Top 100 Quotes About Weaknesses
#1. Do not have expectations. We humans are created imperfect, which means that we have flaws
Norhafsah Hamid
#2. Within our perceived weaknesses and imperfections lies the key to realizing our true strength.
Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. Pretension is a poor joke that you play on yourself. Snap out of it. Recognise your strengths, work on your weaknesses. Real achievement is liking what you see in the mirror every morning.
Virat Kohli
#7. God uses our weaknesses to strengthen us..... 2 Corinthians 12:7-10
Amanda Penland
#8. Several people have told me that my inability to suffer fools gladly is one of my main weaknesses.
Edsger Dijkstra
#9. What makes a strong female character is a character who has weaknesses, who has flaws, who is maybe not immediately likable, but eventually relatable.
Tavi Gevinson
#10. I was a big fan of Maradona growing up and of the current crop Ronaldo is good but Messi is the best I've ever seen. I don't dish out praise lightly but Messi deserves it. I look for weaknesses in his game and I can't find them.
Roy Keane
#11. Failure in training identifies weaknesses so as to prevent them in the field, because as the common saying goes in the tactical community, "We don't rise to the level of our expectations, we fall to the level of our training." We live by that code.
Gary J. Byrne
#12. Compassion basically means accepting people's frailties, their weaknesses, not expecting them to behave like gods. That expectation is cruelty.
Osho
#13. 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
#14. My greatest strength is an unfocused mind. This is because while you are all thinking of one idea, I'm thinking of five different ideas. My greatest weakness however is an unfocused mind. This is because while I'm supposed to be thinking about one thing, I'm actually thinking of five other things.
Ben Mitchell
#15. After an extensive interview he arranged for my weaknesses in foreign languages to be over-looked and so I started a Biology degree at Birmingham in 1967.
Paul Nurse
#16. Great teams do not hold back with one another. They are unafraid to air their dirty laundry. They admit their mistakes, their weaknesses, and their concerns without fear of reprisal.
Patrick Lencioni
#17. What I have absolutely no sympathy with is the legislator, the man who seeks, for his own profit, to exploit the weaknesses of those who are unable to help themselves and then to fasten some moral superscription upon it. This I loathe so much that I cannot conceivably explain how much it is.
Malcolm Lowry
#18. The mind becomes much more beautiful,
when man could see his own weaknesses.
Toba Beta
#20. I have discovered an astonishing truth. God is attracted to weaknesses.
Jim Cymbala
#21. 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
#23. 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
#24. Nations need to understand their own strengths and weaknesses, and India's tradition of dissent and democratic debate is a positive aspect.
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
#25. 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
#26. Cheese is one of my great weaknesses, I could eat the stuff by the pound.
Helena Christensen
#27. To be successful you must recognise your weaknesses and employ people with complementary skills.
Duncan Bannatyne
#28. One of the most ordinary weaknesses of the human intellect is to seek to reconcile contrary principles, and to purchase peace at the expense of logic.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#29. The word 'God' is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honorable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. No interpretation, no matter how subtle, can (for me) change this.
Albert Einstein
#30. Do not indulge your weaknesses!
Toba Beta
#31. I spent a lot of years on the road, and what happens is you find out who your real friends are and you find out where your strengths and weaknesses lie in communication. I've had the same friends for 20 years now and I can count them on one hand.
Sarah McLachlan
#32. It is one of the great weaknesses of reasonable men and women that they imagine that projects which fly in the face of commonsense are not serious or being seriously undertaken.
Margaret Thatcher
#33. Each way of organizing has strengths and weaknesses. Taxonomy affords a view from the top, facets help us muddle through the middle, and tags build bridges at the bottom.
Peter Morville
#34. I even ate chips because I love the crunchy sound they make. And I didn't give much thought to what I was eating or what I was putting inside my body, except hummus, of course, which is one of my weaknesses.
Khloe Kardashian
#35. 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
#36. Being in touch with your strengths and weaknesses, as well as what motivates you, will help you be more successful in your job.
Joanie Connell
#37. 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
#38. 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
#39. I think making shorts is really about giving yourself the opportunity to learn what your strengths and weaknesses are. That's really important to know before getting to your first feature. In many ways you can't afford to make too many mistakes while on that feature.
Aurora Guerrero
#40. 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
#41. Start being brave about everything. Drive out darkness and spread light. Don' look at your weaknesses. Realize instead that in Christ crucified you can do everything.
St. Catherine Of Siena
#42. Whatever he knows of his weaknesses, Private Mulvaney is wholly ignorant of his strength.
Rudyard Kipling
#43. The things that make you special will give you all kinds of advantages in life, but they will also hold you back and expose your weaknesses.
Marie Lu
#44. He mad no moral judgements. He accepted mankind as he found it, and looked for the profit to be made from its strengths or weaknesses.
Wilbur Smith
#45. Try to help others. Consult their weaknesses, relieve their maladies; strive to raise them up, and by so doing you will most effectually raise yourself up also.
Joseph Barber Lightfoot
#46. WEAKNESSES, n.pl. Certain primal powers of Tyrant Woman wherewith she holds dominion over the male of her species, binding him to the service of her will and paralyzing his rebellious energies.
Ambrose Bierce
#47. When the National Security Agency recruited me, they put me through a day of lie detector tests. They found out all my weaknesses and immediately seduced me. They used the strongest drugs in our culture, sex, power and money, to win me over.
John Perkins
#48. You know who waxes philosophical about the tiniest weaknesses of enemies? The powerless.
Scott Lynch
#49. People with weaknesses get killed by the people who lack them. Notice I'm not dead.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#50. Confidence is not allowing your fear of weaknesses and limitations to hold you back but to take control of your weakness and limitation.
Abdulazeez Henry Musa
#51. Don't push your weaknesses, play with your strengths
Jennifer Lopez
#52. I have MMA strengths, but I need to build on my weaknesses.
Holly Holm
#53. Realize your strengths, accept your weaknesses, but never become someone you don't recognize.
Lindsay Chamberlin
#54. 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
#55. We have sneered at one another's weaknesses. Mine is insecurity. Tyler's is the truth.
And beneath it all lies attraction.
Estelle Maskame
#56. 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
#57. Putting your ego aside and confronting your weaknesses and just letting things happen is hard. Not to use a Scientology term, but it's difficult to do an emotional or an artistic audit.
Annie E. Clark
#58. The strength of a team is in making up for each other's weaknesses. United they can attain a goal in time.
Sunday Adelaja
#59. If people see your weaknesses they will take advantage of them.
Ivana Trump
#60. In most cases, strengths and weaknesses are two sides of the same coin. A strength in one situation is a weakness in another, yet often the person can't switch gears. It's a very subtle thing to talk about strengths and weaknesses because almost always they're the same thing.
Steve Jobs
#61. If you are pure in intention and in alignment with beauty and love, in body and mind, the highest levels of your spiritual self will subsume your weaknesses.
Bryant McGill
#62. Your strengths are your weaknesses.
The more you try to protect something, the more vulnerable you make it.
Don Winslow
#63. Adolescence is the time to enlarge the natural sentiments of pity, friendship, and generosity, the time to develop an understanding of human nature and the varieties of human character, the time to gain insight into the strengths and weaknesses of all men and to study the history of mankind.
Louise J. Kaplan
#64. I like men with weaknesses, his father had said. I can buy them. Men without weaknesses I have to kill.
Aleksandr Voinov
#65. We either accept weaknesses in good people or we have to tear pages out of the Bible.
Robert Duvall
#66. Nobody will press your buttons
or reflect your asshole to you better than your woman. She will point
out your weaknesses better than a boot camp drill sergeant.
David Deida
#67. Our strength is that we don't have any weaknesses. Our weakness is that we don't have any real strengths.
Frank Broyles
#68. Compassion for the other comes out of our ability to accept ourselves. Until we realize both our own weaknesses and our own privileges, we can never tolerate lack of status and depth of weakness in the other.
Joan D. Chittister
#69. In my experience, there are two things that no one will admit to: having no sense of humor and being susceptible to flattery.
Margaret George
#70. Everyone has their own weaknesses, for me, I believe it is my speed. I need to train more for that in order to be faster.
Tomoki Kameda
#71. Our sufferings and weaknesses, in so far as they are personal, are of no literary interest whatsoever. They are only interesting in so far as we can see them as typical of the human condition.
W. H. Auden
#72. Everybody has to think for himself. A right way for a big man may not be a right way for a small man. A right way for someone who is slow may not be a right way for someone who is quick. Each person must understand his weaknesses and his strengths.
Bruce Lee
#73. The joyful news for anyone who desires to be rid of the consequences of past poor choices is that the Lord sees weaknesses differently than He does rebellion. Whereas the Lord warns that unrepented rebellion will bring punishment, when the Lord speaks of weaknesses, it is always with mercy.
Richard G. Scott
#74. Life is about enjoying your success!! Success is nothing but weaknesses turned inside out ...
Hrithik Roshan
#75. If you focus on people's weaknesses, they lose confidence.
Tom Rath
#76. She knew that sex was a means of getting ahead and saw nothing wrong in exploiting male weaknesses for her own purposes.
Alice Walsh
#77. My lyrics say I have morals, I have confidence, I have weaknesses, I have strong points, that I am a human being.
Kendrick Lamar
#78. One of the weaknesses in the cooperative is that it has never been sufficiently leavened by the imagination. This is a quick-silver faculty, and likely to be a cause of worry to any collective settlement.
Edward Dahlberg
#79. I never had any friends beyond a certain superficial level. We hate to admit weaknesses. We were raised to want to get ahead, to be good and clever and successful. You're just ashamed to open up.
Lawrence Kudlow
#80. Radical faith means you trust that the Lord visited these weaknesses and sorrows on you as part of His plan...
Meredith Russo
#81. Of all the things I could know, my own faults and weaknesses are pretty much the most important.
Simon Travaglia
#82. If there were an election today, Netanyahu would win. Yet, his standing in the polls is also a reflection of the weakness of Ehud Olmert, the current prime minister - who stands at 2 percent in a recent poll - and the enduring weaknesses of the Labor Party.
Dennis Ross
#83. If you see the good in others and cover their defects with your love, they will follow you. If you see only weaknesses in others, your spirituality will be ruined.
Sun Myung Moon
#84. 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
#85. 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
#86. I knew maps of the sea floor, maps that depict weaknesses in the shield of the earth, charts painted on skin that contain the various routes of the Crusades. So
Michael Ondaatje
#87. A man can learn all of an opponent's weaknesses on that board,' said Gilt.
'Really?' said Vetinari, raising his eyebrows. 'Should not he be trying to learn his own?
Terry Pratchett
#88. 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
#89. Giving style to one's character - a great and rare art! It is exercised by those who see all the strengths and weaknesses of their own natures and then comprehend them in an artistic plan until everything appears as art and reason and even weakness delights the eye.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#90. I think that comics can do things movies can't and vice versa. In my opinion, you only expose their weaknesses if you try too hard at making one exactly like the other.
Lee Bermejo
#91. I lacked the courage to investigate the weaknesses of the wicked, because I discovered they are the same as the weaknesses of the saintly.
Umberto Eco
#92. God isn't looking for powerful individuals who are strong, independent, courageous and self-sufficient. Rather, God is seeking vulnerable individuals who have weaknesses, deficiencies, inadequacies and who are willing to stop relying on their own abilities.
Dana Arcuri
#93. The art of coalition command - whether it is here in Afghanistan, whether it was in Iraq or in Bosnia or in Haiti - is to take the resources you are provided with, understand what the strengths and weaknesses are and to employ them to the best overall effect.
David Petraeus
#94. Satan seeks to build upon past failures, disappointments and weaknesses.
Sandie Freed
#95. In my own pursuit of God, I often became preoccupied with ME! It was easy to think that being constantly aware of my faults and weakness was humility. It's not! If I'm the main subject, talking incessantly about my weaknesses, I have entered into the most subtle form of pride.
Bill Johnson
#96. The weak can't bear to face their weaknesses in the presence of our strength.
Crystal Woods
#97. Great men learn from their weaknesses,
and learn to use their strengths.
Ordinary men learn nothing from their weaknesses,
and underuse their strengths.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#98. God is love, generosity and forgiveness; if we believe in this, we will never allow our weaknesses to paralyse us.
Paulo Coelho
#99. Comedy naturally wears itself out - destroys the very food on which it lives; and by constantly and successfully exposing the follies and weaknesses of mankind to ridicule, in the end leaves itself nothing worth laughing at.
William Hazlitt
#100. I know my own weaknesses as a human being, and as a musician, as a singer and as a woman.
Amy Grant
