Weakness Quotes - Page 46

Weakness is strength.

Will is not unfrequently weakness.

It is a sad weakness in us, after all, that the thought of a man's death hallows him anew to us; as if life were not sacred too.

There is a mercy which is weakness, and even treason against the common good.

Even to this day it is easier than it ought to be for me to get a rise out of an American by telling him something about himself which is equally true about every human being on the face of the globe. He at once resents this as a disparagement and an assertion on my part that people in other parts of the globe are not like that, and are loftily superior to such weaknesses.

Weaknesses of character are normally shown in a game of chess.

It's a weakness to apologize before hearing what the other person's grievances are. You don't want to end up creating new grievances where there were none to begin with. Another Daddy-ism, if you hadn't already guessed.

The truth was that I could not manage my soul, and I was becoming aware of old age because of my weakness in the face of love.

Whenever the strength of a belief strongly steps into the foreground, we must infer a certain weakness of demonstrability and the improbability of that belief.

Consider everything in the nature of a hanging fixture a weakness, and naked radiators an abomination.

Even if no command to pray had existed, our very weakness would have suggested it.

We often act treacherously more from weakness than from a fixed motive.

Treachery is more often the effect of weakness than of a formed design.

Ive never shown my weakness, I will never show my weakness.

A 'weakness,' I now realize, is nothing but a strength not properly developed.

A great number of the women are victims to falling of the womb and weakness in the spine; but these are necessary results of their laborious existence, and do not belong either to climate or constitution.

You always have certain strengths and certain weaknesses, and you want to compensate for your weaknesses... I have a real duty to earn the trust of the faculty. I don't just deserve it. I have to earn it.

A just society must strive with all its might to right wrongs even if righting wrongs is a highly perilous undertaking. But if it is to survive, a just society must be strong and resolute enough to deal swiftly and relentlessly with those who would mistake its good will for weakness.

Strength grows from building other strength, not from trampling on weakness.

I feel like we're attracted to paths in life that force us to look at our weaknesses or deficiencies as human beings. Not to get all deep on you, but that's how I feel.

I personally have a major weakness for guys that use musky smelling cologne.

What we're really debating is not security versus liberty, it's security versus surveillance. When we talk about electronic interception, the way that surveillance works is it preys on the weakness of protections that are being applied to all of our communications. The manner in which they're protected.

Several people have told me that my inability to suffer fools gladly is one of my main weaknesses.

In our corrupted state, common weaknesses and defects contribute more towards the reconciling us to one another than all the precepts of the philosophers and divines.

Strong words are required for weak principles.