Quotes About Weakness

Weakness is the only fault which cannot be cured.

Passions often produce their contraries: avarice sometimes leads to prodigality, and prodigality to avarice; we are often obstinate through weakness and daring through timidity.

Some weak people are sensible of their weakness and able to make good use of it.

Love does not make you weak, because it is the source of all strength, but it makes you see the nothingness of the illusory strength on which you depended before you knew it.

Satan is cunning and man is weak, but God rules the heart of his faithful, and does what he will.

The difference between weakness and wickedness is much less than people suppose; and the consequences are nearly always the same.

the coiled thing in Minya relaxed just a little. It was fear, of course, though Minya did not know it. She believed it was rage, only and always rage, but that was the costume it wore, because fear was weakness, and she had vowed to never again be weak.

now, she had to be strong enough to look weak.

Aralar?ndaki bu yeni çekim... astrald?. Sanki etraflar?ndaki hava yeniden ?ekilleniyordu ve Karou bunu ta içinde hissedebiliyordu -s?cak ve yumu?ak bir çekim. Ve bir an için elleri birle?mi?ken, Karou kendini devasa bir bo?luktaki güne?e çekilen bir y?ld?z ????? kadar güçsüz hissetti.

Don't be weak, my boy', I whispered. I know he heard me. It was something I had told him many times. But what did I mean? For I did not want him to be strong either. Not like his father, who could fling his cousin through the air. Not like my mother, who could chase the husband, who so loved her, with a switch. I meant some other thing. Something like Captain Jane in her wolf cloak. Something like Eliza when the metal was in her voice and she had set her jaw.

Have mercy on me, Lord, for I am weak; remember, Lord, how short my time is; remember that I am but flesh, a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again. My days are as grass, as a flower of the field; for the wind goeth over me, and I am gone, and my place shall know me no more.

Jem--Jem is all the better part of myself. I would not expect you to understand. I owe him this." "Then what am I?" Cecily asked. Will exhaled, too exasperated to check himself. "You are my weakness." "And Tessa is your heart," she said, not angrily, but thoughtfully. "Not a fool, as I told you," she added at his startled expression. I know that you love her.

They said it was better to know your enemy, but how did it help to know that your enemy's one weakness was your weakness too

Siempre he pensando que el amor te vuelve estúpido. Te hace débil. Un mal cazador de sombras. Amar es destruir. Yo creía eso.

im eaisly influenced by others Do's and Don'ts. How can they bring me up so high, an sink me down like a stone?

Influenza had brought the all-conquering German army to its knees, while the Allies, stricken too, took advantage of their enemy's weakness to regroup.

down. She felt weak and slightly sick. But there wasn't a stick of furniture of any kind in the place. Hastily

My downfall, inevitably, was triggered by food.

Her body felt like a giant bag of lack. Lack of motivation. Lack of strength. Lack of rigidity. Lack of caring.

Oh, I will be cruel to you, Marya Morevna. It will stop your breath, how cruel I can be. But you understand, don't you? You are clever enough. I am a demanding creature. I am selfish and cruel and extremely unreasonable. But I am your servant. When you starve I will feed you; when you are sick I will tend you. I crawl at your feet; for before your love, your kisses, I am debased. For you alone I will be weak.

Temptation likes best those who think they have a natural immunity, for it may laugh all the harder when they succumb.

The inability to yield control is often misinterpreted as inability or weakness. Giving up control is often confused with giving up. 223

Ci ho riflettuto molti anni dopo, esaminando la mia grande difficoltà ad accettare aiuto. Sapersela sbrigare da soli è bene. Credere di doversela sbrigare sempre da soli, senza mai chiedere aiuto, è una debolezza travestita da forza. Se non sai chiedere aiuto, di regola non sai nemmeno cosa fare quando ti viene offerto spontaneamente, quando sarebbe morale accettarlo (e immorale rifiutarlo).

There have been many times when I, like many other speculators, have not had the patience to await the sure thing. I wanted to have an interest at all times. You may say, "With all your experience, why did you allow yourself to do so?" The answer to that is that I am human and subject to human weakness. —Jesse Livermore, How to Trade in Stocks