Weakness Quotes

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.

It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.

All cruelty springs from weakness.

Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.

Strength is Life, Weakness is Death. Expansion is Life, Contraction is Death. Love is Life, Hatred is Death.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

On the day when it will be possible for woman to love not in her weakness but in her strength, not to escape herself but to find herself, not to abase herself but to assert herself—on that day love will become for her, as for man, a source of life and not of mortal danger.

You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?

Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength.

Do you love me enough that I may be weak with you? Everyone loves strength, but do you love me for my weakness? That is the real test.

Growth begins when we begin to accept our own weakness

You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.

Never apologize, mister, it's a sign of weakness.

It is not the evil itself which is horrifying about our times "“ it is the way we not only tolerate evil, but have made a cult of positively worshipping weakness, depravity, rottenness and evil itself.

My weaknesses... I wish I could come up with something. I'd probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they're the same thing.

How can you blame a person for his fears and weaknesses unless you have felt the same and done differently?

If human beings are perceived as potentials rather than problems, as possessing strengths instead of weaknesses, as unlimited rather that dull and unresponsive, then they thrive and grow to their capabilities.

Men are taught to apologize for their weaknesses, women for their strengths.

Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Life never forgives weaknesses.

Those who gave thee a body, furnished it with weakness; but He who gave thee Soul, armed thee with resolution. Employ it, and thou art wise; be wise and thou art happy.

All legislation, all government, all society is founded upon the principle of mutual concession, politeness, comity, courtesy; upon these everything is based...Let him who elevates himself above humanity, above its weaknesses, its infirmities, its wants, its necessities, say, if he pleases, I will never compromise; but let no one who is not above the frailties of our common nature disdain compromises.

Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism.

The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm.

Morality is the weakness of the mind.

When you hunt predators, the best camouflage is weakness.

Human love is often but the encounter of two weaknesses.

To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind.

All cruelty springs from hard-heartedness and weakness.

A man's weaknesses may intrude on his faith but they do not diminish it.

If you think a weakness can be turned into a strength, I hate to tell you this, but that's another weakness

Strength is Happiness. Strength is itself victory. In weakness and cowardice there is no happiness. When you wage a struggle, you might win or you might lose. But regardless of the short-term outcome, the very fact of your continuing to struggle is proof of your victory as a human being.

A weapon is a tool," she repeated, a little breathlessly. "A tool for killing and destroying. And there will be times when, as an Envoy, you must kill and destroy. Then you will choose and equip yourself with the tools that you need. But remember the weakness of weapons. They are an extension—you are the killer and destroyer. You are whole, with or without them.

The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they follow. Bigness means weakness.

The 'morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.

Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we're damned if we're going to show.

Only one feat is possible: not to have run away.

Tolerance it a tremendous virtue, but the immediate neighbors of tolerance are apathy and weakness.

Weakness or strength: you exist, that is strength. You don't know where you are going or why you are going, go in everywhere, answer everyone. No one will kill you, any more than if you were a corpse.

I understand now that the vulnerability I've always felt is the greatest strength a person can have. You can't experience life without feeling life. What I've learned is that being vulnerable to somebody you love is not a weakness, it's a strength.

A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones.

The first step to improvement, whether mental, moral, or religious, is to know ourselves - our weakness, errors, deficiencies, and sins, that, by divine grace, we may overcome and turn from them all.

A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident.

Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.

Only a kind person is able to judge another justly and to make allowances for his weaknesses. A kind eye, while recognizing defects, sees beyond them.

Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.

Since others have to tolerate my weaknesses, it is only fair that I should tolerate theirs.

Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.

Beer is the Danish national drink, and the Danish national weakness is another beer.

Weakness, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage was born,

You always have certain strengths and certain weaknesses, and you want to compensate for your weaknesses... I have a real duty to earn the trust of the faculty. I don't just deserve it. I have to earn it.

All nations are more tolerant of their own mistakes and weaknesses than of the mistakes and weaknesses of others.

Coach Lombardi showed me that by working hard and using my mind, I could overcome my weakness to the point where I could be one of the best.

Nearly always, so as to live at peace with ourselves, we disguise our own impotence and weakness as calculation and policy; it is our way of placating that half of our being which is in a sense a spectator of the other.

Tomorrow is a satire on today, And shows its weakness.

Man's biological weakness is the condition of human culture.

Neutrality, as a lasting principle, is an evidence of weakness.

Stronger by weakness, wiser men become.

Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence.

Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows.

When you find your opponent's weak spot, hammer it.

Instead of the vast organization to exploit the weakness of the Many, should we not possess one for the exploitation of the intelligence of the Few?

My biggest weakness as a endurance athlete has been in not drinking enough water after training, thereby racing sometimes while dehydrated.

The morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised. I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.

Without justice, courage is weak.

When mental energy is allowed to follow the line of least resistance and to fall into easy channels, it is called weakness.

The weak are the most treacherous of us all. They come to the strong and drain them. They are bottomless. They are insatiable. They are always parched and always bitter. They are everyone's concern and like vampires they suck our life's blood.

A woman of mystique is fully aware of her flaws and weaknesses, yet she is strong enough to admit them and not be embarrassed by them.

Sensuality often makes love grow too quickly, so that the root remains weak and is easy to pull out.

Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.

If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?

There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are messengers of overwhelming grief...and unspeakable love.

The greatest works are done by the ones. The hundreds do not often do much, the companies never it is the units, the single individuals, that are the power and the might

Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.

Our weaknesses are divine gifts that when embraced will enable us to make our purposeful contribution to the whole, which is why we incarnated in the first place.

Our strength grows out of our weakness.

There are two kinds of weakness, that which breaks and that which bends.

The weak have one weapon: the errors of those who think they are strong.

Every age, every culture, every custom and tradition has its own character, its own weakness and its own strength, its beauties and cruelties; it accepts certain sufferings as matters of course, puts up patiently with certain evils. Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap.

The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength -each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving. It is even more deceptive to dream of gaining through the child a plenitude, a warmth, a value, which one is unable to create for oneself; the child brings joy only to the woman who is capable of disinterestedly desiring the happiness of another, to one who without being wrapped up in self seeks to transcend her own existence.

Weakness on both sides is, as we know, the motto of all quarrels.

What is bad? All that proceeds from weakness

Better make a weak man your enemy than your friend.

And the weak soul, within itself unbless'd, Leans for all pleasure on another's breast.

When a love comes to an end, weaklings cry, efficient ones instantly find another love, and the wise already have one in reserve.

Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength.

Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength.

If thou wouldst conquer thy weakness, thou must never gratify it.