Weakness Quotes - Page 37

• There is a certain cowardice, a certain weakness, rather, among respectable folk. Only brigands are convinced-of what? That they must succeed. And so they do succeed.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Inspirational, Succeed, Cowardice

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• A fighter, a real strong fighter should always look dignified and calm and I believe that any expression of aggression is an expression of weakness. A strong person will not be nervous and will not express aggression towards his opponent. He will be confident in his abilities and his training, then he will face the fight calm and balanced.

  Fedor Emelianenko

  Strong, Real, Believe

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• No more gods, no more faith, no more timid holding back. Let us blast out of our old forms, our ignorance, our weakness, and our mortality. The future belongs to posthumanity.

  Max More

  Ignorance, Mortality, Holding Back

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• Strength must build up, not destroy. It should outdo itself, not others who are weaker. Used without responsibility, it causes nothing but harm and death. I can lift the heaviest weights, but I can not take the responsibility off my shoulders. Because the way we use our strength defines our fate. What traces will I leave on my path into the future? Do we really have to kill in order to live? My true strength lies in not seeing weakness as weakness. My strength needs no victims. My strength is my compassion.

  Patrik Baboumian

  Lying, Responsibility, Fate

  "Patrik Baboumian: My strength needs no victims. My strength is my compassion". www.riseofthevegan.com. January 12, 2016.

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• If you create and market a product or service through a business that is in alignment with your personality, capitalizes on your history, incorporates your experiences, harnesses your talents, optimizes your strengths, complements your weaknesses, honors your life's purpose, and moves you towards the conquest of your own fears, there is ABSOLUTELY NO WAY that anyone in this or any other universe can offer the same value that you do!

  Walt F. J. Goodridge

  Moving, Personality, Honor

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• Any belief system that is based on fear, encourages weakness, sanctions intolerance threatens vengeance, promotes passivity and requires you to relinquish your personal power is doing you a disservice.

  Walt F. J. Goodridge

  Doing You, Belief, Vengeance

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• Our practical choice is not between a tax-cut deficit and a budgetary surplus. It is between two kinds of deficits: a chronic deficit of inertia, as the unwanted result of inadequate revenues and a restricted economy; or a temporary deficit of transition, resulting from a tax cut designed to boost the economy, increase tax revenues, and achieve -- and I believe this can be done -- a budget surplus. The first type of deficit is a sign of waste and weakness; the second reflects an investment in the future.

  John F. Kennedy

  Believe, Cutting, Two

  Address to the Economic Club of New York, delivered 14 December 1962, Waldorf Astoria Hotel, New York

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• It is weakness which makes us hate an enemy and seek revenge, and it is idleness that pacifies us and causes us to neglect it.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Revenge, Hate, Enemy

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• When men do wrong, it is out of hardness; when women do wrong, it is out of weakness.

  Madame de Stael

  Men, Hardness

  "Corinne, or Italy". Book by Madame de Stael, 1807.

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• The great have private feelings of their own, to which the interests of humanity and justice must curtsy. Their interests are so far from being the same as those of the community, that they are in direct and necessary opposition to them; their power is at the expense of OUR weakness; their riches of OUR poverty; their pride of OUR degradation; their splendour of OUR wretchedness; their tyranny of OUR servitude.

  William Hazlitt

  Pride, Justice, Community

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.411, Delphi Classics

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• Self-projection is, more often than not, the move of the minor craftsman, of the tactics of the hour whose inherent weakness is, precisely, that of originality.

  George Steiner

  Moving, Self, Tactics

  George Steiner (1991). “Real Presences”, p.170, University of Chicago Press

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• One thing about beginning writers is that they don't really always know their own strengths and weaknesses - you might think you're bad at characterization, but that might really be because of some issue you're having with another element, which is making it hard for you to express character in a convincing way.

  Jeff VanderMeer

  Character, Thinking, Issues

  Source: www.barnesandnoble.com

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• I think that a good person can sometimes do wrong out of ignorance or weakness or wrong thinking, but when hard times come, the goodness wins out after all. And a bad person can often seem good and trustworthy for a long time, but when hard times come, the evil in him gets revealed.

  Orson Scott Card

  Ignorance, Hard Times, Winning

  Orson Scott Card (1996). “Alvin Journeyman: The Tales of Alvin Maker”, p.236, Macmillan

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• Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character; it becomes lack of power to act with courage proportionate to danger. All this must lead to the destruction of our intellectual life unless the danger summons up strong personalities able to fill the lukewarm and discouraged with new strength and resolution.

  Albert Einstein

  Strong, Attitude, Character

  Speech made in honor of Thomas Mann, January 1939.

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• The world is full of vulgar Purists, who bring discredit on all selection by the silliness of their choice; and this the more, because the very becoming a Purist is commonly indicative of some slight degree of weakness, readiness to be offended, or narrowness of understanding of the ends of things.

  John Ruskin

  Choices, Understanding, Degrees

  John Ruskin (1867). “The Stones of Venice”, p.195

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• Man is an evasive beast, given to cultivating strange notions about himself. He is humiliated by his simian ancestry, and tries to deny his animal nature, to persuade himself that he is not limited by its weaknesses nor concerned in its fate. And this impulse may be harmless, when it is genuine. But what are we to say when we see the formulas of heroic self-deception made use of by unheroic self-indulgence?

  Upton Sinclair

  Fate, Animal, Men

  "The Profits of Religion : An Essay in Economic Interpretation". Book by Upton Sinclair, Introductory, "Bootstrap-lifting", 1918.

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• I am a strange compound of weakness and resolution! However, if I must suffer, I will endeavour to suffer in silence. There is certainly a great defect in my mind my wayward heart creates its own misery Why I am made thus I cannot tell; and, till I can form some idea of the whole of my existence, I must be content to weep and dance like a child long for a toy, and be tired of it as soon as I get it.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Children, Tired, Heart

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• Prophecy and prescience - How can they be put to the test in the face of unanswered questions? Consider: How much is actual prediction and how much is the prophet shaping the future to fit the prophecy? What are the harmonics inherent in the act of prophecy? Does the prophet see the future or does he see a line of weakness, a fault or cleavage that he may shatter with words or decisions as a diamond-cutter shatters his gem with a blow of the knife?

  Frank Herbert

  Blow, Knives, Decision

  "Dune: The Gateway Collection". Book by Frank Herbert, 2012.

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• I love my enemies for two reasons: they inspire me to recognise my weakness. They also inspire me to perfect my imperfect nature.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Two, Perfect, Inspire

  "Meditations: Food For The Soul (June 23)". Book by Sri Chinmoy, 1971.

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• The essential characteristic of the first half of the twentieth century is the growing weakness, and almost the disappearance, of the idea of value.

  Simone Weil

  Ideas, Firsts, Essentials

  Simone Weil (1977). “The Simone Weil Reader”

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• Soft things are terrifying. They're the real signals of death. Images of strength can never be that terrifying. It's the images of weakness that are a real apocalypse.

  Jenny Hval

  Real, Apocalypse, Signals

  "Jenny Hval's Soft Dick Rock". Interview with Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. June 15, 2015.

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• Organizations exist to make people's strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant. And this is the work of effective leaders.

  Frances Hesselbein

  Motivational, Organization, People

  Frances Hesselbein (2002). “Hesselbein on Leadership”, p.79, John Wiley & Sons

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• Let us learn how the love of Christ, received into the heart, triumphs gradually but surely over all sin, transforms character, turning even its weakness into strength, and so, from the depths of transgression and the very gates of hell, raises men to God.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Heart, Character, Men

  Alexander Maclaren (1873). “Sermons preached in Manchester”, p.76

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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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• 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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