Quotes About Weakness

My friend, if you are weak—worn out from work, worn down by criticism, weary of constant demands or disappointments—if you have come to the end of yourself, if you've been emptied of your delusions of strength, you're just at the right place to be filled with the goodness of God. You're finally fillable. You're fully dependent.

tendría que reconocer cómo la dominación masculina ha hecho pasar por admirables ciertos rasgos que realmente no eran otra cosa que puntos flacos

You are naught but skin and bone and suffering.

Silence is not power. It's not strength. Silence is the means by which the weak remain weak and the strong remain strong. Silence is a method of oppression.

The Elizabethan Failure may engage in battle, but the blow that fells him will most likely be an accidental one. And the cup of water so gallantly offered will, at the last moment, slip from his weak grasp, thus rendering two people thirsty instead of one.

I remember that on the day before you left, I told you that I wanted to change my way of life, and you asked me why I didn't resign from my company right away. This is no place for me to go into details, but I really do want another kind of life. But here, too, I seem incapable of doing anything. That I myself at times become tired of my own weakness is, I'm afraid, no consolation to you.

We are made weak both by idleness and distrust of ourselves. Unfortunate, indeed, is he who suffers from both. If he is a mere individual he becomes nothing; if he is a king he is lost.

vulnerability equals weakness, and weakness arouses contempt. I had only to hide my longing and my desire, and they would be fulfilled. Or at least they'd have a chance.

I'm not sure why I've decided to do this. I'm not any stronger than I was, and nothing else has changed. But all the same, this time I'm not going to run away. It's okay to feel weak sometimes. It's okay to be afraid. The important thing is that we face our fears. That's what makes us strong."-Yuki

Don't hate me. Tell me...everything' s okay. I was always so ashamed. I was ashamed of my weakness. But...I want you to say it. Just once...even if it's a lie. I know it will give me the courage...to try and become strong.

It's not that I've suddenly become stronger or that something has changed. I'm still shaking. But...we don't have to let those fears stop us. What's more important is that we try to rise above our weakness.

I'm ashamed. I'm dishonest, weak, and dirty.

It's not that I've suddenly become stronger or that something has changed. I'm still shaking. But... We don't have to let those fears stop us. What's most important is that we try to rise above our weakness.

I know it's not good to be weak and helpless. But I don't think it's good to be too strong either. In our society, they talk about survival of the fittest. But we're not animals. We're human.

And if men come unto me I will show unto them their weakness. I give unto men weakness that they may be humble; and my grace is sufficient for all men that humble themselves before me; for if they humble themselves before me, and have faith in me, then will I make weak things become strong unto them. (Ether 12:27.)

El orgullo del hermano mayor detesta la debilidad y se jacta de la fuerza. El quebrarse por dentro y la desesperación no se valoran, pero sí lucir bien y tener éxito. En Mateo 5, Jesús nos dice que los pobres de espíritu, los que lloran y los que tienen hambre y sed, son bendecidos. El hermano mayor piensa que nunca se supone que sea débil.

Sometimes if you hold back on someone, they mistake your kindness for weakness. Sometimes you've got to go all out, to show people that you mean business.

To them, kindness was seen as weakness, mercy was perceived as cowardice and negotiation was a code word for a bullet in the head.

Je pleure et c'est encore dans un théâtre que je pleure. Mes pleurs sont entendus par une foule formée de spectateurs de moi-même, qui expie avec moi les liquides engendrés par la faiblesse [...]

Rogelio has a feminine side," Anna countered. "From what you've told me, Rogelio has a weak side. Not at all the same.

an arrangement which is defined by your concept 'I am unwell.' This is why you are told "Let the weak man say, 'I am strong'." (Joel 3:10), for by his assumption, the cause-substance — 'I AM' — is rearranged and must, therefore, manifest that which its rearrangement affirms.

Asking for money is a proclamation of your own unfitness for survival. It's saying, 'I am the weak one of the herd.

They thought him pusillanimous,

All deeply good characters in imaginative literature, have to be, as it were, diluted with weakness or eccentricity; for only on such conditions are they comprehensible by readers and expressible by writers. Aldous Huxley