Weakness Quotes - Page 5

• I tremble for my country when I hear of confidence expressed in me. I know too well my weakness, that our only hope is in God.

  Robert E. Lee

  Life, Hope, Country

  Robert E. Lee (2016). “The Life and Letters of Robert E. Lee (Abridged)”, p.206, BIG BYTE BOOKS

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• The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Strength, Lying, Criticism

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “Kavanagh (Annotated Edition)”, p.110, Jazzybee Verlag

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  That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Inspirational, Positive, Strength

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• The 'morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Strong, Men, Principles

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• My biggest weakness is my sensitivity. I am too sensitive a person.

  Mike Tyson

  Sports, Sensitive, Sensitivity

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• Flee an enemy who knows your weakness.

  Pierre Corneille

  Enemy, Knows

  "Character: Néarque". "Polyeucte" by Pierre Corneille, act I, scene i, 1642.

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• Remember, what may appear to be the source of one's strength can often also be the source of one's weakness.

  Chin-Ning Chu

  May, Remember, Source

  Chin-Ning Chu (2010). “Thick Face, Black Heart: The Warrior Philosophy for Conquering the Challenges of Business and Life”, p.175, Hachette UK

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• Within our perceived weaknesses and imperfections lies the key to realizing our true strength.

  Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

  Lying, Keys, Imperfection

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• Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Strength, Patience, Support

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• Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others.

  George Santayana

  Emotional, Emotional Life

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• The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Stupid, Silly, Doctors

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2007). “Parerga and Paralipomena: A Collection of Philosophical Essays”, Cosimo, Inc.

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• People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.

  Anatole France

  People, Way, Advantage

  Anatole France (2016). “The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard”, p.115, Anatole France

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• The attractiveness that exists to man in the very helplessness of woman is scarcely realized.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Men, Attractiveness, Helplessness

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• We may not be weaklings because we have a strong enemy.

  Hugh Latimer

  Strong, Enemy, May

  Hugh Latimer (1858). “The sermons and life of ... Hugh Latimer, some time bishop of Worcester”, p.162

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• He who does most to cure woman of her weakness, her frivolity, and her servility will likewise at the same stroke do most to cure man of his brutality, his selfishness and his sensuality.

  Frances Power Cobbe

  Men, Selfishness, Doe

  Frances Power Cobbe (2010). “The Duties of Women: A Course of Lectures”, p.36, Cambridge University Press

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• Anything that brings spiritual, mental, or physical weakness, touch it not with the toes of your feet.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Spiritual, Feet, Toes

  Swami Vivekananda, Vivekananda Kendra (2009). “Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation”, p.152, Vivekananda Kendra

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• Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.

  Leon Trotsky

  Life, Fall, Sadness

  "Trotzky's Diary in Exile - 1935". Book by Leon Trotsky, 1958.

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• The concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear.

  Edmund Burke

  Fear, Concessions, Weak

  Speech 'On Conciliation with America' 22 March 1775

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• My family is my strength and my weakness.

  Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

  Family, Strength, My Family

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• We are not so easily guided by our most prominent weaknesses as by those of which we are least aware.

  Arthur Helps

  Prominent

  Sir Arthur Helps (1892). “Essays and Aphorisms”

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• What is bad? All that proceeds from weakness

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Sith

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2013). “The Selected Writings of Friedrich Nietzsche”, p.70, Simon and Schuster

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• Weakness has its hidden resources, as well as strength. There is a degree of folly and meanness which we cannot calculate upon, and by which we are as much liable to be foiled as by the greatest ability or courage.

  William Hazlitt

  Degrees, Liable, Resources

  William Hazlitt, William Ernest Henley (1902). “The Collected Works of William Hazlitt: Memoirs of Thomas Holcroft. Liber amoris. Characteristics”

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• Man's biological weakness is the condition of human culture.

  Erich Fromm

  Men, Culture, Humans

  Erich Fromm (2014). “The Erich Fromm Reader: Readings Selected and Edited by Rainer Funk”, p.96, Open Road Media

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• Weak souls always set to work at the wrong time.

  Jean Francois Paul de Gondi

  Soul, Weak, Wrong Time

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• Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.

  Charles Lamb

  Strength, Children, Men

  'Essays of Elia' (1823) 'Witches, and Other Night-Fears'

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