Quotes About Weakness

The cause of all power, as of all weakness, is within; the secret of all happiness as of all misery is likewise within.

Taking inventory of mental assets and liabilities, you will discover that your greatest weakness is lack of self-confidence.

Moreover, experience with thousands of people has proved that lack of persistence is a weakness common to the majority of men. It is a weakness which may be overcome by effort. The ease with which lack of persistence may be conquered will depend entirely upon the intensity of one's desire.

All war presupposes human weakness and seeks to exploit it.

Self-importance is our greatest enemy. Think about it - what weakens us is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of our fellowmen. Our self-importance requires that we spend most of our lives offended by someone.

You take yourself too seriously, he said slowly. You are too damn important in your own mind. That must be changed! You are so goddamn important that you feel justified to be annoyed with everything. You're so damn important that you can afford to leave if things don't go your way. I suppose you think that shows you have character. That's nonsense! You're weak, and conceited! - Dom Juan

I had been reared, perhaps like everyone else, to have a readiness to accept man as an essentially weak and fallible creature.

Stupid, fragile mortals.

was what he called faint tea, too weak to climb out of the pot

For years I lived in inner terror that I was, at heart, a weak and indecisive man. I think it was this fear that made me sick. Dean showed me how foolish all this was. 'Face the truth, Ken,' he told me. 'You are weak. All of us are. Come to terms with it.' But then he pointed out I didn't have to stay this way, that God was certainly not weak. Dean has helped me understand that if I have the Spirit of God within me, then His strength would replace my weakness...

at your weakest, you end up showing more strength; at your lowest, you are suddenly lifted higher than you've ever been. They all border one another, these opposites and show how quickly we can be altered.

Magic is for weak-hearted fools, whereas miracles are born of faith, and nothing else.

Ne jotka eivät juo kahvia, ovat heikkoja ja huteria. Heillä ei yleensä ole mielipidettä mistään, ja jos onkin, he pelkäävät sanoa sen ääneen.

It is progress." Kurt's continuing justifications filled the silence. "To eliminate weakness. To promote strength. For the greater good. Ultimately, it would have led to the improvement of the whole human race. One day the world will understand the wisdom of such actions.

In this world, few people look with the eyes of compassion, and so we are cruel and merciless toward each other. The weak are always oppressed by the strong.

My weakness has always been to prefer the large intention of an unskilful artist to the trivial intention of an accomplished one: in other words, I am more interested in the high ideas of a feeble executant than in the high execution of a feeble thinker.

Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness. Marriage transforms a distraction into a support, the power of which should be, and happily often is, in direct proportion to the degree of imbecility it supplants.

If ever tears and pleadings have served the weak to fight the strong, let them do so now!

He was like one who had half fainted, and could neither recover nor complete the swoon.

Weakness is doubly weak by being new.

When a strong woman recklessly throws away her strength she is worse than a weak woman who has never had any strength to throw away

Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness. Marriage

This weakness of character... suggested that he was the sort of man who was born to ache a good deal before the fall of the curtain on his unncessary life.

This weakness of character, as it may be called, suggested that he was the sort of man who was born to ache a good deal before the fall of the curtain upon his unnecessary life should signify that all was well with him again.