Top 100 Quotes About Weakness
#1. It was new to feel protected, and to feel that it was right to accept the protection, to surrender - right, because this peculiar sense of safety was ... not the protection of being spared from battle, but of having won it, not a protection granted to her weakness, but to her strength ...
Ayn Rand
#2. The weakness of my position does not imply a strengthening of yours.
Sigmund Freud
#3. The weakness in the company is if we fail to execute.
Kevin Rollins
#4. Having an eye for beauty isn't the same thing as a weakness ... except possibly when it comes to you.
Suzanne Collins
#5. He closed by telling us the real battle is won in the mind. It's won by guys who understand their areas of weakness, who sit and think about it, plotting and planning to improve. Attending to the detail. Work on their weaknesses and overcome them. Because they can.
Marcus Luttrell
#6. I see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.
Ben Jonson
#7. Difference of opinion is a clash, and to clash is a 'weakness'.
Dada Bhagwan
#8. In the garment trades, on the other hand, the presence of a body of the disfranchised, of the weak and young, undoubtedly contributes to the economic weakness of these trades.
Florence Kelley
#9. Men have always been susceptible to a woman's beauty: it's their weakness and to hide it, some get aggressive.
Kavita Kane
#10. I hate when being kind and silly is mistaken for weakness. Then I have to correct them and it's a lot of hassle and I can't be nice to them again.
L.B. Scott
#11. The forest did not tolerate frailty of body or mind. Show your weakness, and it would consume you without hesitation.
Tahir Shah
#12. Ambition is the weakness of all the great spirits who in acceptance will find the joy & the despair the seek. The physician can only cure when he is willing to assume your disease. To be shunned is to be God a little...
Kenneth Patchen
#13. I will not pretend weakness. Not ever, not for anyone.
Rae Carson
#14. A woman's love Is mighty, but a mother's heart is weak, And by its weakness overcomes.
James Russell Lowell
#15. We are weakness itself, and unless He guards the city, in vain shall we labor to defend it.
Teresa Of Avila
#17. The prevailin' weakness of most public men is to Slop Over! ... G. Washington never slopt over.
Artemas Ward
#18. Everyone had a weakness. It was the law of nature that for each being there was a predator, or a disease, or a vulnerability built into their very core.
Ilona Andrews
#19. Sometimes weakness wore the face of strength, and sometimes strength wore the face of weakness.
Roshani Chokshi
#20. Error is to be pitied and pardoned: it is the weakness of human nature. But vice is a foul blemish, not pardonable in any character.
Thomas Jefferson
#21. Some people think tears are a sign of weakness. But I see tears as a God-given way for us to express emotion.
Shelley Hitz
#22. Jealousy shows weakness and we must be strong to except ourselves for who we truly are.
Sarah Van Waterschoot
#23. I liked to think I had a tough everything, but I did have one weakness. One. In my entire child/woman body, and we both knew it. Dante. He was the chink in my armor. My soft underbelly.
R.K. Lilley
#24. Lesson Number One in controlling a man: find his weakness. Every man had one.
Rachel Firasek
#26. Our mistake lies not in the intensity of our desire for happiness, but in the weakness of it.
John Piper
#27. When you know a man's secrets, you have power over him. A man's secret is his weakness. Every man has a weakness, no matter ...
Brent Weeks
#28. He teaches best,
Who feels the hearts of all men in his breast,
And knows their strength or weakness through his own.
Bayard Taylor
#29. Let no one charge me with ever having abused or encouraged weakness or surrendered on matters of principle. But I have said, as I say again, that every trifle must not be dignified into a principle.
Mahatma Gandhi
#30. When mental energy is allowed to follow the line of least resistance and to fall into easy channels, it is called weakness.
James Allen
#31. The struggle against the weakness in yourself is never a solitary struggle. No person can achieve self-mastery or his or her own.
David Brooks
#32. No man is so much a fool as not to have wit enough sometimes to be a knave; nor any so cunning a knave as not to have the weakness sometimes to play the fool.
George Savile
#33. I felt my weakness; I knew my smallness. Being raised under anger, the voice of a child is lost.
Kara Tippetts
#34. Every painting has a weakness and a breaking point, where the essence of a painting lies. In my case it is never in the centre.
Luc Tuymans
#36. I have a weakness for watches. I have to stop myself buying more.
Tom Jones
#37. I believe that in a good collaboration, the authors bring their strengths to the story; one author's strength cancels the other author's weakness, and back and forth it goes.
Jack Dann
#38. Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.
Jonathan Swift
#39. The acknowledgment of our weakness is the first step in repairing our loss.
Thomas A Kempis
#40. 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
#41. It seems Montgomery could not help himself when it came to this vase. I'm afraid he has a weakness for beautiful things and has been known to relocate an item if he feels it is not being accorded the proper appreciation. Once he 'relocated' an ancient sculpture from the home of another archangel.
Nalini Singh
#42. Proneness to exaggerate, to suppress or modify the truth, wittingly or unwittingly, is a natural weakness of man and silence is necessary in order to surmount it.
Mahatma Gandhi
#43. I guess we didn't even officially apologize. Jesse Jackson called on the United States to officially apologize to the Chinese. Jesse said, 'An apology is not a sign of weakness.' And as President Clinton has taught us, an apology isn't even a sign you're sorry.
Jay Leno
#44. A regime, an established order, is rarely overthrown by a revolutionary movement; usually a regime collapses of its own weakness and corruption and then a revolutionary movement enters among the ruins and takes over the powers that have become vacant.
Walter Lippmann
#45. My biggest weakness is my sensitivity. I am too sensitive a person.
Mike Tyson
#46. We do not take much warning of our own mortality in seeing others die, nor of our own weakness in seeing others break down: we think we feel the springs of life stronger in us.
Julia McNair Wright
#47. Uncertainty is intrinsic to the process of finding out what you don't know, not a weakness to avoid.
John Brockman
#48. I'm tempted by everything. My husband makes fun of me because every day it's a new food that I love. I have a weakness for butterscotch pudding, ice cream in any flavor and dark chocolate, although that's one thing I do keep in my house - 70% dark chocolate.
Gail Simmons
#49. I honestly don't know whether I am describing something essential about the way we know God or merely my own weakness of mind.
Christian Wiman
#50. ...but I desire i may no further be harassed, and i recommend it to you to retire to your chamber, and to endeavour to adopt a more retional conduct, than that yielding to fancies, and to a sensibility, which, to call it by the gentlest name, is only a weakness.
Ann Radcliffe
#51. God's word is:
'He who strives never perishes.'
I have implicit faith in that promise.
Though, therefore, from my weakness
I fail a thousand times, I shall not lose faith.
Mahatma Gandhi
#52. I know exactly what I'm doing, but I just can't stop. That's my greatest weakness.
Haruki Murakami
#53. My fellow Republicans acted like they'd been punched in the stomach. "You have them on the ropes, go in for the kill!" they said. This was my first real taste of the new Republican ideology that any compromise is a sign of weakness.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
#55. I am glad to be with you and treat your weakness tenderly.
E. James Wilder
#56. He refused to believe in his own weaknesses, and with her he had not found a weakness to fit himself against.
Michael Ondaatje
#57. Hope. The activity of the impotent. His was a world of action, of relying on his own wits and ability to create the luck that kept him alive, and yet here in a moment of weakness he was a mendicant hoping for alms
Taylor Stevens
#58. If you live by the grace of God and you constantly recognise His grace in your life, then your weakness turns into strength
Sunday Adelaja
#59. Don't deceive yourself; laughing at someone's weakness is not the way to reveal your strength. Your strength is in the help you offer, not the mockeries you deliver!
Israelmore Ayivor
#60. True spirit of Judo is nothing but the gentle and diligent free spirit. Judo rests on flexible action of mind and body. The word flexible however never means weakness but something more like adaptability and openmindedness. Gentleness always overcomes strength.
Kyuzo Mifune
#61. Don't look down on your weakness and bank on your strength, put them all in the same plate and you will be surprised with what you can achieve
Nano
#63. My weakness ... is architecture. I think of my work as ephemeral architecture, dedicated to the beauty of the female body.
Christian Dior
#65. How badly I even read. And with what malice and weakness I observe myself. Apparently I cannot force my way into the world, but lie quietly, receive, spread out within me what I have received, and then step calmly forth.
Franz Kafka
#67. There is nothing more man needs than Divine Mercy - that love which is benevolent, which is compassionate, which raises man above his weakness to the infinite heights to the holiness of God.
Pope John Paul II
#68. Compassion is by nature gentle, peaceful, and soft, but it is very powerful. It is those who easily lose their patience who are insecure and unstable. Thus, to me, the arousal of anger is a direct sign of weakness.
Dalai Lama XIV
#69. Negative beliefs and complexes are stored in your subconscious mind and create a weakness, which will not let you succeed in life
Sunday Adelaja
#70. Most people don't believe something can happen until it already has. That's not stupidity or weakness, that's just human nature.
Max Brooks
#71. Awareness of your weakness and confusion makes you strong because conscious awareness is the bright light that destroys the darkness of negativity. Detection of inner negativity is not a negative act, but a courageously positive act that makes you a new person.
Vernon Howard
#72. What a joy to remember that she is our Mother! Since she loves us and knows our weakness, what have we to fear?
Therese Of Lisieux
#73. It is always necessary to jump up and down on the scaffold of knowledge to make sure it is solid. If you are skeptical about a scientific claim, then jump up and down on it as hard as you can until you expose a weakness or convince yourself that it is solid.
David Sloan Wilson
#74. It is not a sign of weakness, but a sign of high maturity, to rise to the level of self-criticism.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#75. I'm sick and tired of people saying that taking drugs is a sickness. When you put something of your own free will in your own body knowing that it's harmful against the body, it's against the law and all it will do is lead you down the path of destruction, that is a weakness.
Tommy Lasorda
#76. You will always have doubts, but only discover them at a useful time for your weakness to point them out.
Idries Shah
#77. You gotta lay down the law; being nice or polite is a weakness that only encourages unwanted attention. I'd be less of a bitch if I didn't have to worry about getting my motives twisted. Sometimes you just have to be rude.
Xandrie Kovak
#78. Violence is the sign of temporary weakness.
Jean Jaures
#79. God, I'm not going to look at what I don't have. I'm looking unto you. I know in my weakness, you show up the strongest.
Joel Osteen
#80. She is very clever, too clever for a woman. She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness.
Oscar Wilde
#82. My weakness for beautiful women is my most expensive vice, I still believe in matrimony, but I can't afford another try.
George Strait
#83. You forget who submits, Eva," he said gruffly. "I've given up control for you. I've bent and adjusted for you. I'll do anything to keep you and make you happy. But I can't be tamed or topped. Don't mistake indulgence for weakness.
Sylvia Day
#84. He loved also to think, "I did it!" And I believe the only people who are free from that weakness are those who have no work to call their own.
George Eliot
#87. Prayer is the sign of your weakness. Rely on your inner strength. You will be the winner.
Amit Ray
#88. Still cries at a good film,
Still kisses with saliva,
No longer empty and frantic like a cat tied to a stick,
That's driven into frozen winter shit
(The ability to laugh at weakness),
Calm,
Fitter,
Healthier and more productive
A pig in a cage on antibiotics.
Radiohead
#90. Though I constantly felt like I was out of my comfort zone, maybe God wanted me totally in a place of uneasiness in order that I might rely on Him. Truly, His power could be made perfect in my weakness.
Christy Barritt
#91. Rectitude carried to excess hardens into stiffness; benevolence indulged beyond measure sinks into weakness.
Date Masamune
#92. One of the reasons many physicians feel drained by their work is that they do not know how to make an opening to receive anything from their patients. The way we were trained, receiving is considered unprofessional. The way most of us were raised, receiving is considered a weakness.
Rachel Naomi Remen
#93. I desire a violent, domineering, fearless, and ferocious upcoming generation. It must be able to bear pain. It must show no signs whatsoever of weakness or tenderness. The free and magnificent predator must once again glint from their eyes.
Adolf Hitler
#94. Be very slow to believe that you are wiser than all others; it is a fatal but common error. Where one has been saved by a true estimation of another's weakness, thousands have been destroyed by a false appreciation of their own strength.
Charles Caleb Colton
#95. There is really no insurmountable barrier save your own inherent weakness of purpose.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#96. Husband and wife,
so much in common, how different in type! Such a contrast, and yet such harmony, strength and weakness blended together!
Giovanni Ruffini
#98. We are, none of us, pillars of strength. We use our moments of strength to carry us through our moments of weakness.
Neetal Parekh
#99. In chess, there is only one mistake: over-estimation of your opponent. All else is either bad luck or weakness.
Savielly Tartakower
#100. We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You're always helping people.
Jackie Chan
