Weakness Quotes
2217 Weakness quotes by 1464 unique authors
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A woman friend! He that believes that weakness, Steers in a stormy night without a compass.
— John Fletcher
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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
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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
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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
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With our progress we have destroyed our only weapon against tedium: that rare weakness we call imagination.
— Oriana Fallaci
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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
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If people see your weaknesses they will take advantage of them.
— Ivana Trump
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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
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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
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Power is always right, weakness always wrong. Power is always insolent and despotic.
— Noah Webster
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We may not be weaklings because we have a strong enemy.
— Hugh Latimer
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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
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The weak may be joked out of anything but their weakness.
— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
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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
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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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Emphasize strengths, don't fix weaknesses.
— Tim Ferriss
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One of the weaknesses of much abstract painting is the attempt to substitute the inventions of the intellect for a pristine imaginative conception. The inner…
— Edward Hopper
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Never once have Democrats benefited from attempts at reasonableness and compromise and accommodation. To the contrary, Bush and his team seem to view political compromise…
— Jim Jordan
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Belief may be a regrettably unavoidable biological weakness to be kept under the control of criticism: but commitment is for Popper an outright crime.
— Imre Lakatos
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Today's announcement projects a picture of profound weakness in U.S. diplomacy. It should not have been a heavy lift for our diplomats in New York…
— Tom Lantos
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Bad companies are destroyed by crisis. Good companies survive them. Great individuals, like great companies, find a way to transform weakness into strength.
— Ryan Holiday
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I've never found therapy to be a sign of weakness; I've found the opposite to be true. The willingness to have a mirror held up…
— Brooke Shields
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Instead of the vast organization to exploit the weakness of the Many, should we not possess one for the exploitation of the intelligence of the…
— Wyndham Lewis
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Amiability is very often a weakness, but the most unobjectionable one as a rule.
— Sydney, Lady Morgan
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In ways and thoughts of weakness and of wrong, Threads turn to cords, and cords to cables strong.
— Isaac Williams
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