Top 100 Quotes About Our Weaknesses
#1. God uses our weaknesses to strengthen us..... 2 Corinthians 12:7-10
Amanda Penland
#3. 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
#4. Our weaknesses are not as negative as we may believe. They make us rely upon God's grace and power for greater Christlikeness and ministry.
Paul Washer
#5. 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
#6. God is love, generosity and forgiveness; if we believe in this, we will never allow our weaknesses to paralyse us.
Paulo Coelho
#7. The most ridiculous were those who, on their own authority, made themselves the judges and justices of the tribe. They seemed never to suspect that our judgments judge us, and that nothing exposes our weaknesses and reveals ourselves more naively than the attitude of pronouncing upon our neighbors.
Paul Valery
#8. We can love with all our hearts those in whom we recognize great faults. It would be impertinent to believe that perfection alone has the right to please us; sometimes our weaknesses attach us to each other as much as our virtues.
Luc De Clapiers
#9. It's not that we ignore our weaknesses; rather, we make our weaknesses irrelevant by working effectively with others so that we compensate for our weaknesses through their strengths and they compensate for their weaknesses through our strengths.
Stephen Covey
#10. The very fact that we long for the change we do is a sign that we are meant to have it. Our very dissatisfaction with our weaknesses and struggles points to the reality that continuing to live in them is not our destiny.
Stasi Eldredge
#11. As you say, nature taunts us with our weaknesses.
Myrina took Klito by the shoulders, 'It is not a taunt, but a challenge.
Anne Fortier
#12. Failure often happens because we fail to recognize our strengths and our weaknesses.' Krishna
Kavita Kane
#13. The Lord is well aware of our mortality. He knows our weaknesses. He understands the challenges of our everyday lives. He has great empathy for the temptations of earthly appetites and passions.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#14. 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
#15. If we are truly fortunate, we will be blessed with one to love us, truly love us. To accept us in all ways, to see us in all our weaknesses and in our glory and to take our hearts, as we take theirs.
J.C. Owens
#17. We are slaves of our weaknesses until we free ourselves through our strengths.
Ben Tolosa
#18. To successfully tell the story, we had to be willing to let people see us as we really were; with all our weaknesses, fears, and imperfections. There are important lessons we learned from the experience that we would not have adequately relayed to the reader if we had been less bold." ~ Duane
Duane & Selena Pannell
#19. It's not our weaknesses that frighten us. It's our strengths.
Nelson Mandela
#20. Our God does not indulge us, but He is merciful toward our weaknesses as He strives to tutor us.
Neal A. Maxwell
#21. Once we know our elements we know our strengths, but that is nothing compared with our weaknesses. Our strengths define us, but our weaknesses limit us. It's a constant tug of war in ourselves.
Katie Kacvinsky
#22. We can be seduced ... by powerful political groups that promise more wealth and lower taxes. Those with power can use clever, psychological tricks and play upon our weaknesses and brokenness in order to attract us to their way of thinking. We can be manipulated into illusion.
Jean Vanier
#23. We are supposed to maximize God, which keeps our weaknesses in perspective.
Lysa TerKeurst
#25. Our weaknesses are an opportunity for God to show his strength.
Michael Horton
#26. As a culture we tend to feel great pride towards our strengths, and shame for our weaknesses. It is time we take notice that these are two pieces of the same whole.
Chris Matakas
#27. The path of least resistance is a terrible teacher. We can't afford to shy away from the things that intimidate us. We don't need to take our weaknesses for granted. Are
Ryan Holiday
#28. Our strengths are not many. Our weaknesses are a lot.
Cullen Jenkins
#29. We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions. We are haunted, not by reality, but by those images we have put in their place.
Daniel J. Boorstin
#30. Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows.
Paul Valery
#31. Only when we admit to our failures and recognize our weaknesses can we rise above them.
R.A. Salvatore
#32. There is more freedom confessing our weaknesses and shortcomings than in pretending we have it all together
LeCrae
#33. Our enemies did not cross our borders They crept through our weaknesses like ants.
Nizar Qabbani
#34. God's not looking for ability, but availability. If we can risk stepping out of our comfort zone into the Spirit zone, God will provide the ability when we need it. He'll use our weaknesses to make others strong.
Avis Goodhart
#35. What challenges us, what should break us, can in the end be our greatest blessing. Because our failures can make us great. Our most basic of human adversities can inspire within us an almost superhuman strength. Our weaknesses are simply our untested wings waiting to be flown.
Tillie Cole
#36. Life is an aspiration. Its mission is to strive after perfection, which is self-realization. The ideal must not be lowered because of our weaknesses or imperfections.
Mahatma Gandhi
#37. We all have our weaknesses, dear friends; so we must strive to be considerate of one another.
L. Frank Baum
#38. Every child, every person needs to know that they are a source of joy; every child, every person, needs to be celebrated. Only when all of our weaknesses are accepted as part of our humanity can our negative, broken self-images be transformed.
Jean Vanier
#39. Sometimes our strengths are also our weaknesses. Sometimes to be strong you have to first be weak. You have to share your burdens; you have to lean on other people while you face your problems and yourself.
Glenn Beck
#40. Fear is the exaggeration of our weaknesses against another's strength.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#41. From aquaintances we conceal our real selves. To our friends we reveal our weaknesses.
Basil Hume
#42. Qualities.-Our strong points sometimes drive us so far forward that we cannot any longer endure our weaknesses, and we perish by them: we also perhaps see this result beforehand, but nevertheless do not want it to be otherwise.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#43. Jesus understands our weaknesses and sins; and he forgives us if we allow ourselves to be forgiven.
Pope Francis
#44. When we are aware of our weaknesses or negative tendencies, we open the opportunity to work on them.
Allan Lokos
#45. Too often we compare our weaknesses with other people's strengths only to find ourselves coming up short." We compare our worst to someone else's best which sets us up to sound like failures. Essentially, we begin lying to ourselves.
Ruth Schwenk
#46. 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
#47. It's okay that your parents aren't perfect; no one's are. And it's okay that they didn't have any perfect children either; no one's are. You see, our whole purpose is to strive together in righteousness, overcoming our weaknesses day by day. Don't ever give up on each other.
Ardeth Kapp
#48. Institutions do all the things that are supposed to be bad. They impede personal exploration. They enforce conformity. But they often save us from our weaknesses and give meaning to life.
David Brooks
#49. We must learn to pray out of our weaknesses so that God can become our
strength.
Joan D. Chittister
#50. We are all specialised forms of survivor. We lack what we fundamentally need and forge ahead regardless, hurriedly hiding our wounds, disguising our ineptitude, bluffing our way through our weaknesses.
Michel Faber
#51. Sang Ly, we are literature-our lives, our hopes, our desires, our despairs, our passions, our strengths, our weaknesses. Stories express our longing not only to make a difference today but to see what is possible for tomorrow. Literature has been called a handbook for the art of being human.
Camron Wright
#52. I feel like we're attracted to paths in life that force us to look at our weaknesses or deficiencies as human beings. Not to get all deep on you, but that's how I feel.
Emma Bell
#53. In the Holy Relationship, it's understood that we all have unhealed places, and that healing is the purpose of our being with another person. We don't hide our weaknesses, but rather we understand that the relationship is a context for healing through mutual forgiveness.
Marianne Williamson
#54. Favorable outcomes conceal our weaknesses.
Overcoming unfavorable outcomes reveals our strengths.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#55. At times, our strengths propel us so far forward we can no longer endure our weaknesses and perish from them.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#56. Our weaknesses may never go away but when we give them to God, His grace will turn them into something beautiful ...
Heather Bixler
#57. The confession of our failings is a thankless office. It savors less of sincerity or modesty than of ostentation. It seems as if we thought our weaknesses as good as other people's virtues.
William Hazlitt
#58. Going into our fear and confronting our greed, our weaknesses, our neediness is the way out. And the way out is through the mind, by choosing our thoughts.
Robert T. Kiyosaki
#59. Losses are always great eye openers. Pleasures never open our eyes. It's only through pain that we learn our weaknesses.
Swami Satchidananda
#60. Denying our weaknesses is neither power, nor protection. We cannot overcome those disabling parts of our own nature which in fact steal our power away, if we do not acknowledge they exist.
Sonia Choquette
#61. 15For we do not have a high priest g who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been d tempted as we are, h yet without sin. 16 i Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.
Anonymous
#62. We are not the sum of our weaknesses and failures, we are the sum of the Father's love for us and our real capacity to become the image of His Son Jesus.
Pope John Paul II
#63. Research shows that when we're under stress or facing a major obstacle, we tend to focus on our weaknesses and what we're afraid of.
Jane McGonigal
#64. Leading with integrity is embracing honesty! We should always use our weaknesses to point others to Christ's strength.
Perry Noble
#65. In evaluating ourselves, we tend to be long on our weaknesses and short on our strengths.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#66. The bounds of human possibility are not as confining as we think they are; they are made to seem to be tight by our weaknesses, our vices, our prejudices that confine them.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#67. One of the main focuses of my training sessions is to help individuals find their unique voices in the learning process. We all have our strengths, our weaknesses, our styles of learning, our personalities. Developing introspective sensitivity to these issues is critical to long-term success.
Joshua Waitzkin
#68. We plead not ourselves, but the promises of Jesus; not our strengths but His; our weaknesses yes, but His mercies. Our way of fighting is to hide behind Jesus who fights for us. Our hope is not the absence of our regret, or misery or doubt or lament, but the presence of Jesus.
Zack Eswine
#70. Most of us think we can hide our weaknesses from the world, and sometimes, we're right. But only if we're very very strong.
Brian K. Vaughan
#71. Looking for honest ways to lift one another would ... be more beneficial to our own self-esteem, for we would see more good in ourselves. We would cease to be so critical of our weaknesses and would find ways to allow our weaknesses to become strengths with God's help.
Neal A. Maxwell
#73. What we learned several years ago was that one of our weaknesses would be if we didn't develop enough people with the know-how to run our company, it would come to the point where we would just stop.
Kevin Rollins
#75. We all have our weaknesses."
"I know," said Iko. "Mine is shoes.
Marissa Meyer
#76. The truth is that most of us go to great lengths to disguise our weaknesses.
Kyle Idleman
#77. When we think about our strengths, we are strong. When we think about our weaknesses, we are weak.
Peter A. Cohen
#78. One thing I can guarantee, is that the world will never change itself because of our weaknesses. In fact, it has ways of actually becoming more dangerous when we approach it with a bad attitude.
J.Z. Colby
#79. Our strengths are our tools, our personal reality. Our weaknesses are only what we are not.
Joseph Batten
#80. True strength is the courage to admit our weaknesses.
Simon Sinek
#81. too. A monastery is like a mirror we hold up to the soul. It reflects back to us our weaknesses, struggles, flaws. But by looking deeply into that mirror, we can come face-to-face with an answer.
Judith Valente
#82. Many times our weaknesses are extensions of our strengths.
Zig Ziglar
#84. We don't want to think about our weaknesses. We don't want to talk about them, and we certainly don't want anyone else to point them out. This is a classic sign of mediocrity, and this mediocrity has a firm grip on the Church and humanity at this moment in history.
Matthew Kelly
#85. We might impress people with our strengths, but we connect with people through our weaknesses.
Craig Groeschel
#86. Some of our weaknesses are born in us, others are the result of education; it is a question which of the two gives us most trouble.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#87. You are a miracle, you are a light. You are not made of our weaknesses but of your strengths. You are a masterpiece made by The Master. Don't see yourself less!
Kemi Sogunle
#88. What really kept us apart for so long, what we both forgot, is that we are stronger together. Separately, we remember our weaknesses and our self-doubts and we falter.
Sabrina Jeffries
#90. Success is achieved by developing our strengths, not by eliminating our weaknesses.
Marilyn Vos Savant
#91. We do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are. (HEBREWS 4:15)
John Eldredge
#92. We serve others as much by our weaknesses as by our strengths. The only difficult is that it takes humility and courage to be able to live by it.
Marcia Willett
#93. We have the ability to love each other, no matter our differences. To help each other, no matter our weaknesses.
Marissa Meyer
#94. And I was very comfortable with this band even when we disagreed. It takes a long time to feel comfortable enough to disagree with somebody. When everything happened, it just was really confusing. It's like our weaknesses were nurtured and brought out front by outsiders.
Edie Brickell
#95. We had something few experience. We were joined in our strengths rather than in our weaknesses.
Frank Herbert
#96. Do not have expectations. We humans are created imperfect, which means that we have flaws
Norhafsah Hamid
#97. Within our perceived weaknesses and imperfections lies the key to realizing our true strength.
Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
#98. Herein lies the great difference between divine weakness and human weakness, the wounds of Christ and the wounds of man. Two human weaknesses only intensify each other. But human weakness plus Christ's weakness equals a supernatural strength.
Christian Wiman
#99. To be happy with myself and always make others happy. To be confident and give others confidence in themselves. To smile, to surf, to laugh and make others laugh. To read more widely. To try to be more tolerant of my weaknesses and of others, and not to be so hard on myself all the time.
Chrissie Wellington
#100. 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
