Quotes About Weakness

With his worn-out lungs, his obstinate self-effacement, his bookish timidity, Broux is nonetheless a strong man; by means of his awareness of how impossible it is to live, he raises himself precisely to a higher possibility of living, to an endurance which is more sure of itself because it believes it has nothing more to lose. From his weakness he was able to create a strength; from his despair, an acquiescence; from his acquiescence, a hope...

El adulto ha optado por no ser adulto del todo, ha abdicado de la reflexión y el juicio y ha preferido seguir siendo joven. Es lo que califica a este mundo light, de pensamiento débil y relaciones líquidas, un mundo posmoderno que rehuye las dificultades y los problemas.

The reaction of weak management to weak operations is often weak accounting.

He felt even angrier that Dumbledore was showing signs of weakness. He had no business being weak when Harry wanted to rage and storm at him.

I have remained true to my deepest convictions. I mean to the courage of those who are born to be defeated, the weaknesses of the strong, and the tragedy of misunderstandings and missed opportunities, which I have done my best to treat as comedy – for otherwise how can we manage to bear it?

The professor urged upon Fred that to base one's calculations on unobservables - such as God, such as the soul, such as the atom, such as the elementary particle - was nothing more than a comforting weakness. 'I don't deny that all human beings need comfort. But scientists should not indulge themselves on quite this scale.

Gentleness is not kindness. His fluid personality tested and stole into the weak places of others until it found it could settle down to its own advantage.

The battered and pathetic thing that represented any claim to conscience I might have had turned away from me in disgust. Oddly, I couldn't blame it. I was disgusted myself. Disgusted at my weakness and my lack of resolution, at my refusal to see justice through in the name of the woman who had borne me.

A person can perform only from strength. One cannot build performance on weakness, let alone on something one cannot do at all.

By themselves, character and integrity do not accomplish anything. But their absence faults everything else. Here, therefore, is the one area where weakness is a disqualification by itself rather than a limitation on performance capacity and strength.

Maybe the kids will always be stronger. It's us—the impostors masquerading as protectors—who are unimaginably weak. For

All cruelty comes from weakness, just as all human compassion can come only from strength.

And in my case I kept thinking, If I only was stronger mentally, psychologically, and everything, to bear these responsibilities. And in point of fact there was no way anybody could stand that situation. No way. It was not an indication of psychological weakness. It was an indication of not facing reality, but a peculiar kind, you see.

Nietzche is right about christianity. It's the fucking hair shirt syndrome: always made me feel shame, guilt, always responding to duty and obligations to others --I view myself as weak, at the beck and call of others, obligated to them. Bullshit. I am a man -- as that book on judaism puts it. I need no one's permission anymore. I need not account to anyone. I owe them nothing; they are pushing old buttons, long out of date. I have proved my worth and earned my reward.

Already Sam Regan could feel the power of the drug wearing off; he felt weak and afraid and bitterly sickened at the realization. So goddamn soon, he said to himself. All over; back to the hovel, to the pit in which we twist and cringe like worms in a paper bag, huddled away from the daylight.

other people's weakness can destroy you just as much as their strength can. Weak people are not harmless. Their weakness can be their strength.

Now, I'm very vulnerable to female beauty, as you know. Everybody's defenseless against something, and that's it for me. I see it and it blinds me to everything else.

other people's weakness can destroy you just as much as their strength can. Weak people are not harmless. Their weakness can be their strength. A

Each man has a breaking point, no matter how strong his spirit. Somewhere, deep inside him, there is a flaw that only the fickle cruelty of fate can find. A man's strength is ultimately born of his knowledge of his own weakness

She is the weakness you think of as strength while I am the strength you have no idea is there.

Some boys—not many, but a few—are like that, getting their own strength from finding your weakness and poking it. There's something weirdly transfixing about their confidence, like even as they're condescending to you, you're secretly hoping that their strength will rub off and suddenly you'll be as confident as they are.

I am not sure I have the strength to resist this.

No human is without imperfections. Drawing attention to them magnifies their importance, especially if attention is drawn to efforts to conceal or disguise a weak spot.

The beginning of a solution to a problem is never far away. All you have to do is ask. That's not weakness. That's the strength of knowing that you have to face your problems.