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.

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.

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.

Grief never ends, but it changes. It is a passage, not a place to stay. Grief is not a sign of weakness nor a lack of faith: it is the price of love.

You can’t run away from yourself

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

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.

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

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.

Don’t push your weaknesses, play with your strengths.

Great players crave instruction on their weaknesses.

Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.

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.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

Do not be deceived! The busiest people harbor the greatest weariness, their restlessness is weakness–they no longer have the capacity for waiting and idleness.

Grief is not a disorder, a disease or sign of weakness. It is an emotional, physical and spiritual necessity, the price you pay for love. The only cure for grief is to grieve.

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.

If you see the good in others and cover their defects with your love, they will follow you. If you see only weaknesses in others, your spirituality will be ruined.

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

The rights of neutrality will only be respected when they are defended by an adequate power. A nation, despicable by its weakness, forfeits even the privilege of being neutral.

Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength.

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.

All war presupposes human weakness and seeks to exploit it.

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

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

The lawgiver, of all beings, most owes the law allegiance. He of all men should behave as though the law compelled him. But it is the universal weakness of mankind that what we are given to administer we presently imagine we own.

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.

It’s not our weaknesses that frighten us. It’s our strengths.

If you find yourself with a weakness, attack it… don’t develop a technique that avoids your weaknesses.

A multitude of laws in a country is like a great number of physicians, a sign of weakness and malady.

Progress is not possible without discipline. A nation, institution, family or individual can advance only by heeding the words of those who deserve respect and by obeying the appropriate rules and regulations. Children, obedience is not weakness. Obedience with humility leads to discipline.

Jesus understands our weaknesses and sins; and he forgives us if we allow ourselves to be forgiven.