Top 100 Quotes About People's Weaknesses
#1. Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.
William Hazlitt
#2. If you focus on people's weaknesses, they lose confidence.
Tom Rath
#3. When building a team do not look at people's weaknesses, instead look at their strengths.
Sunday Adelaja
#4. I have taken advantage of other people's weaknesses in order to cover my own.
David Levithan
#5. A man should never be appointed into a managerial position if his vision focuses on people's weaknesses rather than on their strengths.
Peter Drucker
#6. Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it / immediately.
Stephen R. Covey
#7. You really fucked up, Paul Guy, because I don't have an issue using people's weaknesses against them, and this is a pretty big fucking weakness. You could end up being my bitch for a very long time.
Kele Moon
#8. A man should never be appointed to a managerial position if his vision focuses on people's weaknesses rather than on their strengths. The man who always knows exactly what people cannot do, but never sees anything they can do, will undermine the spirit of his organization.
Peter F. Drucker
#9. We all can relate to people's weaknesses. We might put up a facade that everything is perfect but none of us are. When we see that weakness in somebody else, we understand or give ourselves a little bit of leeway.
Joel Kinnaman
#11. To win hearts, smile kindly on people's weaknesses.
Mason Cooley
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. People respect those who know how to admit their own mistakes and see their own weaknesses. If you heart is as transparent as crystal, people will respect you.
Sunday Adelaja
#15. You always have to remember that bullies want to bring you down because you have something that they admire. Also, when you get made fun of-when people point out your weaknesses, it's an opportunity for you to rise above.
Zac Efron
#16. Anna smiled,as people smile at the weaknesses of those they love ...
Leo Tolstoy
#17. People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
Anatole France
#18. It's easy to prescribe remedies for our own weaknesses when they're comfortably ensconced in other people. What
Scott Lynch
#19. Flaws reveal a lot about a character and who people are. The flawed elements of a character are where I find their humanity. Those are the things I tend to identify with - the weaknesses. I don't know why, but I identify with struggle more than with success.
Liev Schreiber
#21. Your sensitivity is power. Don't let people transform your qualities into weaknesses.
Tariq Ramadan
#22. My partners ... taught me that in order to create wealth, I needed to pair up with people whose strengths compensated for my weaknesses.
Kevin O'Leary
#23. I'm just like any other man. I understand why people become reclusive. One of my weaknesses is that I sometimes allow people in that shouldn't be in my life.
Peter Loftin
#24. Management is about human beings. Its task is to make people capable of joint performance, to make their strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant.
Peter F. Drucker
#25. One of those things that I like about TV is that if you get a group of people you like, you can work with these people for months at a time, and you can discover their strengths and weaknesses, and you can use those in the direction where you take the characters.
Denis Leary
#26. One of the great weaknesses of journalists is they interview people and they think that's important. They think that they are going to show them their true hand. But more to the point, they're trapped.
George Friedman
#27. 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
#28. I think the way I look at things gives me a different perspective. I'm most valuable when I work with a team of bright people who complement my weaknesses with their strengths.
Craig McCaw
#29. If young people are our greatest asset in a war that must be won then we
must be willing to extricate them at whatever cost from the clutches
of those who seek to exploit their weaknesses
Oche Otorkpa
#30. There are few enough people with sufficient independence to see the weaknesses and follies of their contemporaries and remain themselves untouched by them.
Albert Einstein
#31. Share your weaknesses. Share your hard moments. Share your real side. It'll either scare away every fake person in your life or it will inspire them to finally let go of that mirage called "perfection," which will open the doors to the most important relationships you'll ever be a part of.
Dan Pearce
#32. Compliment people. Magnify their strengths, not their weaknesses.
Joyce Meyer
#33. It's a funny thing about weaknesses ... Most people will tell you they know their weaknesses. When asked, they'll tell you, 'Well for one thing, I'm overgenerous.' ... that's what innkeepers are for.
David Gemmell
#34. You must take the good that people do and put the bright light on that good, but human beings can never withstand such light without showing their shadows and warts. All mortals have their shortcomings and weaknesses.
Maya Angelou
#35. One thing about television, it brings out personality. People are able to watch me in action. They hear my voice and see my eyes. There's nothing I can hide. That's me. Television brings out your flaws, your weaknesses, your strengths, and you truths. The audience either likes you or it doesn't.
Donald Trump
#36. Organizations exist to make people's strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant. And this is the work of effective leaders.
Frances Hesselbein
#37. don't even like the word 'normal.' It's overrated and shouldn't be applied to people. We all have different strengths, weaknesses, faults, and of course problems.
Heather Bowhay
#38. We might impress people with our strengths, but we connect with people through our weaknesses.
Craig Groeschel
#39. The things people tease you for are not your weaknesses, they are your superpowers!
Tom Angleberger
#41. Westerns just thematically, as a genre, have kind of a few tent poles that I really admire, and one of them is this perception that life was simpler back then. And with that perception goes that people were good or people were bad. You survived by your strengths or you perished by your weaknesses.
Kiefer Sutherland
#42. It is important for people to know that no matter what lies in their past, they can overcome the dark side and press on the a brighter world.
Dave Pelzer
#43. God wants to use you in spite of your weaknesses. Of God chose to use perfect people only, He'd have no one to use
Joel Osteen
#44. Now she knew all of them as people know one another in a country town; she knew their habits and weaknesses, and where the shoe pinched each one of them.
Leo Tolstoy
#45. Most people carrying heavy loads begin to doubt themselves & their own worth. We lighten their loads as we are patient with their weaknesses & celebrate whatever goodness we can see in them. The Lord does that.
Henry B. Eyring
#46. There is much sorrow, not only of the dramatic kind but also in the way that difficult economic circumstances wear people down, eroding them, preying on their weaknesses, until they do things that they themselves find hateful, until they are shadows of their best selves.
Teju Cole
#47. Jimmy found himself wishing to make a dent in Crake, get a reaction; it was one of his weaknesses, to care what other people thought of him.
Margaret Atwood
#48. Everybody has same or the other weakness. This eis also a a general tendency to conceal theee weaknesses. For people may not harm for these, but they will surely ridicule or make fun of. Friendship, of course feigned should be retained with enemy till his weakness is known. Let him remain elated.
Chanakya
#49. Stars are almost always people that want to make up for their own weaknesses by being loved by the public and I'm no exception to that.
George Michael
#50. Maybe the truly handicapped people are the ones that don't need God as much.
Joni Eareckson Tada
#51. Golf is said to be an humbling game, but it is surprising how many people are either not aware of their weaknesses of else reckless of consequences.
Bobby Jones
#52. Don't be too fast to highlight the weaknesses of other people. That is the quickest way of exposing your own weaknesses.
Israelmore Ayivor
#53. There has been fear in this organization, and people are afraid for their jobs," Reuss said. "But what we need to do now is trust each other, and be honest about our strengths and weaknesses.
Bill Vlasic
#54. She was a blameless sinless woman, yet she understood who how it was with people who sinned. Inflexibly rigid in her own moral conduct, she condoned weaknesses in others. She revered God and loved Jesus, but she understood why people often turned away from these Two.
Betty Smith
#55. Ministers are powerless people who have nothing to boast of except their weaknesses. But when the Lord whom they serve fills them with His blessing they will move mountains and change the hearts of people wherever they go.
Henri Nouwen
#56. There are people who pay attention to the weaknesses of their friends; that is to no avail. I have always closely watched and profited from the strengths of my adversaries.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#57. I fancy myself at being pretty good at understanding a script and finding the weaknesses, and then making them more radical than they are. People tend to listen to me.
Mads Mikkelsen
#58. A people or a faith divided against itself became the sum of its weaknesses, not its strengths, and anyone who didn't know that was doomed.
David Weber
#59. People who worry about looking good typically hide what they don't know and hide their weaknesses, so they never learn how to properly deal with them and these weaknesses remain impediments in the future.
Ray Dalio
#60. High achievers tend to have major weaknesses. People without major weaknesses tend to be mediocre.
Guy Kawasaki
#61. We can't make people better by trying to eliminate their weaknesses, but we can help then perform better by building on their strengths.
Peter Drucker
#62. I'm constantly watching people. Watching their strengths and weaknesses. I find myself going into theater less and less, let alone horror. I gave that up when I was seven or eight years old.
Jonathan Frid
#63. We either accept weaknesses in good people or we have to tear pages out of the Bible.
Robert Duvall
#64. If people see your weaknesses they will take advantage of them.
Ivana Trump
#65. I thought I was going to school to be other people, but really, what I learned was to be myself - accepting myself, my strengths and weaknesses.
Lupita Nyong'o
#66. When you truly love someone, his/her weaknesses are not meant to be discussed with other people, they are meant to be understood by you.
Olaotan Fawehinmi
#67. People with weaknesses get killed by the people who lack them. Notice I'm not dead.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#68. I think there have been so many documentaries about pop stars, made by pop stars. It's a new phenomenon. People making these movies where they praise themselves and show their own weaknesses. it's all designed to make you love them even more.
Judd Apatow
#69. People want everything to come out of a drive thru window. They want it instant and they want it fast. I succumb to that, we all succumb to that. We're in it. That's the culture. So the enemy, the powers that be, the manipulators behind the scenes play to our natural weaknesses.
Alex Jones
#70. People are more inclined to ask what's wrong than what's right. They note errors and faults, seeing weaknesses before strengths. So expect criticism; it's the nature of the beast.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#71. How any person decides to emphasize strengths and mitigate weaknesses is something people have to figure out for themselves. I'm wary of the self-help literature that suggests there are certain rules. I'm very happy for people to look at my story and say it's possible to achieve many things.
Daniel Tammet
#72. To be successful you must recognise your weaknesses and employ people with complementary skills.
Duncan Bannatyne
#73. Don't assume you have to be extraordinary to be used by God. You don't have to have exceptional gifts, talents, abilities, or connections. God specializes in using ordinary people whose limitations and weaknesses make them ideal showcases for His greatness and glory.
Nancy Leigh DeMoss
#74. Whether people were great or not, there was not much variety in their inner life experience. Any difference lay merely in how they dealt with common human weaknesses.
Eiji Yoshikawa
#75. 10. Comparison is the root of all feelings of inferiority. The moment you begin examining other people's strengths against your most obvious weaknesses, your self-esteem starts to crumble!
James C. Dobson
#76. Compassion basically means accepting people's frailties, their weaknesses, not expecting them to behave like gods. That expectation is cruelty.
Osho
#77. Several people have told me that my inability to suffer fools gladly is one of my main weaknesses.
Edsger Dijkstra
#78. 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
#79. young IT manager defined being the boss as developing people around him who would then rely upon him for his advice and expertise in correcting their weaknesses.
Fred Luthans
#80. When your people have determined that you understand their lies in their hearts and are dedicated to their functional wellbeing, they will compensate for your weaknesses and shore up your strengths.
Kevin Allen
#81. It would be really great if people would realize that stars are only people with the same weaknesses and flaws, not immaculate idols.
Meg Ryan
#82. I have to manage and protect my brand. For the details I can always hire people who can knuckle down much better. For that I need people who are different to myself. People who compensate for my weaknesses.
Stelios Haji-Ioannou
#83. I think digital media is a valid tool, one that has it's own strengths and weaknesses. So often I see people dismissing digital art as somehow cheating or not as valid or important as traditional art, but the computer is just another tool.
Julie Dillon
#84. You are dependent if you allow the weaknesses of other people to ruin your emotional life!
Stephen Covey
#85. I love histories. I love learning. I love books that talk about people who made a real impact on history, because it always has to do with who they were at that time and what their personalities were like and what their strengths and weaknesses were.
Glenn Close
#86. God's love doesn't rejoice over the other people's mistakes and weaknesses.
Euginia Herlihy
#87. 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
#88. Feminine traits are called weaknesses. People joke about them; fools ridicule them; but reasonable persons see very well that those traits are just the tools for the management of men, and for the use of men for female designs.
Immanuel Kant
#89. Well, what is a relationship? It's about two people having tremendous weaknesses and vulnerabilities, like we all do, and one person being able to strengthen the other in their areas of vulnerability, and vice versa. You need each other. You complete each other, passion and romance aside.
Jane Fonda
#90. I only want to remind you what weak creatures human beings are. Even people who seem to have wills of steel have serious weaknesses! At those moments of weakness, will power breaks into a thousand pieces.
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#91. I've been getting pretty focused about that recently, and even considered doing a masters degree to polish up the craft. I've been pretty lucky in that I seem to have found people online who are willing to constructively tear it apart for me, and indicate its weaknesses.
David Knopfler
#92. Confident people do not concentrate on their weaknesses; they develop and maximize their strengths.
Joyce Meyer
#93. The smartest people who succeed in their careers for the long-term never stop working hard, never stop building relationships, and never lose touch with their own strengths and weaknesses.
Eric Jackson
#94. Have this faith that someone is there to take away your weaknesses. Ok, you slipped once, twice, thrice. It does not matter. Keep moving ahead. People take vows never to commit mistakes again. Breaking the vows makes it worse. Surrendering is better
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
#95. When you begin with the premise "I treat everyone equally," you have already blinkered yourself from seeing where you don't, or can't, or shouldn't. There is no way to treat two people equally, because they are each unique, with respective strengths and weaknesses.
Anthony D. Ravenscroft
#96. 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.
Goldie Hawn
#97. I don't think there's anything to be admired in lying, cheating or philandering. But there might be something to be admired in not burning people at the stake because they have those weaknesses.
Warren Beatty
#98. People and organizations don't grow much without delegation and completed staff work because they are confined to the capacities of the boss and reflect both personal strengths and weaknesses.
Stephen Covey
#99. I needed to stop being victimized by my own weaknesses and insecurities about other people,
Marilyn Manson
#100. 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
