Weakness Quotes

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  Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• No government can be maintained without the principle of fear as well as duty. Good men will obey the last, but bad ones the former only. If our government ever fails, it will be from this weakness.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Good Man, Principles

  Thomas Jefferson (2011). “The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, Volume 7: 28 November 1813 to 30 September 1814”, p.648, Princeton University Press

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• Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.

  Boris Pasternak

  Love, Anniversary, Strong

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• Your strengths develop your confidence; your weaknesses develop your faith.

  Howard G. Hendricks

  Epic, Discipleship

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• Success is achieved by developing our strengths, not by eliminating our weaknesses.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Inspirational, Strength, Success

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  My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn that perceived weakness into a strength.

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

  Michael Jordan, Walter Iooss, Mark Vancil (1995). “I'm back!: more rare air”, Harpercollins

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  Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Strength, Peace, Strong

  Calvin Coolidge (1924). “Calvin Coolidge, His Ideals of Citizenship as Revealed Through His Speeches and Writings”

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• 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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• Whatever brings you to your knees in weakness carries the greatest potential for your personal success and spiritual victory.

  Charles Stanley

  Spiritual, Victory, Knees

  Charles Stanley (2013). “NASB, The Charles F. Stanley Life Principles Bible, eBook”, p.1366, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Life is a competition not with others, but with ourselves. We should seek each day to live stronger, better, truer lives; each day to master some weakness of yesterday; each day to repair a mistake; each day to surpass ourselves.

  David B. Haight

  Life, Mistake, Yesterday

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• Our strength grows out of our weakness.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Positive, Strength, Encouragement

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.298, Library of America

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• The acknowledgment of our weakness is the first step in repairing our loss.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Inspirational, Loss, Firsts

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• The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're alive.

  Orlando Aloysius Battista

  Love, Relationship, Marriage

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  Build up your weaknesses until they become your strong points.

  Knute Rockne

  Sports, Football, Strong

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• Better to be a strong man with a weak point, than to be a weak man without a strong point. A diamond with a flaw is more valuable that a brick without a flaw.

  William J. H. Boetcker

  Strong, Men, Weak Man

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• Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.

  Eric Hoffer

  Work, Power, Rudeness

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• Wickedness is weakness.

  John Milton

  Wickedness

  John Bell, Joseph Addison, John Banks, Michael Arne, John Brown (1796). “British Theatre: Caractacus”

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• A true friend knows your weaknesses but shows you your strenghs; feels your fears but fortifies your faith; sees your anxieties but frees your spirit; recognizes your disabilities but emphasizes your possibilities.

  William Arthur Ward

  Love, Inspirational, True Friend

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• Compliment people. Magnify their strengths, not their weaknesses.

  Joyce Meyer

  People, Compliment

  Twitter post from Jul 29, 2012

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• The weak-minded man is the slave of his vices and the dupe of his virtues.

  Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

  Men, Vices, Dupes

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• The first step to improvement, whether mental, moral, or religious, is to know ourselves - our weaknesses, errors, deficiencies, and sins, that, by divine grace, we may overcome and turn from them all.

  Tryon Edwards

  Religious, Errors, Grace

  "A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors of the World, Both Ancient and Modern" by Tryon Edwards, New York, Cassell publishing company, (p. 517), 1891.

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• Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Strength, Cooperation

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• My weaknesses... I wish I could come up with something. I'd probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they're the same thing.

  Al Pacino

  Wish, Euthanasia, Come Up

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• Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it / immediately.

  Stephen Covey

  Mistake, People, Arguing

  Stephen R. Covey (1994). “Daily Reflections for Highly Effective People: Living THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE Every Day”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

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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

  Running, Light, Perspective

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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