Weakness Quotes - Page 25

• Really, then, our problem is not weakness, but independence! And in covenant, you die to independent living.

  Kay Arthur

  Independent, Independence, Covenant

  Kay Arthur (2009). “Our Covenant God: Living in the Security of His Unfailing Love”, p.141, WaterBrook

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• Patience is a strength, not a weakness; and if by practicing patience we stop retaliating to harm and criticism, people will gradually come to understand that our real nature is very special

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

  Peace, Real, People

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• Ecstacy stripped away the user's inhibitions to self-expression. On E, lies are inefficient, and the peculiarities or weaknesses they are meant to obscure no longer seem like offenses against nature.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Lying, Self, Expression

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• I am an adherent of the ideal of democracy, although I well know the weaknesses of the democratic form of government. Social equality and economic protection of the individual appeared to me always as the important communal aims of the state. Although I am a typical loner in daily life, my consciousness of belonging to the invisible community of those who strive for truth, beauty, and justice has preserved me from feeling isolated.

  Albert Einstein

  Government, Justice, Community

  "My credo" by Albert Einstein, 1932.

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• It's okay that your parents aren't perfect; no one's are. And it's okay that they didn't have any perfect children either; no one's are. You see, our whole purpose is to strive together in righteousness, overcoming our weaknesses day by day. Don't ever give up on each other.

  Ardeth Kapp

  Children, Giving Up, Perfect

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• The Iraqi people are living a long-running tragedy because of the legacy of the old regime, the Americans and their actions that are unsuitable for Iraqi society, and the weakness of national resolve.

  Ahmed Chalabi

  Running, Long, People

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• As much as I value an union of all the states, I would not admit the southern states into the union, unless they agreed to the discontinuance of this disgraceful trade, because it would bring weakness and not strength to the union.

  George Mason

  Southern, Unions, States

  "The Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution", vol. 3, edited by Jonathan Elliot, 1974.

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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 dependence of one people upon another, even for the benefits of legislation, is the deepest source of national weakness.

  Thomas Francis Meagher

  People, Benefits, Source

  Thomas Francis Meagher (1853). “Speeches on the Legislative Independence of Ireland”, p.83

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• Sometimes a great wound or concussion of the head, especially which happens by falling headlong from an high place, brings a prejudice and weakness to the animal faculty, dulling the understanding

  Thomas Willis

  Fall, Animal, Understanding

  Thomas Willis (1685). “The London Practice of Physick, Or The Whole Practical Part of Physick”, p.490

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• Each of these strategies-get a little better at it, design a support system, use one of your strongest themes to overwhelm your weakness, find a partner, and just stop doing it-can help you as you strive to build your life around your strengths.

  Donald O. Clifton

  Support Systems, Design, Inner Strength

  Marcus Buckingham, Donald O. Clifton (2001). “Now, Discover Your Strengths”, p.158, Simon and Schuster

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• What is evil?-Whatever springs from weakness.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Spring, Power, Evil

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Writings of Nietzsche: Volume 1”, Lulu.com

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• If I were asked to name one aspect of tennis that is the biggest weakness of players of all levels, I would probably say concentration. However good your shots, however fast your movement and reflexes, all is lost if the mind is not controlling every move.

  Ken Rosewall

  Moving, Player, Names

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• Irrespective of how we physiologically are made, even possessing special weaknesses, we can overcome our sins through the Lord.

  Watchman Nee

  Special, Overcoming, Sin

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• We all have weaknesses. But I have figured that others have put up with mine so tolerably that I would be much less than fair not to make a reasonable discount for theirs.

  William Allen White

  Power, Would Be, Discounts

  William Allen White (1937). “Forty Years on Main Street”

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• Many people, especially men, feel it is an admission of weakness to ask for help or to express a need. But there is absolutely no shame in needing others.

  Rick Warren

  Men, People, Needs

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• When danger is far off we may think of our weakness; when it is near we must not forget our strength.

  Winston Churchill

  Adversity, Thinking, May

  Winston Churchill (1951). “War speeches”

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• Instead, the terrorists see just what they were hoping for, our unity gone, our resolve shaken, our leaders distracted. In short, they see weakness and opportunity.

  Dick Cheney

  Opportunity, Leader, Gone

  AEI Speech, www.weeklystandard.com. May 21, 2009.

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• The writer cannot be a mere storyteller; he cannot be a mere teacher; he cannot merely X-ray society’s weaknesses, its ills, its perils. He or she must be actively involved shaping its present and its future.

  Ken Saro-Wiwa

  Teacher, Rays, Peril

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• A little cooling down of animal excitability and instinct, a little loss of animal toughness, a little irritable weakness and descent of the pain-threshold, will bring the worm at the core of all our usual springs of delight into full view, and turn us into melancholy metaphysicians.

  William James

  Pain, Spring, Loss

  William James (2013). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.140, Courier Corporation

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• You win games with your strengths, not your weaknesses.

  Bear Bryant

  Motivational, Winning, Games

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• It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of their imaginations.

  Walter Bagehot

  Men, Imagination, Would Be

  Walter Bagehot (1930). “The English Constitution: And Other Political Essays”, p.51, Lulu.com

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• Every present anger derives from past weakness.

  Glen Duncan

  Anger, Past, Management

  Glen Duncan (2011). “The Last Werewolf (The Last Werewolf 1)”, p.31, Canongate Books

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• Nature reacts not only to physical disease, but also to moral weakness; when the danger increases; she gives us greater courage

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Nature, Giving, Disease

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• Nothing brings families together faster than forgiveness. That should make it Step No. 1, but most of us find forgiving hard. We associate it with weakness and losing when, actually, the reverse is true. When you forgive, you gain strength and come out a winner. You break free of control by the other person's actions.

  Joyce Brothers

  Forgiveness, Forgiving, Together

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