Weakness Quotes - Page 9

• Nature reacts not only to physical disease, but also to moral weakness; when the danger increases; she gives us greater courage

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Nature, Giving, Disease

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• Nothing brings families together faster than forgiveness. That should make it Step No. 1, but most of us find forgiving hard. We associate it with weakness and losing when, actually, the reverse is true. When you forgive, you gain strength and come out a winner. You break free of control by the other person's actions.

  Joyce Brothers

  Forgiveness, Forgiving, Together

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• Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points.

  Horace

  Inspirational, Leadership, Motivation

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• The fact that people in Hollywood are open to what I teach is not because they're more desperate than anyone else, but because they're more touched by it. That's not their weakness. It's their strength!

  Marianne Williamson

  People, Hollywood, Facts

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• When you fear a foe, fear crushes your strength; and this weakness gives strength to your opponents.

  William Shakespeare

  Crush, Fear, Giving

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• There is a rank due to the United States among nations which will be withheld, if not absolutely lost, by the reputation of weakness.

  George Washington

  United States, Reputation, Lost

  United States. President, George Washington, United States (1825). “The speeches, addresses and messages, of the several presidents of the United States, at the openings of Congress and at their respective inaugurations: Also, the Declaration of independence, the Constitution of the United States, and Washington's farewell address to his fellow-citizens”, p.62

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• We fear our highest possibilities. We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments, under conditions of great courage. We enjoy and even thrill to godlike possibilities we see in ourselves in such peak moments. And yet we simultaneously shiver with weakness, awe, and fear before these very same possibilities.

  Abraham Maslow

  Perfect, Glimpse, Thrill

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• Lord, enlighten thou our enemies. Sharpen their wits, give acuteness to their perceptions, and consecutiveness and clearness to their reasoning powers: we are in danger from their folly, not from their wisdom; their weakness is what fills us with apprehension, not their strength.

  John Stuart Mill

  Giving, Perception, Enemy

  John Stuart Mill (1864). “Dissertations and Discussions: Political, Philosophical, and Historical”, p.77

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• If we do not respect ourselves, we are on the one hand forced to despise those who have so few resources as to consort with us, so little perception as to remain blind to our fatal weaknesses. On the other, we are peculiarly in thrall to everyone we see, curiously determined to live out — since our self-image is untenable — their false notions of us… We play roles doomed to failure before they are begun, each defeat generating fresh despair at the urgency of divining and meeting the next demand made upon us.

  Joan Didion

  Self, Hands, Play

  "On Self-Respect". Vogue Magazine, www.vogue.com. 1961.

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• Get it into your head once and for all, my simple and very fainthearted fellow, that what fools call humanness is nothing but a weakness born of fear and egoism; that this chimerical virtue, enslaving only weak men, is unknown to those whose character is formed by stoicism, courage, and philosophy.

  Marquis de Sade

  Philosophy, Character, Simple

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• Ah, beer, my one weakness. My Achille's heel, if you will.

  Homer

  Beer, Achilles, Ifs

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• My greatest strength is that I have no weaknesses.

  John McEnroe

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• Death's a fierce meadowlark: but to die having made / Something more equal to the centuries / Than muscle and bone, is mostly to shed weakness.

  Robinson Jeffers

  Fierce, Bones, Century

  Robinson Jeffers, Tim Hunt (2001). “The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers”, p.20, Stanford University Press

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• All we have is the story we tell. Everything we do, every decision we make, our strength, weakness, motivation, history, and character-what we believe-none of it is real; it's all part of the story we tell. But here's the thing: it's our goddamned story!

  Jess Walter

  Life, Motivation, Real

  Jess Walter (2013). “Beautiful Ruins”, p.237, Penguin UK

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• One of the main weaknesses of mankind is the average man's familiarity with the word 'impossible.

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspirational, Men, Average

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.22, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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• There is one weakness in people for which there is no remedy. It is the universal weakness of LACK OF AMBITION!

  Napoleon Hill

  Ambition, People, Think And Grow Rich

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.71, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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• For each of us as women, there is a dark place within, where hidden and growing our true spirit rises, beautiful and tough as chestnut stanchions against our nightmare of weakness. Within these deep places, each one of us holds an incredible reserve of creativity and power, of unexamined and unrecorded emotion and feeling

  Audre Lorde

  Beautiful, Creativity, Dark

  Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.36, Crossing Press

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• Doubt is invariably the result of want or weakness of faith.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Doubt, Want, Results

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.69, A&C Black

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• Sympathy for the enemy -- a weakness of police and armies alike. Most perilous are the unconscious sympathies directing you to preserve your enemy intact because the enemy is your justification for existence.

  Frank Herbert

  Army, Police, Enemy

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, p.158, Penguin

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• Friendship doesn't have anything to do with shoring up weakness. It has to do with respect and consideration for those you care about. It has to do with wanting to give something back to those you admire.

  Terry Brooks

  Giving, Care, Consideration

  Terry Brooks (2001). “The Voyage of the Jerle Shannara: Antrax”, p.256, Ballantine Books

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• We could not guard every water pipeline from being blown up and every tree from being uprooted. We could not prevent every murder of a worker in an orchard or a family in their beds. But it was in our power to set high price for our blood, a price too high for the Arab community, the Arab army, or the Arab governments to think it worth paying... 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

  Army, Thinking, Government

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

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• Humanity looks upon Jesus the Nazarene as a poor-born Who suffered misery and humiliation with all of the weak. And He is pitied, for Humanity believes He was crucified painfully. . . . And all that Humanity offers to Him is crying and wailing and lamentation. For centuries Humanity has been worshiping weakness in the person of the Savior. The Nazarene was not weak! He was strong and is strong! But the people refuse to heed the true meaning of strength.

  Khalil Gibran

  Jesus, Strong, Believe

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• A man should never be appointed into a managerial position if his vision focuses on people's weaknesses rather than on their strengths.

  Peter Drucker

  Men, People, Focus

  Peter Drucker (2012). “The Practice of Management”, p.136, Routledge

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• If we cannot define stupidity, at least we can trace most human misfortunes and weaknesses to it. Its manifestations are legion, its symptoms are endless.

  Richard Armour

  Stupidity, Endless, Symptoms

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• One of my biggest fears - maybe my biggest weakness as a Christian - is that I have a hard time going up to a stranger and talking to them about Jesus.

  Francis Chan

  Christian, Jesus, Hard Times

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