Quotes About Weakness

In reality, the very thing that gave the giant his size was also the source of his greatest weakness. There is an important lesson in that for battles with all kinds of giants. The powerful and the strong are not always what they seem.

In reality, the very thing that gave the giant his size was also the source of his greatest weakness.

The Impressionists were better for shunning the Salon. History and experience ought to teach us to be suspicious of Goliaths, because the very thing that makes the giant so terrifying is also the source of his weakness.

It's just like when you've got some coffee that's too black, which means it's too strong. What do you do? You integrate it with cream, you make it weak. But if you pour too much cream in it, you won't even know you ever had coffee. It used to be hot, it becomes cool. It used to be strong, it becomes weak. It used to wake you up, now it puts you to sleep.

All pains the immortal spirit must endure, All weakness that impairs, all griefs that bow, Find their sole voice in that victorious brow.

In the wrong environment your weakness is evident, but in the right environment, you function from a place of strength.

Weak leadership will always hide behind ambiguity and rhetoric.

The best way to overcome your weaknesses is to turn them into strengths.

Consider the weak point in your private life and make a resolution for it, you will be stronger than what you thought and you'll start to achieve your goals easily.

Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.

The strongest have their moments of fatigue.

Where pity is, for pity makes the world Soft to the weak and noble for the strong.

What is more harmful than any vice? Practical sympathy and pity for all the failures and all the weak : Christianity.

The world is full of men who are attracted to women but aren't really interested in them. Weak women sometimes give in to men like that. As it happens, I don't need a man. I live alone. I work, I read books, and I listen to music. Sometimes I have a visitor in the evening. Sometimes on another evening I have a different visitor. They come and they go. I'm self-sufficient.

The only thing certain in times of great uncertainty is that people will behave with great strength or weakness, and with very little else in between.

How can you blame a person for his fears and weaknesses unless you have felt the same and done differently? How can you think everyone can be a hero, choosing death, when it is part of our nature to let go of brave thoughts at the last moment and cling to hope and life?

The failures are not due to any injustice, but to an inner defect. It is always caused by the person himself. Yes, I know, you think you are doing an act of justice. But they will only suck you dry, wear out your energy, nourish themselves on your ideas. After being the most compassionate man in the world, I say to you today: Let the weak ones die, let them commit suicide.

You cannot do any more for me, I said. Since I have begun to depend on you I feel weaker than ever before. I have disappointed you by acting neurotically at the very moment when I should have shown the wisdom of your guidance. I don't want to ever come back to you. I feel that I must go and work and live and forget about all this.

Rebellions of all kinds attract to their activities weaklings who rebel because they cannot master, destroy because they cannot create.

I am angry at my own sentimental weakness. I feel at certain moments a bottomless giving, an indifference to how much is taken away, but at times I have rebellions and my possessive instinct is aroused and then I am angry at myself, furious (the scorpion eats it own tail).

In all of us there is human weakness. The friend is the one who goes out to strengthen this weakness, but not to attack it.

Now Geroge had a weakness in common with many men; when he was in an expansive mood, he loved to recount his exploits.

the writer is the duelist who never fights at the stated hour, who gathers up an insult, like another curious object, a collector's item, spreads it out on his desk later, and then engages in a duel with it verbally. Some people call it weakness. I call it postponement.

but the truth is I am terribly weak. And I crave the balm of beautiful and soft things.