Weakness Quotes
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Praise of power leads to weakness; Love of things leads to loss; The wise one leads by filling people's hearts; He destroys illusion and disturbs those who believe they are wise; He does nothing yet everything happens.
Lao Tzu
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I mean, you may cause others a spot of bother by your weaknesses, perhaps, but coping with you may possibly increase their strength and sympathy. But if you sin deliberately, even if it seems only against yourself--well--you won't be the only one to suffer. You may even be the one who suffers least.
Elizabeth Goudge
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When a batter swings and I see his knees move, I can tell just what his weaknesses are then I just put the ball where I know he can't hit it.
Satchel Paige
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Man doth not yield him to the angels, nor unto death utterly, save only through the weakness of his feeble will.
Joseph Glanvill
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The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength - each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving.
Simone de Beauvoir
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We take it for granted that telling is more valued than asking. Asking the right questions is valued, but asking in general is not. To ask is to reveal ignorance and weakness. Knowing things is highly valued, and telling people what we know is almost automatic because we have made it habitual in most situations. We are especially prone to telling when we have been empowered by someone else’s question or when we have been formally promoted into a position of power. I once asked a group of management students what it meant to them to be promoted to “manager.”
Edgar Schein
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I don't have a belief problem, I have a focusing weakness. I focus on what's loudest instead of what feels best.
Esther Hicks
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It's better not to argue with women... When people push boundaries too far, it's not because they are strong but because they are weak. But maybe weakness is not the worst quality for a woman.
Vladimir Putin
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The weakness of their reasoning faculty also explains why women show more sympathy for the unfortunate than men;... and why, on the contrary, they are inferior to men as regards justice, and less honourable and conscientious.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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The MC has to be just that, a master in control. They can show no signs of weakness.
Saul Williams
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Honesty in politics is the result of strength; hypocrisy is the result of weakness.
Vladimir Lenin
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The moment a man or a woman becomes angry they show a great weakness.
Wilford Woodruff
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I always exposed the weakness rather than the nastiness.
Michael Caine
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You are dependent if you allow the weaknesses of other people to ruin your emotional life!
Stephen Covey
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If you find yourself with a weakness, attack it... don't develop a technique that avoids your weaknesses.
Nelson Shanks
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Don't wish to be normal. Wish to be yourself. To the hilt. Find out what you're best at, and develop it, and hopscotch your weaknesses. Wish to be great at whatever you are.
Lois McMaster
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When dealing with Canadians, it is advantageous to seem to be negotiating from a position of weakness, for when faced with an abject opponent, they become concession-happy and will accede to almost anything.
Alleyne FitzHerbert, 1st Baron St Helens
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There is a rank due to the United States among nations which will be withheld, if not absolutely lost, by the reputation of weakness.
George Washington
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Weakness indicates dependence, and there is a degree of trust and tenderness also in it.
Eugene Sue
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The weaker you are the louder you bark. -Tenten
Masashi Kishimoto
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Retreat might give us a moment of respite but years of repentance at our weakness would, I believe, follow.
Tony Blair
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Social media's greatest assets - anonymity, 'virality,' interconnectedness - are also its main weaknesses.
Evgeny Morozov
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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
Richard Krajicek
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Fear arises from the weakness of the flesh over which the devil has power.
Brigham Young