Quotes About Weakness

If the scapegoat appears too weak and his punishment too cruel, you may end up the victim of your own device.

Understand: your mind is weaker than your emotions. But you become aware of this weakness only in moments of adversity—precisely the time when you need strength.

Everyone has a thumbscrew, a gap in the castle wall. Once found, it is a thumbscrew you can turn to your advantage.

People's need for validation and recognition, their need to feel important, is the best kind of weakness to exploit. First, it is almost universal; second, exploiting it is so very easy.

Impatience, on the other hand, only makes you look weak. It is a principal impediment to power.

Weakness is no sin, and can even become a strength if you learn how to play it right.

Only the weak rest on their laurels and dote on past triumphs; in the game of power there is never time to rest.

Desire often creates paradoxical effects. The more you want something, the more you chase after it, the more it eludes you. The more interest you show, the more you repel the object of your desire. This is because your interest is too strong — it makes people awkward, even fearful. Uncontrollable desire makes you seem weak, unworthy, pathetic.

These types, for example, will often display their weakness and lack of power as a kind of moral virtue. But true powerlessness, without any motive of self-interest, would not publicize its weakness to gain sympathy or respect. Making a show of one's weakness is actually a very effective strategy, subtle and deceptive, in the game of power

Image: The Thumbscrew. Your enemy has secrets that he guards, thinks thoughts he will not reveal. But they come out in ways he cannot help. It is there some where, a groove of weakness on his head, at his heart, over his belly. Once you find the groove, put your thumb in it and turn him at will.

For each weakness there is a corresponding strength.

Yield to temptation...it may not pass your way again!

The first step for any teacher who seeks to increase his or her pedagogical skills regarding the strategies and behaviors of Domain 1 is to identify and focus on specific areas of pedagogical strength and weakness.

the wolf may fight the bear but the rabbit always looses

He has never been a fool except for a pair of eyes or a pretty ankle, the gray-haired woman said, and that is a failing of every man.

Human beings are fallible, frightened and prone to corruption.

The Church of Reason, like all institutions of the System, is based not on individual strength but upon individual weakness. What's really demanded in the Church of Reason is not ability, but inability. Then you are considered teachable. A truly able person is always a threat.

La Iglesia de la Razón, como todas las instituciones del Sistema, no se basa en la fuerza individual sino en la debilidad individual. Lo que en realidad se pide en la Iglesia de la Razón no es capacidad sino incapacidad. En ese caso es considerada "educable". Una persona verdaderamente capaz es siempre una amenaza

The Church of Reason, like all institutions of the System, is based not on individual strength but upon individual weakness.

nothing ever happened to Jack Burden, who was invulnerable. Perhaps this was the curse of Jack Burden: he was invulnerable.

No entanto, apesar de toda a minha força física, jamais me sentira tão fraco, porque era incapaz de secar as lágrimas dos olhos de minha irmã ou de livrar seu coração da tristeza.

We're all heroes at something, and cowards at something else.

He understood that every person has a weak and needy part of their soul that can be bought, and he knew that every individual also had a part of their soul that was resilient and could never be bought. It was only a question of which one was stronger.

Satirize wickedness if you must--but pity weakness.