Best 1190 quotes in «weakness quotes» category

I had seen how in an instant, those you called friends could suddenly become tormentors, sniffing out a weakness or a difference, turning their own fear of ostracism into a weapon with which they could beat the victim away, afraid that being an outsider, and individual even, was somehow infectious.

I hate myself for loving you and the weakness that it showed. You were just a painted face on a trip down to suicide road.

I have a constitutional weakness in which I am very easily distracted by flashing lights. If there is a TV on in the room, I can't have a conversation with you. I won't eat, I won't sleep, I'll just meld with my couch.

I have also been saddened, though hardly surprised, by the weakness of the EU's reaction to the criminal attack on the Danish embassy in Syria, which seems to have been permitted, if not actively encouraged, by the Syrian regime.

I have a theory and I really believe it. I think your worst weakness can become your greatest single strength.

I have discovered an astonishing truth. God is attracted to weaknesses.

I have not come into this world to make men better, but to make use of their weaknesses.

I kid Fox News, but they may be a little biased. We had an earthquake here on Monday, and they reported that 'the earth's crust was emboldened by Obama's weakness.'

I have worked with countless organizations that exhaust energy adapting to the weaknesses of the leader. I had a leader announce to his/her team the other day that he/she was the smartest person in the room. It perhaps was true, but that is where self-regulation should come in. The days of one genius surrounded by a bunch of worker bees are hopefully done. I know Millennials won't buy into such a scenario.

I have no weakness for shoes. I wear very simple shoes which are pump shoes. It is not one of my weaknesses.

I have tried to show as clearly as possible that the very characteristics and weaknesses of temperament with which we were born...can be transformed into their exact opposites and can therefore produce in us the loveliest of all qualities.

I know my strengths. Painfully aware of the weaknesses. There's many. I love sports. So working towards a common goal, that's exciting to me.

I know it's wrong, but I'm weak.

I'm learning to use others' weaknesses. I don't hammer a man's soft spot constantly, because he may strengthen it. I just save it as a trump up my sleeve for moments when I really need a point.

I learned what my weaknesses were and I went out the next day to turn those weaknesses intro strengths.

I love all my characters. I love their weaknesses and flaws. I feel like they're all my best friends and I adore being with them.

I make my weaknesses my strengths and my stengths stronger.

I'm beating all the weakness out of myself, beating all the give-up out of myself, I'm beating the lack of cardio, I'm beating the lack of confidence - any sign of weakness that's in my heart, I'm getting rid of it

I know what I would do if I were coach. I'd determine our strengths and weaknesses and utilize them. And it's pretty clear what our strength is.

I’m aware of my weaknesses and THE BEAST WITHIN.

I'm really into good nutrition and keeping healthy! That said, I'm also addicted to candy - It's my biggest weakness.

I'm not officially a collector, but I have a strange attraction and a weakness for keys and coins. Old keys and interesting coins.

I'm not impulsive at all - except about buying clothes. That's my biggest weakness.

I'm pretty transparent and have no problem sharing my weaknesses.

I'm so thankful that your mine, your sweetness is my weakness.

In a contest with a weaker party it is more honorable to yield than to force concession. Magnanimity becomes the strong.

I must use these great men's virtues as a cloak for my weakness.

I'm very sensitive in real life. I cannot not cry if someone around me is crying. I will start to cry if someone is crying, even if it's not appropriate. I have that thing in me, a weakness or sensitivity.

In chess, there is only one mistake: over-estimation of your opponent. All else is either bad luck or weakness.

In any situation you can think of, impatience is a source of weakness and fear, while patience represents substance and strength.

Increasingly, the state system has been eroding. Terrorists have exploited this weakness by burrowing into the state system in order to attack it.

In every government on earth is some trace of human weakness, some germ of corruption and degeneracy, which cunning will discover, and wickedness insensibly open, cultivate and improve.

In our thoughts and words we create our own weaknesses and our own strengths.

Ingratitude is always a kind of weakness. I have never known men of ability to be ungrateful.

In most cases, strengths and weaknesses are two sides of the same coin. A strength in one situation is a weakness in another, yet often the person can't switch gears. It's a very subtle thing to talk about strengths and weaknesses because almost always they're the same thing.

In most writers, style is a welcome, an invitation, a letting down of the drawbridge between the artist and the world. Shaw had no time for such ruses. Unlike most of his countrymen, he abominated charm, which he regarded as evidence of chronic temperamental weakness.

In our corrupted state, common weaknesses and defects contribute more towards the reconciling us to one another than all the precepts of the philosophers and divines.

In relations with other nations, there is neither right nor wrong; there is only strength and weakness.

In randori, one must search out the opponent's weaknesses and be ready to attack with all the resources at his disposal the moment the opportunity presents itself, without violating the rules of judo.

Insincerity is always weakness; sincerity even in error is strength.

In short, is American life of the future to be characterized by freedom or by servitude, strength or weakness? The answer must be clear and unequivocal if we are to avoid the pitfalls toward which we are now heading with such certainty. In many respects it is not to be found in any dogma of political philosophy but in those immutable precepts which underlie the Ten Commandments.

Institutions do all the things that are supposed to be bad. They impede personal exploration. They enforce conformity. But they often save us from our weaknesses and give meaning to life.

Instead of the vast organization to exploit the weakness of the Many, should we not possess one for the exploitation of the intelligence of the Few?

Instead, the terrorists see just what they were hoping for, our unity gone, our resolve shaken, our leaders distracted. In short, they see weakness and opportunity.

In the garment trades, on the other hand, the presence of a body of the disfranchised, of the weak and young, undoubtedly contributes to the economic weakness of these trades.

In the final analysis the weakness of Black Power is its failure to see that the black man needs the white man and the white man needs the black man.

Irrespective of how we physiologically are made, even possessing special weaknesses, we can overcome our sins through the Lord.

I personally have a major weakness for guys that use musky smelling cologne.

In this world is a God whose matchless strength is a fit contrast to the sordid weakness of man.

In ways and thoughts of weakness and of wrong, Threads turn to cords, and cords to cables strong.