Top 100 Quotes About Weaknesses
#1. Strength comes from ignoring your critics.
Power comes from mastering your fears.
Fortitude comes from wrestling your opponents.
Superiority comes from overcoming your losses.
Greatness comes from conquering your weaknesses.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#2. Sincerity is a great but rare virtue, and we pardon to it much complaining, and the betrayal of many weaknesses.
Henry David Thoreau
#3. I'm strong because I know my weaknesses. I'm wise because I've been foolish. I laugh because I've known sadness.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#4. I believe that the biggest problem that humanity faces is an ego sensitivity to finding out whether one is right or wrong and identifying what one's strengths and weaknesses are.
Ray Dalio
#5. Just show a little humility. If you know your weaknesses you will not be enslaved by them.
Fiorella De Maria
#6. Our weaknesses may never go away but when we give them to God, His grace will turn them into something beautiful ...
Heather Bixler
#7. He knew one of the women well, and had shared his universe with her. They had seen the same mountains, and the same trees, although each of them had seem them differently. She knew his weaknesses, his moments of hatred, of despair. Yet she was there at his side. They shared the same universe.
Paulo Coelho
#8. 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
#9. It is good to be often reminded of the inconsistency of human nature, and to learn to look without wonder or disgust on the weaknesses which are found in the strongest minds.
Thomas B. Macaulay
#10. It's not about being tough but to accept your weaknesses and work to get stronger day by day.
Enson Inoue
#11. I try to perfect my strong points and make my weaknesses adequate.
Billie Jean King
#13. Your success is hidden underneath a layer of your fears and weaknesses
Thabiso Monkoe
#14. Japan cannot conquer China with America in her rear, Soviet Russia on her right and England on her left - her most powerful enemies in the South Sea all flanking her. It is this international situation that constitutes one of Japan's great weaknesses.
Chiang Kai-shek
#15. An Englishman bears with patience any ridicule which foreigners cast upon him. John Bull never laughs so loudly as when he laughs at himself; but the Americans are nationally sensitive and cannot endure that good-humoured raillery which jests at their weaknesses and foibles.
Isabella Bird
#16. The truth now.He was disappointed in human beings.He had seen too many betrayals,too many pitiful weaknesses,too much greed for money and fame.The falseness between lovers,husbands and wifes,fathers,sons,mothers,daughters
Mario Puzo
#17. To discern what weaknesses and faults separate you from God, you must enter into your own inward ground and then confront yourself.
Johannes Tauler
#18. It is clear to me that "religions" are the invention of man, and therefore exhibit all the strengths and weaknesses of human nature.
Ronald R. Cooke
#19. A man's weaknesses may intrude on his faith but they do not diminish it.
Robert Ludlum
#20. 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
#21. Perfect love means putting up with other peoples shortcomings, feeling no surprise at their weaknesses, finding encouragement even in the slightest evidence of good qualities in them.
Therese Of Lisieux
#22. I don't like the word 'strong,' because a strong character is never an interesting character. A character is made interesting by their vulnerabilities and their weaknesses.
Helen Mirren
#23. 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
#24. I have dedicated many years to economic study, up to the Ph.D. level, to analyze and understand the inherent weaknesses of aid and why aid policies have consistently failed to deliver on economic growth and poverty alleviation.
Dambisa Moyo
#25. Lifes like a game of cards, sometimes you get delt a shit hand, Work with what you got, and never show your weaknesses. Keep a poker face no matter what.
Logan Zane Hessefort
#26. Some are drawn to the light of your strength but can't handle the darkness of your weaknesses. If they run when the light gets dim, don't chase them. They have no understanding of how dark is necessary for light to shine its brightest.
Sanjo Jendayi
#27. It was one of my friend's most obvious weaknesses that he was impatient with less alert intelligences than his own.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#28. Part of the faith walk is to understand your weaknesses and is to constantly try to embetter yourself and get closer to the Lord.
George W. Bush
#29. 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
#30. Everyone, regardless of ability or disability, has strengths and weaknesses. Know what yours are. Build on your strengths and find a way around your weaknesses.
Brad Cohen
#31. Glory in your weaknesses. Paul said, "I am going to boast only about how weak I am and how great God is to use such weakness for his glory."21
Rick Warren
#32. Losses are always great eye openers. Pleasures never open our eyes. It's only through pain that we learn our weaknesses.
Swami Satchidananda
#33. My strengths make me contemptuous. My weaknesses make me charitable.
Mason Cooley
#34. A true gangster can smell out a person's strenghts and weaknesses in a matter of minutes, but what they can sense most of all, what their bodies are most attuned to, is the scent of fear.
Lorenzo Carcaterra
#35. This amateurism however, can sometimes be helpful in forging a style; you have to work around your weaknesses.
Bill Bruford
#36. How can you blame a person for his fears and weaknesses unless you have felt the same and done differently?
Amy Tan
#37. Fatigue roughens up the edges of your nerves; it exposes your fears and your weaknesses.
June Havoc
#38. Team leaders have to connect with their team and themselves. If they don't know their team's strengths and weaknesses, they cannot hand off responsibilities to the team. And if they don't know their own strengths and weaknesses, they will not hand off responsibilities to the team.
John C. Maxwell
#39. The two men eyed each other. Assessing strengths. Looking for weaknesses. Measuring dicks once again
Jennifer Estep
#40. 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
#41. 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
#42. Heartbreaks, disappointments and even our own weaknesses can serve as stepping-stones to the second half of life transformation. Failings are the foundation for growth. Those who have fallen, failed or 'gone down' are the only ones who understand 'up.'
Richard Rohr
#43. Curb Your Enthusiasm, is not so much about Hollywood. It's more about Larry's weaknesses.
Kevin Nealon
#44. If I'd been on the Remain side I would have tried to have seen the best in Europe and tried to explain that. Instead, what they've done is endlessly try and talk up what they see as the weaknesses of Britain and they aren't there. That's a total mistake.
Boris Johnson
#45. Understanding strengths and weaknesses is very essential in setting forth a clean administration and for sustainable and lasting solutions.
Narendra Modi
#46. Members of trusting teams admit weaknesses and mistakes, take risks in offering feedback and assistance, and focus time and energy on important issues, not politics.
Patrick Lencioni
#47. In our corrupted state, common weaknesses and defects contribute more towards the reconciling us to one another than all the precepts of the philosophers and divines.
E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl Of Halifax
#49. In the late 1960s, the New Classical economists saw the same weaknesses in the microfoundations of macroeconomics that have motivated me. They hated its lack of rigor. And they sacked it.
George Akerlof
#50. Because human nature will not deny its weaknesses, even where it is seemingly in the process of overcoming them.
Joseph Roth
#51. When pressure mounts and strain increases everyone begins to show the weaknesses in his makeup. It is up to the Commander to conceal his: above all to conceal doubt, fear, and distrust.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#52. One of the great weaknesses of standard libertarian theory is that it tends to push too hard by elevating presumptions into absolutes.
Richard Allen Epstein
#53. Understanding your strengths and weaknesses is an unending process of self-discovery and creative evolution. Real success depends on being true to what fascinates you.
Paul O'Brien
#54. 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
#55. 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
#56. In the vast majority of stories, a character with weaknesses struggles to achieve something and ends up changed (positively or negatively) as a result.
John Truby
#58. Those with a high level of confidence may have as many or more weaknesses than those with low self-esteem. The difference is this; instead of dwelling on their handicaps, they compensate for them by dwelling on their strengths.
Alan Loy McGinnis
#59. You hear about quality time a lot but I really think that quantity time with a person is really what strengthens a relationship. That's when you really get to know somebody. You get to know their strengths and their weaknesses and that brings you closer. That's what 'Time Is Love' is all about.
Josh Turner
#60. It will make you powerful. But it will also make you weak. Your prowess in combat will be beyond any mortal's, but your weaknesses, your failings will increase as well."
You mean I'll have a bad heel?" I said. "Couldn't I just, like, wear something besides sandals? No offense.
Rick Riordan
#61. Every medium has its advantages and weaknesses and there are many things I can put down on paper that I might not be able to put into film or into a stage performance. In each form, one can communicate powerfully in different ways.
Lawrence Wright
#62. 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
#63. There are some weaknesses that are peculiar and distinctive to generous characters, as freckles are to a fair skin.
Christian Nestell Bovee
#64. It's easy to prescribe remedies for our own weaknesses when they're comfortably ensconced in other people. What
Scott Lynch
#66. In evaluating ourselves, we tend to be long on our weaknesses and short on our strengths.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#67. The hardest thing is for me to let the work go and let myself just live. Every actor is different; they each have their own strengths and weaknesses; trust and ease are mine.
Emory Cohen
#68. Leading with integrity is embracing honesty! We should always use our weaknesses to point others to Christ's strength.
Perry Noble
#69. Never let kindness be your weakness, never let your weaknesses be your downfal
V. Pain
#70. We all have strengths and weaknesses. The best advice is to embrace, focus on, and nurture our strengths. Unless, of course, those strengths include exploiting the weaknesses of others. Then I suggest discovering new ones.
Charles F. Glassman
#71. My weaknesses, my choices, and my decisions - the ones I made and the ones I didn't - all took me down a rocky road filled with regret, heartbreak, and pain. And eventually, they nearly killed me. Would I change things if I could? Would I turn back time and do things differently? Never.
Madeline Sheehan
#72. It's important to stay true to yourself. You have to know your weaknesses and recruit support when and where you need it.
Jillian Michaels
#73. It's more important to know your weaknesses than your strengths.
Ray Lee Hunt
#74. 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
#75. You'll do well, Percy. Just remember your strengths and beware your weaknesses.
Rick Riordan
#76. Your weaknesses and struggles are not reasons for him to give up on you. Instead, they're opportunities for you to show his strength in ways you simply can't on your best days.
Holley Gerth
#77. Clearing up your weaknesses is one of the primary reasons we're here.
Robin S. Sharma
#78. I always write to understand my place in the world. I can see myself and my life unfold on the page, and I can understand my strengths, my weaknesses - I can see where I need to step up a bit.
Jason Mraz
#79. We grow in part by confessing our faults and weaknesses to each other (James 5:16; Eccl. 4:10). If we are always being strong and without needs, we are not growing, and we are setting ourselves up for a very dangerous fall.
Henry Cloud
#81. 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
#82. You will always be criticized and teased and bullied for things that make you different, but usually those things will be what set you apart. The things that set you apart from the pack, the things that you once thought were your weaknesses will someday become your strengths.
Taylor Swift
#83. Women are like a living, breathing casino
Like a judge and jury
They sense everything
They sense what you try to hide
They sense your weaknesses
They sense your power levels
One must be patient
One must listen
Watch
And wait
Before one strikes
Robert Black
#84. Don't do things to point out your weaknesses, do things to point out your strength.
Abdulazeez Henry Musa
#85. The old adage that you shouldn't change a winning team doesn't apply in modern international football because managers have to study the opposition and pick players who exploit their weaknesses.
Glenn Hoddle
#86. Enter every activity without giving mental recognition to the possibility of defeat. Concentrate on your strengths, instead of your weaknesses ... on your powers, instead of your problems.
Paul J. Meyer
#87. You will excel only by maximizing your strengths, never by fixing your weaknesses.
Marcus Buckingham
#88. 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
#89. The Lord sees weaknesses differently than He does rebellion.
Richard G. Scott
#90. You do not become outstanding by working on your weaknesses You become outstanding by focusing on your strenghts.
Gordana Biernat
#91. Build up your weaknesses until they become your strong points.
Knute Rockne
#92. 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
#93. Even Colin - the golden boy, the man with the easy smile and devilish humor - had raw spots of his own. He was haunted by unfulfilled dreams and secret insecurities. How unfair she had been when she'd pondered his life, not to allow him his weaknesses.
Julia Quinn
#94. The new generation of researchers must be given the skills and values - not just scientific ideals, but also awareness of human weaknesses - that will enable it to correct its forebears' mistakes.
Heinrich Rohrer
#95. She felt nervy as all her excitements turned into weaknesses
Munia Khan
#96. Losing strengthens you. It reveals your weaknesses so you can fix them
Pat Summitt
#97. God has not chosen to save us without crosses; as He has not seen fit to create men at once in the full vigor of manhood, but has suffered them to grow up by degrees amid all the perils and weaknesses of youth.
Francois Fenelon
#98. Who you're both the good & 'the bad', your strengths & 'weaknesses' make you unique. Embrace who you're and be comfortable in your own skin.
Assegid Habtewold
#99. 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
#100. I love all my characters. I love their weaknesses and flaws. I feel like they're all my best friends and I adore being with them.
Sophie Kinsella
