Quotes About Weaknesses

My greatest strengths are my weaknesses, for it is through acknowledging them that I learn how to grow.

My greatest strengths are my weaknesses, for it is from those that I learn how to grow.' Iain Cameron Williams

I realized, suddenly and quite shockingly, that her answered mattered to me - for a number of reasons... I would be without a valuable companion and counterpart for my adventures, and I discovered, to my surprise, that that realization did not sit well with me at all. For all her weaknesses, Evaline Stoker was also a significant force to be reckoned with in her own way. We did complement each other, and I would miss having her by my side on any future endeavors.

It's easy to impress people with our strengths, but real connections are forged through our shared weaknesses.

When God helps you overcome a destructive label, he'll often do what he did through Peter. He will take one of your greatest weaknesses and turn it into one of your greatest strengths.

There is no living in the world without a complaisant indulgence for people's weaknesses, and innocent, though ridiculous vanities. If a man has a mind to be thought wiser, and a woman handsomer, than they really are, their error is a comfortable one to themselves, and an innocent one with regard to other people; and I would rather make them my friends by indulging them in it it, than my enemies, by endeavouring, and that to no purpose, to undeceive them.

A true gangster can smell out a person's strenghts and weaknesses in a matter of minutes, but what they can sense most of all, what their bodies are most attuned to, is the scent of fear.

I have tried, at least most of the time, to set high objectives, to accept failures and disappointments with relative equanimity, to acknowledge and try to correct my mistakes and weaknesses, and then to set different and sometimes higher goals for the future.

That we had been drawn, both by a misapprehension of the local rhetoric and by the manipulation of our own rhetorical weaknesses, into a game we did not understand, a play of power in a political tropic alien to us, seemed apparent, and yet there we remained.

It seems as if only now I really know who I am. My strengths, my weaknesses, my jealousiesits as if all of it has been boiling in a pot for all these years, and as it boils, it evaporates into steam, and all thats left in the pot in the end is your essence, the stuff you started out with in the very beginning.

A true friend applauds your strengths, understands your weaknesses and appreciates the combination that is you.

En vérité, l'homme est l'être le plus curieux du monde, murmura-t-il. Il voudrait voler comme un aigle mais il n'a pas ses ailes. Il voudrait avoir la force du lion, mais il n'a pas ses pattes. Comme tu l'as créé terriblement incomplet, Seigneur ! Et en prime, tu lui as donné l'intelligence et le pouvoir de connaître ses faiblesses.

With confidence you believe you can overcome your weaknesses. With arrogance you don't even see your weaknesses.

My lyrics say I have morals, I have confidence, I have weaknesses, I have strong points, that I am a human being.

There are weaknesses that you have to understand and it takes a lot of discipline for the players to be able to play it effectively and have confidence in what they're doing.

True strength is the courage to admit our weaknesses.

Don't play to your strengths," Jess told her. "Strengthen your weaknesses.

Everybody does things well in their own aspect. We're all different. We all have our plusses and minuses.

By developing individual strengths, guarding against weaknesses, and appreciating the strengths of other types, life will be more amusing, more interesting, and more of a daily adventure than it could possibly be if everyone were alike.

Nothing is more comforting than the weaknesses of persons obviously superior to oneself.

It has been said that in Jesus' character no strong points were obvious because there were no weak ones. Strong points necessarily presuppose weak ones, but no weaknesses can be alleged of Him. In the best of men there is obvious inconsistency and inequality, and since the tallest bodies cast the longest shadows, the greater the man, the more glaring his faults are likely to be. With Christ it was far otherwise. He was without flaw or contradiction.

Jesus] matters because of what he brought and what he still brings to ordinary human beings, living their ordinary lives and coping daily with their surroundings. He promises wholeness for their lives. In sharing our weaknesses he gives us strength and and imparts through his companionship a life that has the quality of eternity." (Dallas Willard in Ruthless Trust - Brennan Manning)

Breaking into a system or exposing its weaknesses is a good thing because truth and knowledge must win out.

In any interaction, we have a natural tendency to try to hide our weaknesses and appear competent. If you want to create safety, this is exactly the wrong move.