Quotes About Weakness

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. One source of her inadequacy is the novelty of the occasion. She has never had practice in making the best of such a condition. Weakness is doubly weak by being new.

Láska je potenciální síla ve skute?né slabosti.

It is a weak sovereign that has weak subjects; and a weak people whose sovereign wanteth power to rule them at his will.

I can imagine Herr Settembrini coming in suddenly and turning on the light, to let reason and convention reign—it is a weakness of his.

Pois, em muitos casos, a loucura representava um relaxamento, uma vez que servia como refúgio a naturezas débeis e como medida de proteção contra golpes excessivamente graves do destino, que tais pessoas não se atreviam a suportar com lucidez.

Chi più ama è il più debole e deve soffrire.

Our weakness should not terrify us: it is the source of our strength. Libenter gloriabor in infirmitatibus meis ut inhabitet in me virtus Christi. Power is made perfect in infirmity, and our very helplessness is all the more potent a claim on that Divine Mercy Who calls to Himself the poor, the little ones, the heavily burdened.

genuine strength arises only in a condition of vulnerability. The flagrant display and self-serving use of power are an admission of deep incapacity.

But Lottie staggered on the lowest verandah step like a bird fallen out of the nest. If she stood still for a moment she fell asleep, if she leaned against anything her eyes closed. She could not walk another step.

For it is thrilling to be aligned with the victor, to be held up like a prize, exalted and desired, while the weak are left to gesture in the dirt.

The version of the religious right that put Donald Trump in the White House is the one that stepped onto the national stage in 1980 with the election of Ronald Reagan. It gathered force with another iteration of its founding lie — that it represented the moral majority of the nation — and this lie is yet another cause of its weakness. The movement does not speak for a majority. It is a militant minority.

The biggest fraud of Christian nationalism—that the United States was founded as a Christian nation—is also the movement's source of its greatest weakness.

Three things come to mind as we look at this text: (1) we are theological amnesiacs; (2) the psalmist reminds us that God really is in charge; and (3) only when we feel weak and helpless, whether young or old, are we vulnerable enough to experience the power and grace of a God who "raises us up on eagle's wings." So, this text is about us, about God and what God does with us when all we seem to be is down.

No elf could withstand such pain and not instinctively call forth his own magic in defense. Again you've proven how truly weak you are… and yet…" Dominic

K: Food really is your weakness. A: Sorry. I haven't had a decent mean since I left the Order! Ty: If you'd asked the Earl, he would've taken you to a three-star restaurant! A: Th-Three stars?! Is th-that how you guys always eat?! J: Allen… K: Bean sprout, you're drooling.

Dark Bakura [to Ry?gi]: If someone with a weak heart like you tried to solve the puzzle, you'd just end up trapped in a labyrinth of darkness.

Guilt was for lesser men. A sign of weakness.

Rosie had what are termed 'grateful looks'. She was grateful if anybody looked. Few did, not even Jack. Leroy Baker was a poor example of strength.

Intellectually he understood perfectly what the problem was: guilt and doubt, the waste products of innocence and faith, inhibited him and filled him with self-loathing even at his own weakness in trying to be free of them.

grab my medical textbook from the Land Cruiser and find beriberi next to scurvy and rickets. It says that in Ceylon beri, beri! meant 'I can't, I can't!' First you can't stand and then you can't even sit up and in the end you quietly succumb on your back. Progressive, inexorable weakness leading to death – it fits perfectly. We have an outbreak of beriberi.

Ambition is the weakness of all the great spirits who in acceptance will find the joy & the despair the seek. The physician can only cure when he is willing to assume your disease. To be shunned is to be God a little...

Beta testing is a symptom of weak testing practices and poor communication with customers.

Like all his kind and all other bullies, von Schoenvorts was a coward at heart.

My greatest strength is to have a great capacity to confront myself no matter how unpleasant. My greatest weakness is that I don't.