Quotes and Sayings About Weakness
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Humility is not weakness, but strength under control
-- A. R. Bernard -
I think that maybe that's my weakness, in that I don't know how to do it, so I just do what I do and try to do it as passionately and as well as I can.
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We fear our highest possibilities. We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments, under conditions of great courage. We enjoy and even thrill to godlike possibilities we see in ourselves in such peak moments. And yet we simultaneously shiver with weakness, awe, and fear before these very same possibilities.
-- Abraham Maslow -
You are right, but the weakness does not come from the millions of Muslims in the world. They do not mind being radical, they have no fear to speak out and to protest and to jihad.
-- Abu Bakar BashirSource : "'We Should Not Fear Being Called Radical'". Interview with Farish A. Noor, theseoultimes.com.
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I have not come into this world to make men better, but to make use of their weaknesses.
-- Adolf Hitler -
The story of the fifth century was one of the exploitation of imperial weakness. Thus the Western Empire died.
-- Adrian GoldsworthySource : Adrian Goldsworthy (2009). “The Fall Of The West: The Death Of The Roman Superpower”, p.178, Hachette UK
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To rush into explanations is always a sign of weakness.
-- Agatha Christie -
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I think that everyone has something about themselves that they feel is their weakness... their 'disability.' And I'm certain we all have one, because I think of a disability as being anything which undermines our belief and confidence in our own abilities.
-- Aimee Mullins -
My family is my strength and my weakness.
-- Aishwarya Rai Bachchan -
My weaknesses... I wish I could come up with something. I'd probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they're the same thing.
-- Al Pacino -
Do you love me enough that I may be weak with you? Everyone loves strength, but do you love me for my weakness? That is the real test.
-- Alain de BottonSource : Alain de Botton (2006). “On Love: A Novel”, p.134, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
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I love life - that’s my real weakness. I love it so much that I am incapable of imagining what is not life.
-- Albert Camus -
If you do not want the State to act like a criminal, you must disarm it as you would a criminal; you must keep it weak. The State will always be criminal in proportion to its strength; a weak State will always be as criminal as it can be, or dare be, but if it is kept down to the proper limit of weakness - which, by the way, is a vast deal lower limit than people are led to believe - its criminality may be safely got on with.
-- Albert J. Nock -
30. If Will stops and cries Why, invoking Because, then Will stops an does naught. 31. If power asks why, then power is weakness.
-- Aleister Crowley -
The rights of neutrality will only be respected when they are defended by an adequate power. A nation, despicable by its weakness, forfeits even the privilege of being neutral.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
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Heaven forming each on other to depend, A master, or a servant, or a friend, Bids each on other for assistance call, Till one man's weakness grows the strength of all.
-- Alexander Pope -
Only silence is great; all else is weakness.
-- Alfred de Vigny -
Children tend to be rather better observers of adults' characters than adults are of children's, because children are so dependent on adults that it is very much in their interest to discover the weaknesses of their elders.
-- Allan BloomSource : Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.315, Simon and Schuster
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These Planned Parenthood women, the Code Pink women, and all of these women have been neutering American men and bringing us to the point of this incredible weakness...We are not going to have our men become subservient.
-- Allen West -
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When dealing with Canadians, it is advantageous to seem to be negotiating from a position of weakness, for when faced with an abject opponent, they become concession-happy and will accede to almost anything.
-- Alleyne FitzHerbert, 1st Baron St Helens -
You know, it's okay to admit a little weakness now and then, Cammie. It won't kill you. In fact, I hear it makes you stronger.
-- Ally Carter -
Prayer is the sign of your weakness. Rely on your inner strength. You will be the winner.
-- Amit Ray -
I know my own weaknesses as a human being, and as a musician, as a singer and as a woman.
-- Amy Grant -
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How can you blame a person for his fears and weaknesses unless you have felt the same and done differently?
-- Amy TanSource : Amy Tan (1992). “The Kitchen God's wife”, Thorndike Pr
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People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
-- Anatole France -
...the West's main weakness remains unchanged: it cannot grasp the fact that it is facing an acceleration in the unfolding of Soviet convergence strategy which is intended to procure the subservience of the West to Moscow under an ultimate Communist World Government.
-- Anatoliy Golitsyn -
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Just make the right estimation of your own strengths and weaknesses, and also that of your opponent.
-- Anatoly Karpov -
A true woman loves a strong man because she knows his weaknesses. She protects as much as she is protected.
-- Andre MauroisSource : "The Art of Living". Book by Andre Maurois, 1939.