Weakness Quotes - Page 21

Now the thing is not to get into unnecessary quarrels by talking too much and not to indicate any weakness by talking too much; let our actions speak for themselves.

. . . the Christian Mind has succumbed to the secular drift with a degree of weakness unmatched in Christian History.

Our human weakness is protected by the assistance of the Angels and...in all our perils, provided faith remain with us, we are defended by the aid of spiritual powers.

Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others.

There is a sort of subjection which is the peculiar heritage of largeness and of love; and strength is often only another name for willing bondage to irremediable weakness.

What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.

There are highly gifted spirits who are always infertile simply because, owing to a weakness in temperament, they are too impatient to wait out their pregnancy to term.

God never makes us sensible of our weakness except to give us of His strength.

The Southerner is usually tolerant of those weaknesses that proceed from innocence.

Of course all life is a process of breaking down, but the blows that do the dramatic side of the work-- the big sudden blows that come, or seem to come, from outside-- the ones you remember and blame things on and, in moments of weakness, tell your friends about, don't show their effect all at once. There is another sort of blow that comes from within-that you don't feel until it's too late to do anything about it, until you realize with finality that in some regard you will never be as good a man again.

The weakness of a soul is proportionate to the number of truths that must be kept from it.

We cannot win the weak by sharing our wealth with them. They feel our generosity as oppression.

I did not want to be depressed by the gap existing between my weakness and my ambition.

All my artistic response comes from American things, and I guess I've always had a weakness for heroic imagery.

It's a funny thing about weaknesses....Most people will tell you they know their weaknesses. When asked, they'll tell you, 'Well for one thing, I'm overgenerous.' ... that's what innkeepers are for.

One of my biggest assets is my ability to focus on something and go out and get it, but it's one of my biggest weaknesses too.

Are you or aren't you convinced that weakness is a man's condition? How can you raise yourself if you haven't fallen first?

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.

Jealousy has always been my cross, the weakness and woundedness in me that has most often caused me to feel ugly and unlovable, like the Bad Seed.

A good general always makes you search for his weaknesses.

The weakest goes to the wall.

My greatest strength is to have a great capacity to confront myself no matter how unpleasant. My greatest weakness is that I don't. I know that's enigmatic, but that's sort of a general formula for anyone, actually.

I think his greatest fault is his failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done. This is a great weakness in any man.

Every diamond has the ability to shine when there is someone to recognize its good facets and inhibit its flaws.

Weakness on both sides is, as we know, the motto of all quarrels.