Top 1200 Weakness Of Man Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

Despair exaggerates not only our misery but also our weakness.

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

Dee's search for knowledge was always his greatest strength... and his weakness.

The rock is a field of battle between our weakness and our strength.

As the heart is, so is love to the heart. It partakes of its strength or weakness, its health or disease.

To speak impartially, both sayings are very true: that man to man is a kind of God; and that man to man is an arrant wolf. The first is true, if we compare citizens amongst themselves; and the second, if we compare cities.

I've always had a weakness for lost causes once they're really lost.

Usually I write about what I care about, which is a weakness but I think also a strength.

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

My weakness ... is architecture. I think of my work as ephemeral architecture, dedicated to the beauty of the female body.

We're trained from a very young age not to show weakness. And I was very good at that throughout my career.

Being vulnerable, in my opinion, is not a weakness. It's being human. It is allowing yourself to not have all the answers.

You don't have to explain yourself. Let your weakness be yours. Let your strength be everybody's. You understand the principle?

Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason.

More often than not, anger is actually an indication of weakness rather than of strength.

I would say that the study of history is that which gives man the greatest optimism, for if man were not destined by his Maker to go on until the Kingdom of Heaven is attained, man would have been extinguished long ago by reason of all man's mistakes and frailties.

. . . the Christian Mind has succumbed to the secular drift with a degree of weakness unmatched in Christian History.

Like I always say, whatever is my weakness, I try to work on it and I try to get better at it.

A person can perform only from strength. One cannot build performance on weakness, let alone on something one cannot do at all.

Fear is a confession of weakness. What you fear is stronger than you, or you think it is, else you wouldn't be afraid of it.

You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.

Utterance does not in principle mean a weakening of conviction--that would not be anything to be deplored--but a weakness of conviction.

Showing weakness and showing fear and letting people in was a huge part of my comeback.

If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.

It is not a sign of weakness, but a sign of high maturity, to rise to the level of self-criticism.

From youth to middle, and often to past middle, age, most men are apt to be too closely engaged in the struggle of life to pay due attention to the strength of the body. They may take daily what they consider a sufficient amount of exercise; but the exercise is not calculated to keep the various limbs and muscles, still less the internal organs, in proper working order. Amid the ordinary concerns of life the man may appear strong, even stalwart. But when occasion arises for some special muscular exercise, or taxing the action of some organ, he finds out his weakness.

I like the sudden shock of non-sequitur color. Color, in fact, is my weakness.

It's very important to make nuclear deals but you have to make them from strength, not from weakness.

We want peace with all our hearts. But peace cannot be achieved through weakness.

It's important for the coach when you arrive to understand the players and to understand every single player's strength and their weakness.

She rides as a man, goes unveiled as a man, fights as a man. Let her prove herself worthy as a man, worthy of her weapons and of our friendship.

Try to look at your weakness and convert it into your strength. That's success.

Sometimes, my weakness is where the strength really is, and it leads me to depend in the areas where I really should.

The acknowledgment of our weakness is the first step in repairing our loss.

Tolerance and patience should not be read as signs of weakness. They are signs of strength.

I watched them carefully, as always, searching for a sign of mental weakness. But there was none. Every man was coping well with the hardship, each one of them locked into his task. But it is one thing to practice, and quite another to race. And the trouble is, you never know who, on the day, will find it within his soul to give more than he has ever given before. It takes a kind of madness to compete like that, because of the will power and the ego, and his loyalty. And while some men have it, others have yet to find it. And a coach can only use his best judgement as to who those men will be.

People just take your kindness for weakness sometimes, and that's just the bottom line.

Prayer is the sign of your weakness. Rely on your inner strength. You will be the winner.

She remembered me.' This was his worst weakness, his most toxic drug.

Despair puts the last touch not only to our misery but also to our weakness.

In opposition to this detachment, he finds an image of man which contains within itself man's dreams, man's illness, man's redemption from the misery of poverty - poverty which can no longer be for him a sign of the acceptance of life.

The prevailin' weakness of most public men is to Slop Over!.... G. Washington never slopt over.

The wise man admires water, the kind man admires mountains. The wise man moves, the kind man rests. The wise man is happy, the kind man is firm.

When reason ends, then anger begins. Therefore, anger is a sign of weakness.

Remember, what may appear to be the source of one's strength can often also be the source of one's weakness.

If thou wouldst conquer thy weakness, thou must never gratify it.

We Americans... like change. It is at once our weakness and our strength.

Humor is not a sign of weakness. In fact, humor can be your greatest asset in the face of tragedy.

In ways and thoughts of weakness and of wrong, Threads turn to cords, and cords to cables strong.

One is not worthy to have what one, through weakness, lets be taken from him; one is not worthy of it because one is not capable of it.

According to the Stoics, all vice was resolvable into folly: according to the Christian principle, it is all the effect of weakness.

For me, my greatest weakness is also my greatest strength: I'm a complete overthinker about everything.

You have summoned me in my weakness. You must sustain me in your strength.

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

The simple faith in progress is not a conviction belonging to strength, but one belonging to acquiescence and hence to weakness.

Nature attains perfection, but man never does. There is a perfect ant, a perfect bee, but man is perpetually unfinished. He is both an unfinished animal and an unfinished man. It is this incurable unfinishedness which sets man apart from other living things. For, in the attempt to finish himself, man becomes a creator. Moreover, the incurable unfinishedness keeps man perpetually immature, perpetually capable of learning and growing.

My biggest strength is knowing my weaknesses. And my biggest weakness used to be time off.

We need to help young people and their parents understand that it's not a sign of weakness to ask for help.

We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.

Fog is my weakness, and every time there is low fog, I am out and about with my camera.