Quotes About Weakness

Everything I do in its essence is about helplessness. That's the story I want to tell all the time. It's the story I wanted to live - somebody who appears to be, or is, weak becoming stronger.

We think we are so strong but it is only when others try to prey on our weaknesses that we realize how frail we truly are."-Skyla (from Twiceborn)

Try to look at your weakness and convert it into your strength. That's success.

Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points.

The pressure to succeed has a lot to do with why people overstep the line. It is a peculiar weakness of western culture where we have made a fetish of success.

Truly brilliant marketing happens when you take something most people think of as a weakness and reposition it so people think of it as a strength.

The world values power, comfort, success, and recognition. Jesus frees us to value grief, sacrifice, weakness, and exclusion.

Whatever brings you to your knees in weakness carries the greatest potential for your personal success and spiritual victory.

Sometimes, because of my success, I am afraid that I was not a good father. With the first two I was too strong, and with the other three I was too weak.

Let me struggle like a woman- my strength lies in my weakness. - Milady

Suffering is in proportion to the strength which has been accorded to a person; in other words, the weak suffer more, where the trial is the same, than the strong. And, what are the elementary principles, we may ask, which compose human strength? Is it not - more than anything else - exercise, habit, experience?

one man may insult fifty—it is the privilege of weakness.

Only a weak spirit sees everything from behind a dark veil. The soul makes its own horizons; your soul is overcast, and that is why the sky seems stormy to you.

Es propio de los espíritus débiles el ver todas las cosas a través de un velo. El alma se forma a sí misma sus horizontes. Vuestra alma es sombría, y os presenta un cielo borrascoso.

Nada mas natural que el insensato que ignora su locura pretenda realizar cosas superiores a su poder. El débil habla de los grandes pesos que levanta; el tímido, de los gigantes que ha vencido; el pobre, de los tesoros que maneja; el más humilde campesino se llama Júpiter.

One of the commonest weaknesses of human intelligence is the wish to reconcile opposing principles and to purchase harmony at the expense of logic.

There is in fact a manly and legitimate passion for equality that spurs all men to wish to be strong and esteemed. This passion tends to elevate the lesser to the rank of the greater. But one also finds in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to want to bring the strong down to their level, and which reduces men to preferring equality in servitude to inequality in freedom.

A depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to attempt to lower the powerful to their own level and reduces men to prefer equality in slavery to inequality with freedom.

When the inhabitant of a democratic country compares himself individually with all those about him, he feels with pride that he is the equal of any one of them; but when he comes to survey the totality of his fellows, and to place himself in contrast to so huge a body, he is instantly overwhelmed by the sense of his own insignificance and weakness.

The weak generally mistrust the justice and the reason of the strong.

I knew what happened in fairy tales. The strong survived while the weak were eaten alive.

I didn't understand that when I closed myself to her, I took a part of her bitterness inside me. It was green and unforgiving, and as it grew it made me more like her. It gave me my strength, but it gave me my weakness as well.

I no longer cared if my mother disliked me. I didn't understand that when I closed myself to her, I took a part of her bitterness inside me. It was green and unforgiving, and as it grew it made me more like her. It gave me my strength, but it gave me my weakness as well.

He strong in body but weak in will.