Quotes About Weakness

She had an ability, invaluable in a weak person, to persuade herself that whatever was inevitable had her full approval, and was in some measure her own doing.

Despair was a private weakness she could not afford to indulge.

She was surprised into looking into the Beast's face. The contrasts she found there were too great: wisdom and despair, power and weakness, man and animal. These made him far more terrible than any hungry lion, any half-tamed hydra, any angry sorcerer, terrible as something that should not exist is terrible, because to recognise that it does exist shakes that faith in the foundations of the natural world which human beings must have to bear the burden of their rationality.

Your Chalice, Master, sees all things clearly, which is both her strength and her weakness.

He was a very useful bird, because he gave Grace and Hope and me something weaker than ourselves to worry over; and he sang as though he appreciated it.

You will never be able to eliminate a weakness you don't even know about. The first step to eliminating a negative habit is to become aware of it.

Hemos fomentado una cultura de gente apática, débil, y delicada que es incapaz de cumplir promesas, que huye del compromiso y que renuncia a sus aspiraciones cuando surge el menor de los obstáculos.

The world was so much more forgiving of strength when it took on the appearance of weakness.

They wondered at the consequences of teaching a girl she was weak instead of warning her she was strong.

It seems the soul retreats into itself and smiles at the powers of the senses. And so both the inside and the outside of man are full of weakness and falsehood.

The great benefit of philosophy, which is also its great weakness, is that all its steps are taken in the spirit of doubt.

The enemy of the moment is not as important as our own inner weakness. If this is not mended we are already defeated, though no foreign conqueror stands within our walls.

Where was the line between compassion and foolishness, kindness and weakness? And that was from her position. From theirs, it might be a line between mercy and cruelty, consideration and callousness.

But how firm to stand, how much to bend? Where was the line between compassion and foolishness, kindness and weakness? And that was from her position. From theirs, it might be a line between mercy and cruelty, consideration and callousness. She could draw it on this side, but they might see it on that side.

Conversely, the failures that a man makes in his life are due almost always to some defect in his personality

The banker was strong because the railroads were weak, and however much Pierpont deplored railroad instability, he thrived on such chaos.

Unlike his father, however, his self-confidence was a fragile bloom, easily crushed.

It came about not because bankers were strong but because companies were still weak.

It was a self-indulgence on a magnificent scale, and a source of great anxiety and at times weakness to his firm, which could well have used the money as capital in the business if he had not spent it so lavishly.

Both sides had entered the war already weakened by the disease, and just as in 1918, armies propagated the contagion. Hospitals, already overfilled by flu victims, were unable to treat more than a fraction of the wounded. And yet the war raged on, pulling both countries and their neighbors back into the pre-industrial world. Little was left of modernity except for weapons.

below the glass would be the weak spot. Plywood, probably, maybe three-eighths thick, painted, retained in the frame by quarter-round moldings. Reacher was wearing shoes he had bought in the London airport two deployments ago, stout British things with welts and toecaps as hard as steel.

Any kind of operation was a point of vulnerability.

If Strength comes through Suffering, why then I should be the strongest of all women, yet I am the weakest. God help me. Help me.

I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.