quotations about weakness
The cord breaketh at last by the weakest pull.
FRANCIS BACON
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On Seditions
One of the questions that people don't always answer well is the question "What is your greatest weakness?" It's not difficult to see why: it's a question that asks you to reveal something that can (probably will) ruin how you're selling yourself in the interview.
DANIEL OLIVAN
"How to answer the job interview question 'What's your greatest weakness?'", Rappler, July 28, 2016
Step 1 is identifying your Achilles' heel(s). If you can't do this, then you are likely to fall prey to it/them over and over again until you are doomed, your account is at zero, and you are best to give up and try something else.
MICHAEL PARNESS
The Art of Trend Trading: Animal Spirits and Your Path to Profits
Weakness is a powerful tool to make you humble by God. We are weak so we may keep ourselves reminded that we need God.
GARRICK BRIDGEFORTH
Words of the Bible Explained
He lies and his plaintive weakness is exhaled in timid murmurs.
VICTOR SERGE
Anarchists Never Surrender
The weakness of the weak calls out and consecrates the responsibility of the powerful, and it is the response of the powerful that honors the weakness of the weak, and lends power to fulfill the needs of the weak. The hunger of the man I gave money to yesterday was partially served, and made me more human.
GEORGE KUNZ
The Paradox of Power and Weakness
Both liberty and equality are among the primary goals pursued by human beings throughout many centuries; but total liberty for wolves is death to the lambs, total liberty of the powerful, the gifted, is not compatible with the rights to a decent existence of the weak and the less gifted.
ISAIAH BERLIN
The Crooked Timber of Humanity
Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.
ERIC HOFFER
The Passionate State of Mind: And Other Aphorisms
The concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear.
EDMUND BURKE
speech on conciliation with America
"What do you consider to be your biggest weakness?" Most job applicants have encountered this interview question multiple times. They have subsequently become adept at dodging it completely. Usually, this is achieved by dressing up a positive attribute as a "weakness".
CHRIS JAGER
"Killer Interview Question: What Is Your Greatest Weakness That's Not A Secret Strength?", Lifehacker, April 10, 2017
I understand that wish to not be weak, to not have feelings, to not care. I'm no stranger to knowing what it's like to want to be cool and have cool defined as not needing other people or not caring about things. But at a certain point, you have to go, "Well, is that the altar I want to worship at? Is that where I want to plant my flag?" It's also a very weak position, ironically.
AIMEE MANN
"The Simple Fix: Aimee Mann on Laughing Through Melancholy", Consequence of Sound, March 22, 2017
Weakness is superior to strength, since greater strength is superior to strength. When the strong is burnt down by the weak, there is nothing left.
VYASA
The Mahabharata
Neither our strength nor our weakness is taken into the account, but the lone I, like the sun in the heavens, shines out resplendent in all sufficiency. Peace, you unbelieving thoughts--be still and know that the Lord reigns.
CHARLES SPURGEON
3-Minute Devotions with Charles Spurgeon: Inspiring Devotions and Prayers
Our biggest weakness is the weakness we are not aware of.
ANDREW ACKERMAN
"I Know What Your Biggest Weakness Is. Do you?", Alley Watch, February 4, 2016
Never test another man by your own weakness.
JOSEPH CONRAD
Lord Jim
Power was my weakness and my temptation.
J. K. ROWLING
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
At first it seems a dreadful thing to place a gentle and sensitive nature in contact, in familiarity, and even under the rule of coarse and strong buoyant natures. Nor should this be in general attempted. The certain result is present suffering, and the expected good is remote and disputable. Nevertheless, it is no artificial difficulty which we here encounter--none which we can hope by educational contrivances to meet or vanquish. The difficulty is in truth the existence of the world. It is the fact, that by the constitution of society the bold, the vigorous, and the buoyant, rise and rule; and that the weak, the shrinking, and the timid, fall and serve.
WALTER BAGEHOT
Literary Studies
Sometimes, being weak is more beneficial than being too strong. Being strong brings in attack but being weak attracts help. The hard and stiff can be broken, but the soft and flexible will prevail.
JOSHUA CHOON-MIN KANG
"The Secret Contained in the Smallest, Weakest Step", Christianity Today, July 29, 2016
This is because we grow up in a society that tells us that this is an eat-or-be-eaten world. We grow up in a society that tells us that being weak is a sin, and that nobody else is to be blamed for this but yourself. Never mind that the world is already unequal as it is, that some people are already being discriminated on the basis of their race, color, and gender.
DON KEVIN HAPAL
"When the bell rings: My story of getting bullied", Rappler, January 17, 2017
And yet I wasn't sure what his weakness was. We all do that as we get to know someone. Like a tabloid editor, we search for both greatness and weakness, jotting down notes in our heads for future exploitation. We are never comfortable with those who have no visible flaw.
WAYNE ELISE
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