Weakness Quotations

Insincerity is always weakness; sincerity even in error is strength.

My family is my strength and my weakness.

The lesson of the Cuban Missile Crisis is plain: Strength prevents war; weakness invites it. We need a commander-in-chief who understands that - and who won't leave us facing a foe who thinks he doesn't.

My biggest weakness is patience, wanting to see things happen too quickly or get changes in place right away. Not having the patience to let things develop.

To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind.

If there were an election today, Netanyahu would win. Yet, his standing in the polls is also a reflection of the weakness of Ehud Olmert, the current prime minister - who stands at 2 percent in a recent poll - and the enduring weaknesses of the Labor Party.

Sometimes your greatest strength can emerge as a weakness if the context changes.

Try to help others. Consult their weaknesses, relieve their maladies; strive to raise them up, and by so doing you will most effectually raise yourself up also.

I understand now that the vulnerability I've always felt is the greatest strength a person can have. You can't experience life without feeling life. What I've learned is that being vulnerable to somebody you love is not a weakness, it's a strength.

Let no one think that flexibility and a predisposition to compromise is a sign of weakness or a sell-out.

I think that everyone has something about themselves that they feel is their weakness... their 'disability.' And I'm certain we all have one, because I think of a disability as being anything which undermines our belief and confidence in our own abilities.

I think that maybe that's my weakness, in that I don't know how to do it, so I just do what I do and try to do it as passionately and as well as I can.

Beer is the Danish national drink, and the Danish national weakness is another beer.

I feel like we're attracted to paths in life that force us to look at our weaknesses or deficiencies as human beings. Not to get all deep on you, but that's how I feel.

In the garment trades, on the other hand, the presence of a body of the disfranchised, of the weak and young, undoubtedly contributes to the economic weakness of these trades.

I forgive all personal weaknesses except egomania and pretension.

I know my strengths. Painfully aware of the weaknesses. There's many. I love sports. So working towards a common goal, that's exciting to me.

My strength and my weakness are twins in the same womb.

I have a weakness for watches. I have to stop myself buying more.

Peace is purchased from strength. It's not purchased from weakness or unilateral retreats.

Projecting weakness will not make us safer or discourage attacks against us. We need to show leadership and strength by demonstrating that we will not tolerate violent acts against our people, and we will not leave our citizens or our interests vulnerable to an attack.

We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions. We are haunted, not by reality, but by those images we have put in their place.

The art of coalition command - whether it is here in Afghanistan, whether it was in Iraq or in Bosnia or in Haiti - is to take the resources you are provided with, understand what the strengths and weaknesses are and to employ them to the best overall effect.

A great number of the women are victims to falling of the womb and weakness in the spine; but these are necessary results of their laborious existence, and do not belong either to climate or constitution.

I do a lot of planning and plotting. That's my greatest weakness. If I'm not terribly careful, I'll plan to a point where it could come out cut and dried.

Tolerance it a tremendous virtue, but the immediate neighbors of tolerance are apathy and weakness.

You always have certain strengths and certain weaknesses, and you want to compensate for your weaknesses... I have a real duty to earn the trust of the faculty. I don't just deserve it. I have to earn it.

I'm really into good nutrition and keeping healthy! That said, I'm also addicted to candy - It's my biggest weakness.

I believe in discipline, so I'm not the right person to cry about weakness and things like this, but maybe I'm not human.

Human love is often but the encounter of two weaknesses.

I don't have moments of weakness. I'm Rik Mayall.

Strength alone knows conflict, weakness is born vanquished.

Forgiveness is hard for me, man. It is for most American-Western males. It's a sign of weakness.

After so many books and so many years of writing, I have a good idea of my strengths and weaknesses. I love the process of writing and, if I allowed myself, I would write far too much every day. One weakness which I've struggled to overcome is my tendency to having my characters ruminate for pages.

We must take positions. Our weakness in the West is born of the fact of so-called 'objectivity.' Objectivity does not exist - it cannot exist!... The word is a hypocrisy which is sustained by the lie that the truth stays in the middle. No, sir: Sometimes truth stays on one side only.

Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness.

I don't flatter myself with much dependence upon the present disposition of the Eastern Indians, who are many ways liable to be drawn into a rupture with us by the artifices of the French, their own weakness and the influence which the French Missionary Priests have over them.

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

I'm a decent cook, and I will try to cook anything. My only weakness is that I don't know servings - I only know how to make a lot.

My weaknesses... I wish I could come up with something. I'd probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they're the same thing.

All my artistic response comes from American things, and I guess I've always had a weakness for heroic imagery.

Neutrality, as a lasting principle, is an evidence of weakness.

You try to hide your emotions, so as not to show weaknesses to others. I believe it's the same for every sportsman.

Cheese is one of my great weaknesses, I could eat the stuff by the pound.

The dependence of one people upon another, even for the benefits of legislation, is the deepest source of national weakness.

Men walk this tightrope where any sign of weakness illicits shame, and so they're afraid to make themselves vulnerable for fear of looking weak.

My biggest weakness is that I'm excessive. Fortunately for everyone concerned, I'm not as excessive as I used to be.

My weakness, that is, my quadriplegia, is my greatest asset because it forces me into the arms of Christ every single morning when I get up.

All nations are more tolerant of their own mistakes and weaknesses than of the mistakes and weaknesses of others.

There is a price for popularity. Critics look for your weaknesses, your flaws, anything that makes the work seem like a fluke and not seem worthy of all the attention it's getting.

I have also been saddened, though hardly surprised, by the weakness of the EU's reaction to the criminal attack on the Danish embassy in Syria, which seems to have been permitted, if not actively encouraged, by the Syrian regime.

Since others have to tolerate my weaknesses, it is only fair that I should tolerate theirs.

The weakness of ourselves and of our reason makes us see flaws in beauties by making us consider everything piece by piece.

As much as I value an union of all the states, I would not admit the southern states into the union, unless they agreed to the discontinuance of this disgraceful trade, because it would bring weakness and not strength to the union.

I'm pretty transparent and have no problem sharing my weaknesses.

My biggest weakness is my sensitivity. I am too sensitive a person.

If I have a weakness, it's for timepieces - if I see one I like and can afford it, I'll buy it.

We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.

No man is so much a fool as not to have wit enough sometimes to be a knave; nor any so cunning a knave as not to have the weakness sometimes to play the fool

The strength of any weakness within us is the degree to which it is feared.

You know, the whole philosophy of ad hoc combinations has its strengths and its weaknesses.

If human beings are perceived as potentials rather than problems, as possessing strengths instead of weaknesses, as unlimited rather that dull and unresponsive, then they thrive and grow to their capabilities.

Sometimes you have to resist working on your strengths in favour of your weaknesses. The decathlon requires a wide range of skills.

Women are at once the guardians and the well-spring of the world's faith, morality, and tenderness; and if ever they are degraded to a commonplace level with men, this fine essential quality will be impaired, and their weakness will have to beg and follow where now it guides and controls.

The Southerner is usually tolerant of those weaknesses that proceed from innocence.

I started lying about my age when I was 18 to be older. When I turned 21, I started lying that I was 18. It's a weakness in me.

I love all my characters. I love their weaknesses and flaws. I feel like they're all my best friends and I adore being with them.

When a Spanish man cries it's not a sign of weakness

Lest conservatives be too proud, it's worth recalling that conservatism's rise was decisively enabled by liberalism's weakness.

Tomorrow is a satire on today, And shows its weakness.

Just make the right estimation of your own strengths and weaknesses, and also that of your opponent.

I have ever been the queerest mixture of weakness and strength, and have paid heavily for the weakness.

I would be a terrible director, I could never write anything. One of my great strengths is that I know all of my weaknesses.

The beautiful seems right by force of beauty and the feeble wrong because of weakness.

I knuckle down with my demons, and with my weaknesses.

This claustrophobia was the only weakness I had. It's not my fault. It's just in my mind.

A good general always makes you search for his weaknesses.

As women, we all have certain weaknesses. I know one who can't resist pretty shoes but has nothing suitable to wear with them. Others adore frilly lingerie but never have any money to buy outer clothing.

Powerful states can maintain themselves only by crime, little states are virtuous only by weakness.

After an extensive interview he arranged for my weaknesses in foreign languages to be over-looked and so I started a Biology degree at Birmingham in 1967.

The weak are more likely to make the strong weak than the strong are likely to make the weak strong.

I was too kind of brave and proud to want a dialect coach because I thought that showed weakness in my armor. But then you just learn it's a more efficient way of doing it. A dialect coach is really important because it takes a certain technical responsibility off your shoulders.

One of my weaknesses is that I actually have a conscience.

Increasingly, the state system has been eroding. Terrorists have exploited this weakness by burrowing into the state system in order to attack it.

I have a theory and I really believe it. I think your worst weakness can become your greatest single strength.

I want roles without anger and feistiness. I want to show weakness and sadness, some love, some happiness.

Cars, furs, and gems were not my weaknesses.

Friendship is also about liking a person for their failings, their weakness. It's also about mutual help, not about exploitation.

This amateurism however, can sometimes be helpful in forging a style; you have to work around your weaknesses.

Social media's greatest assets - anonymity, 'virality,' interconnectedness - are also its main weaknesses.

It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of their imaginations.

To be loved is a strength. To love is a weakness.

Vulnerability is not weakness. And that myth is profoundly dangerous.

Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm.

Usually that's going into biology in a certain way. There's certain strengths and weaknesses to both of the sexes. And I'm not against employing those nor am I against denying those, what I am looking for is a very large array of options.

To discern what weaknesses and faults separate you from God, you must enter into your own inward ground and then confront yourself.

Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others.

What played to what had been a relative weakness for us-this was exploding overseas as well, and we had to scramble to mount some reach and get into places and be competitive on the ground.

I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.

Weakness is something we don't like to admit we have. We hold it against people, until we experience it, and then we feel more compassion for it.