Quotes About Weakness

Strong cultures are to organizations what breathing life-giving oxygen is to the body, while weak ones are like poisonous carbon monoxide. Don't ignore the cultural health of the business.

A strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be gentle, firm, thoughtful, and restrained. It can afford to extend a helping hand to others. It's a weak nation, like a weak person, that must behave with bluster and boasting and rashness and other signs of insecurity.

A strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be gentle, firm, thoughtful, and restrained. It can afford to extend a helping hand to others. It is a weak nation, like a weak person, that must behave with bluster and boasting and rashness and other signs of insecurity.

Weakness begets evil

Mercy and weakness are the same thing in war, and there's no prize for nice behavior.

Livvy and her father] Neither of us had been as strong as we'd wanted to be.

Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease

People like to see a king uncrowned, like to see a thoroughbred racehorse beaten when he's running at the top of his form and has outrun everything in sight. They wanted to see that the king, the top dog, the best man, has a flaw, can be beaten like them, is vulnerable like them, can be defeated, unfrocked, uncrowned, knocked down, and thus brought right down to their level.

The weakness of humanity is never willingly perceived by young minds.

The very idea that she might discover his weakness for her made his blood run cold. Amelia was a sweet girl, but she'd surely burst into laughter at the idea of dependable and boring Nigel Dash falling in love with the most sought-after girl in London. Silverton

Un mundo en el que todo el mundo se suicida así: a fuego lento y arrastrando consigo a los más débiles.

Watch and pray so that you will not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the body is weak. MATTHEW 26:41

We have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us. 2 CORINTHIANS 4:7

perhaps great sins start as simple weakness, and the consistent placing of self before others.

How she hated the weakness of her human heart.

So that many characters which passed as heroic, or at least presentable, in the kindly remoteness of legend, reveal some strange weakness when brought suddenly into the light. When the tradition is Satyric, as here, the same process produces almost an opposite effect. It is somewhat as though the main plot of a gross and jolly farce were pondered over and made more true to human character till it emerged as a refined and rather pathetic comedy.

Of course all life is a process of breaking down, but the blows that do the dramatic side of the work-the big sudden blows that come, or seem to come, from outside-the ones you remember and blame things on and, in moments of weakness, tell your friends about, don't show their effect all at once.

They stood an uncomfortable little group weighted down by Abe's gigantic presence: he lay athwart them like the wreck of a galleon, dominating with his presence his own weakness and self-indulgence, his narrowness and bitterness. All of them were conscious of the solemn dignity that flowed from him, of his achievement, fragmentary, suggestive and surpassed. But they were frightened at his surviving will, once a will to love, now become a will to die.

The particular weakness he indulged on this occasion was his need of excitement and stimulus from without.

Charley was twenty-six, with that faint musk of weakness hanging about him that is often mistaken for the scent of evil.

To hold a man a woman has to appeal to the worst in him.

It's the whole thing,' he asserted. 'It's the one dividing line between good and evil. I've never met a man who led a rotten life and didn't have a weak will.

Lord, may the pain be ours, And the weakness that it brings, But at least give us the strength, Of not showing it to anyone!

Solo la debilidad extrema de la imaginación justifica que tengamos que desplazarnos para sentir.