Weakness Itself Quotes

#1. Marihuana is a World Wide Problem.
It is Connected to Sex and Porn Addiction.
It is Weakness, itself.
P. Hermans
September 13, 2016

Petra Hermans

#2. We are weakness itself, and unless He guards the city, in vain shall we labor to defend it.

Teresa Of Avila

#3. Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#4. How sometimes nature will betray its folly, Its tenderness, and make itself a pastime To harder bosoms!

William Shakespeare

#5. Every weakness contains within itself a strength.

Shusaku Endo

#6. They'd never known anything but victory which, Paul realized, could be a weakness in itself. He put that thought aside for later consideration in his own training program.

Frank Herbert

#7. No cowardice, no sin, no crime, no weakness - the rest will come of itself ...

Swami Vivekananda

#8. In strength the body only knows itself, is full of itself, its movements, its words, but in weakness is the invisible and the whisperings.

Lene Fogelberg

#9. Such is the weakness of our nature, that when men are a little exalted in their condition they immediately conceive they have additional senses, and their capacities enlarged not only above other men, but above human comprehension itself.

Richard Steele

#10. What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself. What is bad? All that is born of weakness. What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#11. When we have nothing to cling to as our own and cease thinking of ourselves as people who must defend privileges, we can open ourselves freely to others with the faithful expectation that our strength will manifest itself in our shared weakness.

Henri Nouwen

#12. A weakness of many of the self-oriented play theories is that they often sound too much like vain consumerism instead of being about the more passionate and willful character of human play, which involves a willingness, even if a fantasy, to believe in the play venture itself.

Brian Sutton-Smith

#13. Pain is the body's way of ridding itself of weakness.

Dean Karnazes

#14. We try to ease our pain with anger. But anger isn't strength. It only masks itself as strength. It's weakness. At its core, it's fear. Fear of facing what might be truth

Richard Paul Evans

#15. Hate promises you strength, but is in itself a weakness.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#16. Like one's own children, golf has an uncanny way of endearing itself to us while at the same time evoking every weakness of mind and character, no matter how well hidden.

Timothy Gallwey

#17. One reason the United States finds itself at the edge of a foreign policy disaster is its underinformed citizenry, a key weakness in democracy.

Stefan Halper

#18. Subjection to fear is weakness, bondage, feverish unrest. To be afraid is to have no soul that we can call our own; it is to be at the beck and call of alien powers, to be chained and driven and tormented; it is to lose the life itself in the anxious care to keep it.

Henry Van Dyke

#19. The most regular and most perfect soul in the world has but too much to do to keep itself upright from being overthrown by its own weakness.

Michel De Montaigne

#20. 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

#21. Nothing is more arrogant than the weakness which feels itself supported by power.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#22. 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

#23. Of course it's all-consuming, but love- real love- doesn't destroy or smother. It's the very opposite of a weakness. Love strengthens. It liberates. It molds itself to every fiber of your being and fortifies you where where you may be broken.

Kerrigan Byrne

#24. 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

#25. Weakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,
like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is.

Christian Nestell Bovee

#26. I always thought fainting showed an inherent weakness of character, but I understood it now. It was an act of self-preservation. Confronted by emotion too extreme to handle, the body shuts down to keep from running around like a chicken with its head cut off, potentially injuring itself.

Karen Marie Moning

#27. Given the ease with which health infuses life with meaning and purpose, it is shocking how swiftly illness steals away those certainties ... Time unused and only endured still vanishes, as if time itself is starving, and each day is swallowed whole, leaving no crumbs, no memory, no trace at all.

Elisabeth Tova Bailey

#28. To demand of strength that it should not express itself as strength, that it should not be a desire to overcome, a desire to throw down, a desire to become master, a thirst for enemies and resistances and triumphs, is just as absurd as to demand of weakness that it should express itself as strength.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#29. And the weak soul, within itself unbless'd, Leans for all pleasure on another's breast.

Oliver Goldsmith

#30. In randori, one must search out the opponent's weaknesses and be ready to attack with all the resources at his disposal the moment the opportunity presents itself, without violating the rules of judo.

Kano Jigoro

#31. 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

#32. In order for us to liberate the energy of our strength, our weakness must first have a chance to reveal itself.

Paulo Coelho

#33. The heart itself is beyond control. That is its power, and its weakness.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#34. 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

#35. Even at birth the soul comes to its own and through every step of its earthly pilgrimage it attracts those combinations of conditions which reveal itself, which are the reflections of its own purity and, impurity, its strength and weakness. Men

James Allen