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Quotes About Weakness

God stands in no need of our strength or wisdom, but of our ignorance, of our weakness; let us but give these to Him, and He can make use of us in winning souls.
~ Dwight L. Moody
No man is infinitely strong; for every creature that runs, flies, hops or crawls there is a terminal nemesis which he will not circumvent, which will finally do him in.
~ Philip K. Dick
The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength - each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
Your greatest strength is love. Your greatest weakness is fear.
~ Harbhajan Singh Yogi
The strength in gold is revealing the general weakness in the dollar.
~ Peter Schiff
Insincerity is always weakness; sincerity even in error is strength.
~ George Henry Lewes
Your strength is just an accident owed to the weakness of others.
~ Joseph Conrad
The weakest link in a chain is the strongest because it can break it.
~ Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
At times everything grows misty and dark before my eyes, and I feel that the strength of my whole body is oozing away through my finger tips.
~ Osamu Dazai, The Setting Sun
It was in our power to cause the Arab governments to renounce 'the policy of strength' toward Israel by turning it into a demonstration of weakness.
~ Moshe Dayan
From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.
~ Jorge Luis Borges, Ficciones
Bad companies are destroyed by crisis. Good companies survive them. Great individuals, like great companies, find a way to transform weakness into strength.
~ Ryan Holiday
Don't be fooled by strength you can see," he said at last. "Yahweh often hides His power in the simple things, the weak things, and so His strength seems foolish in man's eyes.
~ Lynn Austin
An army may be likened to water, for just as flowing water avoids the heights and hastens to the lowlands, so an army avoids strength and strikes weakness.
~ Sun Tzu
Silence is no weakness of language. It is, on the contrary, its strength. It is the weakness of words not to know this.
~ Edmond Jabes
A man's strength is ultimately born of his knowledge of his own weakness.
~ David Gemmell
We all come unique packages with strength and weakness, and somewhere there is a precious gift in all of us
~ Samantha Abeel
The weak shows his strength and hides his weaknesses; the magnificent exhibits his weaknesses like ornaments.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Know that every time you feel weak, you not only hurt yourself but also the cause. Infinite faith and strength are the only conditions of success.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Deny your weakness, and you will never realize God's strength in you.
~ Joni Eareckson Tada
When a man thinks he has got a good deal of strength, and is self-confident, you may look for his downfall. It may be years before it comes to light, but it is already commenced.
~ Dwight L. Moody
Sometimes our weakness is considered strength, and we take delight in borrowed greatness.
~ Meher Baba
Out of the cross comes the resurrection. Out of weakness comes real strength.
~ Timothy Keller
I guess that makes our biggest weakness lack of strength.
~ Gene Stallings