Weakness Quotes - Page 36

A morality that holds need as a claim, holds emptiness-non-existence-as its standard of value; it rewards an absence, a defect: weakness, inability, incompetence, suffering, disease, disaster, the lack, the fault, the flaw-the zero.

The key strengths of civilizations are also their central weaknesses. You can see that from the fact that the golden ages of civilizations are very often right before the collapse. The Renaissance in Italy was very much like the Classic Maya. The apogee was the collapse. The Golden Age of Greece was the same thing. We see this pattern repeated continuously, and it is one that should make us nervous. I just heard Bill Gates say that we are living in the greatest time in history. Now you can understand why Bill Gates would think that, but even if he is right, that is an ominous thing to say.

I'm learning to use others' weaknesses. I don't hammer a man's soft spot constantly, because he may strengthen it. I just save it as a trump up my sleeve for moments when I really need a point.

I have ever been the queerest mixture of weakness and strength, and have paid heavily for the weakness.

We like to know the weakness of eminent persons; it consoles us for our inferiority.

I know my own weaknesses as a human being, and as a musician, as a singer and as a woman.

I'm not impulsive at all - except about buying clothes. That's my biggest weakness.

You are right, but the weakness does not come from the millions of Muslims in the world. They do not mind being radical, they have no fear to speak out and to protest and to jihad.

My music started as a way to break through weaknesses - like anxiety, which was completely taking over my whole life, where I could barely function.

Many times our weaknesses are extensions of our strengths.

Desperation, weakness, vulnerability - these things will always be exploited. You need to protect the weak, ring-fence them, with something far stronger than empathy.

The Future is distant, like the Past, and therefore sentimental. The mere element "Past" must be retained to sponge up and absorb our melancholy. Everything absent, remote, requiring projection in the veiled weakness of the mind, is sentimental.

Instead of the vast organization to exploit the weakness of the Many, should we not possess one for the exploitation of the intelligence of the Few?

When danger is far off we may think of our weakness; when it is near we must not forget our strength.

We can scarcely indeed look into any part of the sacred volume without meeting abundant proofs, that it is the religion of the Affections which God particularly requires. Love, Zeal, Gratitude, Joy, Hope, Trust, are each of them specified; and are not allowed to us as weaknesses, but enjoined on us as our bounden duty, and commended to us as our acceptable worship.

To fear the foe, since fear oppresseth strength, gives in your weakness strength unto your foe.

A library represents the mind of its collector, fancies and foibles, strengths and weaknesses, prejudices and preferences.

But evil is a cunning force. It can find the weakness in any man, even the bravest. [...] It only takes a single weak moment to let evil in.

Strength is a facade for the proud, weakness is a mask for the lazy.

The pressure of the [election] campaign has a wonderful way of revealing your strengths and weaknesses.

Men’s greatest weakness is their facade of strength, and women’s greatest strength is their facade of weakness.

I am fed up. I am fed up with tears and weakness. But there isn't much I can do to stop them.

No one's perfect," I whisper. "It doesn't work that way. One bad thing goes away, and another bad thing replaces it." I traded cowardice for cruelty; I traded weakness for ferocity.

I lacked the courage to investigate the weaknesses of the wicked, because I discovered they are the same as the weaknesses of the saintly.

I would be a terrible director, I could never write anything. One of my great strengths is that I know all of my weaknesses.