Weakness Quotes - Page 29

The yielding of the weak is the concession to fear.

Religious beliefs evolved by group-selection, tribe competing against tribe, and the illogic of religions is not a weakness but their essential strength.

A big part of being strong financially is that you know where you are weak and take action to make sure you don't fall prey to the weakness. And we ALL are weak

Strength is happiness. Strength is itself victory. In weakness and cowardice there is no happiness

To be acceptable is for one to ignore his weakness while knowing his strength, to cover the scar even though it's always there, however, to be impossible is for one to see his weakness as, not an adversary, but the cherry on top of his strength, to rearrange the scar so that it compliments his features.

I've only myself to blame for it, my impotence most of all and my weakness. If I do any good work now it will be only by chance.

When you fight against your own weaknesses, there's something embarrassing about it.

One of the important things about temptation is, if I'm going to deal with it I'm going to have to recognize, this is an area of weakness in my life. I have been tempted here before and before and before.

Precisely in proportion to our own intellectual weakness will be our credulity as to those mysterious powers assumed by others.

People in very high places suddenly fall, and we are always surprised because we don't factor in the basic element that they're humans and, therefore, they are flawed and have weaknesses.

It will not be we who reach Alpha Centauri, and the other nearby stars. It will be a species very like us - but with more of our strengths and fewer of our weaknesses.

What played to what had been a relative weakness for us-this was exploding overseas as well, and we had to scramble to mount some reach and get into places and be competitive on the ground.

What amazes me most is to see that everyone is not amazed at his own weakness.

Look for strength in people, not weakness; for good, not evil. Most of us find what we search for.

There is a true weakness in American thought today: their incapacity to be interested in the intelligence of evil.

Rarely use Venery but for Health or Offspring; Never to Dulness, Weakness, or the Injury of your own or another's Peace or Reputation.

Nearly always, so as to live at peace with ourselves, we disguise our own impotence and weakness as calculation and policy; it is our way of placating that half of our being which is in a sense a spectator of the other.

I see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.

He that can carp in the most eloquent or acute manner at the weakness of the human mind is held by his fellows as almost divine.

Coach Lombardi showed me that by working hard and using my mind, I could overcome my weakness to the point where I could be one of the best.

Actually I don't know if honesty is a strength or some kind of weakness.

Prayer is the sign of your weakness. Rely on your inner strength. You will be the winner.

When dealing with Canadians, it is advantageous to seem to be negotiating from a position of weakness, for when faced with an abject opponent, they become concession-happy and will accede to almost anything.

Heaven forming each on other to depend, A master, or a servant, or a friend, Bids each on other for assistance call, Till one man's weakness grows the strength of all.

The rights of neutrality will only be respected when they are defended by an adequate power. A nation, despicable by its weakness, forfeits even the privilege of being neutral.