Weakness Quotes - Page 18

• In the stillness of the quiet, if we listen, we can hear the whisper of the heart giving strength to weakness, courage to fear, hope to despair.

  Howard Thurman

  Heart, Giving, Despair

  Howard Thurman (1985). “The Mood of Christmas”

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• Vulnerability is not weakness. And that myth is profoundly dangerous.... Vulnerability is the birthplace of connection and the path to the feeling of worthiness. If it doesn't feel vulnerable, the sharing is probably not constructive.

  Brené Brown

  Feelings, Connections, Path

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• We do not look at our own faults; the eyes do not see themselves, they see the eyes of everybody else. We human beings are very slow to recognise our own weakness, our own faults, so long as we can lay the blame upon somebody else.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Eye, Long, Looks

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge”, p.107, editionNEXT.com

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• You will learn and grow the least in your areas of weakness.

  Marcus Buckingham

  Inspiring, Grows, Areas

  Marcus Buckingham (2010). “Go Put Your Strengths to Work: 6 Powerful Steps to Achieve Outstanding Performance”, p.53, Simon and Schuster

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• The Four Keys of Great Managers: When selecting someone, they select for talent ... not simply experience, intelligence or determination. When setting expectations, they define the right outcomes ... not the right steps. When motivating someone, they focus on strengths ... not on weaknesses. and When developing someone, they help him find the right fit ... not simply the next rung on the ladder.

  Marcus Buckingham

  Determination, Keys, Expectations

  Marcus Buckingham, Curt Coffman (2014). “First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently”, p.68, Simon and Schuster

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• A manager's task is to make the strengths of people effective and their weakness irrelevant - and that applies fully as much to the manager's boss as it applies to the manager's subordinates.

  Peter Drucker

  People, Boss, Risk

  Peter Drucker (2013). “Managing for the Future”, p.139, Routledge

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• Too much faith in personality has a tendency to produce weakness and idolatry, but intense love for the Guru makes rapid growth possible.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Personality, Growth, Too Much

  Swami Vivekananda (1953). “Complete Works”

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• Weakness leaves, pride comes in. Confidence grows. Successful life.

  Greg Plitt

  Motivational, Pride, Successful

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• Strength is a facade for the proud, weakness is a mask for the lazy.

  William James

  Lazy, Proud, Catchy

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• When the husband and wife are healthy, and free from inherited weaknesses and diseases that might be transmitted with injury to their offspring the use of contraceptives is to be condemned.

  David O. McKay

  Husband, Wife, Healthy

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• As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  War, Equality, Men

  Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (2015). “The Spirit of Laws”, p.18, Library of Alexandria

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• Dear God, I don't want to have invented my faith to satisfy my weakness. I don't want to have created God to my own image as they're so fond of saying. Please give me the necessary grace, oh Lord, and please don't let it be as hard to get as Kafka made it.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Giving, Grace, Saying Please

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• Conscience is a just but weak judge. Weakness leaves it powerless to execute its judgment.

  Khalil Gibran

  Judging, Execution, Judgment

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• As I pass it, I feel as if I saw a dear old mother, sweet in her weakness, trembling at the approach of her dissolution, but not appealing to me against the inevitable, rather endeavouring to reassure me by her patience, and pointing to a hopeful future.

  T. E. Brown

  Patience, Mother, Sweet

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• Many times our weaknesses are extensions of our strengths.

  Zig Ziglar

  Extensions

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• Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock the breast, no weakness, no contempt, Dispraise, or blame,-nothing but well and fair, And what may quiet us in a death so noble.

  John Milton

  Tears, Noble, May

  'Samson Agonistes' (1671) l. 1721

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• Many people think that patience is a sign of weakness.
  I think this is a mistake. It is anger that is a sign of
  weakness, whereas patience is a sign of strength

  Dalai Lama

  Patience, Mistake, Thinking

  Dalai Lama (2009). “For the Benefit of All Beings: A Commentary on the Way of the Bodhisattva”, p.58, Shambhala Publications

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• Management is about human beings. Its task is to make people capable of joint performance, to make their strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant.

  Peter Drucker

  People, Tasks, Joints

  "The New Realities".

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• What is defeat in life? It is not merely making a mistake; defeat means giving up on yourself in the midst of difficulty. What is true success in life? True success means winning in your battle with yourself. Those who persist in the pursuit of their dreams, no matter what the hurdles, are winners in life, for they have won over their weaknesses.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Dream, Giving Up, Mistake

  Daisaku Ikeda (2000). “The Way of Youth: Buddhist Common Sense for Handling Life's Questions”, p.107, Middleway Press

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• Complete weakness and dependence will always be the occasion for the Spirit of God to manifest His power.

  Oswald Chambers

  Spirit, Manifest, Dependence

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition”, p.262, Discovery House

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• To forge an untouchable, invulnerable identity is actually a sign of retreat from this world; of weakness, a sign of fear rather than strength, and betrays a strange misunderstandin g of an abiding, foundational and necessary reality: that untouched, we disappear.

  David Whyte

  Reality, Identity, Abiding

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• The greater the mental charlatan, the more definite his insistence on the wickedness and weaknesses of human nature. Yet how can anyone speak of it today, with every soul in a prison, with every heart fettered, wounded, and maimed?... With human nature caged in a narrow space, whipped daily into submission, how can we speak of its potentialities?

  Emma Goldman

  Heart, Space, Soul

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• If you lack the iron and the fizz to take control of your own life, then the gods will repay your weakness by having a grin or two at your expense. Should you fail to pilot your own ship, don't be surprised at what inappropriate port you find yourself docked.

  Tom Robbins

  Iron, Two, Finding Yourself

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Jitterbug Perfume”, p.103, Bantam

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• I learned a long time ago that the last thing any woman should be thinking about is being 'skinny' or 'thin.' To me, those words imply weakness, fragility, the inability to stand firm in a storm. If you want to change your body, aim for 'athletic.' An athletic body is healthy, strong, and built to thrive. An athletic body can take many shapes.

  Lauren Fleshman

  Strong, Thinking, Long

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• Munroe stared at the sky. Cursed her weakness, her inability to block out what it would mean to knowingly deliver the innocent into the same hell that had birthed her to life. In this moment of decision she condemned to death the one she would risk anything to save. To the night, Munroe whispered good-bye. Opened the floodgates to Gehenna-that place of the wicked, that place of the dead-and here in this deserted spot, she buried her soul.

  Taylor Stevens

  Block, Mean, Night

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