Weakness Quotes

Planning is really the hallmark of any large military formation, and it's typically a weakness in new formations and new armies.

We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You're always helping people.

It is from a weakness and smallness of mind that men are opinionated; and we are very loath to believe what we are not able to comprehend.

There's a basic human weakness inherent in all people which tempts them to want what they can't have and not want what is readily available to them.

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

The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.

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

Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one's rage; whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them.

Man's biological weakness is the condition of human culture.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

Certain it is that their power increased always in an exact proportion to the weakness of the Caliphate, and, without doubt, in some of the most distracted periods of the Arabian rule, the Hebrew Princes rose into some degree of local and temporary importance.

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

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

If the United States were to cut and run from Iraq, we would send a message of weakness that would embolden our terrorist enemies across the globe. A failed Iraq would destabilize the entire region and undermine U.S. national security for decades to come.

One of the important things about temptation is, if I'm going to deal with it I'm going to have to recognize, this is an area of weakness in my life. I have been tempted here before and before and before.

For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences.

Sometimes a great wound or concussion of the head, especially which happens by falling headlong from an high place, brings a prejudice and weakness to the animal faculty, dulling the understanding.

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

Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.

Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.

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

Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.

Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.

Now the thing is not to get into unnecessary quarrels by talking too much and not to indicate any weakness by talking too much; let our actions speak for themselves.

Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.

I think three or four years ago, people would have said my biggest weakness was that sometimes I was awkward on television, with my stammer, but I think they'd say that much less now.

There would not be enough talent that's educated, developed and ready to take on the next leadership challenge, and it would cap our growth. Now we've put programs in place not to have that happen, but that could be a weakness.

There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose.

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.