Top 60 Quotes About Frailties
#1. We look for some reward of our endeavors and are disappointed that not success, not happiness, not even peace of conscience, crowns our ineffectual efforts to do well. Our frailties are invincible, our virtues barren; the battle goes sore against us to the going down of the sun.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#2. No further seek his merits to disclose, Or draw his frailties from their dread abode (There they alike in trembling hope repose), The bosom of his Father and his God.
Thomas Gray
#3. As friends they knew each other's history, knew the twists and turns that had brought them to this place in the world. And they understood each other's fears and frailties; nothing had to be explained. Now,
Jacqueline Winspear
#4. I would like to believe I would not have behaved differently had I not made a term limits pledge, but my own frailties and human desire for prestige and position tell me my term limits pledge did make a difference in how I approached my job in Congress.
Tom Coburn
#5. All men have their frailties; and whoever looks for a friend without imperfections, will never find what he seeks.
Cyrus The Great
#6. Our experience is fragmentary. Its parts don't add up. They don't even belong in the same calculation. Sometimes it is hard to believe they are all parts of one thing. Nothing makes sense until we realize that experience does not accumulate like money, or memories, or like years and frailties.
Marilynne Robinson
#7. If we look for human frailty in humans, we will always find it. When we focus on finding the frailties of those who hold priesthood keys, we run risks for ourselves. When we speak or write to others of such frailties, we put them at risk.
Henry B. Eyring
#8. Burns had his faults, his frailties. He was intensely human. Still, I would rather appear at the "Judgment Seat" drunk, and be able to say that I was the author of "A man's a man for 'a that," than to be perfectly sober and admit that I had lived and died a Scotch Presbyterian.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#9. The language of love is unspoken. It is a feeling, an acknowledgment, and acceptance of not only our human frailties, but our divine eminence.
Charles F. Glassman
#10. Paradoxically, the more deeply one grows in enlightenment, the more clearly one discerns one's own frailties and limitations.
Kim Hee-jin
#11. Love is not 'blind' but visionary: It sees into the very heart of its object And sees the 'real self' behind and in the midst Of the frailties and shortcomings of the person.
Andras Angyal
#12. If our souls be immortal, this makes amends for the frailties of life and the sufferings of this state.
John Tillotson
#13. My friend, be not like him who sits by his fireside and watches the fire go out, then blows vainly upon the dead ashes. Do not give up hope or yield to despair because of that which is past, for to bewail the irretrievable is the worst of human frailties.
Khalil Gibran
#14. I don't know what the heart is, not I: I only use the word to denote the mind's frailties.
Marquis De Sade
#15. Ought a woman to disclose her frailties earlier than the wedding day? Few husbands, I assure you, make the discovery in such good season, and still fewer complain that these trifles are concealed too long. Well, what a strange man you are! Poh! you are joking.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#16. Should we not be moved rather than chilled by the knowledge that he might have attained his greatness only through his frailties?
Lou Andreas-Salome
#17. It is always a starkly private moment when a governor first apprehends his subject as a man - perhaps not as an equal, but at least as a being, irreducible, possessed of frailties, enthusiasms, a real past, and an uncertain future.
Eleanor Catton
#18. ...knowing the full depth of any human, knowing their hopes and frailties, the hurts of their past, the tremor with which they reach for the future...that knowledge is akin to love.
J.M. Martin
#19. Right and wrong becomes more difficult for each of us as we grow older, because the older we get the more we know personally about our own human frailties.
Blanche Lincoln
#20. William Henry Harrison, who died of pneumonia in April of 1841, after only one month in office, was the first Chief Executive to hide his physical frailties.
Robert Dallek
#21. The imperfections of a man, his frailties, his faults, are just as important as his virtues. You can't separate them. They're wedded.
Henry Miller
#22. I think there should be laughs in everything. Sometimes, it's a slammed door, a pie in the face or just a recognition of our frailties.
Alan Rickman
#23. Let him who elevates himself above humanity ... say, if he pleases, "I will never compromise"; but let no one who is not above the frailties of our common nature disdain compromise.
Henry Clay
#24. We have to learn how to live with our frailties. The best people I know are inadequate and unashamed.
Stanley Kunitz
#25. I understood at those times what I was leaving behind: the solidarity of a shared biology. Women know what it means to have a body. They understand its difficulties and frailties, its glories and pleasures. Men think their bodies are theirs alone. They tend them in private, even in public.
Jeffrey Eugenides
#26. Young guys don't tend to want to portray people who have frailties or are less than macho.
Samuel L. Jackson
#28. When we see everyone the way God sees them, all their frailties and weaknesses as well as their strengths,we can learn to treat them tenderly.
Laura Lane
#29. Individual faults and frailties are no excuse to give in - and no exemption from the common obligation to give of ourselves.
Edward Kennedy
#30. We all have common frailties but we need to treasure friends more.
Eric Cantona
#31. Compassion basically means accepting people's frailties, their weaknesses, not expecting them to behave like gods. That expectation is cruelty.
Osho
#32. God seeth different abilities and frailties of men, which may move His goodness to be merciful to their different improvements in virtue.
William Law
#33. Ninety per cent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves
so how can we know anyone else?
Sydney J. Harris
#34. God knows I've got so many frailties myself, I ought to be able to understand and forgive them in others. But I don't.
Ava Gardner
#35. But no man is all one thing; none of us are pure in our beliefs or our devotions. We are all bound by the frailties of our humanity, some of which feed our hatred, some of which, very occasionally, make us want to be something better.
Sebastien De Castell
#36. I think for most of us, our biggest frailties are sexual.
George Michael
#37. God is love, at times we forget that we're human perhaps with common frailties and flaws. Love is the ability to accept this without judgement.
Monica Chrisandtras Hines
#38. Don't be too worthwhile. Always keep a few character defects handy. People love to talk about your frailties.If you must be noble, keep it to yourself
Edward Stone
#39. The United States of America is a nation where people are not united because of those three glaring frailties: racism, injustices and inequities.
Yuri Kochiyama
#40. We get most upset with those we love because they are close to us and we know that they are aware of our weaknesses ... If only we could learn to live with our inadequacies, our frailties, our vulnerabilities, we would not need to try so hard to push away those who really know us.
Desmond Tutu
#41. I would say that the study of history is that which gives man the greatest optimism, for if man were not destined by his Maker to go on until the Kingdom of Heaven is attained, man would have been extinguished long ago by reason of all man's mistakes and frailties.
Douglas Southall Freeman
#42. Vices and frailties correct each other, like acids and alkalies. If each vicious man had but one vice, I do not know how the world could go on.
Richard Whately
#43. The city's contradictions and frailties drive me to the church. The church, in turn, binds my wounds and soothes my troubled heart, and sends me right back out into the city again.
Steve Ross
#44. How easy human frailties could thrive under the cover of idealism
Hermann Hesse
#45. The glory of victory softens our view of past frailties.
Marian Deegan
#46. So I have failed you?" "Not at all. Your human frailties are not your fault.
Brian Herbert
#47. George Eliot tenderly carried in her heart the burdens of our race. She looked through pity's tears upon the faults and frailties of mankind.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#48. A poem might be defined as thinking about feelings - about human feelings and frailties.
Anne Stevenson
#49. It sounds cliched, but superheroes can be lonely, vain, arrogant and proud. Often they overcome these human frailties for the greater good.
Tom Hiddleston
#50. May and I are sisters. We'll always fight, but we'll always make up as well. That's what sisters do: we argue, we point out each other's frailties, mistakes, and bad judgment, we flash the insecurities we've had since childhood, and then we come back together. Until the next time.
Lisa See
#51. I suspect the secret of personal attraction is locked up in our unique imperfections, flaws and frailties.
Hugh Mackay
#52. Remember: even the smallest drop of God's strength is more than enough to cover our frailties, our shortcomings, and the places where we deem ourselves weak.
Lysa TerKeurst
#53. Seek to mingle gentleness in all your rebukes; bear with the infirmities of others; make allowance for constitutional frailties; never say harsh things, if kind things will do as well.
John Ross Macduff
#54. But it's also another myth to think that you should be as tight as a drum and not have any frailties or fragilities.
William Hurt
#55. It's one of the saving graces in a life, to be able to perceive one's own and others' absurdity, to notice our shared human frailties and be able, at least some of the time, to smile rather than grimace. Like most people, I must have started out with a comic worldview in my cupboard.
Jane Hirshfield
#56. An interface is humane if it is responsive to human needs and considerate of human frailties.
Jef Raskin
#57. I could meet dreadful people and end up seeing the world through their eyes, seeing their frailties, their needs.
V.S. Naipaul
#58. But it is heartening to realize that God accomplishes his purposes despite our frailties, our little faith, our entrenched self-reliance.
Ann Spangler
#59. We must be able to love other people or forever endure the stain of disgraceful loneliness. By recognizing and expressing empathy for other people, we come to accept our own fallibility.
Kilroy J. Oldster
