Weakness Quotes

Weak dogs become bones for other, stronger dogs.

But since I have a poet's weakness for symbols, I am using this character also as a symbol; he is the long-delayed but always expected something that we live for.

Error is to be pitied and pardoned: it is the weakness of human nature. But vice is a foul blemish, not pardonable in any character.

Letting go is the ultimate weakness.

Rewrite, rewrite, rewrite, don't be precious about your first draft, it's an architectural blueprint to a whole building, be your own worst critic, confront your weakness and remember it's a craft.

There seldom is enmity between seasoned old politicians, who know as much as men can of human weakness and human strength.

Everyone has their own weaknesses, for me, I believe it is my speed. I need to train more for that in order to be faster.

Retreat might give us a moment of respite but years of repentance at our weakness would, I believe, follow.

I would be a terrible director, I could never write anything. One of my great strengths is that I know all of my weaknesses.

But laughter is weakness, corruption, the foolishness of our flesh.

Realism is a very sophisticated form of literature, a very grown-up one. And that may be its weakness. But fantasy seems to be eternal and omnipresent and always attractive to kids.

No one's perfect," I whisper. "It doesn't work that way. One bad thing goes away, and another bad thing replaces it." I traded cowardice for cruelty; I traded weakness for ferocity.

I am fed up. I am fed up with tears and weakness. But there isn't much I can do to stop them.

The pressure of the [election] campaign has a wonderful way of revealing your strengths and weaknesses.

Strength is a facade for the proud, weakness is a mask for the lazy.

But evil is a cunning force. It can find the weakness in any man, even the bravest. [...] It only takes a single weak moment to let evil in.

A library represents the mind of its collector, fancies and foibles, strengths and weaknesses, prejudices and preferences.

To fear the foe, since fear oppresseth strength, gives in your weakness strength unto your foe.

Thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine, Whose weakness, married to thy stronger state, Makes me with thy strength to communicate.

Christ's strength is manifest in our weakness, so if we had everything together there would be no need for Him.

Desperation, weakness, vulnerability - these things will always be exploited. You need to protect the weak, ring-fence them, with something far stronger than empathy.

Many times our weaknesses are extensions of our strengths.

My music started as a way to break through weaknesses - like anxiety, which was completely taking over my whole life, where I could barely function.

To me, bitterness is the under-arm odor of wishful weakness. It is the graceless acknowledgment of defeat.

No God, no messiah, no prophet can grant your wishes – it is only through your own efforts that you can make your wishes come true – it is only you who can grant your own wishes.

Stop being the sheep and become the lion my friend!

She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness. It is the feet of clay that make the gold of the image precious.

A lion may die of an ass's kick.

Thank you for loving me like you love me. Thank you for showing me that we don't always have to be strong to be there for each other--that it's okay to be weak, so long as we're there.

You can’t let praise or criticism get to you. It’s a weakness to get caught up in either one.

Tears won’t help me right now. They’ll just make me weaker.

We are all full of weakness and errors let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.

Think not that humility is weakness it shall supply the marrow of strength to thy bones. Stoop and conquer bow thyself and become invincible.

Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.

Anger is certainly a kind of baseness, as it appears well in the weakness of those subjects in whom it reigns: children, women, old folks, sick folks.

A genius in the wrong position could look like a fool.

Discrimination does not 'make America great.' It makes America weak.

Conventional wisdom nor scientific, mathematical prove of randomness in life could do nothing to deter human's curiosity for the unknown, however small the chance of a positive outcome maybe.

Love's weaknesses are better than hate's strengths.

Those who are weak, never suck the blood of the enemy, as it is to be done with strength.

We feel fighting for dominance actually shows weakness. It's much harder to hold back the wolf than to let it have free rein.

It was, however, time to accept fear for what it was, an emotion that was preventing them from being who they needed to be.

When the week begins, try your best to let your best overcome your worst and that is the best. Do your best to have a good week and never be weak in the week.

Only the weak hit the fly with a hammer

Consider that fact that, being nothing in ourselves, we cannot, without divine assistance, accomplish the smallest good or advance the smallest step toward Heaven.

What breaks you down is not the amount of pressure you feel at one time, but it’s the way you perceive and handle it.

If your weakness is love then you are extremely strong.

Focus on your strengths, not your weaknesses.Focus on your character, not your reputation.Focus on your blessings, not your misfortunes.

Complaining is truly my strongest weakness.

Only courageous hearts can endure the bitterness of truth.