Weakness Of Character Quotes:

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Attitude, Ambition, My Attitude, Inspirational Character

Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

topic: Inspirational, Character, Weakness, Weakness Of Character, Defects Of Character

There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power.

- Washington Irving

topic: Tears, Weakness, Mark, Hurt My Feelings, Hurt Feelings

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Success, About Success, Mediocre Minds

Boredom is a sign of satisfied ignorance, blunted apprehension, crass sympathies, dull understanding, feeble powers of attention, and irreclaimable weakness of character.

- James Bridie

source: James Bridie, Association for Scottish Literary Studies (2007). “The devil to stage: five plays”, Association for Scottish Literary Studies (ASLS)

topic: Ignorance, Character, Boredom, Weakness Of Character, Crass

True character stands the test of emergencies. Do not be mistaken, it is weakness from which the awakening is rude.

- Napoleon Bonaparte

source: "Napoleon : In His Own Words" edited by Jules Bertaut, translated by Herbert Edward Law and Charles Lincoln Rhodes, (Ch. II), 1916.

topic: Character, Rude, Weakness, Weakness Of Character, True Character

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Inspirational, Leadership, Clever, Innovation And Leadership, Too Much Power

It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not.

- Jonathan Swift

topic: Men, Gold, Veins, Weakness Of Character

Both gentleness and meekness are born of power, not weakness. There is a pseudo-gentlene ss that is effeminate, and there is a pseudo-meekness that is cowardly. But a Christian is to be gentle and meek because those are Godlike virtues... We should never be afraid, therefore, that the gentleness of the Spirit means weakness of character. It takes strength, God's strength, to be truly gentle.

- Jerry Bridges

topic: Christian, Character, Mean, Weakness Of Character, Meekness

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

- Mahatma Gandhi

topic: Inspirational, Spiritual, Prayer, Prayer Changes Things, Spiritual Soul

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Witty, Creativity, Science, Creative People, Funny Sarcastic

It is a strength of character to acknowledge our failings and our strong points, and it is a weakness of character not to remain in harmony with both the good and the bad that is within us.

- Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

topic: Strength, Strong, Character, Weakness Of Character

I always thought fainting showed an inherent weakness of character, but I understood it now. It was an act of self-preservation. Confronted by emotion too extreme to handle, the body shuts down to keep from running around like a chicken with its head cut off, potentially injuring itself.

- Karen Marie Moning

source: Karen Marie Moning (2011). “Shadowfever: Fever Series”, p.171, Delacorte Press

topic: Running, Character, Cutting, Weakness Of Character, Fainting

This curious faith is predicated on the notion that we will soon develop unlimited new sources of energy: domestic oil fields, shale oil, gasified coal, nuclear power, solar energy, and so on. This is fantastical because the basic cause of the energy crisis is not scarcity: it is moral ignorance and weakness of character. We don't know how to use energy or what to use it for. And we cannot restrain ourselves. Our time is characterized as much by the abuse and waste of human energy as it is by the abuse and waste of fossil fuel energy.

- Wendell Berry

source: Wendell Berry (2015). “The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture”, p.20, Counterpoint

topic: Ignorance, Character, Oil, Solar Energy, Oil Field

One is apt to think of moral failure as due to weakness of character: more often it is due to an inadequate ideal.

- Richard Livingstone

source: Richard Livingstone (2013). “On Education”, p.153, Cambridge University Press

topic: Character, Thinking, Weakness, Moral Failure, Weakness Of Character

Weaknesses of character are normally shown in a game of chess.

- Garry Kasparov

topic: Character, Games, Weakness, Weakness Of Character

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Love, Life, Motivational, Coexist, Religious Life

Women's strong qualities have become despised because of their weakness. The obvious remedy is to create a feminine character with all the strength of Superman plus all the allure of a good and beautiful woman.

- William Moulton Marston

source: "The Secret History of Wonder Woman". Book by Jill Lepore, 2014.

topic: Beautiful, Strong Women, Character, Weakness Of Character, Despised

In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

- John Bunyan

topic: Prayer, Heart, Worship, Prayer Changes Things, Inspirational Prayer