Weakness Quotes

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

Time, Greatest, Giving

There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.
Washington Irving

Love, Power, Deep

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
Mahatma Gandhi

Heart, Daily, Words

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.
Michael Jordan

Strength, Attitude, Turn

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
Albert Einstein

Attitude, Character, Becomes

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.
Oscar Wilde

Strength, Courage, Tell

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.
Henry David Thoreau

Life, Poverty, Universe

Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.
Mahatma Gandhi

Prayer, Confession

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.
Aristotle

Life, True, Friends

Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism.
Hubert H. Humphrey

Compassion, Socialism, Concern

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

Strength, Courage, Fear

I think that when you are famous every weakness is exaggerated.
Marilyn Monroe

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

Criticism, Either, Praise

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

Between, Cause, Above

Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength.
Billy Graham

Strength, Self, Others

You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
Robert Louis Stevenson

Time, Fight, Why

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.
Leon Trotsky

Life, Great, Live

My family is my strength and my weakness.
Aishwarya Rai

Family, Strength

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

Nature, Law, Full

Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence.
Dorothy Dix

Silence, Soul, Secrets

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

Motto, Both, Sides

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

Money, Men, Stupidity

Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.
William James

Power, Optimism, Pessimism

I tremble for my country when I hear of confidence expressed in me. I know too well my weakness, that our only hope is in God.
Robert E. Lee

God, Hope, Confidence

All cruelty springs from weakness.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Cruelty, Springs

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

Person, Sensitive, Biggest

The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Stupidity, Doctor, Mankind

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

Human, Culture, Condition

Humility is not cowardice. Meekness is not weakness. Humility and meekness are indeed spiritual powers.
Swami Sivananda

Spiritual, Humility, Indeed

The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Truth, Opinion, Present

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