Weakness Quotes - Page 36

• People see weakness in a woman and they want to help. They see weakness in a man and they want to stamp it out

  Norah Vincent

  Men, People, Want

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• Power is always right, weakness always wrong. Power is always insolent and despotic.

  Noah Webster

  Power, Always Wrong, Insolent

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• No one listens willingly to someone who speaks to them from a position of self-righteousness and judgment. Again and again in the Gospels, Jesus reserves his harshest words for those who ignore their own weakness in order to lord it over others.

  Pope Francis

  Jesus, Order, Self

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• Emphasize strengths, don't fix weaknesses.

  Tim Ferriss

  Work

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• Never once have Democrats benefited from attempts at reasonableness and compromise and accommodation. To the contrary, Bush and his team seem to view political compromise as weakness, and they punish it rather than reward or reciprocate it.

  Jim Jordan

  Team, Views, Political

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• I've never found therapy to be a sign of weakness; I've found the opposite to be true. The willingness to have a mirror held up to you definitely requires strength.

  Brooke Shields

  Mirrors, Opposites, Up To You

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Instead of the vast organization to exploit the weakness of the Many, should we not possess one for the exploitation of the intelligence of the Few?

  Wyndham Lewis

  Organization, Should, Exploitation

  Wyndham Lewis (1929). “The Diabolical Principle and The Dithyrambic Spectator”, p.91, Ardent Media

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• In ways and thoughts of weakness and of wrong, Threads turn to cords, and cords to cables strong.

  Isaac Williams

  Strong, Way, Habit

  Isaac Williams (1842). “The Baptistery, Or The Way of Eternal Life by the Author of "The Cathedral" [i.e. Isaac Williams]”, p.120

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• Reserve is strength; overstatement is weakness. No one cares to hear the singer's topmost notes when the voice is 'nigh onto breaking.

  John F. Carlson

  Strength, Voice, Care

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• In our thoughts and words we create our own weaknesses and our own strengths.

  Betty Eadie

  Strength, Thoughts And Words, Our Thoughts

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• Why can a man not act himself, be himself, and think for himself? It seems to me that naturalness alone is power; that a borrowed word is weaker than our own weakness, however small we may be.

  Maria Mitchell

  Acceptance, Men, Thinking

  Maria Mitchell (1896). “Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals”

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• Many a humble soul will be amazed to find that the seed it sowed in weakness, in the dust of daily life, has blossomed into immortal flowers under the eye of the Lord.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Flower, Humble, Eye

  Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Beecher STOWE (2016). “Collected Works (Complete and Illustrated Editions: Uncle Tom's Cabin, Queer Little Folks, The Chimney-Corner, ...)”, p.645, Harriet Beecher Stowe

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• One of the most admirable effects of Holy Communion is to preserve the soul from sin, and to help those who fall through weakness to rise again. It is much more profitable, then, to approach this divine Sacrament with love, respect, and confidence, than to remain away through an excess of fear and scrupulosity.

  Ignatius of Loyola

  Christian, Fall, Soul

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• Nothing is more arrogant than the weakness which feels itself supported by power.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Power, Arrogant, Politics

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• The fittest survive. What is meant by the fittest? Not the strongest; not the cleverest - weakness and stupidity everywhere survive. There is no way of determining fitness except in that a thing does survive. 'Fitness,' then, is only another name for 'survival.' Darwinism: That survivors survive.

  Charles Fort

  Names, Stupidity, Survival

  Charles Fort (2016). “The Book of the Damned: The Original Classic of Paranormal Exploration”, p.23, Penguin

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• A library represents the mind of its collector, his fancies and foibles, his strength and weakness, his prejudices and preferences. Particularly is this the case if, to the character of a collector, he adds - or tries to add - the qualities of a student who wishes to know the books and the lives of the men who wrote them. The friendships of his life, the phases of his growth, the vagaries of his mind, all are represented.

  William Osler

  Book, Character, Men

  Sir William Osler, Osler Library (1969). “Bibliotheca Osleriana: A Catalogue of Books Illustrating the History of Medicine and Science”, p.10, McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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• If the creatures with fur/feathers/fins are our brothers in a lower stage of development then their very weakness and inability to protest, demands that man should refrain from torturing them for the mere possibility of obtaining some knowledge which he believes may be to his own interest.

  Luther Burbank

  Brother, Believe, Animal

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• Conversion must mean more than just being a 'card-carrying' member of the church with a tithing receipt, a membership card, a temple recommend, etc. It means to overcome the tendencies to criticize and to strive continually to improve inward weaknesses and not merely the outward appearances.

  Harold B. Lee

  Mean, Church, Overcoming

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• It may well happen that what is in itself the more certain on account of the weakness of our intelligence, which is dazzled by the clearest objects of nature; as the owl is dazzled by the light of the sun. Hence the fact that some happen to doubt about articles of faith is not due to the uncertain nature of the truths, but to the weakness of human intelligence; yet the slenderest knowledge that may be obtained of the highest things is more desirable than the most certain knowledge obtained of lesser things.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Christian, Light, Doubt

  Saint Thomas Aquinas, Catholic Way Publishing (2014). “The Summa Theologica: Complete Edition”, p.59, Catholic Way Publishing

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• I believe in the power of Jesus Christ to resolve any difficulty, to remove any weakness, to heal any disease.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Christian, Jesus, Believe

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• It's not that we ignore our weaknesses; rather, we make our weaknesses irrelevant by working effectively with others so that we compensate for our weaknesses through their strengths and they compensate for their weaknesses through our strengths.

  Stephen Covey

  Motivational, Irrelevant

  Stephen M. R. Covey (2008). “The Speed of Trust: The One Thing that Changes Everything”, p.109, Simon and Schuster

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• Working on a weakness within a strength zone will always produce positive results. Working on a weakness outside of the strength zone will not.

  John C. Maxwell

  Motivational, Results, Produce

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• Well, what is a relationship? It's about two people having tremendous weaknesses and vulnerabilities, like we all do, and one person being able to strengthen the other in their areas of vulnerability, and vice versa. You need each other. You complete each other, passion and romance aside.

  Jane Fonda

  Marriage, Passion, Two

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• When we speak of knowing God, it must be understood with reference to man's limited powers of comprehension. God, as He really is, is far beyond man's imagination, let alone understanding. God has revealed only so much of Himself as our minds can conceive and the weakness of our nature can bear.

  John Milton

  Encouraging, Encouragement, Knowing

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• One of my biggest assets is my ability to focus on something and go out and get it, but it's one of my biggest weaknesses too.

  Daniel Cormier

  Mma, Focus, Assets

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