Weakness Quotes - Page 24

• The strength in gold is revealing the general weakness in the dollar.

  Peter Schiff

  Gold, Dollars, Revealing

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• Your weaknesses will never develop, while your strengths will develop infinitely.

  Donald O. Clifton

  Focus

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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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• Every defensive end who is going to be picked in the first round is going to be a good pick for whoever they're chosen by, but if I had to tell you what sets me apart, that would be my desire and determination to get better. I know what I need to work on, I know my weaknesses, but I have that work ethic to improve every day. I have that want to be the best player at my position, and I have the belief in myself that one day that will come true.

  Justin Tuck

  Determination, Player, Work Ethic

  Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. March 29, 2005.

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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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• The rock is a field of battle between our weakness and our strength. We wouldn't touch rock if we were perfectly self-controlled. And he who would climb and live must continuously wage this battle and never let folly win. It's an outrageously demanding proposition. But I never said it was easy.

  Royal Robbins

  Winning, Rocks, Self

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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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• 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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• I was serving good but was returning especially well, which was a weakness in my game. So not only was I serving well, but I was also breaking these other guys, and they felt the pressure

  Richard Krajicek

  Games, Guy, Pressure

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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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• 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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• 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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• My biggest weakness as a endurance athlete has been in not drinking enough water after training, thereby racing sometimes while dehydrated.

  Bill Rodgers

  Motivational, Drinking, Athlete

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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 have a constitutional weakness in which I am very easily distracted by flashing lights. If there is a TV on in the room, I can't have a conversation with you. I won't eat, I won't sleep, I'll just meld with my couch.

  Rachel Maddow

  Sleep, Light, Rooms

  "Bay Area's Maddow is cable talk's newest star". Interview with Joe Garofoli, www.sfgate.com. September 11, 2008.

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• You know, the whole philosophy of ad hoc combinations has its strengths and its weaknesses.

  Evan Parker

  Philosophy, Combination, Ads

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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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• Nothing so sharpens the thought process as writing down one's arguments. Weaknesses overlooked in oral discussion become painfully obvious on the written page.

  Hyman Rickover

  Writing, Pages, Argument

  United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee, Hyman George Rickover (1982). “Economics of Defense Policy: Selected congressional testimony and speeches by Adm. H.G. Rickover, 1953-81”

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• The story of the fifth century was one of the exploitation of imperial weakness. Thus the Western Empire died.

  Adrian Goldsworthy

  Empires, Stories, Century

  Adrian Goldsworthy (2009). “The Fall Of The West: The Death Of The Roman Superpower”, p.178, Hachette UK

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• And with the right mentor, don't be afraid to expose your vulnerabilities. Admit you don't know what you don't know. When you acknowledge your weaknesses and ask for advice, you'll be surprised how much others will help.

  Howard Schultz

  Advice, Mentor, Helping

  Howard Schultz, Dori Jones Yang (1997). “Pour your heart into it: how Starbucks built a company one cup at a time”

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• As I talk about strengths and weaknesses in academic economics, one interesting fact you are entitled to know is that I never took a course in economics. And with this striking lack of credentials, you may wonder why I have the chutzpah to be up here giving this talk. The answer is I have a black belt in chutzpah. I was born with it.

  Charlie Munger

  Interesting, Giving, Black

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• But, the true reason for the success of such new expositions [translated Eastern religious texts] is to be found where they are the most accommodating, least rigid, least severe, most vague, and ready to come to easy terms with the prejudices and weaknesses of the modern world. Let everyone have the courage to look deeply into himself and to see what it is that he really wants.

  Julius Evola

  Religious, Prejudice, Looks

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• Every form of strength is also a form of weakness.

  Michael Lewis

  Form

  Michael Lewis (2004). “Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game”, p.257, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The individual act of obedience is the cornerstone not only of the strength of authoritarian society but also of its weakness.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Individual, Obedience, Cornerstones

  Robert Shea, Robert Anton Wilson (2012). “The Illuminatus! Trilogy”, p.185, Hachette UK

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• Coach Lombardi showed me that by working hard and using my mind, I could overcome my weakness to the point where I could be one of the best.

  Bart Starr

  Nfl, Mind, Overcoming

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