Browsing Topic Best Weakness Quotes

Don’t ever mistake my silence for ignorance, my calmness for acceptance, or my kindness for weakness. Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength.

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

There are two ways of exerting one’s strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.

Success is achieved by developing our strengths, not by eliminating our weaknesses.

My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn that perceived weakness into a strength.

We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face… we must do that which we think we cannot.

Social reforms are never carried out by the weakness of the strong; but always by the strength of the weak.

The truth of the matter is that the end of the American era had come much earlier. The long-term sources of American weakness and decline are more domestic than international… Afghanistan’s ultimate effect on geopolitics is likely to be small.

Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.

You can’t run away from yourself

Great players crave instruction on their weaknesses.

True will is quiet humility, resilience, and flexibility; the other kind of will is weakness disguised by bluster and ambition.

I don’t think there’s anything to be admired in lying, cheating or philandering. But there might be something to be admired in not burning people at the stake because they have those weaknesses.

Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.

Strength that goes wrong is even more dangerous than weakness that goes wrong.

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

Rectitude carried to excess hardens into stiffness; benevolence indulged beyond measure sinks into weakness.

The morality of compromise sounds contradictory.

However, as words become particularized, and as men begin – in however small a way – to use them in personal, arbitrary ways, so their transformation into art begins. It was words of this kind that, descending on me like a swarm of winged insects, seized on my individuality and sought to shut me up within it. Nevertheless, despite the enemy’s depredations upon my person, I turned their universality – at once a weapon and a weakness – back on them, and to some extent succeeded in using words to universalize to my own individuality.

The best revenge against bullies is absolutely, resolutely, never to let them change who you are. Know that whatever bullies say or do – it comes from their weakness, not yours.

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.

The weak can be terrible because they try furiously to appear strong.

The ultimate aim of psychoanalysis is to attribute art to mental weakness, and then to trace the weakness back to the point where, according to analytic dogma, it originated namely, the lavatory.

As long as I fear my weakness, I am stronger than when I trust my strength.

Arbitrary rule has its basis, not in the strength of the state or the chief, but in the moral weakness of the individual, who submits almost without resistance to the domineering power.

The greater the mental charlatan, the more definite his insistence on the wickedness and weaknesses of human nature. Yet how can anyone speak of it today, with every soul in a prison, with every heart fettered, wounded, and maimed?… With human nature caged in a narrow space, whipped daily into submission, how can we speak of its potentialities?

I like to think that it isn’t weakness or evasion, but a final act of kindness, a stand against oblivion and despair.

The real victim of bigotry is the white man who hides his weakness under his myth of superiority.

It is a sad weakness in us, after all, that the thought of a man’s death hallows him anew to us; as if life were not sacred too.

All war presupposes human weakness and seeks to exploit it.

Plainly, this unwillingness to give ground even on unimportant disagreements is the symptom of some deepseated insecurity, as was my one-time fondness for making teasing remarks (which I amended when I read Anthony Powell’s matter-of-fact observation that teasing is an unfailing sign of misery within) and as is my very pronounced impatience. The struggle, therefore, is to try and cultivate the virtuous side of these shortcomings: to be a genial host while only slightly whiffled, for example, or to be witty at the expense of one’s own weaknesses instead of those of other people.

And yet I have had the weakness, and have still the weakness, to wish you to know with what a sudden mastery you kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into fire.

The weakness of most men they do not know how to become a stone or tree.