Quotes About Not Showing Weakness

#1. Never let people see what you want, because they will not let you have it. Never let anybody see what you feel, because it gives them too much power. You're probably better off not showing weakness whenever you can avoid it, because they'll go for you.

Mike Nichols

#2. Showing signs of weakness was a good way to get eaten.

Jayne Ann Krentz

#3. There is nothing more effectual in showing us the weakness of any habitual fallacy or assumption than to hear it sympathetically through the ears, as it were, of a skeptic.

Margaret Oliphant

#4. But I am learning that perfection isn't what matters. In fact, it's the very thing that can destroy you if you let it.

Emily Giffin

#5. I'm usually ashamed of my tears. Afraid they showed weakness. But I am unashamedly crying now, because they aren't showing my fragility. They're showing unconditional love for my best friend.

Cassie Mae

#6. Thank you for loving me like you love me. Thank you for showing me that we don't always have to be strong to be there for each other
that it's okay to be weak, so long as we're there.

Colleen Hoover

#7. Yeah, you are kind of a dumbass.

P.T. Dilloway

#8. It is a sign of weakness to avoid showing signs of weakness.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#9. Most men I know rely on women to do all the literal dirty work.

Elizabeth Banks

#10. Disrespect is a symptom of weakness, of smallness, of an existential problem. By acting rude to me he's showing me what he really thinks of himself.

Patricia Cornwell

#11. Lord, may the pain be ours, And the weakness that it brings, But at least give us the strength, Of not showing it to anyone!

Fernando Pessoa

#12. The one best place to bury a good dog is in the heart of his master.

Ben Hur Lampman

#13. Eat, and the world will eat with you; starve, and the world will eat you.

Anthony Liccione

#14. I don't really tell a joke, I react to situations. The whole thing is just looking at somebody and showing all our weaknesses and exaggerating them, and that's how it becomes funny.

Don Rickles

#15. Refusing to feel desire is the only thing more painful than failing to get what you want, and that learning not to yearn, far from preventing disappointment, ultimately guarantees it.

Martha N. Beck

#16. I make mistakes like anybody else, I will make mistakes. And you have to reflect on it, and you have to listen to people. That is the key.

Jeremy Corbyn

#17. Life is not a PG feel-good movie. Real life often ends badly. Literature tries to document this reality, while showing us it is still possible for us to endure nobly.

Matthew Quick

#18. I buy a lot of books I never read. But that's not really a waste, since all it takes is one idea from even one book to radically reshape the way a person leads, thinks and lives.

Robin S. Sharma

#19. He felt even angrier that Dumbledore was showing signs of weakness. He had no business being weak when Harry wanted to rage and storm at him.

J.K. Rowling

#20. She kissed him back, opening every cavern of her heart for him to explore, to own, to love.

Sarah Sundin

#21. I didn't like showing weakness, not to anybody.

Gwenda Bond