Quotes About Weakness

There are always those who take it upon themselves to defend God, as if Ultimate Reality, as if the sustaining frame of existence were something weak and helpless.

I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. It is a clever, treacherous adversary, how well I know. It has no decency, respects no law or convention, shows no mercy. It goes for your weakest spot, which it finds with unerring ease.

Sometimes humans feel a need to prove they are the dominant race of a species and they inadvertently take kindness for weakness from another individual.

The ancient Greeks loved that little interlocking contradiction, the idea that you're only your strongest when you have a weakness for other people. They saw

But there's a problem,' Dr. Bramble said. He tapped his forehed. 'And it's right up here.' Our greatest talent, he explained, also created the monster that could destroy us.

I use their expectations against them. That will be their weakness. Not mine. Let them all underestimate me. Let them think they have the upper hand over the little girl. Let them relax while the adrenaline leaks out of their systems. Let them believe they're closing their grips on a shrinking violet. And when their guard is down and their pride is rising... let me kick their butts up around their ears.

Aku telah melakukan kesalahan dalam hidupku. Di masa silam aku telah mengakuinya dan pengakuan itu menimbulkan kekuatan. Tetapi keberanian dari seseorang terletak pada keyakinannya bahwa dia telah bertindak benar. Aku tidak akan hidup, jika tidak yakin dengan kuat dan pasti, bahwa apa yang kukerjakan waktu itu adalah benar. Kalau tidak begitu aku merupakan orang yang lemah.

Sudah menjadi sifat manusia untuk meludahi lawan yang lemah,. Tetapi bila kita menghadapi lawan yang kuat, setidak-tidaknya kita merasa bahwa dia merupakan lawan kita yang pantas.

voler vivere e morire in mezzo agli uomini é segno di grave debolezza

Those who have been in the grip of passion will know its suffocating strength. It shuts down all the normal senses, occludes judgement, leaves one feeling weak and fevered.

Denuncio nossa fraqueza, denuncio o horror alucinante de morrer - e respondo a toda essa infâmia com - exatamente isto que vai agora ficar escrito - e respondo a toda essa infâmia com alegria. Puríssima e levíssima alegria. A minha única salvação é a alegria.

Am I one of the weak? a weak woman possessed by incessant and mad rhythm? if I were solid and strong would I even have heard the rhythm? I find no answer: I am.

La fuerza, la inteligencia, la estupidez, la belleza, la cobardía, la debilidad son situaciones y papeles por los que, antes o después, pasamos todos nosotros. Quien abusa amparándose en la fatalidad de la vida o del propio carácter, una hora o un año después se verá atacado en nombre de las mismas inefables razones. Lo mismo sucede con los pueblos, con sus virtudes, sus caídas y sus apogeos.

Maximum mental energy' had never been Kevin's strong point.

What really corrupts is not power, but a sense of powerlessness.

If you want to find a child's weakness, failures, personal problems, or inadequacies, you'll discover them. If you look at a child through the filter of her or his environment or economic status, and make judgments through the filters of your own cultural, gender, and racial biases, you'll find the characteristics you expect.

We have unmistakable proof that throughout all past time, there has been a ceaseless devouring of the weak by the strong.

Every age, every culture, every custom and tradition has its own character, its own weakness and its own strength, its beauties and cruelties; it accepts certain sufferings as matters of course, puts up patiently with certain evils. Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap.

Quase nunca choro. Não sou mais forte do que aqueles que ficam de olhos molhados, sou mais fraco. Eles arriscam. Quando se tem só pele e osso, sentimentos são coragem. Eu prefiro ser cobarde.

Suppose she denied him then but favored him some other time? Women are weak and easily conquered by flattery. Especially when men write verses to them, and there are some who sat that Wyatt writes better verses than me, though I am the King.

But it is no use to justify yourself. It is no good to explain. It is weak to be anecdotal. It is wise to conceal the past even if there is nothing to conceal. A man's power is in the half-light, in the half-seen movements of his hand and the unguessed-at expression of his face. It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires.

This is my sin for giving in to my own weaknesses. My heart just couldn't keep up with the gigantic gap between dreams and reality. -Jellal Fernandes

Fear is not evil. It tells you what your weakness is.

È un errore che non dimenticherò. Tutto il male nasce dalla debolezza. E io negavo la mia debolezza ferendo coloro che mi si paravano davanti. Ma sono cambiato quand'ho incontrato quel tipo… Per questo sono stato trafitto. Volevo purificarmi. Non m'interessa se vivo o muoio, ma se l'anima di suo fratello può essere salvata… E se posso lavare la mia colpa…