Weakness Quotes - Page 3

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

  Edmund Burke

  Produce, Delusion, Mischief

  Edmund Burke (1852). “The Works and Correspondence of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke”, p.313

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• Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Life, Strength

  "Twenty Sermons". Book by Phillips Brooks, p. 330, 1886.

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• Morality is the weakness of the mind.

  Arthur Rimbaud

  Mind, Morality

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• Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Strength, Kindness

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• Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Strength, Sympathy, Teaching

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

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• Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we're damned if we're going to show.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Strength, Women, Literature

  "The Complete Neurotic's Notebook". Book by Mignon McLaughlin, 1981.

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

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Motivational, Strength, Success

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

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Wells, Adapted

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Thoreau on Nature: Sage Words on Finding Harmony with the Natural World”, p.10, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• No soul of high estate can take pleasure in slander. It betrays a weakness.

  Blaise Pascal

  Betrayal, Soul, Pleasure

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• You cannot let go of anything if you cannot notice that you are holding it. Admit your 'weaknesses' and watch them morph into your greatest strengths.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Strength, Letting Go, Watches

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Dec 21, 2009

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• Weakness is the only fault that is incorrigible.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Faults, Incorrigible

  Francois duc de La-Rochefoucauld (1828). “Maximes Et Reflexions Morales Traduites en Grec Moderne Par Wladimir Brunet; Avec Une Traduction Anglaise en Regard”, p.73

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• Weakness is more opposed to virtue than is vice.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Vices, Virtue

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• Weak people cannot be sincere.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  People, Sincerity, Sincere

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

  Eugene Sue

  Degrees, Dependence, Tenderness

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• 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.]

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Race, Dizzy, Grows

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• We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Treacherous

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• When mental energy is allowed to follow the line of least resistance and to fall into easy channels, it is called weakness.

  James Allen

  Fall, Energy, Lines

  James Allen (2016). “The James Allen Companion”, p.610, Simon and Schuster

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• Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence.

  Dorothy Dix

  Punishment, Keeping Secrets, Silence

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• Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, - for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it - not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation.

  Herman Melville

  Strength, Literature, Way

  Herman Melville, Lynn Horth (1993). “Correspondence”, p.196, Northwestern University Press

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• I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Atrocities, Causes, Disaster

  Edgar Allan Poe (2004). “The Collected Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe”, p.63, Wordsworth Editions

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• Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Fear, Pride, Competition

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• To be weak is miserable, Doing or suffering.

  John Milton

  Suffering, Miserable, Weak

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 1, l. 157

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  Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.

  Ann Landers

  Love, Friendship, Forgiveness

  Ann Landers (1978). “The Ann Landers encyclopedia, A to Z: improve your life emotionally, medically, sexually, socially, spiritually”, Galahad Books

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• In every government on earth is some trace of human weakness, some germ of corruption and degeneracy, which cunning will discover, and wickedness insensibly open, cultivate and improve.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Government, Wickedness, Earth

  Thomas Jefferson (1832). “Notes on the State of Virginia”, p.156

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• Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “An Ideal Husband”, p.40, Sheba Blake Publishing

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