WEAKNESS QUOTES V

quotations about weakness

Sometimes being weak is the strongest thing that one can do.

ERICA RUCKER

"On depression and Politics", LEO Weekly, November 23, 2016


Each life stage involves a critical psychological conflict or crisis that must be resolved unceasingly if the human being is to remain psychologically alive ... there is a focal tension or conflict between a positive, growth-oriented strength and a negative growth-impeding weakness; and healthy growth requires that the individual obtain a preponderance of the designated strength over the weakness, though the weakness is never entirely overcome.

ALLAN HUGH COLE

Converging Horizons: Essays in Religion, Psychology, and Caregiving


That which yields, is not always weak.

JACQUELINE CAREY

Kushiel's Dart

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Throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people we most despise.

CHARLES DICKENS

Great Expectations

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A weak man is often so good that he is good for nothing.

E. P. DAY

Day's Collacon


Men's weaknesses and faults are best known from their enemies.

FRANCIS BACON

The Advancement of Learning

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If you are honest with yourself, what is your Achilles heel or your greatest weakness? What are your deepest confessions and long held secrets? What is your kryptonite that, when you are around it, you are defenseless even with all your self-restraint and compensations? What are your secrets, confessions, and greatest fears? These taboo areas, even to you, have strong reasons associated with your core life message. From these queries, you can reveal to yourself the two polar opposites that you find yourself moving between throughout life.

AVIVA BOXER

Forget Me Knot: A 5 Step Guide to Tie You to Them


No Achilles' heel ever toughened by itself. It just gets more and more vulnerable.

F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

letter to "Scottina" Fitzgerald, June 12, 1940


A man who willingly acknowledges his own weakness is strong in his own way.

KEN LIU

The Grace of Kings


God's weakness is stronger than human strength.

MICHAEL P. KNOWLES

Of Seeds and the People of God


Weakness is a provocation and strength is a deterrence.

JOHN CORNYN

Fox and Friends, April 7, 2017


It is dangerous, at any time, to multiply sources of weakness.

LORD ACTON

letter to Mary Gladstone, June 9, 1880

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Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. Silently and perceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow and wax strong, we grow and wax weak; and at last some crisis shows us what we have become.

CANON WESTCOTT

The Christian Register, April 17, 1913


A strong man cannot help a weaker unless the weaker is willing to be helped, and even then the weak man must become strong of himself; he must, by his own efforts, develop the strength which he admires in another. None but himself can alter his condition.

JAMES ALLEN

As a Man Thinketh

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It is none of our business what a job-seeker's greatest weakness is. It is only a cultural belief that people have weaknesses. What is a weakness, anyway? It's something that you could be better at doing than you are. Of course there will always be millions of things you can't do well -- and so what? What's important is that you know what you are good at.

LIZ RYAN

"Five Interview Questions To Stop Asking -- And Five To Ask Instead", Forbes, March 24, 2017


He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.

MOLIÈRE

The Misanthrope

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As long as I fear my weakness, I am stronger than when I trust my strength.

IVAN PANIN

Thoughts

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Some weak people are sensible of their weakness and able to make good use of it.

FRANÇOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Moral Maxims

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The enemy of the moment is not as important as our own inner weakness. If this is not mended we are already defeated, though no foreign conqueror stands within our walls.

ROGER ZELAZNY

The Hand of Oberon

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Weaknesses, so called, are nothing more nor less than vices in disguise.

JOHANN KASPAR LAVATER

attributed, Day's Collacon

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