Quotes about weakness

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“And always, I could see that, despite his weakness for her or because of it, he seemed uncatchable, as if he might slip away at any moment.”

“But borrowing strength builds weakness.”

“From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.”

“The scholar's greatest weakness: calling procrastination research.”

“All we have is the story we tell. Everything we do, every decision we make, our strength, weakness, motivation, history, and character-what we believe-none of it is; it's all part of the story we tell. But here's the thing:”

“I think in a moment of weakness, you might surprise yourself.”

“What doesn't kill you maims you, cripples you, leaves you weak, makes you whiny and full of yourself at the same time. The more pain, the more pompous you get. Whatever doesn't kill you makes you incredibly annoying”

“The times I have tried to get close to someone resulted in me feeling threatened and weak.”

“Always our wars have been our confessions of weakness”

“I don't divide the world into the weak and the strong, or the successes and the failures, those who make it or those who don't. I divide the world into learners and nonlearners.”

“Morality is the weakness of the mind.”

“… we need to fall, and we need to be aware of it; for if we did not fall, we should not know how weak and wretched we are of ourselves, nor should we know our Maker's marvellous love so fully…”

“It is necessary that the weakness of the powerless is transformed into a force capable of announcing justice. For this to happen, a total denouncement of fatalism is necessary. We are transformative beings and not beings for accommodation.”

“The weak are cruel. The strong have no need to be.”

“It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if that is all we ever were, we would millenniums ago have disappeared from the face of the earth.”

“What needs my Shakespeare for his honoured bones,
The labor of an age in pilèd stones,
Or that his hallowed relics should be hid
Under a star-y-pointing pyramid?
Dear son of memory, great heir of fame,
What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name?”

“Astrology and all these mystical things are generally signs of a weak mind; therefore as soon as they are becoming prominent in our minds, we should see a physician, take good food, and rest.”

“My condition is not unhappiness, but it is also not happiness, not indifference, not weakness, not fatigue, not another interest – so what is it then?”

“This is a great fact: strength is life; weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal; weakness is constant strain and misery, weakness is death.”

“Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others.”

“Weakness never got anyone anywhere.”

“I used to be strong, but now I am weak.
I used to be pretty, but now I look sick.”

“Some women have a weakness for shoes… I can go barefoot if necessary. I have a weakness for books.”

“Love isn't a weakness.”

“John Matthew was her well of soul, as the symphaths called it, or her pyrocant, to the vampires. Her essential weakness.”

“The men in my family are strong because the women in my family kill and eat the weak ones.”

“You couldn't have strength without weakness, you couldn't have light without dark, you couldn't have love without loss”

“Sane is rich and powerful. Insane is wrong and poor and weak. The rich are free, the poor are put in cages. Res Ipsa Loquitur, amen. Mahalo.”

“We all have moments of weakness. It’s how we recover from them that really counts.”

“Sometimes you’re loved because of your weaknesses. What you can’t do is sometimes more compelling than what you can.”

“This world… belongs to the strong, my friend! The ritual of our existence is based on the strong getting stronger by devouring the weak.”

“That was the problem with loving people: it made you weak. It made you need them. It made the thought of not having them the worst thing in the world.”

“Let no one think of me that I am humble or weak or passive; let them understand I am of a different kind: dangerous to my enemies, loyal to my friends. To such a life glory belongs.”

“Never violate a woman, nor harm a child. Do not lie, cheat or steal. These things are for lesser men. Protect the weak against the evil strong. And never allow thoughts of gain to lead you into the persuit of evil.”

“I have taken advantage of other people's weaknesses in order to cover my own.”

“Madam, the commonest weakness of our race is our ability to rationalize our most selfish purposes.”

“If you let people believe that you are weak, sooner or later you’re going to have to kill them.”

“Do not cry for me, Azrael. Do not waste your tears. You made your decision. And this is mine. Sacrifice seems to be my destiny. A funny thing for a selfish man, isn't it? They always called me weak back then…”

“Weak is he who permits his thoughts to control his actions; strong is he who forces his actions to control his thoughts.”

“Of all the causes which conspire to blind
Man's erring judgement, and misguide the mind,
What the weak head with strongest bias rules,
Is PRIDE, the never-failing vice of fools.”

“Weakness' is weakness only in light of the aims man sets for himself, the instruments at his disposal and the laws he imposes.”

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

“The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak becomes a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.”

“The srongest love is the love which is not afraid to show the weakness”

“Defend the weak, protect both young and old, never desert your friends. Give justice to all, be fearless in battle and always ready to defend the right."

—The law of Badger Lords”

“The greatest sin is to think yourself weak”

“It occurred to him that strength was quite different from toughness and that being vulnerable wasn't quite the same as being weak.”

“Your strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others.”

“It is through weakness and vulnerability that most of us learn empathy and compassion and discover our soul.”

“You gain power by pretending to be weak. By contrast, you make people feel strong. You save people by letting them save you.”

“It's not so much that he can't fall in love, but he has not the weakness necessary.”

“I'm not a. I have no male pride for you to trick me with, and I am not interested in single combat. That is entirely a weakness of your sex, not mine. I am a woman. I will use any weapon and all weapons to get what I want.”

“Leo: "So… giants who can throw mountains. Friendly wolves that will eat us if we show weakness. Evil espresso drinks. Gotcha. Maybe this isn't the best time to bring up my psycho babysitter."
Piper: "Is that another joke?”

“Guys always think tears are a sign of weakness. They’re a sign of FRUSTRATION. She’s only crying so she won’t cut your throat in your sleep. So make nice and be grateful.”

“The weak would never enter the kingdom of love.”

“Weak people believe what is forced on them. Strong people what they wish to believe, forcing that to be real.”

“If your concern is that I may be overcome with manly ardor and ravish you in a moment of weakness… I may. If you ask nicely.”

“Nor did I need anyone's pity, but I would accept it with grace, because I have been well trained. Rudeness was a sign of weakness. Grace stemmed from power, the powere to accept anything and move on.”

“she never showed girly weaknesses like cellulite or crushes. she never lingered on injustices committed against her.”

“Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one's rage; whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them.”

“No one is ever quite as strong or as weak as you'd think.”

“ABSTAINER, n. A weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.”

“Management is about human beings. Its task is to make people capable of joint performance, to make their strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant.”

“The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.”

“You can not entertain weak, harmful, negative thoughts ten hours a day and expect to bring about beautiful, strong and harmonious conditions by ten minutes of strong, positive, creative thought.”

“To want is to have a weakness.”

“If you only do what is easy, you will always remain weak.”

“once you laugh at you own weaknesses, you can move forward. Comedy breaks down walls. It opens up people. If you're good, you can fill up those openings with something positive. Mabye…….. combat some the ugliness in the world.”

“Plant seeds of expectation in your mind; cultivate thoughts that anticipate achievement. Believe in yourself as being capable of overcoming all obstacles and weaknesses.”

“whatever you love, that is your weakness”

“Having an eye for beauty isn't the same thing as a weakness.”

“a man would know the women he was meant to be with because she made him weak. Till he claimed her and she made him strong.”

“There are things of which I may not speak;
There are dreams that cannot die;
There are thoughts that make the strong heart weak,
And bring a pallor into the cheek,
And a mist before the eye.”

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

“The city glitters past us with its sharp edges, reminding us of how tiny, how weak, how totally unimportant we are.”

“I have lived lies. I have done it again and again. I live lies because I cannot endure the weakness of anger, and I cannot admit the irrationality of love.-Marius”

“To be weak is miserable,
Doing or suffering.”

“I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.”

“Avoid the flourish. Do not be afraid to be weak. Do not be ashamed to be tired. You look good when you’re tired. You look like you could go on forever. Now come into my arms. You are the image of my beauty.”

“A weak man has doubts before a decision; a strong man has them afterwards.”

“They said it was better to know your enemy, but how did it help to know that your enemy’s one weakness was your weakness too”

“Best way to find the weakness of the enemy is to understand their ways.”

“The Vedanta recognizes no sin it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the Vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that.”

“Yes, vanity is a weakness indeed. But pride - where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation.”

“I can stand a lot! But just because I can, does that mean I must? Do I have to bear everyone’s weakness? Can I not have my own?”

“Kabuto: It's always easier said than done. I just said that this jutsu had no weaknesses or risk…

Itachi: Every jutsu has its weakness. This jutsu's weakness and risk is… the existence of me!”

“He had found my worst weakness: I was one of those people who was desperate to be needed, to matter to someone.”

“Women are weak, but mothers are strong.”

“There are no choices without personal freedom, Buckeroo. It's not us who are dead inside. These things you find so weak and contemptible in us - these are just the hazards of being free”

“Never test another man by your own weakness.”

“what's the matter?" he asked
"nothing"
"what do you want me to do for you?"
"i want you to be old. ten years older. twenty years older"
what she meant was: i want you to be weak. as weak as i am.”

“A strong man doesn't have to be dominant toward a woman. He doesn't match his strength against a woman weak with love for him. He matches it against the world.”

“Love is for weak people, it's a delusion and it can be deadly.”

“Until one comes who is mightier,
The one sprung from misery,
The one who was weak,
The one who was hunted,
The one marked with claw and vine,
The one named in secret,
The one called Jezelia.”

“If you cannot stand a spoon upright in the cup, then the coffee is too weak.”

“I hate myself for loving you and the weakness that it showed. You were just a painted face on a trip down to suicide road.”

“Really? And what curse befalls the Adams of the world?"
Ann opens her mouth and, presumably thinking of nothing to say, closes it again.
It is Felicity who answers, eyes steely. "They are weak to temptation. And we are their temptresses.”

“If you appear weak, people take advantage of you.”

“Love is never any better than the lover. Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love a free man is never safe.”