Weakness Quotes
2217 quotes by 1535 authors
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Ambition is not a weakness unless it be disproportioned to the capacity. To have more ambition than ability is to be at once weak and…
— George Stillman Hillard
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Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity, and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents…
— George Bernard Shaw
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Strength alone knows conflict, weakness is born vanquished.
— Sophie Swetchine
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Revenge is always the weak pleasure of a little and narrow mind.
— Juvenal
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When pressure mounts and strain increases everyone begins to show the weaknesses in his makeup. It is up to the Commander to conceal his: above…
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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True spirit of Judo is nothing but the gentle and diligent free spirit. Judo rests on flexible action of mind and body. The word flexible…
— Kyuzo Mifune
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Give us, O God, the vision which can see Your love in the world in spite of human failure. Give us the faith to trust…
— Frank Borman
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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…
— Friedrich Ratzel
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Not to be afflicted is a sign of weakness; for, therefore God imposeth no more on me, because He sees I can bear no more.
— Joseph Hall
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Pride and weakness are Siamese twins.
— James Russell Lowell
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The mother is everything - she is our consolation in sorrow, our hope in misery, and our strength in weakness. She is the source of…
— Khalil Gibran
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Another diversity of Methods is according to the subject or matter which is handled; for there is a great difference in delivery of the Mathematics,…
— Francis Bacon
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The response man has the greatest difficulty in tolerating is pity, especially when he warrants it. Hatred is a tonic, it makes one live, it…
— Honore de Balzac
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Those with a high level of confidence may have as many or more weaknesses than those with low self-esteem. The difference is this; instead of…
— Alan Loy McGinnis
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Precisely in proportion to our own intellectual weakness will be our credulity as to those mysterious powers assumed by others.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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The beautiful seems right by force of beauty and the feeble wrong because of weakness.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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When we feel a strong desire to thrust our advice upon others, it is usually because we suspect their weakness; but we ought rather to…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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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…
— Baruch Spinoza
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Live long enough and all weaknesses will be illuminated, but again perhaps that is not all bad for cannot they then begin to become strengths?
— Rick Bass
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You cannot always run from a weakness. You must sometime fight it out or perish.
— Benjamin Franklin
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