Infirmity Quotes

• Human infirmity in moderating and checking the emotions I name bondage : for, when a man is a prey to his emotions, he is not his own master, but lies at the mercy of fortune : so much so, that he is often compelled, while seeing that which is better for him, to follow that which is worse.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Human
  • Emotions
  • Checking

• The greatest secret for eliminating the infirmity complex, which is another term for deep and profound self-doubt, is to fill your mind to overflowing faith.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Secret
  • Complex
  • Eliminating

• Science appears but what in truth she is, Not as our glory and our absolute boast, But as a succedaneum, and a prop To our infirmity.

  

  William Wordsworth
  • Glory
  • Boast
  • Props

• The greatest secret for eliminating the infirmity complex, which is another term for deep and profound self-doubt, is to fill your mind to overflowing faith. Develop a tremendous faith in God and that will give you a humble yet soundly realistic faith in yourself.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Secret
  • Complex
  • Eliminating

• Although you feel tepid, approach with confidence, for the greater your infirmity the more you stand in need of a physician.

  

  Bonaventure
  • Feels
  • Needs
  • Approach

• If you tell a person that she has a mental disorder, you create a mental disorder—not only in the patient but in those who love her as well. The disorder is fear. Chronic fear holds more people back in life than any other mental infirmity.

  

  Edward Hallowell
  • Fear
  • DIsoder
  • Infirmity

• Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise. That last infirmity of noble mind. To scorn delights, and live laborious days.

  

  John Milton
  • Mind
  • Noble
  • Infirmity

• This is a hard and precarious world, where every mistake and infirmity must be paid for in full.

  

  Clarence Day
  • World
  • Mistake
  • Infirmity

• There was a good deal to be said, Hilary decided, for middle age and infirmity. The years in which one demanded much of life were left behind, together with the bitterness of not getting what one wanted. One's values, too, were altered. Gifts that once one took for granted, sunshine and birdsong, freedom from pain, sleep and one's daily bread, seemed now so extraordinarily precious.

  

  Elizabeth Goudge
  • Freedom
  • Pain
  • Gifts