Weakness Quotes - Page 31

• I don't see the point in being a star - it takes a lot of energy to carry yourself off as being more perfect than somebody else. I'd rather just be available with all my weaknesses.

  Larry Norman

  Stars, Perfect, Energy

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• Don't ever mistake my silence for ignorance, my calmness for acceptance or my kindness for weakness. Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength.

  Dalai Lama

  Kindness, Mistake, Ignorance

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• An unguarded strength is a double weakness.

  Oswald Chambers

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• The willingness to change one’s mind in the light of new evidence is a sign of rationality not weakness.

  Stuart Sutherland

  Light, Mind, Willingness To Change

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• Every time I ran the mile I was aware of my own weakness, there was some opponent who could give me a hell of a fight, so I never went into a race with a sense of invincibility. I always had that feeling of fragility and nerves which made me run faster.

  Roger Bannister

  Running, Fighting, Race

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• God's word is:
  'He who strives never perishes.'
  I have implicit faith in that promise.
  Though, therefore, from my weakness
  I fail a thousand times, I shall not lose faith.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Promise, Failing, Strive

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.69, A&C Black

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• I have a weakness for buttons. I'm always collecting ornate and nicely decorated ones.

  Rila Fukushima

  Buttons, Collecting

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• Empires are not brought down by outside forces, they are destroyed by weaknesses from within.

  Lionel

  Empires, Force, Destroyed

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• In the final analysis the weakness of Black Power is its failure to see that the black man needs the white man and the white man needs the black man.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Men, White Man, Black

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2010). “Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?”, p.74, Beacon Press

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• No matter how much lip service those committed to power (psychopaths) may pay to the principle of equality (empaths), they can never approach their fellow human beings on an equal footing; their relationships with others are defined solely in terms of power and weakness. Therefore, they must accumulate as much power as possible, with the aim of becoming invulnerable and proving this invulnerability.

  Arno Gruen

  Matter, Relationships With Others, Becoming

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• The weakness of so many modern Christians is that they feel too much at home in the world

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Home, World

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• I'm very domestic; I love cleaning. I love cooking. I like waiting on people. I just like to make things. I don't break that down to be weakness, or the only things women can do, or putting me back 20 years.

  Amy Sedaris

  Years, People, Waiting

  Interview with Genevieve Koski, www.avclub.com. November 3, 2010.

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• 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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• 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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• Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points.

  Horace

  Inspirational, Leadership, Motivation

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• The fact that people in Hollywood are open to what I teach is not because they're more desperate than anyone else, but because they're more touched by it. That's not their weakness. It's their strength!

  Marianne Williamson

  People, Hollywood, Facts

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• When you fear a foe, fear crushes your strength; and this weakness gives strength to your opponents.

  William Shakespeare

  Crush, Fear, Giving

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• We fear our highest possibilities. We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments, under conditions of great courage. We enjoy and even thrill to godlike possibilities we see in ourselves in such peak moments. And yet we simultaneously shiver with weakness, awe, and fear before these very same possibilities.

  Abraham Maslow

  Perfect, Glimpse, Thrill

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• Lord, enlighten thou our enemies. Sharpen their wits, give acuteness to their perceptions, and consecutiveness and clearness to their reasoning powers: we are in danger from their folly, not from their wisdom; their weakness is what fills us with apprehension, not their strength.

  John Stuart Mill

  Giving, Perception, Enemy

  John Stuart Mill (1864). “Dissertations and Discussions: Political, Philosophical, and Historical”, p.77

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• If we do not respect ourselves, we are on the one hand forced to despise those who have so few resources as to consort with us, so little perception as to remain blind to our fatal weaknesses. On the other, we are peculiarly in thrall to everyone we see, curiously determined to live out — since our self-image is untenable — their false notions of us… We play roles doomed to failure before they are begun, each defeat generating fresh despair at the urgency of divining and meeting the next demand made upon us.

  Joan Didion

  Self, Hands, Play

  "On Self-Respect". Vogue Magazine, www.vogue.com. 1961.

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• Get it into your head once and for all, my simple and very fainthearted fellow, that what fools call humanness is nothing but a weakness born of fear and egoism; that this chimerical virtue, enslaving only weak men, is unknown to those whose character is formed by stoicism, courage, and philosophy.

  Marquis de Sade

  Philosophy, Character, Simple

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• Ah, beer, my one weakness. My Achille's heel, if you will.

  Homer

  Beer, Achilles, Ifs

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• My greatest strength is that I have no weaknesses.

  John McEnroe

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• Death's a fierce meadowlark: but to die having made / Something more equal to the centuries / Than muscle and bone, is mostly to shed weakness.

  Robinson Jeffers

  Fierce, Bones, Century

  Robinson Jeffers, Tim Hunt (2001). “The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers”, p.20, Stanford University Press

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