Weakness famous quotes

Humility is not weakness, but strength under control
-- A. R. Bernard

#Humility #Weakness

I think that maybe that's my weakness, in that I don't know how to do it, so I just do what I do and try to do it as passionately and as well as I can.
-- Aaron Eckhart

#Thinking #Trying #Weakness

We fear our highest possibilities. We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments, under conditions of great courage. We enjoy and even thrill to godlike possibilities we see in ourselves in such peak moments. And yet we simultaneously shiver with weakness, awe, and fear before these very same possibilities.
-- Abraham Maslow

#Perfect #Thrill #Weakness

You are right, but the weakness does not come from the millions of Muslims in the world. They do not mind being radical, they have no fear to speak out and to protest and to jihad.
-- Abu Bakar Bashir

#Mind #Weakness #Doe

Life never forgives weaknesses.
-- Adolf Hitler

#Forgiving #Weakness #Never Forgive

I have not come into this world to make men better, but to make use of their weaknesses.
-- Adolf Hitler

#Men #Weakness #Use

The story of the fifth century was one of the exploitation of imperial weakness. Thus the Western Empire died.
-- Adrian Goldsworthy

#Weakness #Stories #Empires

To rush into explanations is always a sign of weakness.
-- Agatha Christie

#Weakness #Excuse #Explanation

I think that everyone has something about themselves that they feel is their weakness... their 'disability.' And I'm certain we all have one, because I think of a disability as being anything which undermines our belief and confidence in our own abilities.
-- Aimee Mullins

#Thinking #Weakness #Belief

My family is my strength and my weakness.
-- Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

#Family #Strength #Weakness

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.
-- Al Pacino

#Wish #Weakness #Euthanasia

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.
-- Alain de Botton

#Real #Weakness #May

I love life - that’s my real weakness. I love it so much that I am incapable of imagining what is not life.
-- Albert Camus

#Life #Real #Weakness

If you do not want the State to act like a criminal, you must disarm it as you would a criminal; you must keep it weak. The State will always be criminal in proportion to its strength; a weak State will always be as criminal as it can be, or dare be, but if it is kept down to the proper limit of weakness - which, by the way, is a vast deal lower limit than people are led to believe - its criminality may be safely got on with.
-- Albert J. Nock

#Believe #People #Weakness

30. If Will stops and cries Why, invoking Because, then Will stops an does naught. 31. If power asks why, then power is weakness.
-- Aleister Crowley

#Weakness #Doe #Cry

The rights of neutrality will only be respected when they are defended by an adequate power. A nation, despicable by its weakness, forfeits even the privilege of being neutral.
-- Alexander Hamilton

#Rights #Weakness #Neutrality

Heaven forming each on other to depend, A master, or a servant, or a friend, Bids each on other for assistance call, Till one man's weakness grows the strength of all.
-- Alexander Pope

#Men #Heaven #Weakness

Only silence is great; all else is weakness.
-- Alfred de Vigny

#Silence #Weakness #Silence Is

Children tend to be rather better observers of adults' characters than adults are of children's, because children are so dependent on adults that it is very much in their interest to discover the weaknesses of their elders.
-- Allan Bloom

#Children #Character #Weakness

These Planned Parenthood women, the Code Pink women, and all of these women have been neutering American men and bringing us to the point of this incredible weakness...We are not going to have our men become subservient.
-- Allen West

#Men #Weakness #Parenthood

When dealing with Canadians, it is advantageous to seem to be negotiating from a position of weakness, for when faced with an abject opponent, they become concession-happy and will accede to almost anything.
-- Alleyne FitzHerbert, 1st Baron St Helens

#Weakness #Politics #Opponents

You know, it's okay to admit a little weakness now and then, Cammie. It won't kill you. In fact, I hear it makes you stronger.
-- Ally Carter

#Stronger #Weakness #Littles

Prayer is the sign of your weakness. Rely on your inner strength. You will be the winner.
-- Amit Ray

#Prayer #Inner Strength #Weakness

I know my own weaknesses as a human being, and as a musician, as a singer and as a woman.
-- Amy Grant

#Weakness #Musician #Singers

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

#Weakness #Done #Blame

The obstacle became his alibi for weakness.
-- Anais Nin

#Weakness #Obstacles

People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
-- Anatole France

#People #Weakness #Way

...the West's main weakness remains unchanged: it cannot grasp the fact that it is facing an acceleration in the unfolding of Soviet convergence strategy which is intended to procure the subservience of the West to Moscow under an ultimate Communist World Government.
-- Anatoliy Golitsyn

#Communication #Government #Weakness

Just make the right estimation of your own strengths and weaknesses, and also that of your opponent.
-- Anatoly Karpov

#Weakness #Opponents #Strength And Weakness

A true woman loves a strong man because she knows his weaknesses. She protects as much as she is protected.
-- Andre Maurois

#Strong #Women #Weakness

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.
-- Andrew Schneider

#Weakness #Firsts #Divine

When you hunt predators, the best camouflage is weakness.
-- Andrew Vachss

#Weakness #Camouflage #Predator

Our greatest weakness is lack of self-confidence.
-- Angela Ahrendts

#Self Confidence #Self #Weakness

she never showed girly weaknesses like cellulite or crushes. she never lingered on injustices committed against her.
-- Ann Brashares

#Crush #Girly #Weakness

Jealousy has always been my cross, the weakness and woundedness in me that has most often caused me to feel ugly and unlovable, like the Bad Seed.
-- Anne Lamott

#Jealousy #Weakness #Ugly

It is dangerous for a woman to defy the gods; To taunt them with the tongue's thin tip, Or strut in the weakness of mere humanity, Or draw a line daring them to cross.
-- Anne Spencer

#Women #Humanity #Weakness

We are so inculcated with guilt that we think that weakness is a sin or that it is some crime against nature to be submissive.
-- Anton Szandor LaVey

#Thinking #Guilt #Weakness

Never treat somebody’s cleverness as his life’s smartness. Cleverness is to hide the weakness and the smartness is to project the strength of his weakness.
-- Anuj

#Weakness #Projects #Treats

Watergate showed more strengths in our system than weaknesses... The whole country did take part in quite a genuine sense in passing judgment on Richard Nixon.
-- Archibald Cox

#Country #Weakness #Judgment

No matter how much lip service those committed to power (psychopaths) may pay to the principle of equality (empaths), they can never approach their fellow human beings on an equal footing; their relationships with others are defined solely in terms of power and weakness. Therefore, they must accumulate as much power as possible, with the aim of becoming invulnerable and proving this invulnerability.
-- Arno Gruen

#Weakness #Principles #May

Forgiveness is hard for me, man. It is for most American-Western males. It's a sign of weakness.
-- Art Alexakis

#Men #Weakness #Males

The prevailin' weakness of most public men is to Slop Over!.... G. Washington never slopt over.
-- Artemas Ward

#Power #Men #Weakness

I'm learning to use others' weaknesses. I don't hammer a man's soft spot constantly, because he may strengthen it. I just save it as a trump up my sleeve for moments when I really need a point.
-- Arthur Ashe

#Men #Weakness #Needs

All nations are more tolerant of their own mistakes and weaknesses than of the mistakes and weaknesses of others.
-- Arthur Hays Sulzberger

#Mistake #Weakness

We are not so easily guided by our most prominent weaknesses as by those of which we are least aware.
-- Arthur Helps

#Weakness

Vanity is easily forgiven, for we are all vain, and even as we laugh at the weakness of others we feel that their vanity has touched the responding chord of our own.
-- Arthur Lynch

#Vanity #Laughing #Weakness

silence is not weakness and decency is not pride
-- Arthur Machen

#Pride #Silence #Weakness

I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain.
-- Arthur Rimbaud

#Happiness #Brain #Weakness

Morality is the weakness of the mind.
-- Arthur Rimbaud

#Mind #Weakness #Morality

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.
-- Arthur Rimbaud

#Weakness #Answers #Where You Are

Still, instead of trusting what their own minds tell them, men have as a rule a weakness for trusting others who pretend to supernatural sources of knowledge.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer

#Men #Mind #Weakness

The weakness of their reasoning faculty also explains why women show more sympathy for the unfortunate than men;... and why, on the contrary, they are inferior to men as regards justice, and less honourable and conscientious.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer

#Women #Justice #Weakness

Joy is a strength; intoxication, a weakness.
-- August Bournonville

#Dance #Joy #Weakness

We are only just beginning to understand the power of love because we are just beginning to understand the weakness of force and aggression.
-- B. F. Skinner

#Weakness #Power Of Love #Force

If the Bible didn't show us the weaknesses, the vulnerabilities , the sins of our heroes, we might have deep questions about their true virtue.
-- Baal Shem Tov

#Hero #Might #Weakness

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.
-- Barbara Bush

#Basketball #Weakness #Dull

I have a theory and I really believe it. I think your worst weakness can become your greatest single strength.
-- Barbara Corcoran

#Believe #Thinking #Weakness

I'm so thankful that your mine, your sweetness is my weakness.
-- Barry White

#Quality #Weakness #Sweetness

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.
-- Bart Starr

#Mind #Weakness #Overcoming

Fedor has no weakness. I have seen so many fights, and even the best fighters in the world have a flaw in their game but I have yet to find one in Fedor Emelianenko.
-- Bas Rutten

#Fighting #Games #Weakness

From aquaintances we conceal our real selves. To our friends we reveal our weaknesses.
-- Basil Hume

#Real #Self #Weakness

I believe in strength over lack of weakness.
-- Ben Horowitz

#Believe #Weakness #I Believe

What were once felt to be defects-isolation, institutional simplicity, primitiveness of manners, multiplicity of religions, weaknesses in the authority of the state-could now be seen as virtues, not only by Americans themselves but by enlightened spokesmen of reform, renewal and hope wherever they may be-in London coffeehouses, in Parisian salons, in the courts of German princes.
-- Bernard Bailyn

#Simplicity #Weakness #Reform

We grow a little every time we do not take advantage of somebody's weakness.
-- Bernard Williams

#Time #Growth #Weakness

In our thoughts and words we create our own weaknesses and our own strengths.
-- Betty Eadie

#Strength #Weakness

This amateurism however, can sometimes be helpful in forging a style; you have to work around your weaknesses.
-- Bill Bruford

#Style #Weakness #Helpful

Look for strength in people, not weakness; for good, not evil. Most of us find what we search for.
-- Bill Vaughan

#People #Evil #Weakness

What amazes me the most is to see that everyone is not amazed at his own weakness.
-- Blaise Pascal

#Weakness #Amazed

You got to keep all your weaknesses away, and my weakness is women. I love women too much. Which has definitely road-blocked me. I just try my best to channel my energy to other things and remain focused while making my work as fun as everything else.
-- Bow Wow

#Fun #Trying #Weakness

Vulnerability is not weakness. And that myth is profoundly dangerous.... Vulnerability is the birthplace of connection and the path to the feeling of worthiness. If it doesn't feel vulnerable, the sharing is probably not constructive.
-- Brené Brown

#Feelings #Weakness #Connections

Most people believe vulnerability is weakness. But really vulnerability is Courage. We must ask ourselves...are we willing to show up and be seen.
-- Brené Brown

#Believe #People #Weakness

Vulnerability is not weakness.
-- Brené Brown

#Weakness #Vulnerability

Vulnerability is not weakness. And that myth is profoundly dangerous... I define vulnerability as emotional risk, exposure, uncertainty. It fuels our daily lives.
-- Brené Brown

#Emotional #Risk #Weakness

There's no evidence that vulnerabilty is weakness.
-- Brené Brown

#Weakness #Evidence

Men walk this tightrope where any sign of weakness illicits shame, and so they're afraid to make themselves vulnerable for fear of looking weak.
-- Brené Brown

#Men #Weakness #Vulnerable

Vulnerability is not weakness. And that myth is profoundly dangerous.
-- Brené Brown

#Weakness #Dangerous #Myth

Love is a fragile, corruptible thing. And yet I have seen it evince a curious strength. It is beyond any comprehension Love is a weakness that once in a great while triumphs over strength.
-- Brent Weeks

#Love Is #Weakness #Triumph

We are doing well, notwithstanding all our failings and weaknesses; but the Lord would like to have us a little more diligent; he would like us to cleave a little more closely to the things of his kingdom, have more of his Spirit, and know more of him and of one another, that complete and perfect confidence can be restored.
-- Brigham Young

#Perfect #Weakness #Littles

What played to what had been a relative weakness for us-this was exploding overseas as well, and we had to scramble to mount some reach and get into places and be competitive on the ground.
-- Brit Hume

#Weakness #Literature #Wells

I've never found therapy to be a sign of weakness; I've found the opposite to be true. The willingness to have a mirror held up to you definitely requires strength.
-- Brooke Shields

#Mirrors #Opposites #Weakness

Everybody has to think for himself. A right way for a big man may not be a right way for a small man. A right way for someone who is slow may not be a right way for someone who is quick. Each person must understand his weaknesses and his strengths.
-- Bruce Lee

#Men #Thinking #Weakness

Capitalism has its weaknesses. But it is capitalism that ended the stranglehold of the hereditary aristocracies, raised the standard of living for most of the world and enabled the emancipation of women.
-- Camille Paglia

#World #Weakness #Aristocracy

I've decided that it's possible to love someone for entirely selfless reasons, for all of their flaws and weaknesses, and still not succeed in having them love you back.
-- Cammie McGovern

#Love You #Weakness #Selfless

It will not be we who reach Alpha Centauri, and the other nearby stars. It will be a species very like us - but with more of our strengths and fewer of our weaknesses.
-- Carl Sagan

#Stars #Weakness #Thrive

All war presupposes human weakness and seeks to exploit it.
-- Carl von Clausewitz

#War #Weakness #Humans

People in very high places suddenly fall, and we are always surprised because we don't factor in the basic element that they're humans and, therefore, they are flawed and have weaknesses.
-- Carlisle Floyd

#Fall #People #Weakness

I knuckle down with my demons, and with my weaknesses.
-- Carlos Santana

#Weakness #Knuckles #Demon

[On Peter III:] He did not have a bad heart; but a weak man usually has not.
-- Catherine the Great

#Heart #Men #Weakness

There is a certain cowardice, a certain weakness, rather, among respectable folk. Only brigands are convinced-of what? That they must succeed. And so they do succeed.
-- Charles Baudelaire

#Inspirational #Weakness #Succeed

At some point, if you're changing a really deep-seated behavior, you're going to have a moment of weakness.
-- Charles Duhigg

#Weakness #Moments #Really Deep

No looking back. Life goes one way only, and whatever opinions you hold about the past having nothing to do with anything but your own damn weakness. Nothing changes what already happened. It will always have happened. You either let it break you down or you don't.
-- Charles Frazier

#Past #Weakness #Way

My opinion changes rapidly - one minute I can think it is very good and the next time I look at it, I see all the flaws and weaknesses therein.
-- Charles Gounod

#Thinking #Next #Weakness

God does not need your strength: he has more than enough of power of his own. He asks your weakness: he has none of that himself, and he is longing, therefore, to take your weakness, and use it as the instrument in his own mighty hand. Will you not yield your weakness to him, and receive his strength?
-- Charles Spurgeon

#Yield #Hands #Weakness

Show the world that your God is worth ten thousand worlds to you. Show rich men how rich you are in your poverty when the Lord God is your helper. Show the strong man how strong you are in your weakness when underneath you are the everlasting arms.
-- Charles Spurgeon

#Strong #Men #Weakness

No one enjoys feeling weak, whether it is emotionally, spiritually or physically. There is something within the human spirit that wants to resist the thought of weakness. Many times this is nothing more than our human pride at work. Just as weakness carries a great potential for strength, pride carries an equally great potential for defeat.
-- Charles Stanley

#Pride #Feelings #Weakness

All of us have areas of weakness. God wants these character flaws to show us how totally dependent we are upon Him. When we handle them properly, they drive us into a deeper, more intimate relationship with the Lord. But uncontrolled weakness wreaks havoc in a person's life.
-- Charles Stanley

#Christian #Character #Weakness

It is the doctrine of the oligarchy that there is nothing that we hold in common, that the commonwealth is a myth, that it is even a sign of softheadedness and weakness. The oligarchical power feeds on the sense that we are all individuals, struggling on our own, and ennobled by the effort.
-- Charlie Pierce

#Struggle #Effort #Weakness

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

#Peace #Mind #Weakness

Remember, what may appear to be the source of one's strength can often also be the source of one's weakness.
-- Chin-Ning Chu

#Weakness #May #Remember

The heart itself is beyond control. That is its power, and its weakness.
-- Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#Heart #Weakness