Quotes About Weakness

ABSTAINER, n. A weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.

ABSTAINER, n. A weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure. A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.

I don't trust a man who drinks,' he growled, not bothered about dressing it up. 'A man takes to drinking, then he gets weak, then his mind goes.' Cosca sadly shook his head. 'You have it back to front. A man's mind goes, then he gets weak, then he takes to drink. The bottle is the symptom, not the cause.

Strong leaders might like it when someone brings 'em a better idea, but weak ones never do.

Sometimes weakness is a better shield than strength,

Strange, isn't it,' mused Glokta as he watched him struggle for air. 'Big men, small men, thin men, fat men, clever men, stupid men, they all respond the same to a fist in the guts. One minute you think you're the most powerful man in the world. The next you can't even breathe by yourself.

A man with a balding pink head and a heavy chain of office started towards him. One weak chin had clearly not been weak enough, and he had opted for several spread across his fur-trimmed collar.

No strength like looking weak.

Humanity is worse than flies.

Left one for you, kiddo, he imagined the fat man telling him. Marshall's skull grinned with small, sharp, slanting teeth. Might come in handy. You never know. In another couple days, when you're too weak to stand, it might be just what the doctor ordered. Swallow one as needed for pain and call me never.

What becomes of someone who thinks he has all the power... and what becomes of someone who believes he has none?

myasthenia gravis

osteomalacia

God, I'm not going to look at what I don't have. I'm looking unto you. I know in my weakness, you show up the strongest.

Are you fighting what makes you unique? Are you frustrated over something you think is a weakness, when in fact, it's a strength? Quit wishing you were different and step into who God made you to be.

In our weakness, God's strength shows up the greatest. Take the pressure off. There's freedom when you can be at peace with not being perfect.

You saw his weakness, and he will never forgive you.

The true genius knows only his dependence and weakness, or the bounds of his gifts. The equation of his powers is a negative quantity.

As long as on the earth endures his life To deal with him have full and free permission; Man's hour on earth is weakness, error, strife.

Exageras tudo e, por certo, cometes pelo menos o erro de aceitar o suicídio, que é do que estamos falando agora, como se fosse uma grande ação, quando não é nada mais do que simplesmente fraqueza. Pois, para ser sincero, é mais fácil morrer do que suportar com firmeza uma vida de tormentos.

The worst thing that can be said of the most powerful is that they can take your life; but the same can be said of the most weak.

Old Age, a second child, by nature curst With more and greater evils than the first, Weak, sickly, full of pains: in ev'ry breath Railing at life, and yet afraid of death.

In all I wish, how happy should I be, Thou grand Deluder, were it not for thee? So weak thou art that fools thy power despise; And yet so strong, thou triumph'st o'er the wise.

The Eucharist, although it is the fullness of sacramental life, is not a prize for the perfect but a powerful medicine and nourishment for the weak.