Weakness Of Character Quotes

• Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Attitude, Character

  Albert Einstein's speech made in honor of Thomas Mann, when Mann was given the Einstein Prize given by the Jewish Forum (January 1939), as quoted in Abraham Pais "Einstein Lived Here" (p. 214), 1994.

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• Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Inspirational, Character, Weakness

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• There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.

  Washington Irving

  Love, Marriage, Sympathy

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• Try not to become a man of success, but a man of value. Look around at how people want to get more out of life than they put in. A man of value will give more than he receives. Be creative, but make sure that what you create is not a curse for mankind.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  "Einstein and the Poet: In Search of the Cosmic Man". Book by William Hermanns, p. 143, 1983.

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• Boredom is a sign of satisfied ignorance, blunted apprehension, crass sympathies, dull understanding, feeble powers of attention, and irreclaimable weakness of character.

  James Bridie

  Ignorance, Character, Boredom

  James Bridie, Association for Scottish Literary Studies (2007). “The devil to stage: five plays”, Association for Scottish Literary Studies (ASLS)

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• True character stands the test of emergencies. Do not be mistaken, it is weakness from which the awakening is rude.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Character, Rude, Weakness

  "Napoleon : In His Own Words" edited by Jules Bertaut, translated by Herbert Edward Law and Charles Lincoln Rhodes, (Ch. II), 1916.

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  Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Leadership, Wisdom

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• It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not.

  Jonathan Swift

  Strength, Men, Gold

  Jonathan Swift (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jonathan Swift (Illustrated)”, p.896, Delphi Classics

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• Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character; it becomes lack of power to act with courage proportionate to danger. All this must lead to the destruction of our intellectual life unless the danger summons up strong personalities able to fill the lukewarm and discouraged with new strength and resolution.

  Albert Einstein

  Strong, Attitude, Character

  Speech made in honor of Thomas Mann, January 1939.

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• Both gentleness and meekness are born of power, not weakness. There is a pseudo-gentlene ss that is effeminate, and there is a pseudo-meekness that is cowardly. But a Christian is to be gentle and meek because those are Godlike virtues... We should never be afraid, therefore, that the gentleness of the Spirit means weakness of character. It takes strength, God's strength, to be truly gentle.

  Jerry Bridges

  Christian, Character, Mean

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• Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Prayer

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.240, Courier Corporation

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• The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

  Albert Einstein

  Witty, Clever, Creativity

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It is a strength of character to acknowledge our failings and our strong points, and it is a weakness of character not to remain in harmony with both the good and the bad that is within us.

  Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

  Strength, Strong, Character

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• I always thought fainting showed an inherent weakness of character, but I understood it now. It was an act of self-preservation. Confronted by emotion too extreme to handle, the body shuts down to keep from running around like a chicken with its head cut off, potentially injuring itself.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Running, Character, Cutting

  Karen Marie Moning (2011). “Shadowfever: Fever Series”, p.171, Delacorte Press

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• This curious faith is predicated on the notion that we will soon develop unlimited new sources of energy: domestic oil fields, shale oil, gasified coal, nuclear power, solar energy, and so on. This is fantastical because the basic cause of the energy crisis is not scarcity: it is moral ignorance and weakness of character. We don't know how to use energy or what to use it for. And we cannot restrain ourselves. Our time is characterized as much by the abuse and waste of human energy as it is by the abuse and waste of fossil fuel energy.

  Wendell Berry

  Ignorance, Character, Oil

  Wendell Berry (2015). “The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture”, p.20, Counterpoint

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• One is apt to think of moral failure as due to weakness of character: more often it is due to an inadequate ideal.

  Richard Livingstone

  Character, Thinking, Weakness

  Richard Livingstone (2013). “On Education”, p.153, Cambridge University Press

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

  Garry Kasparov

  Character, Games, Weakness

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• Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, Motivational

  "Science, Philosophy, and Religion" (1940).

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• Women's strong qualities have become despised because of their weakness. The obvious remedy is to create a feminine character with all the strength of Superman plus all the allure of a good and beautiful woman.

  William Moulton Marston

  Beautiful, Strong Women, Character

  "The Secret History of Wonder Woman". Book by Jill Lepore, 2014.

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  There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power.

  Washington Irving

  Strength, Sad, Sympathy

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• Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Prayer, Philosophy, Soul

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.240, Courier Corporation

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• In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

  John Bunyan

  Love, Christian, Peace

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