Best 1190 quotes in «weakness quotes» category

Making use of human weaknesses in intelligence work is a logical matter. It keeps coming up, and of course you try to look at all the aspects that interest you in a human being.

Management is about human beings. Its task is to make people capable of joint performance, to make their strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant.

Man doth not yield him to the angels, nor unto death utterly, save only through the weakness of his feeble will.

Man, if he compare himself with all that he can see, is at the zenith of power; but if he compare himself with all that he can conceive, he is at the nadir of weakness.

Men dissimulate their dearest, most constant, and most virtuous inclination from weakness and a fear of being condemned.

Many a time comes when we want to interpret our weakness and cowardice as forgiveness and renunciation.

Many times our weaknesses are extensions of our strengths.

Men are much more unwilling to have their weaknesses and their imperfections known than their crimes.

Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity. [Fr., Les hommes rougissent moins de leur crimes que de leurs faiblesses et de leur vanite.]

Men's weaknesses are often necessary to the purposes of life.

Many people, especially men, feel it is an admission of weakness to ask for help or to express a need. But there is absolutely no shame in needing others.

Math and reading are my only weaknesses - other than that, Im perfect.

Men walk this tightrope where any sign of weakness illicits shame, and so they're afraid to make themselves vulnerable for fear of looking weak.

Ministers who threaten death and destruction employ weapons of weakness. Argument and kindness are alone effectual, flavored by the principles of Divine love.

Most anger stems from feelings of weakness, sadness and fear: hard to remember when one is at the receiving end of its defiant roar.

Mistaking Palestinian military weakness for moral innocence seems to further amplify the inattention of journalists to the culture of lies.

More often than not, anger is actually an indication of weakness rather than of strength.

My greatest strength is the love for my people, my greatest weakness is that I love them too much.

Most people believe vulnerability is weakness. But really vulnerability is Courage. We must ask ourselves...are we willing to show up and be seen.

Motives are symptoms of weakness, and supplements for the deficient energy of the living principle, the law within us. Let them then be reserved for those momentous acts and duties in which the strongest and best-balanced natures must feel themselves deficient, and where humility no less than prudence prescribes deliberation.

My strengths—which are really quite modest—are limited to me, but with my weaknesses the possibilities are boundless.

My lyrics say I have morals, I have confidence, I have weaknesses, I have strong points, that I am a human being.

My music started as a way to break through weaknesses - like anxiety, which was completely taking over my whole life, where I could barely function.

My mom raise me so wonderfully. She gave me self esteem and made me appreciate my flaws, as well as my strengths.

My opinion changes rapidly - one minute I can think it is very good and the next time I look at it, I see all the flaws and weaknesses therein.

My strengths make me contemptuous. My weaknesses make me charitable.

My weaknesses are women in high heels, freedom under siege, and ebay. (Steele)

My weakness is chocolate - especially butterscotch and nut varieties.

My weakness is dark chocolate. I carry little tins of it in my purse.

My weakness, that is, my quadriplegia, is my greatest asset because it forces me into the arms of Christ every single morning when I get up.

My weakness is wearing too much leopard print.

My weakness has always been to prefer the large intention of an unskilful artist to the trivial intention of an accomplished one: in other words, I am more interested in the high ideas of a feeble executant than in the high execution of a feeble thinker.

My weakness is pizza, any form of carbohydrate. I like junk carbohydrates, I like cheap greasy cheeseburgers, quality french fries.

My weakness ... is architecture. I think of my work as ephemeral architecture, dedicated to the beauty of the female body.

Nature reacts not only to physical disease, but also to moral weakness; when the danger increases; she gives us greater courage

Neither is it safe to count upon the weakness of any man's understanding, who is thoroughly possessed of the spirit of revenge to sharpen his invention.

Neutrality, as a lasting principle, is an evidence of weakness.

Never once have Democrats benefited from attempts at reasonableness and compromise and accommodation. To the contrary, Bush and his team seem to view political compromise as weakness, and they punish it rather than reward or reciprocate it.

Never underestimate the power of helplessness!

No man is so much a fool as not to have wit enough sometimes to be a knave; nor any so cunning a knave as not to have the weakness sometimes to play the fool.

No cowardice, no sin, no crime, no weakness - the rest will come of itself. . .

No government can be maintained without the principle of fear as well as duty. Good men will obey the last, but bad ones the former only. If our government ever fails, it will be from this weakness.

No looking back. Life goes one way only, and whatever opinions you hold about the past having nothing to do with anything but your own damn weakness. Nothing changes what already happened. It will always have happened. You either let it break you down or you don't.

No action, whether foul or fair, Is ever done, but it leaves somewhere A record, written by fingers ghostly, As a blessing or a curse, and mostly In the greater weakness or greater strength Of the acts which follow it.

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.

No one in this earthly prison of the body has sufficient strength of his own to press forward with a due degree of watchfulness, and the great majority [of Christians] are kept down with such great weakness that they stagger and halt and even creep on the ground, and so make very slight advances.

No one feels strong when she examines her own weakness. But in facing weakness, you learn how much there is in you, and you find real strength.

Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock the breast, no weakness, no contempt, Dispraise, or blame,-nothing but well and fair, And what may quiet us in a death so noble.

Nothing shows our weakness more than to be so sharp-sighted at spying other men's faults, and so purblind about our own.

Nothing so sharpens the thought process as writing down one's arguments. Weaknesses overlooked in oral discussion become painfully obvious on the written page.