Weakness Quotes - Page 14

• Uncertainty is intrinsic to the process of finding out what you don't know, not a weakness to avoid.

  Neil Gershenfeld

  Process, Findings, Knows

  "We must learn to love uncertainty and failure, say leading thinkers" by Alok Jha, www.theguardian.com. January 15, 2011.

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• The moral nihilism of celebrity culture is played out on reality television shows, most of which encourage a dark voyeurism into other people's humiliation, pain, weakness, and betrayal.

  Chris Hedges

  Pain, Betrayal, Dark

  Chris Hedges (2014). “Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle”, p.30, Nation Books

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• America's greatest strength, and its greatest weakness, is our belief in second chances, our belief that we can always start over, that things can be made better.

  Anthony Walton

  Motivational, Second Chance, America

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• Let me give you a hint, young ones, what it is you will become as you grow. What things make you cry, what things bring you pain, what things hurt you now, what things threaten your peace; what things you fear, what things bring you rage. It will be the opposite of these that you will become if you chose to accept your weakness, embrace the Son and simply grow.

  Stefanie Schneider

  Hurt, Pain, Son

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• The weakness of ourselves and of our reason makes us see flaws in beauties by making us consider everything piece by piece.

  Johann Georg Hamann

  Pieces, Flaws, Reason

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• You got to keep all your weaknesses away, and my weakness is women. I love women too much. Which has definitely road-blocked me. I just try my best to channel my energy to other things and remain focused while making my work as fun as everything else.

  Bow Wow

  Fun, Trying, Energy

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• I asked Agamemnon plainly about Iphigenia; he wept. Not as one cries out of pain, but out of fear. Out of weakness.

  Christa Wolf

  Pain, Agamemnon, Cry

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• Despair exaggerates not only our misery but also our weakness.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Despair, Misery

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• All writers have strengths and weaknesses. I am terrified of being boring, so I write short, compressed stories that sometimes don't give a reader time to think about what they have read. I struggle to slow down.

  Susan Cheever

  Struggle, Writing, Thinking

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• Knowledge is one. Its division into subjects is a concession to human weakness.

  Halford Mackinder

  Division, Humans, Subjects

  Sir Halford John Mackinder (1962). “Democratic Ideals and Reality: With Additional Papers”

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• Tender inner weaknesses, revolting at mild touches of censure, are like diseased parts of the body, recoiling before even delicate handling.

  Sri Yukteswar Giri

  Body, Delicate, Diseased

  "Autobiography of a Yogi". Book by Paramahansa Yogananda, 1946.

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• To be true to ourselves, however, is not an easy task. We must break free of the seductions of society and live life on our own terms, under our own values and aligned with our original dreams. We must tap our hidden selves; explore the deep-seated, unseen hopes, desires, strengths and weaknesses that make us who we are. We must understand where we have been and where we are going.

  Robin Sharma

  Dream, Live Life, Self

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• There is a price for popularity. Critics look for your weaknesses, your flaws, anything that makes the work seem like a fluke and not seem worthy of all the attention it's getting.

  Terry McMillan

  Looks, Attention, Flukes

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• In England, we have a curious institution called the Church of England. Its strength has always been in the fact that on any moral or political issue it can produce such a wide divergence of opinion that nobody -- from the Pope to Mao Tse-tung -- can say with any confidence that he is not an Anglican. Its weaknesses are that nobody pays much attention to it and very few people attend its functions.

  Auberon Waugh

  Issues, People, Political

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• We're living in an unprecedented day (when) evil is no longer evil. We've changed the terminology-- iniquity is now infirmity; wickedness is now weakness; devilry is now deficiency.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Evil, Wickedness, Changed

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• People are very surprised to hear me say that a lot of my values are Christian values. I think that's part of my shock. I just don't like the way that Christianity combined with the influence of television has bred a nation of weakness. (Christian television do get the facts wrong sometimes and the image they portray turns most people off.)

  Marilyn Manson

  Christian, Thinking, People

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• Man doth not yield him to the angels, nor unto death utterly, save only through the weakness of his feeble will.

  Joseph Glanvill

  Angel, Men, Yield

  Joseph Glanvill, Anthony Horneck, Henry More (1966). “Saducismus Triumphatus: Or, Full and Plain Evidence Concerning Witches and Apparitions [!] (1689)”

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• I want to make all Europe and America know it - I want to make England feel her weakness if she refuses to give the justice we the Irish require - the restoration of our domestic parliament.

  Daniel O'Connell

  Europe And America, Giving, Justice

  Speech given at a 'monster' meeting held at Drogheda, June, 1843.

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• When a Spanish man cries it's not a sign of weakness

  Geraldo Rivera

  Men, Cry

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• It is not the evil itself which is horrifying about our times – it is the way we not only tolerate evil, but have made a cult of positively worshipping weakness, depravity, rottenness and evil itself.

  George Lincoln Rockwell

  Evil, Way, Depravity

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• Man, if he compare himself with all that he can see, is at the zenith of power; but if he compare himself with all that he can conceive, he is at the nadir of weakness.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Men, Nadir, Zenith

  Charles Caleb COLTON (1849). “L.P.”, p.421

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• My weakness ... is architecture. I think of my work as ephemeral architecture, dedicated to the beauty of the female body.

  Christian Dior

  Thinking, Female, Body

  Christian Dior (2007). “Dior by Dior”, Victoria & Albert Museum

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• Sometimes you have to resist working on your strengths in favour of your weaknesses. The decathlon requires a wide range of skills.

  Daley Thompson

  Skills, Favour, Sometimes

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• The object of defense is preservation; and since it is easier to hold ground than to take it, defense is easier than attack. But defense has a passive purpose: preservation; and attack a positive one: conquest.... If defense is the stronger form of war, yet has a negative object, it follows that it should be used only so long as weakness compels, and be abandoned as soon as we are strong enough to pursue a positive object.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Strong, War, Long

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• None of us need one more person bashing or pointing out where we have failed or fallen short. Most of us are already well aware of the areas in which we are weak. What each of us does need is family, friends, employers, and brothers and sisters who support us, who have the patience to teach us, who believe in us, and who believe we’re trying to do the best we can, in spite of our weaknesses. What ever happened to giving each other the benefit of the doubt? What ever happened to hoping that another person would succeed or achieve? What ever happened to rooting for each other?

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Brother, Believe, Giving

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