Quotes About Weakness

When I am weak, then am I strong.

My strength is made perfect in weakness.

Pride and weakness are Siamese twins.

Repentance is but want of power to sin.

We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.

Ambition, old as mankind, the immemorial weakness of the strong.

Tomorrow is a satire on today, And shows its weakness.

Of course, he seems to have quite a mind of his own and that is probably where he is weakest.

With our progress we have destroyed our only weapon against tedium: that rare weakness we call imagination.

The weakest and most timorous are the most revengeful and implacable.

Weak men are apt to be cruel because they stick at nothing that may repair the ill effect of their mistakes.

All cruelty springs from weakness.

We are oftener treacherous through weakness than through calculation.

Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we're damned if we are going to show.

Do you really think... that it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations that it requires strength, strength and courage, to yield to. To stake all one's life on a single moment... there is no weakness in that.

Die Emigration kann ein Zeichen der Stärke oder der Schwäche einer Nation sein.

Unbalanced power is the ebbing away of life. Unbalanced mercy is but weakness and the fading out of the will. Unbalanced severity is cruelty and the barrenness of mind."7

Da je cutanje snaga, a govorenje slabost, vidi se i po tome sto starci i deca vole da pricaju.

Najbednija i najtragi?nija od svih ?ovekovih slabosti nesumnjivo je njegova potpuna nesposobnost predvi?anja, koja je u oštroj protivnosti sa tolikim njegovim darovima, veštinama i znanjima.

Within him wrestled invisibly many contrary and irreconcilable feelings, especially the contrast between the greatness that he felt in his soul and the misery and weakness of what he was able to express and reveal before others.

The person who is impatient with weakness will be ineffective in his leadership. The evidence of our strength lies not in the distance that separates us from other runners but in our closure with them, our slower pace for their sakes, our helping them pick it up and cross the line.

the ground—she was a little thing, barely a hundred pounds—until the lack of oxygen had her going limp.

Fear of change was a weakness

Humans are threatened by anything different, and their response is to fight. They're bullies, picking on the weak, cowering from the strong.