Quotes About Weakness

On the contrary, that someone as weak and

There goes the world's wimpiest vampire.

The procrastinator is not only indolent and weak, but commonly false too.

For all their strength, men were sometimes like little children.

As this required a comprehensive defeat, Napoleon had little interest in indirect strategies. When a point of weakness was found, extra forces would be poured in to break through.

Lenin fue capaz de montar una campaña muy oportuna para hacerse con el poder aprovechando las ventajas de un partido organizado, un estado desorganizado y una sociedad civil débil.

Realism is a very sophisticated form of literature, a very grown-up one. And that may be its weakness. But fantasy seems to be eternal and omnipresent and always attractive to kids.

They had learned that the act of violence is the act of weakness, and that the spirit's strength lies in holding fast to the truth.

Weak people cannot be sincere.

I don't have to wonder where he he, what he's doing, or who. I don't have to worry about all the ways he'll scar my son. I don't have to watch myself give in again and again, audience to my own relentless weakness. I thought if he were gone I wouldn't hate myself so much, which isn't true, as it turns out, but still his absence is as close as I can get to freedom. There's a certain clearheadedness now, there's a kind of lonely clarity--

Rewrite, rewrite, rewrite, don't be precious about your first draft, it's an architectural blueprint to a whole building, be your own worst critic, confront your weakness and remember it's a craft.

A vice is a failure of desire.

Achilles, without his heel, you wouldn't even know his name today.

Once traveling, it's remarkable how quickly faith erodes. It starts to look like something else--ignorance, for example. Same thing happened to the Israelites. Sure it's weak, but sometimes you'd rather just have a map.

The established German Army no longer had the physical power to overcome the uniformed private armies of Left and Right. This weakness was not due to a lack of rifles, machine guns, or artillery, or even to a lack of men, but to a shortage of trucks. The vital role of the truck had already been recognized by some military experts. In England Captain B. H. Liddell Hart greeted the six-wheel truck as a landmark in military evolution.

Los crueles son los debiles; la bondad sólo puede esperarse de los fuertes.

It's not so much that he can't fall in love, but he has not the weakness necessary.

Kesombongan dan kelemahan adalah kembar siam.

We cannot imagine these diseases, they are called idiopathic, spontaneous in origin, but we know instinctively there must be something more, some invisible weakness they are exploiting. It is impossible to think they fall at random, it is unbearable to think it.

It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy.

Yes, vanity is a weakness indeed. But pride - where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation.

Here and there, human nature may be great in times of trial, but generally speaking it is its weakness and not its strength that appears in a sick chamber; it is selfishness and impatience rather than generosity and fortitude, that one hears of. There is so little real friendship in the world! – and unfortunately' (speaking low and tremulously) 'there are so many who forget to think seriously till it is almost too late.

Vanity working on a weak mind produces every kind of mischief.

Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief