Weakness Quotes
2217 quotes by 1464 authors
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Every weakness contains within itself a strength.
— Shusaku Endo
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She remembered me.' This was his worst weakness, his most toxic drug.
— Ann Brashares
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A man may be accused of cowardice for fleeing away from all manner of physical dangers but when things supernatural, insubstantial and inexplicable threaten not…
— Susan Hill
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As far as I am concerned, I resign from humanity. I no longer want to be, nor can still be, a man. What should I…
— Emile M. Cioran
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Real leaders are people who “help us overcome the limitations of our own individual laziness and selfishness and weakness and fear and get us to…
— David Foster Wallace
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It was our belief that the love of possessions is a weakness to be overcome. . . . Children must early learn the beauty of…
— Charles Alexander Eastman
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Dearest, your little heart is wounded; think me not cruel because I obey the irresistible law of my strength and weakness; if your dear heart…
— Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
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What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself. What is bad? All that is born of weakness.…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Dee's search for knowledge was always his greatest strength... and his weakness.
— Michael Scott
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The Elders had nothing but contempt for human emotion; they considered it their biggest weakness. Perenelle knew it was humankind's greatest strength.
— Michael Scott
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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…
— Christopher Hitchens
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I stare at him. "You can't risk not winning. Not because of me." Sean doesn't lift his eyes from the counter. "We make our move…
— Maggie Stiefvater
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Past experience told me he could smell my fear; it also told me that the anger accompanying it would pretty much cover the scent. It's…
— Mira Grant
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I must show no fear, no weakness, no doubt.
— George R. R. Martin
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The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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God wants to help us to eventually turn all of our weaknesses into strengths,1 but He knows that this is a long-term goal. He wants…
— Dieter F. Uchtdorf
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The scholar's greatest weakness: calling procrastination research.
— Stephen King
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With regard to power, women don’t have the vanity men have. They don’t need to make power visible, they only want the power to give…
— Jo Nesbo
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The women we really love are the women who complete us, who have the qualities we can borrow and so become something nearer to whole…
— Robertson Davies
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Don't wish to be normal. Wish to be yourself. To the hilt. Find out what you're best at, and develop it, and hopscotch your weaknesses.…
— Lois McMaster Bujold
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