quotations about weakness
The cord breaketh at last by the weakest pull.
FRANCIS BACON
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On Seditions
One of the questions that people don't always answer well is the question "What is your greatest weakness?" It's not difficult to see why: it's a question that asks you to reveal something that can (probably will) ruin how you're selling yourself in the interview.
DANIEL OLIVAN
"How to answer the job interview question 'What's your greatest weakness?'", Rappler, July 28, 2016
Weakness is a powerful tool to make you humble by God. We are weak so we may keep ourselves reminded that we need God.
GARRICK BRIDGEFORTH
Words of the Bible Explained
Step 1 is identifying your Achilles' heel(s). If you can't do this, then you are likely to fall prey to it/them over and over again until you are doomed, your account is at zero, and you are best to give up and try something else.
MICHAEL PARNESS
The Art of Trend Trading: Animal Spirits and Your Path to Profits
Both liberty and equality are among the primary goals pursued by human beings throughout many centuries; but total liberty for wolves is death to the lambs, total liberty of the powerful, the gifted, is not compatible with the rights to a decent existence of the weak and the less gifted.
ISAIAH BERLIN
The Crooked Timber of Humanity
The weakness of the weak calls out and consecrates the responsibility of the powerful, and it is the response of the powerful that honors the weakness of the weak, and lends power to fulfill the needs of the weak. The hunger of the man I gave money to yesterday was partially served, and made me more human.
GEORGE KUNZ
The Paradox of Power and Weakness
He lies and his plaintive weakness is exhaled in timid murmurs.
VICTOR SERGE
Anarchists Never Surrender
Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.
ERIC HOFFER
The Passionate State of Mind: And Other Aphorisms
Weakness is superior to strength, since greater strength is superior to strength. When the strong is burnt down by the weak, there is nothing left.
VYASA
The Mahabharata
The concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear.
EDMUND BURKE
speech on conciliation with America
Power was my weakness and my temptation.
J. K. ROWLING
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Our biggest weakness is the weakness we are not aware of.
ANDREW ACKERMAN
"I Know What Your Biggest Weakness Is. Do you?", Alley Watch, February 4, 2016
We always weaken whatever we exaggerate.
JEAN-FRANÇOIS DE LA HARPE
Mélanie
I understand that wish to not be weak, to not have feelings, to not care. I'm no stranger to knowing what it's like to want to be cool and have cool defined as not needing other people or not caring about things. But at a certain point, you have to go, "Well, is that the altar I want to worship at? Is that where I want to plant my flag?" It's also a very weak position, ironically.
AIMEE MANN
"The Simple Fix: Aimee Mann on Laughing Through Melancholy", Consequence of Sound, March 22, 2017
As one grows weaker one is less susceptible to suffering. There is less hurt because there is less to hurt.
JACK LONDON
The Star Rover
Within our perceived weaknesses and imperfections lies the key to realizing our true strength.
YONGEY MINGYUR RINPOCHE
Joyful Wisdom: Embracing Change and Finding Freedom
The basest person is capable of perceiving the weaknesses of the greatest, the most stupid, the errors in the thought of the most intelligent.
THEODOR W. ADORNO
Minima Moralia
Strength alone knows conflict; weakness is below even defeat, and is born vanquished.
MADAME SWETCHINE
"Airelles", The Writings of Madame Swetchine
Sometimes, being weak is more beneficial than being too strong. Being strong brings in attack but being weak attracts help. The hard and stiff can be broken, but the soft and flexible will prevail.
JOSHUA CHOON-MIN KANG
"The Secret Contained in the Smallest, Weakest Step", Christianity Today, July 29, 2016
One can overpower ones weakness when the weakness is recognized and similarly one can also develop an edge over competition.
S. RANGANATHAN
"Cichlid fish -- the leader who knows how to overpower weakness", Hans India, April 4, 2017