Strength From Weakness Quotes

#1. We are all one, learning strength from weakness.

Marlo Morgan

#2. Humility is truth, therefore in all sincerity we must be able to look up and say, "I can do all things in Him who strengthens me." By yourself you can do nothing, have nothing but sin, weakness and misery. All the gifts of nature and grace you have them from God.

Mother Teresa

#3. For me, the hero's journey is not the voyage from weakness to strength. The true hero's journey is the voyage from strength to weakness.

John Green

#4. Your strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others.

Joseph Conrad

#5. All cruelty comes from weakness, just as all human compassion can come only from strength.

Peyton Quinn

#6. From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.

Jorge Luis Borges

#7. [Prayer] is the thirst of ignorance drinking deep draughts from the overflowing fulness of divine wisdom. It is the exhaustion of weakness drawing nerve into a broken will from the resources of infinite strength.

Benjamin M. Palmer

#8. Lord, enlighten thou our enemies. Sharpen their wits, give acuteness to their perceptions, and consecutiveness and clearness to their reasoning powers: we are in danger from their folly, not from their wisdom; their weakness is what fills us with apprehension, not their strength.

John Stuart Mill

#9. She had drawn strength from everyone else's weakness, hoping that her adrenaline-fueled bravery would carry her safely back to normality,

Robert Galbraith

#10. Having recovered from an inexplicable moment of weakness Claire was on the defensive, ready to bite. I had the impression that she was now looking for a chance to demonstrate her strength, or her hard-heartedness.

Jean De Berg

#11. Perhaps this was what Queens did. Perhaps they held their Kings in the darkness, deep within their castles and allowed them that moment of weakness they could never show to anyone else. Perhaps they gave strength to their Kings, because everyone else only took it from them.

David Gaider

#12. When we inform, we lead from strength; when we communicate, we lead from weakness - and it is precisely this confession of mortality that engages the ears, heads and hearts of those we want to enlist as allies in a common cause.

Sydney J. Harris

#13. Humility is not weakness; it is the epitome of strength. Humility moves a person away from human, personal weakness and limitation into divine expression, strength, and expansion.

Donald Curtis

#14. The law of evolution is that the strongest survives!' 'Yes, and the strongest, in the existence of any social species, are those who are most social. In human terms, most ethical ... There is no strength to be gained from hurting one another. Only weakness.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#15. Hearken, my believing reader. What is the cause of your weakness? Is it not because the fountain of life is little used? Is it not because you are resting on old experiences, and not daily gathering new manna - daily drawing new strength from Christ?

J.C. Ryle

#16. We are taught that the hero's journey is the journey from weakness to strength. But I am here today to tell you that those stories are wrong. The real hero's journey is the journey from strength to weakness.

John Green

#17. Tranquility is not weakness; from tranquility emerges power and strength.

C. JoyBell C.

#18. We shall consider later whether these evils derive their power from their own strength, or from our own weakness.

Seneca.

#19. Strength grows from building other strength, not from trampling on weakness.

Eric Flint

#20. Press on! If Fortune play thee false To-day, tomorrow she'll be true; Whom now she sinks she now exalts, Taking old gifts and granting new, The wisdom of the present hour Makes up the follies past and gone; To weakness, strength succeeds, and power From frailty springs! Press on, press on!

Benjamin

#21. What! Would I be turned back from doing a thing that I had determined to do, and that I knew to be right, by the airs and interference of such a person, or any person I may say? No, I have no idea of being so easily persuaded. When I have made up my mind, I have made it.

Jane Austen

#22. Terrorism emanates from weakness, not strength. It is the sign of despair.

Tariq Ali

#23. Disorder came from order, fear came from courage, weakness came from strength.

Sun Tzu

#24. Peace is purchased from strength. It's not purchased from weakness or unilateral retreats.

Benjamin Netanyahu

#25. True submission comes from a place of strength, ... because submitting means choosing to make yourself vulnerable to another person. It takes real guts to do that. It isn't weakness at all - exactly the opposite, in fact.

Indigo Wren

#26. You can use whatever term you want: besetting sin, shadow side, strength and weakness. The very thing that makes you you, that makes you great, that makes you different from everyone else is also the thing that, unchecked, will ruin you. For me, it's lust for life. It's energy, curiosity, hunger.

Shauna Niequist

#27. 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

#28. Collectives can't make money from virtues they make money from weakness. Where there are no weak, they create weak. Cowards hate strong people.

Moxie Will

#29. As signs of inadequacy and weakness, they look on wealth as a source of stability and strength. Our proud hearts shrink from weakness, real or fancied, in all its forms, as we have already noted, and they embrace whatever looks like strength, including the goal and the reality of affluence. The

J.I. Packer

#30. Let us learn how the love of Christ, received into the heart, triumphs gradually but surely over all sin, transforms character, turning even its weakness into strength, and so, from the depths of transgression and the very gates of hell, raises men to God.

Alexander MacLaren

#31. I write from my knowledge not my lack, from my strength not my weakness. I am not interested if anyone knows whether or not I am familiar with big words, I am interested in trying to render big ideas in a simple way. I am interested in being understood not admired.

Lucille Clifton

#32. God often attaches a major weakness to a major strength to keep our egos in check. A limitation can act as a governor to keep us from going too fast and running ahead of God.

Rick Warren

#33. It's very important to make nuclear deals but you have to make them from strength, not from weakness.

Donald Trump

#34. Negotiating with the Taliban must be done from a position of strength. Negotiating from a position of weakness would be a disaster.

Philip Hammond

#35. Cities don't make people poor; they attract poor people. The flow of less advantaged people into cities from Rio to Rotterdam demonstrates urban strength, not weakness.

Edward Glaeser

#36. Strength is not born from strength. Strength can be born only from weakness. So be glad of your weaknesses now, they are the beginnings of your strength.

Claire Weekes

#37. To forge an untouchable, invulnerable identity is actually a sign of retreat from this world; of weakness, a sign of fear rather than strength, and betrays a strange misunderstandin g of an abiding, foundational and necessary reality: that untouched, we disappear.

David Whyte

#38. Life comes from death, and weakness teaches us strength.

Dan Wells

#39. Few things are more agreeable to self-love than revenge, and yet no cause so effectually restrains us from revenge as self-love. And this paradox naturally suggests another; that the strength of the community is not unfrequently built upon the weakness of those individuals that compose it.

Charles Caleb Colton

#40. A person can perform only from strength. One cannot build performance on weakness, let alone on something one cannot do at all.

Peter F. Drucker

#41. Don't run from your weakness, you will only give it strength.

Stephen Richards

#42. He felt at his face, wondering what the hot dampness was. For a moment he thought he was bleeding. Swearing under his breath, he pushed the tears away, vowing that they would be the last he ever shed. Strength, not weakness, was what he needed from this day forward.

Morgan Rhodes

#43. A lot of what we experience as strength comes from knowing what to do with weakness.
Nickel and Dimed On (Not) Getting By in America

Barbara Ehrenreich

#44. Operate from ur strength and not ur weakness.everyone has weaknesses

Ikechukwu Joseph

#45. The person who is impatient with weakness will be ineffective in his leadership. The evidence of our strength lies not in the distance that separates us from other runners but in our closure with them, our slower pace for their sakes, our helping them pick it up and cross the line.

J. Oswald Sanders

#46. If you're growing up in a chaotic world without reason, your instinct is to become a performer and control the circumstances around you. You lead from weakness into strength; you have an undefended back.

John Le Carre

#47. We are called to be fruitful - not successful, not productive, not accomplished. Success comes from strength, stress, and human effort. Fruitfulness comes from vulnerability and the admission of our own weakness.

Henri Nouwen

#48. I always thought it was disgusting and ugly, how the weak live their lives depending on each other shamefully licking each other's wounds. A way of life that no one could truly want. I was certain that no greatness could ever come from that. That's what I thought until I met you.

Naoyuki Ochiai

#49. Every Conservative desires peace. The threat to peace comes from Communism which has powerful forces ready to attack anywhere. Communism waits for weakness, it leaves strength alone. Britain must therefore be strong, strong in her arms, strong in her faith, strong in her own way of life.

Margaret Thatcher

#50. Strength doesn't necessarily come from resisting fear, weakness, or any other feeling and overcoming it. Strength comes from looking at those things straight on
and accepting them as they really are.

Kat Von D.

#51. He realized he needed strength, sustenance that couldn't come from bread alone. He desperately needed God.

J.E.B. Spredemann

#52. My belief is, from all that I have seen of the French people and their Government, that they are much more likely to presume upon our weakness than to take offence at our strength.

Robert Peel