quotations about weakness
Sometimes being weak is the strongest thing that one can do.
ERICA RUCKER
"On depression and Politics", LEO Weekly, November 23, 2016
A weak man is often so good that he is good for nothing.
E. P. DAY
Day's Collacon
A fear of weakness only strengthens weakness.
CRISS JAMI
Salomé
The devil knows your Achilles' heel and will try to use it.
ELIZABETH SMITH
God Speaks Through Ordinary Things
I think people are really driven by wanting to be cool. And it just depends on what their definition of cool is, but usually it includes "not being weak," and usually not being weak is defined as not liking things that ladies like.
AIMEE MANN
"The Simple Fix: Aimee Mann on Laughing Through Melancholy", Consequence of Sound, March 22, 2017
That which yields, is not always weak.
JACQUELINE CAREY
Kushiel's Dart
It is dangerous, at any time, to multiply sources of weakness.
LORD ACTON
letter to Mary Gladstone, June 9, 1880
Weakness is a provocation and strength is a deterrence.
JOHN CORNYN
Fox and Friends, April 7, 2017
Men's weaknesses and faults are best known from their enemies.
FRANCIS BACON
The Advancement of Learning
He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
MOLIÈRE
The Misanthrope
Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. Silently and perceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow and wax strong, we grow and wax weak; and at last some crisis shows us what we have become.
CANON WESTCOTT
The Christian Register, April 17, 1913
A strong man cannot help a weaker unless the weaker is willing to be helped, and even then the weak man must become strong of himself; he must, by his own efforts, develop the strength which he admires in another. None but himself can alter his condition.
JAMES ALLEN
As a Man Thinketh
No Achilles' heel ever toughened by itself. It just gets more and more vulnerable.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
letter to "Scottina" Fitzgerald, June 12, 1940
God's weakness is stronger than human strength.
MICHAEL P. KNOWLES
Of Seeds and the People of God
A man who willingly acknowledges his own weakness is strong in his own way.
KEN LIU
The Grace of Kings
As long as I fear my weakness, I am stronger than when I trust my strength.
IVAN PANIN
Thoughts
It is none of our business what a job-seeker's greatest weakness is. It is only a cultural belief that people have weaknesses. What is a weakness, anyway? It's something that you could be better at doing than you are. Of course there will always be millions of things you can't do well -- and so what? What's important is that you know what you are good at.
LIZ RYAN
"Five Interview Questions To Stop Asking -- And Five To Ask Instead", Forbes, March 24, 2017
Some weak people are sensible of their weakness and able to make good use of it.
FRANÇOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
Moral Maxims
Anything cracked will shatter at a touch.
OVID
The Poems of Exile: Tristia and the Black Sea Letters
Weaknesses, so called, are nothing more nor less than vices in disguise.
JOHANN KASPAR LAVATER
attributed, Day's Collacon