Weakness Quotes - Page 40

The major weakness of all educational systems is that they neither teach nor encourage the habit of definite decision.

What’s my greatest weakness? Sad stories, people with problems

Past experience told me he could smell my fear; it also told me that the anger accompanying it would pretty much cover the scent. It's good to know how to compensate for your own weaknesses.​

Weakness arouses evil. The American people know this.

Usually I write about what I care about, which is a weakness but I think also a strength.

The Elders had nothing but contempt for human emotion; they considered it their biggest weakness. Perenelle knew it was humankind's greatest strength.

Dee's search for knowledge was always his greatest strength... and his weakness.

Every form of strength is also a form of weakness.

We need additional funding for more U.S. combat brigades in Europe. NATO needs to continue to modernize. It is starting to show with the Russians but these exercises are central to show that the alliance is firm, especially as the E.U. starts to have some weakness on the economic front.

The military sensed weakness, exploited it and played Barack Obama. Obama's foreign policy has been consistently hawkish despite this reluctant warrior schtick that he pulls. But at the end of the day a reluctant warrior is still a warrior. Look at the drone strikes, the tripling of the war in Afghanistan, and now Libya. I'm convinced that had Obama been in the Senate in 2003 he would have voted for the Iraq war. He's clearly easily convinced by his advisers and the Pentagon.

I like to write for actors I know and with whom I've worked before. You can write to their strengths and weaknesses and write roles that are better suited to them.

I can still discern people's weaknesses, but it doesn't make me want to exploit them; it makes me want to hug them.

Maybe weakness is a strength of a kind.

Sometimes you’re loved because of your weaknesses. What you can’t do is sometimes more compelling than what you can.

Best way to find the weakness of the enemy is to understand their ways.

I've got so many weaknesses.

For inside all the weakness of old age, the spirit, God knows, is as mercurial as it ever was.

Compassion is not pity ... compassion never considers an object as weak or inferior. Compassion, one might say, works from a strength born of awareness of shared weakness, and not from someone else's weakness. And from the awareness of the mutuality of us all. Thus to put down another as in pity is to put down oneself.

Leisure unmasks our weaknesses.

I deplore my shortcomings, but plan to keep them.

Many have never felt strong, but everyone knows what it is to feel weak.

Weakness is a better teacher than strength. Weakness must learn to understand the obstacles that strength brushes aside.

Which weakness shall I tell her? “I walk funny,” I say, and she’s satisfied with that. (inside joke)

One of the baffling things about life is that the purposes of institutions may be ideal, while their administration, dependent upon the faults and weaknesses of human beings, may be bad.

In this world is a God whose matchless strength is a fit contrast to the sordid weakness of man.