Weakness Quotes

I did not want to be depressed by the gap existing between my weakness and my ambition.

Nature is as well adapted to our weakness as to our strength.

Power was my weakness and my temptation.

I think that when you are famous every weakness is exaggerated.

Religious beliefs evolved by group-selection, tribe competing against tribe, and the illogic of religions is not a weakness but their essential strength.

If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.

The forest did not tolerate frailty of body or mind. Show your weakness, and it would consume you without hesitation.

The motive behind criticism often determines its validity. Those who care criticize where necessary. Those who envy criticize the moment they think that they have found a weak spot.

Never test another man by your own weakness.

Life is not a PG feel-good movie. Real life often ends badly. Literature tries to document this reality, while showing us it is still possible for us to endure nobly.

The weak may be joked out of anything but their weakness.

Weaknesses, so called, are nothing more nor less than vice in disguise!

The strength of man sinks in the hour of trial; but there doth live a Power that to the battle girdeth the weak.

The yielding of the weak is the concession to fear.

The mortal race is far too weak not to grow dizzy on unwonted brights.

Delusion and weakness produce not one mischief the less, because they are universal.

The mortal race is far too weak not to grow dizzy on unwonted brights. [Ger., Das sterbliche Geschlecht ist viel zu schwach In ungewohnter Hohe nicht zu schwindeln.]

Tomorrow is a satire on today, And shows its weakness.

Strength that goes wrong is even more dangerous than weakness that goes wrong.

And yet you see the weakness of external evidence-and outward miracles; they were not sufficient to make true believers, or to make the Israelites believe that Jesus was their promised Messiah.

Everything that exists is born for no reason, carries on living through weakness, and dies by accident

Strengthen your strengths and hire your weaknesses.

That deed which in our guilt we today call weakness, will appear tomorrow as an essential link in the complete chain of Man.

The beautiful seems right by force of beauty and the feeble wrong because of weakness.

At the heart of its strength is a weakness: a lone candle can hold it back. Love is more than a candle, love can ignite the stars.

Ministers who threaten death and destruction employ weapons of weakness. Argument and kindness are alone effectual, flavored by the principles of Divine love.

Insulting the electorate and accusing it of spiritual weakness and sinfulness are not the ways to get yourself the job of president.

Ambition is not a weakness unless it be disproportioned to the capacity. To have more ambition than ability is to be at once weak and unhappy.

Weakness is oftentimes so palpable as to be equivalent to wickedness.

Husband and wife,--so much in common, how different in type! Such a contrast, and yet such harmony, strength and weakness blended together!

Let our weakness be what it will, mankind will still be weaker; and whilst there is a world, 'tis woman that will govern it.

Vanity is the natural weakness of an ambitious man, which exposes him to the secret scorn and derision of those he converses with, and ruins the character he is so industrious to advance by it.

Guard thy heart on this weak side, where most our nature fails.

All haste implies weakness.

Faith may rise into miracles of might, as some few wise men have shown; faith may sink into credulities of weakness, as the mass of fools have witnessed.

The highest point to which a weak but experienced mind can rise is detecting the weakness of better men.

What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.

Man doth not yield him to the angels, nor unto death utterly, save only through the weakness of his feeble will.

I reckon that there won't be an intervention in the near future, because Georgia's military adventure revealed the weakness of the Russian army.

Dark chocolate, and salt and vinegar chips are my weakness - but not together.

He that can carp in the most eloquent or acute manner at the weakness of the human mind is held by his fellows as almost divine.

In the final analysis the weakness of Black Power is its failure to see that the black man needs the white man and the white man needs the black man.

You don't have to explain yourself. Let your weakness be yours. Let your strength be everybody's. You understand the principle?

He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.

Utterance does not in principle mean a weakening of conviction--that would not be anything to be deplored--but a weakness of conviction.

Weak people can be very stubborn.

Credulity is perhaps a weakness almost inseparable from eminently truthful characters.

Weakness is the only fault that is incorrigible.

Ah, beer, my one weakness. My Achille's heel, if you will.

Weakness indicates dependence, and there is a degree of trust and tenderness also in it.