Weakness Quotes - Page 23

Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.

Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness.

Usually that's going into biology in a certain way. There's certain strengths and weaknesses to both of the sexes. And I'm not against employing those nor am I against denying those, what I am looking for is a very large array of options.

I think that when you are famous every weakness is exaggerated.

The anonymity of the city is one of its strengths as well as - carried too far - one of its weaknesses.

You will excel only by maximizing your strengths, never by fixing your weaknesses.

... Any county's moral strength, or its moral weakness, is quickly measurable by the street attire and attitude of its women - especially its young women. Wherever ... spiritual values have been submerged, if not destroyed, by an emphasis upon ... material things, invariably the women reflect it.

To be too dissatisfied with ourselves is a weakness. To be too satisfied with ourselves is a stupidity.

A true gangster can smell out a person's strenghts and weaknesses in a matter of minutes, but what they can sense most of all, what their bodies are most attuned to, is the scent of fear.

Curb Your Enthusiasm, is not so much about Hollywood. It's more about Larry's weaknesses.

Destructive Failure: Reveals limitations and weakness, highlights your shortcomings and when not processed correctly, keeps you feeling inadequate and defective. Productive failure: Reveals limitations and weakness, highlights your erroneous thinking and when processed correctly, leads you to better options and keeps you dependent on the Lord.

Never test another man by your own weakness.

Guard thy heart on this weak side, where most our nature fails.

The biggest weakness of the green-consumer movement, always, is that we tend to pick the easy-to-do things because that's where we can most readily engage people. It doesn't cost them very much to switch products or whatever it happens to be.

Some of our weaknesses are born in us, others are the result of education; it is a question which of the two gives us most trouble.

The weak may be joked out of anything but their weakness.

Everything that exists is born for no reason, carries on living through weakness, and dies by accident

The birch is used only out of bad temper and weakness, for the birch is a servile punishment which degrades the soul even when it corrects, if indeed it corrects, for its usual effect is to harden.

The man who discovers a woman's weakness is like the huntsman in the heat of the day who finds a cool spring. He wallows in it.

Weak souls always set to work at the wrong time.

When mental energy is allowed to follow the line of least resistance and to fall into easy channels, it is called weakness.

Cunning is neither the consequence of sense, nor does it give sense. A proof that it is not sense, is that cunning people never imagine that others can see through them. It is the consequence of weakness.

Nature is as well adapted to our weakness as to our strength.

Sincerity is a great but rare virtue, and we pardon to it much complaining, and the betrayal of many weaknesses.

The sort of man who likes to spend his time watching a cage of monkeys chase one another, or a lion gnaw its tail, or a lizard catch flies, is precisely the sort of man whose mental weakness should be combated at the public expense, not fostered.