Quotes About Weakness

Gratitude! I was deeply grateful. But the politic gratitude of weakness, of the sufferer, furious underneath.

Hay pocas cosas que pongan con tanta seguridad de buen humor como el relato de alguna calamidad que se ha sufrido últimamente, o también la sincera confesión de una debilidad personal.

No, mi corazón no está tan corrompido. Es débil, demasiado débil... Pero, en esto, ¿no hay corrupción?

The weak often have revolutionary sentiments; they think they would be well off if they were not ruled, and fail to perceive that they can rule neither themselves nor others.

For he who in unsettle times is weak, Adds to the evil, and expands its growth.

Der Undank ist immer eine Art Schwäche. Ich habe nie gesehen, dass tüchtige Menschen undankbar gewesen wären.

you are certainly wrong when you classify suicide—and suicide is what we are talking about—as any sort of great achievement, since it can be defined only as a sign of weakness. For it is certainly easier to die than to stand up to a life of torment.

I never felt happier, I never understood nature better, even down to the veriest stem or smallest blade of grass; and yet I am unable to express myself: my powers of execution are so weak, everything seems to swim and float before me, so that I cannot make a clear, bold outline. But I fancy I should succeed better if I had some clay or wax to model.

In fact the bare adjective "bad" hardly scratches the surface of the man's awesome incapacity.

Making weak things strong is the Savior's specialty, and the way we receive such individual help is through humility and a willingness to come unto Christ.

Yet we flatter our strength unduly when we compare it even to a reed stick! For whatever vain men devise and babble concerning these matters is but smoke. Therefore Augustine with good reason often repeats the famous statement that free will is by its defenders more trampled down than strengthened.

As age and weakness grew upon him, so he hastened his labour; and, according to his petition to God, he in manner ended his life with his work, for he lived not long after. So

Is it not rather meant that it was placed far above us, in order to convince us of our utter feebleness?

Slow animals always become prey in the end.

I am wounded by theology, unhinged and uprooted by the blow it has delivered to my heart. Theology is my weakness, the way one has a weakness for sex or money, what I secretly desire, or maybe not so secretly, even as it desires everything of me. Still, with all due deference, like Johannes Climacus speaking of being a Christian, I would say that on my best days I am working at becoming theological.

tired and received a weak,

Weakness thrives where strength can go no further.

We pretend to be strong because we are weak.

My childhood was quite extreme. Sometimes I was so weak I could not stand up. But now I am so strong. Life is unpredictable

Fear has its uses but cowardice has none.

We are enslaved by a hundred fears, insecurities, and weaknesses. Yet we think we are free and in control of our lives.

How weak and little is the light,All the universe of sight,Love and delight,Before the might,If you love it not, of night.

By action and reaction do we become strong or weak, according to the character of our thoughts and mental states. Fear is the deadly nightshade of the mind.

One day when the entire market was extremely weak Tropical Trading broke 90 and on the demoralisation I covered.