quotations about weakness
That which yields, is not always weak.
JACQUELINE CAREY
Kushiel's Dart
There is power in being weak as long as you work to be strong.
GARRICK BRIDGEFORTH
Words of the Bible Explained
A fear of weakness only strengthens weakness.
CRISS JAMI
Salomé
A strong man cannot help a weaker unless the weaker is willing to be helped, and even then the weak man must become strong of himself; he must, by his own efforts, develop the strength which he admires in another. None but himself can alter his condition.
JAMES ALLEN
As a Man Thinketh
A weak man is often so good that he is good for nothing.
E. P. DAY
Day's Collacon
She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness. It is the feet of clay that make the gold of the image precious.
OSCAR WILDE
The Picture of Dorian Gray
He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
MOLIÈRE
The Misanthrope
The weak are more likely to make the strong weak than the strong are likely to make the weak strong.
MARLENE DIETRICH
"Weakness", Marlene Dietrich's ABC
It is the destiny of the weak to be devoured by the strong.
OTTO VON BISMARCK
attributed, Bismarck and the German Empire
Weakness is a provocation and strength is a deterrence.
JOHN CORNYN
Fox and Friends, April 7, 2017
Earthly weakness is only a cover for who you truly are. Remove this garment in Love, not fear. Your weakness is a reflection of your humanity.
NICKOLAS MARTIN & LINDA M. MARTIN
The Two Voices Within: Balancing the Energies of Ego and Spirit to Enhance Your Life
Men's weaknesses and faults are best known from their enemies.
FRANCIS BACON
The Advancement of Learning
Some weak people are sensible of their weakness and able to make good use of it.
FRANÇOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
Moral Maxims
It is none of our business what a job-seeker's greatest weakness is. It is only a cultural belief that people have weaknesses. What is a weakness, anyway? It's something that you could be better at doing than you are. Of course there will always be millions of things you can't do well -- and so what? What's important is that you know what you are good at.
LIZ RYAN
"Five Interview Questions To Stop Asking -- And Five To Ask Instead", Forbes, March 24, 2017
A man who willingly acknowledges his own weakness is strong in his own way.
KEN LIU
The Grace of Kings
Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. Silently and perceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow and wax strong, we grow and wax weak; and at last some crisis shows us what we have become.
CANON WESTCOTT
The Christian Register, April 17, 1913
Nature is as well adapted to our weakness as to our strength.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
Walden
Acknowledging our moral weakness is a necessary prerequisite to finding God's forgiveness.
DICK TRIPP
Life After Death: Christianity's Hope and Challenge
It is dangerous, at any time, to multiply sources of weakness.
LORD ACTON
letter to Mary Gladstone, June 9, 1880
Weaknesses, so called, are nothing more nor less than vices in disguise.
JOHANN KASPAR LAVATER
attributed, Day's Collacon