Weakness Quotes - Page 8

• Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.

  Jonathan Swift

  Strength, Men, Knowing

  Jonathan Swift (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jonathan Swift (Illustrated)”, p.896, Delphi Classics

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• Whenever the strength of a belief strongly steps into the foreground, we must infer a certain weakness of demonstrability and the improbability of that belief.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Steps, Belief, Certain

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• Politically, the weakness of the argument has always been that those who choose the lesser evil forget very quickly that they chose evil.

  Hannah Arendt

  Evil, Argument, Forget

  Hannah Arendt (2009). “Responsibility and Judgment”, p.36, Schocken

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• Your weaknesses are not an accident but deliberately allowed, very interesting phrase, deliberately allowed in your life for the purpose of demonstrating His power through you.

  Rick Warren

  Interesting, Purpose, Phrases

  "The Purpose Driven Life". Book by Rick Warren, Page 273, www.christianpost.com. 2002.

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• Weakness is a great bully without knowing it.

  Margaret Deland

  Knowing, Bully

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• The feeble howl with the wolves, bray with the asses, and bleat with the sheep.

  Madame Roland

  Sheep, Ass, Howl

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• We are so inculcated with guilt that we think that weakness is a sin or that it is some crime against nature to be submissive.

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  Thinking, Guilt, Sin

  "The Satanic Bible". Book by Anton Szandor LaVey, 1969.

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• Many a time comes when we want to interpret our weakness and cowardice as forgiveness and renunciation.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Forgiveness, Coward, Want

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.417, Manonmani Publishers

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• From aquaintances we conceal our real selves. To our friends we reveal our weaknesses.

  Basil Hume

  Real, Self, Real Self

  Basil Hume (2002). “Searching for God”, p.233, Gracewing Publishing

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• Building up a weakness just makes you less disabled. Building a strength can take you to the top of the world.

  John Elder Robison

  Building Up, World, Disabled

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• Problems, weaknesses, setbacks, regrets and mistakes teach you if you're willing to learn, or they punish you if you're not.

  Ralph Marston

  Regret, Mistake, Problem

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• Weakness is something we don't like to admit we have. We hold it against people, until we experience it, and then we feel more compassion for it.

  Olivia Wilde

  Compassion, People, Feels

  "Olivia Wilde: 'Divorce made me a better actress'". www.today.com. July 13, 2011.

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• There is more freedom confessing our weaknesses and shortcomings than in pretending we have it all together

  LeCrae

  Together, Pretending, Confessing

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• To weep is a sign of weakness, of bondage.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Bondage

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2236, Manonmani Publishers

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• When the mind has once begun to yield to the weakness of superstition, trifles impress it with the force of conviction.

  Ann Radcliffe

  Fear, Yield, Mind

  Ann Radcliffe (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ann Radcliffe (Illustrated)”, p.1133, Delphi Classics

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• The weak can be terrible because they try furiously to appear strong.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Strong, Trying, Terrible

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.445, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• We should not be discouraged or depressed by our shortcomings. No one is without weakness. As part of the divine plan, we are tested to see whether we master weakness or let weakness master us. Proper diagnosis is essential to proper treatment. The Lord gave us this remarkable assurance: "Because thou hast seen thy weakness thou shalt be made strong" (Ether 12:37). But wishing for strength won't make us strong. It takes faith and work to shore up a weakened cord of integrity.

  Russell M. Nelson

  Strong, Integrity, Wish

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• Vulnerability is not weakness.

  Brené Brown

  Vulnerability

  Brené Brown (2007). “I Thought It Was Just Me (but it isn't): Making the Journey from "What Will People Think?" to "I Am Enough"”, p.79, Penguin

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• We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.

  Sophie Swetchine

  Inspirational, Hype, Support

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• Instead, the terrorists see just what they were hoping for, our unity gone, our resolve shaken, our leaders distracted. In short, they see weakness and opportunity.

  Dick Cheney

  Opportunity, Leader, Gone

  AEI Speech, www.weeklystandard.com. May 21, 2009.

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• The writer cannot be a mere storyteller; he cannot be a mere teacher; he cannot merely X-ray society’s weaknesses, its ills, its perils. He or she must be actively involved shaping its present and its future.

  Ken Saro-Wiwa

  Teacher, Rays, Peril

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• A little cooling down of animal excitability and instinct, a little loss of animal toughness, a little irritable weakness and descent of the pain-threshold, will bring the worm at the core of all our usual springs of delight into full view, and turn us into melancholy metaphysicians.

  William James

  Pain, Spring, Loss

  William James (2013). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.140, Courier Corporation

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• You win games with your strengths, not your weaknesses.

  Bear Bryant

  Motivational, Winning, Games

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• It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of their imaginations.

  Walter Bagehot

  Men, Imagination, Would Be

  Walter Bagehot (1930). “The English Constitution: And Other Political Essays”, p.51, Lulu.com

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• Every present anger derives from past weakness.

  Glen Duncan

  Anger, Past, Management

  Glen Duncan (2011). “The Last Werewolf (The Last Werewolf 1)”, p.31, Canongate Books

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