Weakness Quotes - Page 16

In our thoughts and words we create our own weaknesses and our own strengths.

A part of control is learning to correct your weaknesses.

It is dangerous for a woman to defy the gods; To taunt them with the tongue's thin tip, Or strut in the weakness of mere humanity, Or draw a line daring them to cross.

Children tend to be rather better observers of adults' characters than adults are of children's, because children are so dependent on adults that it is very much in their interest to discover the weaknesses of their elders.

Well, as a short-story writer, I don't think there are any weaknesses to the genre itself. I guess I would say that the difficulty of the form is that one must create an entire world in five to 30 pages, as opposed to 300. There is very little room for fat - you must be economical. And you must begin as close to the end as you possibly can.

I traded cowardice for cruelty; I traded weakness for ferocity.

There is an age-old proverb that really does hold true in every area of life - in relations between nations and right down to the most subtle and sophisticated or must unstable and unsophisticated relations between lovers - and it is this: they took "kindness" for "weakness."

True success lies in knowing your weaknesses and playing to your strengths

The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion.

My belief is, from all that I have seen of the French people and their Government, that they are much more likely to presume upon our weakness than to take offence at our strength.

One of my weaknesses is that I actually have a conscience.

Sin is disease, deformity, and weakness.

Peace through strength works; but the flip side is war invited by weakness.

The weak shows his strength and hides his weaknesses; the magnificent exhibits his weaknesses like ornaments.

So often I have felt alone in my journey, yet I've been afraid to let anyone see my fear and weakness.

When you find your opponent's weak spot, hammer it.

The weakness of ourselves and of our reason makes us see flaws in beauties by making us consider everything piece by piece.

Focus on your strengths, not your weaknesses.

What is bad? All that proceeds from weakness

None deserve praise for being good who have not the spirit to be bad: goodness, for the most part, is nothing but indolence or weakness of will.

As women, we all have certain weaknesses. I know one who can't resist pretty shoes but has nothing suitable to wear with them. Others adore frilly lingerie but never have any money to buy outer clothing.

Weakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,--like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is.

The heart itself is beyond control. That is its power, and its weakness.

Prayer girds human weakness with divine strength, turns human folly into heavenly wisdom, and gives to troubled mortals the peace of God. We know not what prayer can do.

I knuckle down with my demons, and with my weaknesses.