Weakness Quotes

No one feels strong when she examines her own weakness. But in facing weakness, you learn how much there is in you, and you find real strength.

Expansion is life, contraction is death. Love is life, hatred is death.

Cultivate a deep understanding of yourself - not only what your strengths and weaknesses are but also how you learn, how you work with others, what your values are, and where you can make the greatest contribution. Because only when you operate from strengths can you achieve true excellence.

Social reforms are never carried out by the weakness of the strong; but always by the strength of the weak.

If you are not prepared to look at your pupils strength's, don't touch their weaknesses.

Our enemies did not cross our borders They crept through our weaknesses like ants.

My greatest strength is the love for my people, my greatest weakness is that I love them too much.

We are only just beginning to understand the power of love because we are just beginning to understand the weakness of force and aggression.

God does not need your strength: he has more than enough of power of his own. He asks your weakness: he has none of that himself, and he is longing, therefore, to take your weakness, and use it as the instrument in his own mighty hand. Will you not yield your weakness to him, and receive his strength?

Grief never ends, but it changes. It is a passage, not a place to stay. Grief is not a sign of weakness nor a lack of faith: it is the price of love.

The World is not ruined by the wickedness of the wicked,
but by the weakness of the good.

The task of leadership is to create an alignment of strengths so strong that it makes the system's weaknesses irrelevant.

The greatest strength any human being an have is to recognize his or her own weaknesses. When you identify your weaknesses, you can begin to remedy them - or at least figure out how to work around them.

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

So let us begin anew -- remembering on both sides that civility is not a sign of weakness, and sincerity is always subject to proof. Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate. Let both sides explore what problems unite us instead of belaboring those problems which divide us.

It is not the evil itself which is horrifying about our times – it is the way we not only tolerate evil, but have made a cult of positively worshipping weakness, depravity, rottenness and evil itself.

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

To be strong is to understand weakness. To be weak is to have fears. To have fears is to have something precious to you. To have something precious to you is to be strong.

Let no one think that flexibility and a predisposition to compromise is a sign of weakness or a sell-out.

We might impress people with our strengths, but we connect with people through our weaknesses.

Find your true weakness and surrender to it. Therein lies the path to genius. Most people spend their lives using their strengths to overcome or cover up their weaknesses. Those few who use their strengths to incorporate their weaknesses, who don't divide themselves, those people are very rare. In any generation there are a few and they lead their generation.

Do you love me enough that I may be weak with you? Everyone loves strength, but do you love me for my weakness? That is the real test.

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.

I am struck by how sharing our weakness and difficulties is more nourishing to others than sharing our qualities and successes.

The lust for power is not rooted in strength but in weakness.

My weaknesses... I wish I could come up with something. I'd probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they're the same thing.

Go after a man's weakness, and never, ever, threaten unless you're going to follow through, because if you don't, the next time you won't be taken seriously.

Lord, give me firmness without hardness, steadfastness without dogmatism, love without weakness.

To those of us who often procrastinate on the decision we feel intimidated by lack of education or any area of weakness. I relieve you with this statement: It is not how much you know that arms you with the tools of great decision making, but rather how much you ask. Ask questions.

When you struggle with your partner, you are struggling with yourself. Every fault you see in them touches a denied weakness in yourself.

If the Bible didn't show us the weaknesses, the vulnerabilities, the sins of our heroes, we might have deep questions about their true virtue.

Surrendering is not a weakness. At the contrary it is strength. The surrender stops living in boiling water and starts living in a secure place.

An arch consists of two weaknesses which, leaning one against the other, make a strength.

See your weakness as a reason to pray the more, it should not be the reason for sadness or to abandon your post.

You have summoned me in my weakness. You must sustain me in your strength.

I learned what my weaknesses were and I went out the next day to turn those weaknesses intro strengths.

Even some of our friends, not only here, but in the international community, in Africa as well, were beginning to show weakness and their weakness, did not lend support to us and we found ourselves weak negotiators at various stages.

Weakness ever sympathizes with vice, because vice is a weakness which assumes the mask of strength. Madness holds reason in horror, and on all subjects it delights in the exaggerations of falsehood. The cause of all bewitchments, the poison of all philtres, the power of all sorcerers are there.

I do here in the most solemn and bitter manner curse the Prime Minister of England [sic] for having cumulated all his other betrayals of the national interest and honour, by his last terrible exhibition of dishonour, weakness and gullibility. The depths of infamy which our accurst "love of peace" can lower us are unfathomable.

Be patient, because the weaknesses of the body are given to us in this world by God for the salvation of the soul. So they are of great merit when they are borne patiently.

I think I'm good at amplifying an actor's strengths, and minimizing their weaknesses. And they all have strengths and weaknesses.

My weakness is wearing too much leopard print.

Humility is not cowardice. Meekness is not weakness. Humility and meekness are indeed spiritual powers.

Sometimes the truth hurts. It hurts because they have a weakness - and I exploit weakness.

Dear friends, may no adversity paralyze you. Be afraid neither of the world, nor of the future, nor of your weakness. The Lord has allowed you to live in this moment of history so that, by your faith, his name will continue to resound throughout the world.

Every person should take a lesson from history. We should understand that wherever there have been internal fights and conflicts in the country, the country has been weakened. Due to this, the danger from outside increases. The country has to pay a big price due to this type of weakness.

You have to rely on your support system. Growing up, I always thought it was a sign of weakness to ask for help, but now I realize it's really a sign of strength to say, 'I need help, I can't do it all.'

If one rejects laissez faire on account of mans fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action.

Patience is the strength of the weak, impatience is the weakness of the strong.

The body's weakness comes from illnesses, while the heart's weakness comes from sins. And just as the body does not taste the delights of food when it is ill, the heart does not taste the delights of worship when it is sinful.