Quotes About Weakness

Many a time comes when we want to interpret our weakness and cowardice as forgiveness and renunciation.

Pity is something only weakness wants.

Everything here is so weak, little girl. Everything breaks so easily. They want such simple things.

When the common soldiers are too strong and their officers too weak, the result is insubordination. When the officers are too strong and the common soldiers too weak, the result is collapse.

If you are strong, appear weak. But if you are weak, appear strong.

Davis was weak and vascillating, timid, petulant, peevish, obstinate, but not firm.

If there is one path above all others to war, it is the path of weakness and disunity.

So in war, the way is to avoid what is strong, and strike at what is weak.

Peace through strength works; but the flip side is war invited by weakness.

Sometimes you don't realize your own strength until you come face to face with your greatest weakness.

A man may be accused of cowardice for fleeing away from all manner of physical dangers but when things supernatural, insubstantial and inexplicable threaten not only his safety and well-being but his sanity, his innermost soul, then retreat is not a sign of weakness but the most prudent course.

her meanness had been able to creep right into me through the weakness of my own disappointment.

That"s because we don"t have any weaknesses. We"re perfect." She rolled her eyes. "Give me a break. If you"re so perfect, how come your gender hasn"t figured out a way to have children on yourown. Then you could free yourself from the weaker sex.

You will never be enough, Ford. When you are weak, because of Him, you are strong.

God is glorified not in your strengths and not in your gratefulness, but in your weaknesses and in your trust in His future grace. In your faith that God didn't let you

then surely there is an adversary. There is something opposed to you. Something that desires to defeat you. You want to believe your enemy is the disease. You don't want to believe even for a minute that the enemy is your own body, this weak tent of flesh that cannot stand up against a speck of contagion, this fragile weave of muscle, bone, and soul that also cannot resist the power of flame nor the pull of the ground

Since you, O my Jesus, have been so liberal with your graces toward me and have deigned to give your Blood and your life for me, I am sorry for having acted with so little generosity toward you, who are worthy of all honor and all love. But, O my Jesus, you know my weakness; help me with your powerful grace. In you I confide, O Immaculate Virgin Mary, help me to overcome myself and to become a saint. Amen.

He was a mostly mild man with a weakness for passion, a suburban father burdened with the heart of a Russian hero without any sort of balancing grand intellect or ironic world view. The yearning itself, the recklessness, that's what lured him.

Dr. Heissman laughed and immediately apologized, "I'm sorry, I'm just so used to what I think of as squeezing water from a stone syndrome. SpecWar operators are not big on admitting to what they perceive to be a weakness. Even though awareness of vulnerability ultimately leads to strength. Either from directly dealing with the issue or learning to work around it.

It must be very fragile, if a handful of berries can bring it down.

What are lies but attempts to conceal some sort of weakness?

And some small gnarled place inside me hated her for her weakness, for her neglect, for the months she had put us through. I had taken a step back from my mother, put up a wall to protect myself from needing her, and nothing was ever the same between us again.

I think about going to the lake, but I'm so weak that I barely make it to my meeting place with Gale. I sit on the rock where Cressida filmed us, but it's too wide without his body beside me. Several times I close my eyes and count to ten, thinking that when I open them, he will have materialized without a sound as he so often did. I have to remind myself that Gale's in 2 with a fancy job, probably kissing another pair of lips.

The realization that I'd have nothing to take home had finally sunk in. My knees buckled and I slid down the tree trunk to its roots. It was too much. I was too sick and weak and tired, oh, so tired. Let them call the Peacekeepers and take us to the community home, I thought. Or better yet, let me die right here in the rain.