Weakness Quotes - Page 30

• We are called to be fruitful - not successful, not productive, not accomplished. Success comes from strength, stress, and human effort. Fruitfulness comes from vulnerability and the admission of our own weakness.

  Henri Nouwen

  Stress, Successful, Effort

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• The man who wishes to understand himself thoroughly must with his unrest, uncertainty, and even his weakness and sinfulness, with his life and death, draw near to Christ.

  Pope John Paul II

  Men, Life And Death, Wish

  Pope John Paul II (2009). “A Year with John Paul II: Daily Meditations from His Writings and Prayers”, p.40, Harper Collins

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• Master your strengths. Outsource your weaknesses.

  Ryan Kahn

  Masters

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• The human experience of weakness is God's blueprint for calling attention to the supremacy of his Son. When miserably failing people continue to belong to, believe in, and worship Jesus, God is happy.

  Michael Spencer

  Jesus, Believe, Son

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• Every trader has strengths and weakness. Some are good holders of winners, but may hold their losers a little too long. Others may cut their winners a little short, but are quick to take their losses. As long as you stick to your own style, you get the good and bad in your own approach.

  Michael Marcus

  Cutting, Loss, Long

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• Weakness is a guise. Wear it when they need to know you're human, but never when you feel it.

  Leigh Bardugo

  Needs, Feels, Humans

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• Sweetness is the opposite of machismo, which is everywhere-and I really don't get on with machismo. I'm interested in sensitivity, and weakness, and fear, and anxiety, because I think that, at the end of the day, behind our masks, that's what we are.

  Alain de Botton

  Thinking, Opposites, Anxiety

  "Alain de Botton's Healing Arts" by Joshua Rothman, www.newyorker.com. November 19, 2013.

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• Endure, put up with whatever comes your way, learn to overcome weakness and pain, push yourself to breaking point but never cave in. If you don't learn that lesson, you'll never succeed as an elite athlete.

  Toni Nadal

  Pain, Athlete, Point Break

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• At a young age, boys learn that to express compassion or empathy is to show weakness. They hear confusing messages that force them to repress their emotions, establish hierarchies, and constantly prove their masculinity ... whether boys and later men have chosen to resist or conform to this masculine norm, there is loneliness, anxiety, and pain.

  Jennifer Siebel Newsom

  Pain, Loneliness, Compassion

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• Who is Barack Obama? Contrary to the rumors you have heard, I was not born in a manger. I was actually born on Krypton and sent here by my father Jor-El to save the Planet Earth. Many of you know that I got my name, Barack, from my father. What you may not know is Barack is actually Swahili for 'That One.' And I got my middle name from somebody who obviously didn't think I'd ever run for president. If I had to name my greatest strength, I guess it would be my humility. Greatest weakness, it's possible that I'm a little too awesome.

  Barack Obama

  Running, Father, Humility

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• My weakness is chocolate - especially butterscotch and nut varieties.

  Twiggy

  Nuts, Chocolate, Butterscotch

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• Lawyers with a weakness for seeing the merits of the other side end up being employed by neither.

  Richard Barnet

  Law, Sides, Merit

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• One who is kind is sympathetic and gentle with others. He is considerate of others feelings and courteous in his behavior. He has a helpful nature. Kindness pardons others? weaknesses and fault. Kindness is extended to all--to the aged and the young, to animals, to those low of stations as well as the high.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Kindness, Animal, Feelings

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• I know my strengths. Painfully aware of the weaknesses. There's many. I love sports. So working towards a common goal, that's exciting to me.

  Kathy Ireland

  Sports, Goal, Common

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• The deepest repentance and humility and our own frailty and weakness must be realized before we can know God's strength.

  Frank Bartleman

  Humility, Repentance, Frailty

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• Certainty creates strength. Certainty gives one something upon which to learn. Uncertainty creates weakness. Uncertainty makes one tentative if not fearful, and tentative steps, even when in the right direction, may not overcome significant obstacles.

  John M Barry

  Giving, Overcoming, May

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• We don’t know what to do with our own pain, so what to do with the pain of others? We don’t know what to do with our own weakness except hide it or pretend it doesn’t exist. So how can we welcome fully the weakness of another if we haven’t welcomed our own weakness?

  Jean Vanier

  Pain, Welcome, Havens

  "The Wisdom of Tenderness". "On Being" with Krista Tippett, onbeing.org. May 28, 2015.

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• Being nice should never be perceived as being weak. It's not a sign of weakness, it's a sign of courtesy, manners, grace, a woman's ability to make everyone...feel at home, and it should never be construed as weakness.

  Benazir Bhutto

  Nice, Home, Grace

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• Conscious of my own weakness, I can only seek fervently the guidance of the Ruler of the Universe, and, relying on His all-powerful aid, do my best to restore Union and peace to a suffering people, and to establish and guard their liberties and rights.

  George B. McClellan

  Powerful, Rights, Glowing

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• There would not be enough talent that's educated, developed and ready to take on the next leadership challenge, and it would cap our growth. Now we've put programs in place not to have that happen, but that could be a weakness.

  Kevin B. Rollins

  Leadership, Challenges, Growth

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• All nations are more tolerant of their own mistakes and weaknesses than of the mistakes and weaknesses of others.

  Arthur Hays Sulzberger

  Mistake, Nations

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• Big mountains are a completely different world: snow, ice, rocks, sky, and thin air. You cannot conquer them, only rise to their height for a short time; and for that they demand a great deal. The struggle is not with the enemy, or a competitor like in sports, but with yourself, with the feelings of weakness and inadequacy. That struggle appeals to me. It is why I became a mountaineer.

  Anatoli Boukreev

  Sports, Struggle, Rocks

  Anatoli Boukreev (2015). “Above the Clouds: The Diaries of a High-Altitude Mountaineer”, p.4, St. Martin's Griffin

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• Filth is always a sign of weakness - in the mouth of the user and in the mind of the writer.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Mind, Mouths, Filth

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• The fact that God accepts us should be our motivation for accepting ourselves. If we cannot accept ourselves the way we are, with our limitations and assets, weaknesses as well as strengths, shortcomings as well as abilities; then we cannot trust anyone else to accept us the way we are. We will always be putting on a front, building a facade around ourselves, never letting people know what we are really like deep down inside.

  Josh McDowell

  Christian, Motivation, People

  Josh McDowell (1990). “His Image...My Image”, Nelsonword Publishing Group

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• [T]he main evil of the present democratic institutions of the united states does not raise, as is often asserted in Europe, from their weakness, but from their irresistible strength. I am not so much alarmed at the excessive liberty which reigns in that country as at the inadequate securities which one finds there against tyranny.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Country, Europe, Evil

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