Weakness Quotes - Page 31

• Men walk this tightrope where any sign of weakness illicits shame, and so they're afraid to make themselves vulnerable for fear of looking weak.

  Brené Brown

  Men, Vulnerable, Shame

  "Listen in on the Conversation About Taking the Amour Off and Getting Naked". Interview with Rebecca Clare, goodmenproject.com. July 01, 2015.

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• To be acceptable is for one to ignore his weakness while knowing his strength, to cover the scar even though it's always there, however, to be impossible is for one to see his weakness as, not an adversary, but the cherry on top of his strength, to rearrange the scar so that it compliments his features.

  Criss Jami

  Knowing, Impossible, Scar

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.128, Criss Jami

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• It's more important to know your weaknesses than your strengths.

  Ray L. Hunt

  Important, Knows

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• When the conversation turns too quickly to films,I see it as a sign of weakness.

  Herman Koch

  Film, Conversation, Turns

  Herman Koch (2012). “The Dinner”, p.42, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I'm no expert. I have no psychic powers, and I sure don't possess any secret wisdom. I'm just Janet. I have strengths, weaknesses, fears, happiness, sadness. I experience joy and I experience pain. I'm highly emotional. I'm very vulnerable.

  Janet Jackson

  Pain, Sadness, Emotional

  Janet Jackson (2011). “True You”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• I think publishing's strength is also its weakness. It's got such a rich and celebrated history as an industry. For the most part, publishing people are incredibly creative, business is done based on the strength of relationships, and the product being peddled is books.

  Jennifer Gilmore

  Book, Thinking, People

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• I would be surprised to see the White House scaling back on anything. That would be an admission they are operating from a position of weakness.

  Rich Galen

  White, House, Would Be

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• I think the way I look at things gives me a different perspective. I'm most valuable when I work with a team of bright people who complement my weaknesses with their strengths.

  Craig McCaw

  Team, Thinking, People

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• I'm constantly watching people. Watching their strengths and weaknesses. I find myself going into theater less and less, let alone horror. I gave that up when I was seven or eight years old.

  Jonathan Frid

  Eight, Years, People

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• It should be the aim of grand strategy to discover and pierce the Achilles' heel of the opposing government's power to make war. Strategy, in turn, should seek to penetrate a joint in the harness of the opposing forces. To apply one's strength where the opponent is strong weakens oneself disproportionately to the effect attained. To strike with strong effect, one must strike at weakness.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Strong, Military, War

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• Grief is not a disorder, a disease or sign of weakness. It is an emotional, physical and spiritual necessity, the price you pay for love. The only cure for grief is to grieve.

  Earl A Grollman

  Love, Inspirational, Death

  Earl A. Grollman (2014). “Straight Talk about Death for Teenagers: How to Cope with Losing Someone You Love”, p.6, Beacon Press

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• Only silence is great; all else is weakness.

  Alfred de Vigny

  Silence, Silence Is

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• Our greatest strengths are our greatest weaknesses.

  Gordon Livingston

  Gordon Livingston (2009). “Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart: Thirty True Things You Need to Know Now”, p.49, Da Capo Press

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• Work is the vessel into which we pour so much of ourselves hope and disappointment, elation and rage, satisfaction and frustration. Yet any damp display of these emotions is seen as weakness.

  Lisa Belkin

  Disappointment, Work, Frustration

  Lisa Belkin (2003). “Life's Work: Confessions of an Unbalanced Mom”, p.105, Simon and Schuster

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• The weaknesses of the many make the leader possible.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Leadership, Leader

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• The Holy Spirit, out of compassion for our weakness, comes to us even when we are impure. And if He finds our intellect truly praying to Him, He enters it and puts to flight the whole array of thoughts and ideas circling within it, and He arouses it to a longing for spiritual prayer.

  Evagrius Ponticus

  Christian, Spiritual, Prayer

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• We often value the exterior and superficial aspect of things more than their inner reality. Bad manners taint everything even justice and reason. The 'how' of things matters most, and even the most disagreeable matters can be sweetened and gilded over with the proper appearance. Such is the bias and the weakness of the human mind.

  Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

  Reality, Justice, Mind

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• Strength is not born from strength. Strength can be born only from weakness. So be glad of your weaknesses now, they are the beginnings of your strength.

  Claire Weekes

  Art, Born, Glad

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• We hardly know an instance of the strength and weakness of human nature so striking and so grotesque as the character of this haughty, vigilant, resolute, sagacious blue-stocking, half Mithridates and half Trissotin, bearing up against a world in arms, with an ounce of poison in one pocket and a quire of bad verses in the other.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Strength, Nature, Character

  "Frederick the Great". Book by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay, p. 90, 1842.

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• Creative people often feel highs of joy and lows of sorrow that others may never experience, and perhaps could not even handle if they did. Little wonder many outside the creative world mistake (or dismiss) eccentric responses of the spirit as weakness or mental illness. But in the end, these dismissive souls will never know what it is to be moved by tears by the beauty of rose or brought to joy by sunlight filtering through the leaves of spring or autumn. The creative walk in glades invisible to those outside their realms.

  Duncan Long

  Mistake, Spring, Creativity

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• The great lesson of history for us is that strength and resolve bring peace and order, and weakness and vacillation invite chaos and conflict.

  Rick Perry

  Order, Lessons, Chaos

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• If someone mistakes your kindness for weakness, that's their fault - not yours. And it's OK to be a decent human being in this life.

  Jeremy Piven

  Kindness, Mistake, Faults

  Source: www.complex.com

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• It is good to be often reminded of the inconsistency of human nature, and to learn to look without wonder or disgust on the weaknesses which are found in the strongest minds.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Humanity, Mind, Looks

  "Warren Hastings". Book by Thomas B. Macaulay, 1851.

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• The weakness of their reasoning faculty also explains why women show more sympathy for the unfortunate than men;... and why, on the contrary, they are inferior to men as regards justice, and less honourable and conscientious.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Women, Justice, Faculty

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• There are highly gifted spirits who are always infertile simply because, owing to a weakness in temperament, they are too impatient to wait out their pregnancy to term.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Pregnancy, Waiting, Owing

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