Quotes About Weakness

E se avesse avuto o un uomo che le dava degli ordini? Un uomo che voleva dominarla? Quanto tempo l'avrebbe sopportato? Nemmeno cinque minuti! Ne derivava che nessun uomo le andava bene. Né uno forte né uno debole.

Love's but a frailty of the mind, When 'tis not with ambition joined.

Love can't make you strong 'till love has made you weak.

Vice is basically the love of failure.

The soul hath snatched up mine all faint and weak,And placed it by thee on a golden throne,-- And that I love (O soul, we must be meek!)Is by thee only, whom I love alone.

There is no passion in the mind of man so weak, but it mates and masters the fear of death . . . Revenge triumphs over death; love slights it; honor aspireth to it; grief flieth to it.

Love makes you stupid. Love makes you weak. Love will kill you all one day, and it's going to kill you today.

The very prospect of beer which my expected coming had opened to him had proved too much, and he had begun too early on his expected debauch

I feel I am dying of weakness, and have barely strength to write, but it must be done if I die in the doing. I went to bed as usual, taking care that the flowers were placed

Recuerde, amigo mío, que el saber es más fuerte que la memoria, y que no debemos confiar en lo más débil.

You're free to dream however you wish," Nollin teased. "But don't ask the rest of us to share your unrealistic—" "Then don't ask us to share your weakness!" Jason interrupted.

Performance in an endurance sport, as with many things, is only as good as the weakest link.

In Christ, God is supreme, but not in the old discredited paradigm of supremacy: God is the supreme healer, the supreme friend, the supreme lover, the supreme life-giver who self-empties in gracious love for all. The king of kings and lord of lords is the servant of all and the friend of sinners. The so-called weakness and foolishness of God are greater than the so-called power and wisdom of human regimes.

Roman Empire had been weakened by political corruption and a series of invasions, mass migrations

We hate those times of weakness, but I can see why life would be engineered to bring us to them; without them, we might never learn what faith is at all. Someone has said that you never know if your faith is real until it is all you have left.

Inflexible convictions are powerful things. But are they a suit of armor or a prison cell? A weapon or a weakness? —EMPEROR JULES CORRINO, strategic briefing on unrest in the former Unallied Planets

Men who are fundamentally weak look upon threats as the ultimate expressions of power. Men who are truly powerful, however, view threats as yet another vulnerability. —BARON VLADIMIR HARKONNEN, Advice for Assassins

If you do not face your weaknesses, how do you know where to be strong?

If you perceive that a person holds power over you, whether or not it is true, then your weakness is very real. —MANFORD TORONDO, final Lampadas rally

Most of us think we can hide our weaknesses from the world, and sometimes, we're right. But only if we're very very strong.

The real purpose of friendship was to discover and exploit weakness in others.

A major reason for procrastination is a feeling of inadequacy, a lack of confidence, or an inability in a key area of a task. Feeling weak or deficient in a single area is enough to discourage you from starting the job at all.

Sang Ly, we are literature-our lives, our hopes, our desires, our despairs, our passions, our strengths, our weaknesses. Stories express our longing not only to make a difference today but to see what is possible for tomorrow. Literature has been called a handbook for the art of being human.

As she grew older, Erin accepted the fact that her mother was a restless gold digger who would never be happy, never be satisfied. On the other hand, her husbands knew exactly what they were getting and didn't seem to care. It taught Erin one of life's great lessons: an attractive woman could get whatever she wanted, because men were so laughably weak.