Weakness Quotes

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A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above… — Freya Stark
Though the desire of fame be the last weakness Wise men put off. — Philip Massinger
Sometimes our weakness is considered strength, and we take delight in borrowed greatness. — Meher Baba
Weakness is oftentimes so palpable as to be equivalent to wickedness. — George Sand
Weaknesses, so called, are nothing more nor less than vice in disguise! — Johann Kaspar Lavater
A woman friend! He that believes that weakness, Steers in a stormy night without a compass. — John Fletcher
Let our weakness be what it will, mankind will still be weaker; and whilst there is a world, 'tis woman that will govern it. — John Vanbrugh
Finishing a painting demands a heart of steel: everything requires a decision, and I find difficulties where I least expect them... It is at such… — Eugene Delacroix
Man seems merely dust postponed: the sublime as an encounter - pleasurable, intoxicating, even - with human weakness in the face of strength, age and… — Alain de Botton
With our progress we have destroyed our only weapon against tedium: that rare weakness we call imagination. — Oriana Fallaci
In such a world as this, with such hearts as ours, weakness is wickedness in the long run. Whoever lets himself be shaped and guided… — Alexander MacLaren
If people see your weaknesses they will take advantage of them. — Ivana Trump
Practice by drawing things large, as if equal in representation and reality. In small drawings every large weakness is easily hidden; in the large, the… — Leon Battista Alberti
The strength of man sinks in the hour of trial; but there doth live a Power that to the battle girdeth the weak. — Joanna Baillie
Power is always right, weakness always wrong. Power is always insolent and despotic. — Noah Webster
We may not be weaklings because we have a strong enemy. — Hugh Latimer
Remember, what may appear to be the source of one's strength can often also be the source of one's weakness. — Chin-Ning Chu
The weak may be joked out of anything but their weakness. — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
A super-legislator body is not what the court was intended to be, When I ponder our country and its greatness, its weakness, its potential, my… — Tom Coburn
No one listens willingly to someone who speaks to them from a position of self-righteousness and judgment. Again and again in the Gospels, Jesus reserves… — Pope Francis

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