Weakness Quotes

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.

Curb Your Enthusiasm, is not so much about Hollywood. It's more about Larry's weaknesses.

Now the thing is not to get into unnecessary quarrels by talking too much and not to indicate any weakness by talking too much; let our actions speak for themselves.

The birch is used only out of bad temper and weakness, for the birch is a servile punishment which degrades the soul even when it corrects, if indeed it corrects, for its usual effect is to harden.

The helpless can't help the helpless.

Some of our weaknesses are born in us, others are the result of education; it is a question which of the two gives us most trouble.

I am tired. My arm aches. My head boils. My feet are cold. But I am not aware of any weakness.

The weakest goes to the wall.

Man's biological weakness is the condition of human culture.

Cicero said loud-bawling orators were driven by their weakness to noise, as lame men to take horse.

Some weak people are so sensible of their weakness as to be able to make a good use of it.

I don't really tell a joke, I react to situations. The whole thing is just looking at somebody and showing all our weaknesses and exaggerating them, and that's how it becomes funny.

...as man under pressure tends to give in to physical and intellectual weakness, only great strength of will can lead to the objective.

The man who discovers a woman's weakness is like the huntsman in the heat of the day who finds a cool spring. He wallows in it.

If you find yourself with a weakness, attack it... don't develop a technique that avoids your weaknesses.

I honestly don’t know whether I am describing something essential about the way we know God or merely my own weakness of mind.

Weak souls always set to work at the wrong time.

Sincerity is a great but rare virtue, and we pardon to it much complaining, and the betrayal of many weaknesses.

The dependence of one people upon another, even for the benefits of legislation, is the deepest source of national weakness.

More men are guilty of treason through weakness than any studied design to betray.

You will excel only by maximizing your strengths, never by fixing your weaknesses.

Modern man's difficulties, dangerous beliefs and feelings of loneliness, spiritual emptiness,and personal weakness are caused by his illusions about, and separation from, the natural world.

The attractiveness that exists to man in the very helplessness of woman is scarcely realized.

It is weakness rather than wickedness which renders men unfit to be trusted with unlimited power.

Many a humble soul will be amazed to find that the seed it sowed in weakness, in the dust of daily life, has blossomed into immortal flowers under the eye of the Lord.

I think his greatest fault is his failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done. This is a great weakness in any man.

We all have strengths, weaknesses and blind spots. In fact, an average person has 3.4 blind spots.

It's terrible when the weak are also cruel for then we are defenseless against them.

Woman's weakness, not man's merit, oftenest gains the suitor's victory.

The ultimate aim of psychoanalysis is to attribute art to mental weakness, and then to trace the weakness back to the point where, according to analytic dogma, it originated namely, the lavatory.

There is a price for popularity. Critics look for your weaknesses, your flaws, anything that makes the work seem like a fluke and not seem worthy of all the attention it's getting.

I've always had a weakness for lost causes once they're really lost.

Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength.

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.

Weakness is a guise. Wear it when they need to know you're human, but never when you feel it.

Going for character: why not now, and where you stand?

Humility does not mean weakness. It does not mean timidity. It does not mean fear. A man can be humble and fearless. A man can be humble and courageous.

The commonest weakness of our race is our ability to rationalize our most selfish purposes.

Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.

Drew Callahan is my absolute weakness. Like a drug I can't get enough of. He's my addiction and if I'm honest with myself, I'm not looking to kick that particular habit anytime soon.

From aquaintances we conceal our real selves. To our friends we reveal our weaknesses.

There are highly gifted spirits who are always infertile simply because, owing to a weakness in temperament, they are too impatient to wait out their pregnancy to term.

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.

If you know your strength it never becomes a weakness. If the market knows your strength then it becomes a weakness.

If I was going to give Matt (Kenseth) a piece of advice, I'd say use the s- out of him. Every time you get, run him hard, because that's his weakness.

Nothing shows our weakness more than to be so sharp-sighted at spying other men's faults, and so purblind about our own.

Jesus Christ can afford to be misunderstood; we cannot. Our weakness lies in always wanting to vindicate ourselves.

To discern what weaknesses and faults separate you from God, you must enter into your own inward ground and then confront yourself.

It's better not to argue with women... When people push boundaries too far, it's not because they are strong but because they are weak. But maybe weakness is not the worst quality for a woman.

Most people believe vulnerability is weakness. But really vulnerability is Courage. We must ask ourselves...are we willing to show up and be seen.