WEAKNESS QUOTES II

quotations about weakness

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


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


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


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


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


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


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


Power was my weakness and my temptation.

J. K. ROWLING

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

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At first it seems a dreadful thing to place a gentle and sensitive nature in contact, in familiarity, and even under the rule of coarse and strong buoyant natures. Nor should this be in general attempted. The certain result is present suffering, and the expected good is remote and disputable. Nevertheless, it is no artificial difficulty which we here encounter--none which we can hope by educational contrivances to meet or vanquish. The difficulty is in truth the existence of the world. It is the fact, that by the constitution of society the bold, the vigorous, and the buoyant, rise and rule; and that the weak, the shrinking, and the timid, fall and serve.

WALTER BAGEHOT

Literary Studies

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Within our perceived weaknesses and imperfections lies the key to realizing our true strength.

YONGEY MINGYUR RINPOCHE

Joyful Wisdom: Embracing Change and Finding Freedom

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The cord breaketh at last by the weakest pull.

FRANCIS BACON

On Seditions

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He lies and his plaintive weakness is exhaled in timid murmurs.

VICTOR SERGE

Anarchists Never Surrender


To share your weakness is to make yourself vulnerable; to make yourself vulnerable is to show your strength.

CRISS JAMI

Killosophy


Never test another man by your own weakness.

JOSEPH CONRAD

Lord Jim

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The concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear.

EDMUND BURKE

speech on conciliation with America

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Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.

ERIC HOFFER

The Passionate State of Mind: And Other Aphorisms


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


Strength alone knows conflict; weakness is below even defeat, and is born vanquished.

MADAME SWETCHINE

"Airelles", The Writings of Madame Swetchine

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"What do you consider to be your biggest weakness?" Most job applicants have encountered this interview question multiple times. They have subsequently become adept at dodging it completely. Usually, this is achieved by dressing up a positive attribute as a "weakness".

CHRIS JAGER

"Killer Interview Question: What Is Your Greatest Weakness That's Not A Secret Strength?", Lifehacker, April 10, 2017


We always weaken whatever we exaggerate.

JEAN-FRANÇOIS DE LA HARPE

Mélanie