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.

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.

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.

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

You can’t run away from yourself

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

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.

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 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.

Is it courage in a dying man to go, in weakness and in agony, to affront an almighty and eternal God?

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.

Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage. Truth and courage aren’t always comfortable, but they’re never 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.

The weakness of cable news is that it chases its audience around. Your audience wants fast-paced, popular news. It needs real news. Cable news changes its stripes based on audience reaction. Viewers are reacting well to breaking news? You probably do more breaking news than you need to. The struggle is building something so that people will come to you, as opposed to constantly changing what you are because you’re unsure of where the audience is.

A part of control is learning to correct your weaknesses.

To be conscious of one’s weakness and to trust in God’s help is the way to authentic strength and victory.