WEAKNESS QUOTES

quotations about weakness

Weakness quote

The weak fear happiness itself. They can harm themselves on cotton wool.

OSAMU DAZAI

No Longer Human

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It is a talent of the weak to persuade themselves that they suffer for something when they suffer from something; that they are showing the way when they are running away; that they see the light when they feel the heat; that they are chosen when they are shunned.

ERIC HOFFER

The Passionate State of Mind


The weak are the most treacherous of us all. They come to the strong and drain them. They are bottomless. They are insatiable. They are always parched and always bitter. They are everyone's concern and like vampires they suck our life's blood.

BETTE DAVIS

The Lonely Life

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The weakest step towards the top of the hill, toward sunrise, toward hope, is stronger than the fiercest storm.

JOSEPH MARSHALL

Keep Going


When you find your opponent's weak spot, hammer it.

JOHN HEISMAN

attributed, Where Football Is King: A History of the SEC

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The helpless can't help the helpless.

TENNESSEE WILLIAMS

The Night of the Iguana


I am struck by how sharing our weakness and difficulties is more nourishing to others than sharing our qualities and successes.

JEAN VANIER

Community and Growth


Weakness and ambivalence lead to war.

GEORGE H. W. BUSH

RNC acceptance speech, August 18, 1988

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We must not forget that some weaknesses limit us from living life to the fullest. Furthermore, we must not forget that a weakness is a seed for a future flower.

MIKAEL VON MATERN

Feel Good Every Day: Let Your Thoughts Change Your Life


In a contest with a weaker party it is more honorable to yield than to force concession. Magnanimity becomes the strong.

CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

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To rush into explanations is always a sign of weakness.

AGATHA CHRISTIE

The Seven Dials of Mystery

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You will survive best within your weakness and must never wander far from it. Do not seek to find strength within, as it does not exist there. Always find what is wrong and not what is right with yourself. The latter are only illusions and distractions. You must not praise yourself, as this will distract you. Do not hear and accept praise from others, as it is false and will misguide you. Rather, invite and allow only criticism from others. Know all of it as dark and real. A reflection and confirmation of your weakness, which you know so well. Weakness is your strength, and you must cling tightly to it. Your weakness shows you who you truly are and must be.

NICKOLAS MARTIN & LINDA M. MARTIN

The Two Voices Within: Balancing the Energies of Ego and Spirit to Enhance Your Life


Never be afraid to expose a weakness in yourself. Exposing a weakness is the beginning of strength.

ROBERT ANTHONY

Beyond Positive Thinking

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Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm.

GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG

"Notebook D", Aphorisms

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Men are in general so tricky, so envious, and so cruel, that when we find one who is only weak, we are too happy.

VOLTAIRE

attributed, Day's Collacon

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I can't expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.

TENNESSEE WILLIAMS

foreward, Sweet Bird of Youth

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The key to embracing weakness is to learn from our mistakes and failures, and we do that by attending to our errors immediately -- as they occur.

PHIL FRAGASSO

"Perfection Is Neither A Weakness Or Strength", Huffington Post, August 3, 2016


The sooner you recognize what your Achilles heel is, the sooner you can correct it.

BELINDA ELLSWORTH

Direct Selling for Dummies


Weak dogs become bones for other, stronger dogs.

TAD WILLIAMS

Otherland: City of Golden Shadow

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I give unto men weakness that they may be humble; and my grace is sufficient for all men that humble themselves before me; for if they humble themselves before me, and have faith in me, then will I make weak things become strong unto them.

BOOK OF MORMON

Ether 12:27