Top 100 Strength In Weakness Quotes
#1. If the written word has contributed anything at all to our developing species and our half developed culture, it is this: Great writing has been a staff to lean on, a mother to consult, a wisdom to pick up stumbling folly, a strength in weakness and a courage to support sick cowardice.
John Steinbeck
#2. You have summoned me in my weakness. You must sustain me in your strength.
Franklin Pierce
#3. Thi is the malady onf the humans, that they can hold on to that which is fleeting and of little consequence and call it everlasting. They focus on awards, achievements, and whatc an be done in their own strength while the Almighty desires to work trough their weakness.
Chris Fabry
#4. I always have the feeling we are merely fearfully trying to save room for God; I would rather speak of God at the center than at the limits, in strength rather than weakness, and thus in human life and goodness rather than in death and guilt.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#5. Compassion is not a dirty word. Compassion is not a sign of weakness. In my view, compassion in politics and in public policy is in fact a hallmark of great strength. It is a hallmark of a society which has about it a decency which speaks for itself.
Kevin Rudd
#6. The absence of tumult, more than its presence, is an enemy of the soul. God meets you in your weakness, not in your strength. He comforts those who mourn, not those who live above desperation. He reveals Himself more often in darkness than in the happy moments of life.
Dan B. Allender
#7. Fathers, your are the head and strength of the family unit. If you are not in place, there is a weakness in the link.
Anita R. Sneed-Carter
#8. The strength of man sinks in the hour of trial; but there doth live a Power that to the battle girdeth the weak.
Joanna Baillie
#9. today i will find strength in my weakness
Mark Twain
#10. A barrier for me - which has been both a strength and a weakness - has been my taste. The kind of things I'm interested in aren't always mainstream.
Randa Haines
#11. In any situation you can think of, impatience is a source of weakness and fear, while patience represents substance and strength.
Jim Rohn
#12. 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
#13. Proportion thy charity to the strength of thine estate, lest God proportion thine estate to the weakness of thy charity. Let the lips of the poor be the trumpet of thy gift, lest in seeking applause, thou lose thy reward. Nothing is more pleasing to God than an open hand and a closed mouth.
Francis Quarles
#14. It is a strength of character to acknowledge our failings and our strong points, and it is a weakness of character not to remain in harmony with both the good and the bad that is within us.
Madeleine De Souvre, Marquise De ...
#16. Ignorance fears all things, falling, terror-stricken before the passing wind. Superstition stands as the monument to ignorance, and before it kneel all who realize their own weakness who see in all things the strength they do not possess
Manly P. Hall
#17. Weakness or strength: you exist, that is strength. You don't know where you are going or why you are going, go in everywhere, answer everyone. No one will kill you, any more than if you were a corpse.
Arthur Rimbaud
#18. Above his Lord. Perhaps because Knox himself found such abundant strength in the midst of great personal weakness, he was used of God to raise
Douglas Bond
#19. Nonreaction is not weakness but strength. Another word for nonreaction is forgiveness. To forgive is to overlook, or rather to look through. You look through the ego to the sanity that is in every human being as his or her essence.
Eckhart Tolle
#20. 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
#21. The strength in gold is revealing the general weakness in the dollar.
Peter Schiff
#22. Then Anu and Bel called by name me, Hammurabi, the exalted prince, who feared God, to bring about the rule of righteousness in the land, to destroy the wicked and the evil-doers; so that the strong should not harm the weak.
Code Of Hammurabi 1772 B.C.
#23. A competitive advantage is not just strength versus weakness but how you are better than others in what you do.
Matthew Ashimolowo
#24. To fear the foe, since fear oppresseth strength,
Gives, in your weakness, strength unto your foe,
And so your follies fight against yourself.
Fear, and be slain
so worse can come to fight;
And fight and die is death destroying death,
Where fearing dying pays death servile breath.
William Shakespeare
#25. Knowing what she did to him made her feel powerful, just as knowing what he did to her made her feel weak.
Kate Meader
#26. Know that all sins and all evils can be summed up in that one word, weakness. It is weakness that is the motive power in all evil doing; it is weakness that makes men injure others; it is weakness that makes them manifest what they are not in reality. Let them know what they really are ...
Swami Vivekananda
#27. The weak can't bear to face their weaknesses in the presence of our strength.
Crystal Woods
#28. Use your strength, but always remember that any strength
may become a weakness.
Kateryna Kei
#29. 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
#30. No one feels strong when she examines her own weakness. But in facing weakness, you learn how much there is in you, and you find real strength.
Pat Summitt
#31. Death used to announce itself in the thick of life but now people drag on so long it sometimes seems that we are reaching the stage when we may have to announce ourselves to death. It is as though one needs a special strength to die, and not a final weakness.
Ronald Blythe
#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
#34. In this world is a God whose matchless strength is a fit contrast to the sordid weakness of man.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#35. I have only ever known Guilt to have one weakness, one not easily given and not easily found: Forgiveness ... In truth, Guilt's strength lies not in the failure of others to grant us forgiveness, but in our failure to forgive ourselves.
Kelseyleigh Reber
#36. Sometimes our weakness is considered strength, and we take delight in borrowed greatness.
Meher Baba
#37. I hate how my body shivers at the idea of glory. There's something deep in man that hungers for this. But I think it weakness, not strength, to abandon decency for that strange darker spirit.
Pierce Brown
#38. Weakness ever sympathizes with vice, because vice is a weakness which assumes the mask of strength. Madness holds reason in horror, and on all subjects it delights in the exaggerations of falsehood. The cause of all bewitchments, the poison of all philtres, the power of all sorcerers are there.
Eliphas Levi
#40. I hope, as he assures me, he was not guilty of Indecency; but have Reason to bless God, who, by disabling me in my Faculties, enabled me to preserve my Innocence; and when all my Strength would have signified nothing, magnified himself in my Weakness.
Samuel Richardson
#41. God does not reveal himself in strength or power, but in the weakness and fragility of a newborn babe.
Pope Francis
#42. Your real strength within isn't the strength that you experience in your self. Your real strength within is in what you are as a being, deeper than what your self is. Your real strength is within your weakest weakness.
John De Ruiter
#43. It was in our power to cause the Arab governments to renounce the policy of strength toward Israel by turning it into a demonstration of weakness.
Moshe Dayan
#44. We all come unique packages with strength and weakness, and somewhere there is a precious gift in all of us
Samantha Abeel
#45. Do not say that! How few are the Romans and how numerous are we ! 'An army's strength lies not in numbers of men but in Allah's help, and its weakness lies in being forsaken by Allah
Khalid Ibn Al-Walid
#46. The fact that people in Hollywood are open to what I teach is not because they're more desperate than anyone else, but because they're more touched by it. That's not their weakness. It's their strength!
Marianne Williamson
#47. God's favor in its fullness is that which allows strength to overcome with weakness, love to overcome hatred, God's goodness to defeat Satan's evil nature.
Sunday Adelaja
#48. God gets glory when his strength shines in our weakness.
Kevin DeYoung
#50. You'll feel afraid at times. You'll feel weak at times. But remember, fear and weakness are not your enemies. They are forms of evolutionary wisdom in the face of danger. Take some time to assess the situation and shake the weakness and fear off your limbic system.
Abhijit Naskar
#51. God's strength is made perfect in weakness. The weaker I became, the more powerful became the preaching.
Billy Graham
#52. Weakness drives us to set goals, to try harder, to put forth more effort, to dream and wish and hope, to reach out further and down deeper, to pray earnestly, to cry mightily, to understand and empathize with valid sincerity. In truth, weakness is a catalyst for greater strength.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#53. We all have weakness and strength. I have to fight against the weakness in my personality. Everyone of should fight against the weakness of the soul. Seek to build on your strengths.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#54. An intimate relationship is one in which neither party silences, sacrifices, or betrays the self and each party expresses strength and vulnerability, weakness and competence in a balanced way.
Harriet Lerner
#55. Arbitrary rule has its basis, not in the strength of the state or the chief, but in the moral weakness of the individual, who submits almost without resistance to the domineering power.
Friedrich Ratzel
#56. Her weakness was aggressive and kept forcing him to capitulate until eventually he lost his strength and was transformed into the rabbit in her arms .
Milan Kundera
#57. In the United States, it is our weakness to confuse the numerical strength of an organization and the publicity attached to leaders with the germinating forces that sow the seeds of social upheaval in our community.
Malcolm X
#58. The left hand holds the power of weakness; the right, the power of strength. I wish my actions to be ruled by the power of weakness, so I hold my staff in my left hand. You hold your scepters in the right hand; your actions are ruled by the power of strength. Of might. Of tyranny.
Lena Karynn Tesla
#59. The Church of Reason, like all institutions of the System, is based not on individual strength but upon individual weakness. What's really demanded in the Church of Reason is not ability, but inability. Then you are considered teachable. A truly able person is always a threat.
Robert M. Pirsig
#60. In our thoughts and words we create our own weaknesses and our own strengths.
Betty Eadie
#61. Never be afraid to expose a weakness in yourself. Exposing a weakness is the beginning of strength.
Robert Anthony
#62. He teaches best,
Who feels the hearts of all men in his breast,
And knows their strength or weakness through his own.
Bayard Taylor
#63. 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
#64. 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
#65. Consider that fact that, being nothing in ourselves, we cannot, without divine assistance, accomplish the smallest good or advance the smallest step toward Heaven.
Lorenzo Scupoli
#66. 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
#67. 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
#68. 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
#69. One of the greatest lies ever told is that there's no power in vulnerability.
Dianna Hardy
#70. 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
#71. There is this fine line between presenting to You all of my weakness and thinking that it can't be done. In Your strength, I find my own.
Joni Eareckson Tada
#72. A deep kiss can put you in an emotional state of coma, sometimes in a reckless vulnerability, we lose virginity and sanity, and maybe our bond of love becomes strong or weak.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#73. 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
#74. Christ's strength is manifest in our weakness, so if we had everything together there would be no need for Him.
Yvette Nicole Brown
#75. To be conscious of one's weakness and to trust in God's help is the way to authentic strength and victory.
Alice Von Hildebrand
#76. 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
#77. Marriage has the power to set the course of your life as a whole. If your marriage is strong, even if all the circumstances in your life around you are filled with trouble and weakness, it won't matter. You will be able to move out into the world in strength.
Timothy Keller
#78. When (an advocate) is not thoroughly acquainted with the real strength and weakness of his cause, he knows not where to choose the most impressive argument. When the mark is shrouded in obscurity, the only substitute for accuracy in the aim is in the multitude of the shafts.
John Quincy Adams
#79. No action, whether foul or fair, Is ever done, but it leaves somewhere A record, written by fingers ghostly, As a blessing or a curse, and mostly In the greater weakness or greater strength Of the acts which follow it.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#80. It had taken time for him to realize that no one was truly self-sufficient, and that those who thought they were merely took refuge in a form of weakness, the weakness of being unable to ask for help and guidance and thus find greater strength in reliance on close friends and comrades.
Simon Hawke
#81. 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
#82. She reminded him that the weak will never enter the kingdom of love, which is a harsh and ungenerous kingdom,and that women give themselves only to men of resolute spirit, who provide them with the security they need in order to face life.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#83. Strength, strength it is that we want so much in this life, for what we call sin and sorrow have all one cause, and that is our weakness. With weakness comes ignorance, and with ignorance comes misery.
Swami Vivekananda
#84. That weakness in human nature which goes by the name of strength.
Peter Ustinov
#85. Obedience and humility require courage and strength of character. Weakness and fear cause one to fall back on his or her pride, which results in a vicious cycle
Sienna McQuillen
#86. Strength is Happiness. Strength is itself victory. In weakness and cowardice there is no happiness. When you wage a struggle, you might win or you might lose. But regardless of the short-term outcome, the very fact of your continuing to struggle is proof of your victory as a human being.
Daisaku Ikeda
#87. Man seems merely dust postponed: the sublime as an encounter - pleasurable, intoxicating, even - with human weakness in the face of strength, age and size of the universe.
Alain De Botton
#88. Remember, it is not your weakness that will get in the way of God's working through you, but your delusions of strength. His strength is made perfect in our weakness! Point to His strength by being willing to admit your weakness.
Paul David Tripp
#89. In order for us to liberate the energy of our strength, our weakness must first have a chance to reveal itself.
Paulo Coelho
#91. Certainty creates strength. Certainty gives one something upon which to learn. Uncertainty creates weakness. Uncertainty makes one tentative if not fearful, and tentative steps, even when in the right direction, may not overcome significant obstacles.
John M Barry
#92. Weakness with watchfulness will stand, when strength with too much confidence fails. Weakness, with acknowledgement of it, is the fittest seat and subject for God to perfect his strength in; for consciousness of our infirmities drives us out of ourselves to him in whom our strength lies.
Richard Sibbes
#93. Surrendering is not a weakness. At the contrary it is strength. The surrender stops living in boiling water and starts living in a secure place.
Shams Tabrizi
#94. If I acknowledge my dependency, I do so because for me it is a means of signifying my demand: in the realm of love, futility is not a "weakness" or an "absurdity": it is a strong sign: the more futile, the more it signifies and the more it asserts itself as strength.)
Roland Barthes
#95. On the day when it will be possible for woman to love not in her weakness but in her strength, not to escape herself but to find herself, not to abase herself but to assert herself
on that day love will become for her, as for man, a source of life and not of mortal danger.
Simone De Beauvoir
#96. The terrorists thought they would change my aims and stop my ambitions, but nothing changed in my life except this: weakness, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage were born.
Malala Yousafzai
#97. 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
#98. The lust for power is not rooted in strength but in weakness.
Erich Fromm
#99. I suppose it is that sickness and weakness are selfish things and turn our inner eyes and sympathy on ourselves, whilst health and strength give love rein, and in thought and feeling he can wander where he wills.
Bram Stoker
#100. The only thing certain in times of great uncertainty is that people will behave with great strength or weakness, and with very little else in between.
Amy Tan
