Weakness Quotes
2217 Weakness quotes by 1464 unique authors
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A man's weaknesses may intrude on his faith but they do not diminish it.
— Robert Ludlum
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Upon reflection, I decided I had three main weaknesses: I was confused (evidenced by a lack of facts, an inability to coordinate my thoughts, and…
— Julia Child
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Let's find and remedy all our weaknesses before our enemies get a chance to say a word. That is what Charles Darwin did. ...When Darwin…
— Dale Carnegie
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Lord, give me firmness without hardness, steadfastness without dogmatism, love without weakness.
— Jim Elliot
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Here I am not the one to throw out. No one steals my warmth and shoes because I am small. No one handles my backside.…
— Toni Morrison
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In order for us to liberate the energy of our strength, our weakness must first have a chance to reveal itself.
— Paulo Coelho
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I lacked the courage to investigate the weaknesses of the wicked, because I discovered they are the same as the weaknesses of the saintly.
— Umberto Eco
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None of us is perfect. There was only one perfect man who ever walked the earth, and He was the Son of God. We all…
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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All through it, I have known myself to be quite undeserving. And yet I have had the weakness, and have still the weakness, to wish…
— Charles Dickens
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On the day when it will be possible for woman to love not in her weakness but in her strength, not to escape herself but…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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Although love could grow in times of peace, it tempered in battle. Daddy told me once - when I'd said something about how perfect his…
— Karen Marie Moning
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It's not that you should never love something so much that it can control you. It's that you need to love something that much so…
— Patrick Ness
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Yes, vanity is a weakness indeed. But pride - where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation.
— Jane Austen
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Every fall into love involves the triumph of hope over self-knowledge. We fall in love hoping we won't find in another what we know is…
— Alain de Botton
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Nor did I need anyone's pity, but I would accept it with grace, because I have been well trained. Rudeness was a sign of weakness.…
— Robin Wasserman
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I guess I felt attached to my weakness. My pain and suffering too. Summer light, the smell of a breeze, the sound of cicadas -…
— Haruki Murakami
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once you laugh at you own weaknesses, you can move forward. Comedy breaks down walls. It opens up people. If you're good, you can fill…
— Goldie Hawn
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...in his gambling, he had one besetting weakness -- faith in a system; and this made his damnation certain.
— Jack London
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Every man finds his limitations, Mr. Holmes, but at least it cures us of the weakness of self-satisfaction.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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If he is infinitely good, what reason should we have to fear him? If he is infinitely wise, what doubts should we have concerning our…
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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The truth was that I could not manage my soul, and I was becoming aware of old age because of my weakness in the face…
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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God uses chronic pain and weakness, along with other afflictions, as his chisel for sculpting our lives. Felt weakness deepens dependence on Christ for strength…
— J I Packer
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As objects of contemplation, images of the atrocious can answer to several different needs. To steel oneself against weakness. To make oneself more numb. To…
— Susan Sontag
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Power was my weakness and my temptation.
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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I locked the door, for what good it would do me, and went to bed. The Browning Hi-Power was in its second home, a modified…
— Laurell K. Hamilton
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