quotations about weakness
At first it seems a dreadful thing to place a gentle and sensitive nature in contact, in familiarity, and even under the rule of coarse and strong buoyant natures. Nor should this be in general attempted. The certain result is present suffering, and the expected good is remote and disputable. Nevertheless, it is no artificial difficulty which we here encounter--none which we can hope by educational contrivances to meet or vanquish. The difficulty is in truth the existence of the world. It is the fact, that by the constitution of society the bold, the vigorous, and the buoyant, rise and rule; and that the weak, the shrinking, and the timid, fall and serve.
WALTER BAGEHOT
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Literary Studies
We always weaken whatever we exaggerate.
JEAN-FRANÇOIS DE LA HARPE
Mélanie
And yet I wasn't sure what his weakness was. We all do that as we get to know someone. Like a tabloid editor, we search for both greatness and weakness, jotting down notes in our heads for future exploitation. We are never comfortable with those who have no visible flaw.
WAYNE ELISE
The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists
Strength alone knows conflict; weakness is below even defeat, and is born vanquished.
MADAME SWETCHINE
"Airelles", The Writings of Madame Swetchine
The basest person is capable of perceiving the weaknesses of the greatest, the most stupid, the errors in the thought of the most intelligent.
THEODOR W. ADORNO
Minima Moralia
As one grows weaker one is less susceptible to suffering. There is less hurt because there is less to hurt.
JACK LONDON
The Star Rover
One can overpower ones weakness when the weakness is recognized and similarly one can also develop an edge over competition.
S. RANGANATHAN
"Cichlid fish -- the leader who knows how to overpower weakness", Hans India, April 4, 2017
Now go save your kingdom from the eight-legged monster whose only weakness is popcorn flavored jelly beans!
KRISTINA CURTIN
A Muse with a Story
Your awareness of your weakness is a blessing as it helps you remain humble and keeps you turning to the Savior. The Spirit not only comforts you, but He is also the agent by which the Atonement works a change in your very nature. Then weak things become strong.
HENRY B. EYRING
Deseret News, March 25, 2017
To share your weakness is to make yourself vulnerable; to make yourself vulnerable is to show your strength.
CRISS JAMI
Killosophy
The greater part of this difficulty -- and perhaps the most slippery part of the upper path -- is the temptation to judge ourselves -- to loath ourselves for whatever that "weakness" is that now sits exposed. The act of judging ourselves in times like these seems natural and even necessary if we hope to ever "outgrow" our own limitations as revealed. But this kind of self-laceration is a Trojan horse within whose dark recesses lies hidden a certain fact that, once perceived, frees us from the torment of self-judgment.
GUY FINLEY
The Secret of Your Immortal Self: Key Lessons for Realizing the Divinity Within
Weakness can never be beautiful, either morally or physically: and though the feminine type may possess greater softness and more feeling, it must be active, firm, and healthy, or it cannot be beautiful: the weak mind, distracted by alternations of feeling, and constant craving for help and sympathy from others, cannot at the same time possess that tenderness and unselfish devotion which is the loveliest trait of the female character.
M. MARTELL
attributed, Day's Collacon
There are some that are bold and strong and incessant and energetic and hard, and to these is the world's glory; and some are timid and meek and impotent and cowardly and rejected and obscure.
WALTER BAGEHOT
Literary Studies
I've known people who thought that reaching their potential would come from shoring up their weaknesses. But do you know what happens when you spend all your time working on your weaknesses and never developing your strengths? If you work really hard, you might claw your way all the way to mediocrity! But you'll never get beyond it.
JOHN C. MAXWELL
Leadership Gold
Man's greatest weakness is his love of life.
JOSEPH COLEMAN
Unfinished Work: Unfinished Work: The Struggle to Build an Aging American Workforce
Weak people believe what is forced on them. Strong people what they wish to believe, forcing that to be real.
GENE WOLFE
Shadow & Claw
The weak have one weapon: the errors of those who think they are strong.
GEORGES BIDAULT
London Observer, July 15, 1962
Are you or aren't you convinced that weakness is a man's condition? How can you raise yourself if you haven't fallen first?
CESARE PAVESE
The Devil in the Hills
I am satisfied there is more weakness among men than malice.
H. W. SHAW
attributed, Day's Collacon
When imperialism feels weak, it resorts to brute force.
HUGO CHÁVEZ
speech, January 31, 2005