Weakness Quotes - Page 4

• 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.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Two, Giving, Trouble

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• I have never quite understood the relationship between beauty and weakness, womanly sweetness and womanly silliness; to my mind, indeed, that woman being the most beautiful who is the most capable, while weakness and silliness can never by any chance be other than unlovely.

  Eliza Lynn Linton

  Beautiful, Mind, Never Quit

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• Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• There's a basic human weakness inherent in all people which tempts them to bitterly want what they can't have and ungratefully not want what is readily available to them.

  Robert Ringer

  Gratitude, People, Want

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• Solitude is strength; to depend on the presence of the crowd is weakness. The man who needs a mob to nerve him is much more alone than he imagines.

  Paul Brunton

  Strength, Being Alone, Men

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• There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.

  Washington Irving

  Love, Marriage, Sympathy

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• Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Wise, Wisdom

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

  Voltaire

  Death, Forgiveness, Nature

  Voltaire (1824). “A Philosophical Dictionary: From the French”, p.272

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• Ethical teaching is weakened if it is tied up with dogmas that will not bear examination.

  Margaret E. Knight

  Teaching, Atheism, Examination

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

  George Sand

  Wickedness

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• The weak can never forgive.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Strength, Being Strong, Forgiveness

  Mahatma Gandhi (1980). “All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections”, p.155, A&C Black

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

  Khalil Gibran

  Men, Guilt, Essentials

  "The Voice of the Master". Book by Khalil Gibran. Translated by Anthony R. Ferris, 1958.

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

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  People, Use, Able

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

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Men, Design, Guilty

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• There are some weaknesses that are peculiar and distinctive to generous characters, as freckles are to a fair skin.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Character, Skins, Peculiar

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• And the weak soul, within itself unbless'd, Leans for all pleasure on another's breast.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Soul, Pleasure, Breasts

  Oliver Goldsmith, Tobias Smollett, Samuel Johnson, William Shenstone (1861). “Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith, Tobias Smollett, Samuel Johnson and William Shenstone”, p.9

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

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Men, Mind, Better Man

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

  John Wooden

  Inspirational, Basketball, Motivational Sports

  "The Wizard's wisdom: 'Woodenisms'", www.espn.com. June 4, 2010.

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

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Beauty, Beautiful, Memorable

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1857). “Aurora Leigh”, p.25

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• Vulnerability is not weakness. And that myth is profoundly dangerous.

  Brené Brown

  Motivation, Inspiration, Inspire

  "Listening to shame". TED Talks, www.ted.com. March 2012.

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• Men are taught to apologise for their weaknesses, women for their strengths.

  Lois Wyse

  Men, Taught

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

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Men, Victory, Suitors

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• Heaven forming each on other to depend, A master, or a servant, or a friend, Bids each on other for assistance call, Till one man's weakness grows the strength of all.

  Alexander Pope

  Men, Heaven, Masters

  Alexander Pope (1829). “An Essay on Man: And Other Poems”, p.21

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• It is from a weakness and smallness of mind that men are opinionated; and we are very loath to believe what we are not able to comprehend.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Believe, Men, Mind

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• It was in our power to cause the Arab governments to renounce 'the policy of strength' toward Israel by turning it into a demonstration of weakness.

  Moshe Dayan

  Government, Israel, Causes

  "The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World". Book by Avi Shlaim, 2000.

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