quotations about weakness
Throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people we most despise.
CHARLES DICKENS
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Great Expectations
As my own body ignores my wishes and gives way beneath me, what I now realize is this: much strength lies in our ability to bravely accept weakness, which inevitably comes to us all. It requires so much more bravery and courage to lay down your weapon, turn to those around you and say "Help me. I have nothing left. Will you carry me for a while?" Instead of perpetually fighting, running away from weakness and remaining in denial, there comes a time when it is all the more honorable and courageous to stop, turn, and fully embrace your weakness.
SAMUEL WATERS
"Cancer Chronicles: Heroes of Weakness", Falls Church News-Press, February 4, 2016
The devil knows your Achilles' heel and will try to use it.
ELIZABETH SMITH
God Speaks Through Ordinary Things
That which yields, is not always weak.
JACQUELINE CAREY
Kushiel's Dart
If you are honest with yourself, what is your Achilles heel or your greatest weakness? What are your deepest confessions and long held secrets? What is your kryptonite that, when you are around it, you are defenseless even with all your self-restraint and compensations? What are your secrets, confessions, and greatest fears? These taboo areas, even to you, have strong reasons associated with your core life message. From these queries, you can reveal to yourself the two polar opposites that you find yourself moving between throughout life.
AVIVA BOXER
Forget Me Knot: A 5 Step Guide to Tie You to Them
A fear of weakness only strengthens weakness.
CRISS JAMI
Salomé
Weakness is a provocation and strength is a deterrence.
JOHN CORNYN
Fox and Friends, April 7, 2017
A strong man cannot help a weaker unless the weaker is willing to be helped, and even then the weak man must become strong of himself; he must, by his own efforts, develop the strength which he admires in another. None but himself can alter his condition.
JAMES ALLEN
As a Man Thinketh
Men's weaknesses and faults are best known from their enemies.
FRANCIS BACON
The Advancement of Learning
It is the destiny of the weak to be devoured by the strong.
OTTO VON BISMARCK
attributed, Bismarck and the German Empire
Some weak people are sensible of their weakness and able to make good use of it.
FRANÇOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
Moral Maxims
The weak are more likely to make the strong weak than the strong are likely to make the weak strong.
MARLENE DIETRICH
"Weakness", Marlene Dietrich's ABC
Earthly weakness is only a cover for who you truly are. Remove this garment in Love, not fear. Your weakness is a reflection of your humanity.
NICKOLAS MARTIN & LINDA M. MARTIN
The Two Voices Within: Balancing the Energies of Ego and Spirit to Enhance Your Life
Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. Silently and perceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow and wax strong, we grow and wax weak; and at last some crisis shows us what we have become.
CANON WESTCOTT
The Christian Register, April 17, 1913
A man who willingly acknowledges his own weakness is strong in his own way.
KEN LIU
The Grace of Kings
It is dangerous, at any time, to multiply sources of weakness.
LORD ACTON
letter to Mary Gladstone, June 9, 1880
Nature is as well adapted to our weakness as to our strength.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
Walden
It is none of our business what a job-seeker's greatest weakness is. It is only a cultural belief that people have weaknesses. What is a weakness, anyway? It's something that you could be better at doing than you are. Of course there will always be millions of things you can't do well -- and so what? What's important is that you know what you are good at.
LIZ RYAN
"Five Interview Questions To Stop Asking -- And Five To Ask Instead", Forbes, March 24, 2017
Acknowledging our moral weakness is a necessary prerequisite to finding God's forgiveness.
DICK TRIPP
Life After Death: Christianity's Hope and Challenge
Anything cracked will shatter at a touch.
OVID
The Poems of Exile: Tristia and the Black Sea Letters