Weakness Quotes - Page 26

• The world values power, comfort, success, and recognition. Jesus frees us to value grief, sacrifice, weakness, and exclusion.

  Timothy Keller

  Jesus, Grief, Sacrifice

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• If you wish to feign confusion in order to lure the enemy on, you must first have perfect discipline; if you wish to display timidity in order to entrap the enemy, you must have extreme courage; if you wish to parade your weakness in order to make the enemy over-confident, you must have exceeding strength.

  Du Mu

  Military, Order, Discipline

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• My opinion changes rapidly - one minute I can think it is very good and the next time I look at it, I see all the flaws and weaknesses therein.

  Charles Gounod

  Thinking, Looks, Next

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• He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.

  Joseph Joubert

  Friendship, Friends

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• Our policy is simple: We are not going to betray our friends, reward the enemies of freedom, or permit fear and retreat to become American policies — especially in this hemisphere. None of the four wars in my lifetime came about because we were too strong.

  Ronald Reagan

  Leadership, Strong, War

  "Ronald Reagan".

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• God has so ordered, that in pressing on in duty we shall find the truest, richest comfort for ourselves. Sitting down to brood over our sorrows, the darkness deepens about us and creeps into our heart, and our strength changes to weakness. But, if we turn away from the gloom, and take up the tasks and duties to which God calls us, the light will come again, and we shall grow stronger.

  Lettie Cowman

  Heart, Light, Darkness

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• ... always been a goal-oriented girl. it was both her strength and her weakness. She had a drive to completion that always gets things done, but it also made her inflexible, and stubborn.

  Neal Shusterman

  Girl, Goal, Done

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• Lest conservatives be too proud, it's worth recalling that conservatism's rise was decisively enabled by liberalism's weakness.

  William Kristol

  Proud, Liberalism, Conservatism

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• My sweet rose, my delicate flower, my lily of lilies, it is perhaps in prison that I am going to test the power of love. I am going to see if I cannot make the bitter warders sweet by the intensity of the love I bear you. I have had moments when I thought it would be wise to separate. Ah! Moments of weakness and madness! Now I see that would have mutilated my life, ruined my art, broken the musical chords which make a perfect soul. Even covered with mud I shall praise you, from the deepest abysses I shall cry to you. In my solitude you will be with me.

  Oscar Wilde

  Wise, Sweet, Art

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• In our rough and rugged individualism, we think of gentleness as weakness, being soft and virtually spineless. Not so! Gentleness includes such enviable qualities as having strength under control, being calm and peaceful when surrounded by a heated atmosphere, emitting a soothing effect on those who may be angry or otherwise beside themselves, and possessing tact and gracious courtesy that causes others to retain their self-esteem and dignity. Instead of losing, the gentle gain. Instead of being ripped off and taken advantage of, they come out ahead!

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Self Esteem, Taken, Thinking

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• You need to be prepared for firm decisions and action, without losing gentleness towards those who obstruct or abuse you. It's as great a weakness to be angry with them as it is to abandon your plan of action and give up through fear.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Giving Up, Decision, Abuse

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• Compassion for the other comes out of our ability to accept ourselves. Until we realize both our own weaknesses and our own privileges, we can never tolerate lack of status and depth of weakness in the other.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Compassion, Depth, Privilege

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• You saw his weakness, and he will never forgive you.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Forgiving, Saws, Human Condition

  "Wilhelm Tell" by Friedrich Schiller, Act III, sc. i, 1803.

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• At times, our strengths propel us so far forward we can no longer endure our weaknesses and perish from them.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Endure

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.101, Vintage

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• What is good? All that enhances the feeling of power, the Will to Power, and power itself in man. What is bad? — All that proceeds from weakness. What is happiness? — The feeling that power is increasing — that resistance has been overcome.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  War, Men, Feelings

  "Twilight of the Idols with the Antichrist and Ecce Homo".

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• The force of arms only reveals man s weakness.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Power, Men, Arms

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Plays, stories”, p.74, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• But then peace, peace! I am so mistrustful of it: so much afraid that it means a sort of weakness and giving in.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Peace, Mean, Giving

  D. H. Lawrence, Warren Roberts, James T. Boulton, Elizabeth Mansfield (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.170, Cambridge University Press

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• In our corrupted state, common weaknesses and defects contribute more towards the reconciling us to one another than all the precepts of the philosophers and divines.

  E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

  Perfect, Philosopher, Common

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• It was not the violence of our enemies [in World War I] that would undo us, I thought, but our own spiritual weakness, the shallowness of our convictions.

  Learned Hand

  Spiritual, War, Enemy

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• Love seizes us suddenly, without giving warning, and our disposition or our weakness favors the surprise; one look, one glance, from the fair fixes and determines us.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Love, Giving, Warning

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• The weakness of so many modern Christians is that they feel to much at home in the world. In their effort to achieve restful 'adjustment' to unregenerate society they have lost their pilgrim character and become an essential part of the very moral order against which they are sent to protest.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Home, Character

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• Failure to get a right viewpoint in the beginning of our Christian lives may result in weakness and sterility for the rest of our days!

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Viewpoints, May

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• Often we are firm from weakness, and audacious from timidity.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Firm, Audacious, Timidity

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• There is a mercy which is weakness, and even treason against the common good.

  George Eliot

  Common, Mercy, Treason

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.1544, Delphi Classics

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• Just as in habiliments it is a sign of weakness to wish to make oneself noticeable by some peculiar and unaccustomed fashion, so, in language, the quest for new-fangled phrases and little-known words comes from a puerile and pedantic ambition.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Fashion, Ambition, Wish

  Michel de Montaigne (1925). “The essays of Montaigne”

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