Quotes About Weakness

She's strong because she knows what its like to be weak. She keeps her guard up because she knows what it's like to cry herself to sleep.

Live in terms of your strong points. Magnify them. Let your weaknesses shrivel up and die from lack of nourishment.

It is as easy for the strong man to be strong, as it is for the weak to be weak.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.

I love you. I go weak when you touch me, I laugh at your jokes when they're not funny, and I take every chance I can get to talk to you.

The strong always face the battle and fight until they conquer, while the weak keep trying to escape every battle until they are defeated.

You are as STRONG as you allow your mind to be. Never let weakness convince you that you lack STRENGTH.

Hope, it is the quintessential human delusion, simultaneously the source of your greatest strength, and your greatest weakness.

We are sorry, we are sorry. Sorry that you were caught, I said. Sorry that you thought I was weak. But you were wrong.

You are weak and blind, and it is worse because you choose it.

A man of feeble character resembles a reed that bends with every gust of wind.

All problems of life arise from some weakness of mind. All weakness of mind is due to the mind's ignorance of its own essential nature, which is universal and the source of infinite energy and intelligence.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

Out of jasmine the night's blood streams white. Your perfume, my weakness and your secret, follows me like a snakebite. — Mahmoud Darwish, from "Sonnet V," The Butterfly's Burden (Copper Canyon Press, August 1, 2006)

Ignorance fears all things, falling, terror-stricken before the passing wind. Superstition stands as the monument to ignorance, and before it kneel all who realize their own weakness who see in all things the strength they do not possess

Das ist die Schwäche der Vernunft: wir bedienen uns ihrer meist nur zur Rechtfertigung unseres Glaubens.

Hard people are weak people whom nobody wants, and the strong, caring little whether they are wanted or not, have alone that meekness which the common herd mistake for weakness.

She cursed her will, which could rear so impetuously and leap over hurdles so dauntlessly when her desires strove toward impossible goals—her will, so weak, so pliant, so broken not only when she was forced to disobey her desires, but also when she was driven by some other emotion.

Every unmortified sin will certainly do two things:— [1.] It will weaken the soul, and deprive it of its vigour. [2.] It will darken the soul, and deprive it of its comfort and peace. [1.]

Even the best of saints, being left to themselves, will quickly appear to be less than men—to be nothing! All our own strength is weakness, and all our wisdom folly.

So the first consequence of Christ's withdrawing himself from us is that inward graces grow weak and we tend to rely more and more on outside helps. Above all, we lose the desire for holy meditation and we spend less and less time with Christ. Just as frost withers the plants in the garden, so the grace in our hearts also withers when the 'Sun of Righteousness' withdraws and hides himself.