique form of European society, and in surviving for 450 years as Europe's most remote outpost.

Everyone is vulnerable to something. The trick is to recognize your own weaknesses and blind spots so that you can come up with a way to protect them.

The bounds of human possibility are not as confining as we think they are; they are made to seem to be tight by our weaknesses, our vices, our prejudices that confine them.