Weakness Quotes

Campaigns often make standing on principle the highest of virtues - and listening to your opponents a sure sign of weakness. It's the virtual opposite of what it takes to succeed in office. Squaring the circle takes a powerful combination of skills. But presidents who can campaign and compromise are generally the most successful.

We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.

Death used to announce itself in the thick of life but now people drag on so long it sometimes seems that we are reaching the stage when we may have to announce ourselves to death. It is as though one needs a special strength to die, and not a final weakness.

Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.

Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.

Haiti is always talking about decentralization and nothing has been so obvious, perhaps a weakness, as the centralized nature of Haitian society as being revealed by the earthquake. I mean, they lost all these medical training programs because they didn't have them anywhere else.

Failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done is a great weakness in any man.

Can you hang in there with your investigators when things get going tough? Don't give up on investigators because they have a little weakness. Work with them until the Holy Ghost tells you not to.

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

As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.

I also believe that Hurricane Katrina did reveal a weakness in our energy supply systems, highlighting the reliance this country has on the gulf coast for our energy resources.

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

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.

My weakness is wearing too much leopard print.

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

Weakness on both sides is, as we know, the motto of all quarrels.

I'd have to acknowledge that I have a weakness for the fairer sex - and I hope I never get over it.

I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain.

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.

I believe in the power of weakness.

Criminals usually prey on weakness. They can smell it.

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

We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.

Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

I know Koufax' weakness. He can't hit.

I was serving good but was returning especially well, which was a weakness in my game. So not only was I serving well, but I was also breaking these other guys, and they felt the pressure.

Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength.

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.

My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn that perceived weakness into a strength.