Quotes About Weakness

A mere two days without eating and you passed out. It must be tough not being able to photosynthesize.

Gli uomini gelosi sono intrinsecamente deboli. Hanno il terrore di essere abbandonati.

Bless you, Jack, an inch of steel in the right place will do wonders. Man is a pitiably frail machine

niceness stems from neutrality and weakness

To launch a taboo, a group has to be poised halfway between weakness and power. A confident group doesn't need taboos to protect it. It's not considered improper to make disparaging remarks about Americans, or the English. And yet a group has to be powerful enough to enforce a taboo.

I believe that we are henceforth incapable of returning to an order of moral life which would take the form of a simple submission to commandments or to an alien or supreme will, even if this will were represented as divine. We must accept as a positive good the critique of ethics and religion that has been undertaken by the school of suspicion. From it we have learned to understand that the commandment that gives death, not life, is a product and projection of our own weakness.

We pretend to be strong because we are weak.

About the nature of human beings. I discovered that confronted by temptation, we will always fall. Given the right circumstances, every human being on this earth would be willing to commit evil.

In order for us to liberate the energy of our strength, our weakness must first have a chance to reveal itself.

Ciertas personas, en el afán de querer construir un mundo donde ninguna amenaza externa pueda penetrar, aumentan exageradamente sus defensas contra el exterior y dejan su interior desguarnecido.

We see the evil in others because we know the evil in ourselves. We never forgive those whou wound us because we believe that we would never be forgiven. We say the painful truth to others because we want to hide it from ourselves. We show our strength, so that no one can see our frailty. That is why, whenever you judge your brother, be aware that it is you who is in the dock.

He analyses every strategy and asks: what would I do if I had to fight myself? He thus discover his weak points.

So it was in life. In order for the more substantial pieces of wood to catch fire, the kindling must burn first. In order for us to liberate the energy of our strength, our weakness must first have a chance to reveal itself. In order for us to understand the powers we carry within us and the secrets that have already been revealed, it was first necessary to allow the surface expectations, fears, appearances – to be burned away.

Fear alone makes man weak. If you are afraid, your hands tremble, your feet falter, and your brain cannot tell hands and feet what to do.

flexibility often have a weakness in emotional control as well. Their inflexibility often leads them to become angry or anxious when they are confronted with an event they weren't anticipating.

The weaker the partner is viewed by the Muslims, then the greater the anger which they express. And this anger is often carefully staged.

Anger assists hands however weak. [Lat., Quamlibet infirmas adjuvat ira manus.]

More often than not, anger is actually an indication of weakness rather than of strength.

He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.

Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.

The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.

Silence is less injurious than a weak reply.

Those who gave thee a body, furnished it with weakness; but He who gave thee Soul, armed thee with resolution. Employ it, and thou art wise; be wise and thou art happy.

Whether it is a big ship or small ship, the same size hole placed correctly in the hull can sink it.