Weakness Quotes - Page 20

The Church of Reason, like all institutions of the System, is based not on individual strength but upon individual weakness. What's really demanded in the Church of Reason is not ability, but inability. Then you are considered teachable. A truly able person is always a threat.

Humility is not denying your strengths, humility is being honest about your weaknesses.

My strength is my weakness and weakness is my strength

Cicero said loud-bawling orators were driven by their weakness to noise, as lame men to take horse.

Flee an enemy who knows your weakness.

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

If you find yourself with a weakness, attack it... don't develop a technique that avoids your weaknesses.

You cannot let go of anything if you cannot notice that you are holding it. Admit your 'weaknesses' and watch them morph into your greatest strengths.

Insecurity, commonly regarded as a weakness in normal people, is the basic tool of the actor's trade.

I always exposed the weakness rather than the nastiness.

No more gods, no more faith, no more timid holding back. Let us blast out of our old forms, our ignorance, our weakness, and our mortality. The future belongs to posthumanity.

Women are told from their infancy, and taught by the example of their mothers, that a little knowledge of human weakness, justly termed cunning, softness of temper, outward obedience and a scrupulous attention to a puerile kind of propriety, will obtain for them the protection of man.

Some of us are inclined to look to the weaknesses and shortcomings of others in order to expand our own comfort zone.

I've always had a weakness for lost causes once they're really lost.

If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?

Weakness is a guise. Wear it when they need to know you're human, but never when you feel it.

I don't see the point in being a star - it takes a lot of energy to carry yourself off as being more perfect than somebody else. I'd rather just be available with all my weaknesses.

The ultimate aim of psychoanalysis is to attribute art to mental weakness, and then to trace the weakness back to the point where, according to analytic dogma, it originated namely, the lavatory.

Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.

Wickedness is weakness.

To discern what weaknesses and faults separate you from God, you must enter into your own inward ground and then confront yourself.

I'm very sensitive in real life. I cannot not cry if someone around me is crying. I will start to cry if someone is crying, even if it's not appropriate. I have that thing in me, a weakness or sensitivity.

The weak-minded man is the slave of his vices and the dupe of his virtues.

My strengths—which are really quite modest—are limited to me, but with my weaknesses the possibilities are boundless.

Hearken, my believing reader. What is the cause of your weakness? Is it not because the fountain of life is little used? Is it not because you are resting on old experiences, and not daily gathering new manna—daily drawing new strength from Christ?