Best 1190 quotes in «weakness quotes» category

Each of these strategies-get a little better at it, design a support system, use one of your strongest themes to overwhelm your weakness, find a partner, and just stop doing it-can help you as you strive to build your life around your strengths.

Each relationship nurtures a strength or weakness within you.

Even if no command to pray had existed, our very weakness would have suggested it.

Eliminating one weakness is better than adding one strength.

Even to this day it is easier than it ought to be for me to get a rise out of an American by telling him something about himself which is equally true about every human being on the face of the globe. He at once resents this as a disparagement and an assertion on my part that people in other parts of the globe are not like that, and are loftily superior to such weaknesses.

Every age has its temptations, its weaknesses, its dangers. Ours is in the line of the snobbish and the sordid.

Everybody has to think for himself. A right way for a big man may not be a right way for a small man. A right way for someone who is slow may not be a right way for someone who is quick. Each person must understand his weaknesses and his strengths.

Every day God patiently bears with us, and every day we are tempted to become impatient with our friends, neighbors, and loved ones. And our faults and failures before God are so much more serious than the petty actions of others that tend to irritate us! God calls us to graciously bear with the weaknesses of others, tolerating them and forgiving them even as He has forgiven us.

Every diamond has the ability to shine when there is someone to recognize its good facets and inhibit its flaws.

Even some of our friends, not only here, but in the international community, in Africa as well, were beginning to show weakness and their weakness, did not lend support to us and we found ourselves weak negotiators at various stages.

Empires are not brought down by outside forces, they are destroyed by weaknesses from within.

Every moment is an invitation to live out of your weakness or to live out of your strength.

Every move creates a weakness.

Everyone has their own weaknesses, for me, I believe it is my speed. I need to train more for that in order to be faster.

Every present anger derives from past weakness.

Filth is always a sign of weakness - in the mouth of the user and in the mind of the writer.

Everything that exists is born for no reason, carries on living through weakness, and dies by accident

For inside all the weakness of old age, the spirit, God knows, is as mercurial as it ever was.

For myself I say deliberately, it is better to have a millstone tied round the neck and be thrown into the sea than to share the enterprises of those to whom the world has turned, and will turn, because they minister to its weaknesses and cover up the awful realities which it shudders to look at.

For the Divine Being cannot be declared as it exists: but as we who are fettered in the flesh were able to listen, so the prophets spake to us; the Lord savingly accommodating Himself to the weakness of men.

Friendship doesn't have anything to do with shoring up weakness. It has to do with respect and consideration for those you care about. It has to do with wanting to give something back to those you admire.

From aquaintances we conceal our real selves. To our friends we reveal our weaknesses.

Fatigue roughens up the edges of your nerves; it exposes your fears and your weaknesses.

Finishing a painting demands a heart of steel: everything requires a decision, and I find difficulties where I least expect them... It is at such moments that one fully realizes one's own weaknesses.

Forgiveness is hard for me, man. It is for most American-Western males. It's a sign of weakness.

God often showcases his power on the stage of human weakness.

God does not need your strength: he has more than enough of power of his own. He asks your weakness: he has none of that himself, and he is longing, therefore, to take your weakness, and use it as the instrument in his own mighty hand. Will you not yield your weakness to him, and receive his strength?

God's word is: 'He who strives never perishes.' I have implicit faith in that promise. Though, therefore, from my weakness I fail a thousand times, I shall not lose faith.

From film to film, I realize my strengths and my weakness, and I realize how much better I get. I learn the lingo, I ask questions and I'm on set trying to figure out which shots they're going to use. For me, it's exploring the art. It's not just making a movie.

God never makes us sensible of our weakness except to give us of His strength.

Golf is said to be an humbling game, but it is surprising how many people are either not aware of their weaknesses of else reckless of consequences.

Great armies are nothing but a collection of weakness.

Going for character: why not now, and where you stand?

Helplessness is a mighty power.

He turns our weaknesses into His opportunities

He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.

Hiding order beneath the cloak of disorder is simply a question of subdivision; concealing courage under a show of timidity presupposes a fund of latent energy; masking strength with weakness is to be effected by tactical dispositions.

High achievers tend to have major weaknesses. People without major weaknesses tend to be mediocre.

How can it be said that the weakness of the human will is aided so as to enable it to aspire effectually to the choice of good, when the fact is, that it must be wholly transformed and renewed?

God uses chronic pain and weakness, along with other afflictions, as his chisel for sculpting our lives.

Great players crave instruction on their weaknesses.

Has he some psychological antipathy to realism? I am no psychologist, and cannot say. The fact remains that Euwe commits the most inexplicable mistakes in thoroughly favorable positions, and that this weakness has consistently tarnished his record.

He [Jimmy Connors] has one weakness. He can never say his opponent played well. That's why it feels good to beat him and that's why other players would rather beat him than any other player.

Here and there, human nature may be great in times of trial, but generally speaking it is its weakness and not its strength that appears in a sick chamber.

How will decent people in the region ever believe in peace if Arab terrorists interpret every gesture of peace as a display of weakness and then act accordingly?

He that can carp in the most eloquent or acute manner at the weakness of the human mind is held by his fellows as almost divine.

How strong sometimes is weakness!

Humility takes a supply of supernatural strength that comes only to those strong enough to admit weakness

Humility is not weakness; it is the epitome of strength. Humility moves a person away from human, personal weakness and limitation into divine expression, strength, and expansion.

Humility is not weakness, but strength under control