Quotes About Weakness

Reason is captive in the hands of the passions, as a weak man in the hands of an artful woman.

?çimizde ?eytan yok... ?çimizde aciz var... Tembellik var... ?radesizlik, bilgisizlik ve bunlar?n hepsinden daha korkunç bir ?ey: hakikatleri görmekten kaçmak itiyad? var...

Zannediyorsun ki, hepimiz birer makineyiz ve evvelden kuruldu?umuz gibi i?leriz. Bir yerde bir bozukluk oldu mu, derhal oray? sökup atmak laz?m!.. En kuvvetli insan?n bile bazan ne kadar zay?f anlar?, istedi?inin tam aksini yapmaya mecbur oldu?u dakikalar? bulundu?unu nas?l inkar edebiliriz?

In the United States, it is our weakness to confuse the numerical strength of an organization and the publicity attached to leaders with the germinating forces that sow the seeds of social upheaval in our community.

It showed me how any country's moral strength, or its moral weakness, is quickly measurable by the street attire and attitude of its women—especially its young women.

Being cruel because you could only revealed your weakness. Compassion was always stronger.

que está enojado se revuelve contra la razón aparentemente con cierta tristeza y encogimiento inconsciente, mientras que el que yerra por apetencia se deja vencer por el placer y aparentemente es más licencioso y femeninamente débil en sus faltas. Con

but he that sins through lust, being overcome by pleasure, doth in his very sin bewray a more impotent, and unmanlike disposition.

the only truth is your own. The world you see is seen by you alone. What entices you and what repels you, what strengthens you and what weakens you, is part of a pattern that no one else shares.

And the only reason that "running around your backhand" has become an idiom for avoiding a weakness is that this is exactly what we see great tennis players do, time and time again, whether it's Juan Martín del Potro, Rafael Nadal, or countless others. The phrase describes the act of avoiding a weakness in order to play to a strength, and the lesson from the best is that this leads toward high performance, not away from it.

The course of life cannot change. Nature has but a single path and you travel it only once. Each stage of life has its own appropriate qualities—weakness in childhood, boldness in youth, seriousness in middle age, and maturity in old age. These are fruits that must be harvested in due season.

If people think that friendship springs from weakness and from a purpose to secure someone through whom we may obtain that which we lack, they assign her, if I may so express it, a lowly pedigree indeed, and an origin far from noble, and they would make her the daughter of poverty and want.

To want is to have a weakness.

To want is to have a weakness. It's this weakness, whatever it is, that entices me. It's like a small crack in a wall, before now impenetrable.

The truth is that very few understand the truth about forgiveness. It is not the culprits who need to be forgiven; rather it is the victims, because they are the ones who cause all the trouble. If they were only less weak and careless, and more foresightful, and if they would keep from blundering into difficulties, think of all the sorrow in the world that would be spared.

I know she's looking at me, the lopsided mouth smiling a little, the face closed and defiant. There is the same shame, the sick feeling in my body, the same knowledge of my own wrongness, awkwardness, weakness; the same wish to be loved; the same loneliness; the same fear. But these are not my own emotions any more. They are Cordelia's; as they always were.

Also I could hear Amanda's voice: Why are you being so weak? Love's never a fair trade. So Jimmy's tired of you, so what, there's guys all over the place like germs, and you can pick them like flowers and toss them away when they're wilted. But you have to act like you're having a spectacular time and every day's a party.

A wall that cannot be defended is no sooner built than ended.

Had he thought the power to make folk miserable was a greater power than to play fair with them? That was a mistake common to small-witted people—to think good was a weaker thing than evil. From all that Joliffe had seen, evil—in both its greater ways and in such petty ones as bullying—was the weak man's

Los fuertes buscarán fuerza, los débiles buscan excusas

Thucydides said, "The strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.

Far more than women, men learn to fear being cowards. Being accused of behaving like a woman carries connotations of emotionalism and weakness.

She hasn't your strength. She's never had any strength. She's never had anything but heart.

Suddenly she was standing at Tara again with the world about her ears, desolate with the knowledge that she could not face life without the terrible strength of the weak, the gentle, the tender-hearted.