Quotes About Weakness

Can't resist Haribos.

We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.

Men netop den uelskede, som føler sig svag, har specielt meget brug for at give afkald på forældrekærligheden . Alt for megen energi er bundet til hans fortvivlende længsel. Mon det svage menneske, han anser sig selv for at være, overhovedet findes? Skal der ikke mange kræfter til at lade sig gøre så svag? Har styrken ikke skjult sig under svaghedens maske?

But we have to get our thrills somewhere. Some men have a weakness for fast women. I have a soft spot for eighty-year-old heretics who buy me pancakes and root beer.

Forecasters who see illusory correlations and assume that moral and cognitive weakness run together will fail when we need them most.

Whether you are in a street fight or confronting an invading army, appear weak when you are strong and strong when you are weak.

La mia indipendenza, che è la mia forza, implica la solitudine, che è la mia debolezza. Odio – come ho tante volte detto – l'indipendenza politica. La mia è quindi una indipendenza, diciamo, umana. Un vizio. Non potrei farne a meno. Ne sono schiavo. Non potrei nemmeno gloriarmene, farmene un piccolo vanto. Amo invece la solitudine. Ma essa è pericolosa.

La mia indipendenza, che è la mia forza, implica la solitudine, che è la mia debolezza. La mia è quindi una indipendenza, diciamo, umana. Un vizio. Non potrei farne a meno. Ne sono schiavo. Non potrei nemmeno gloriarmene, farmene un piccolo vanto. Amo invece la solitudine. Ma essa è pericolosa.

Since the days of George III, Americans have resisted authority; Canadians, by and large, have not. And it seems to me that if Canadians from time to time have endured too much authority, you Americans have suffered from too little. If government becomes too strong, it becomes arbitrary; if it becomes too weak it can also become corrupt

Doing representations of real people is not my strongpoint as a visual artist, and I know that.

America can't beat anyone anymore.

what looks like strength is often weakness, an attempt to cover up fear; this is an act or a facade, however convincing it might appear to others or even to yourself.

Every man seeking salvation had a signature weakness to remind him of his nullity before the Lord and complicate communion with Him.

Weak people hold grudges, Mom. Strong people forgive.

Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.

He said, he knew no reason why those who entertain opinions prejudicial to the public should be obliged to change, or should not be obliged to conceal them. And as it was tyranny in any government to require the first, so it was weakness not to enforce the second: for a man may be allowed to keep poisons in his closet, but not to vend them about for cordials.

he knew no reason why those, who entertain opinions prejudicial to the public, should be obliged to change, or should not be obliged to conceal them. And as it was tyranny in any government to require the first, so it was weakness not to enforce the second: for a man may be allowed to keep poisons in his closet, but not to vend them about for cordials.

There is this fine line between presenting to You all of my weakness and thinking that it can't be done. In Your strength, I find my own.

God uses chronic pain and weakness, along with other afflictions, as his chisel for sculpting our lives. Felt weakness deepens dependency on Christ for strength each day. The weaker we feel, the harder we lean. And the harder we lean, the stronger we grow spiritually, even while our bodies waste away.

From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.

Nothing reveals a poet's weakness like classical verse, and that's why it's so universally dodged.

The dedication: To John Vine Milne: My Dear Father, Like all really nice people, you have a weakness for detective stories, and feel that there are not enough of them. So after all that you have done for me, the least I can do for you is to write one. Here it is: with more gratitude and affection than I can well put down here.

Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.

Desperately brave generals are often frightened of mice. Sometimes they even boast of their little weakness.