Weakness Quotes - Page 2

• Concentrate on your strengths, instead of your weaknesses... on your powers, instead of your problems.

  Paul J. Meyer

  Problem, Drive And Determination, Motivational Career

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• All cruelty springs from weakness.

  Seneca the Younger

  Spring, Philosophical, Animal

  "On the Happy Life". Essay by Seneca the Younger (58 AD); later published in Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton "Caxtoniana: A Series of Essays on Life, Literature, and Manners", p. 174 (in the essay "The Sympathetic Temperment"), 1863.

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• Each relationship nurtures a strength or weakness within you.

  Mike Murdock

  Relationship, Strength, Marriage

  Mike Murdock (2012). “1 Minute Businesswoman's Devotional”, p.28, Wisdom International Inc

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• A woman's strength is the unresistible might of weakness.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Women, Might

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960). “The Journals”

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• Pessimism leads to weakness. Optimism leads to power.

  William James

  Uplifting, Optimistic, Positive Thinking

  "The Varieties of Religous Experience: A Study in Human Nature".

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

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Vices, Disguise

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• You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Running

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2015). “Collected Memoirs, Travel Sketches and Island Literature of Robert Louis Stevenson: Autobiographical Writings and Essays by the prolific Scottish novelist, poet and travel writer, author of Treasure Island, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Kidnapped & Catriona”, p.288, e-artnow

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• Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength.

  Billy Graham

  Strength, Christian, Self

  Billy Graham (2010). “Unto the Hills: A Daily Devotional”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• As long as I fear my weakness, I am stronger than when I trust my strength.

  Ivan Panin

  Long, Stronger

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• Insincerity is always weakness; sincerity even in error is strength.

  George Henry Lewes

  Strength, Errors, Sincerity

  George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Principles of Success in Literature”

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• So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.

  Charles Dickens

  People, Expectations, Words Of Wisdom

  Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.7278, Delphi Classics

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• We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• When you find your opponent's weak spot, hammer it.

  John Heisman

  Opponents, Weak Spots, Hammers

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• My strength and my weakness are twins in the same womb.

  Marge Piercy

  Twins, Womb, Strength Weakness

  Marge Piercy (2013). “Circles on the Water”, p.268, Knopf

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• The yielding of the weak is the concession to fear.

  Edmund Burke

  Fear, Weak, Concessions

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• If people see your weaknesses they will take advantage of them.

  Ivana Trump

  People, Advantage, Ifs

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

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Men, Trying, Sober

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1871). “Summaries of Thought”

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• Our worries always come from our weaknesses.

  Joseph Joubert

  Worry

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Prayer

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.240, Courier Corporation

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

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  May, Weak

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• Outside of Christ, I am only a sinner, but in Christ, I am saved. Outside of Christ, I am empty; in Christ, I am full. Outside of Christ, I am weak; in Christ, I am strong. Outside of Christ, I cannot; in Christ, I am more than able. Outside of Christ, I have been defeated; in Christ, I am already victorious. How meaningful are the words, "in Christ."

  Watchman Nee

  Strength, God, Faith

  Watchman Nee (1999). “Secrets to Spiritual Power: From the Writings of Watchman Nee”, p.74, Whitaker House

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

  William Shakespeare

  Nature, Sometimes, Betray

  William Shakespeare (1806). “The Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.176

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

  Joseph Addison

  Heart, Sides, Failing

  Joseph Addison (1825). “Cato: A Tragedy, in Five Acts”, p.1

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• Better make a weak man your enemy than your friend.

  Josh Billings

  Men, Weak Man, Enemy

  Josh Billings (1874). “Everybody's Friend, Or Josh Billing's Encyclopedia and Proverbial Philosophy of Wit and Humor”, p.211

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• We justly consider women to be weaker than ourselves, and yet we are governed by them.

  Nicolas Chamfort

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