Weakness Quotes
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Life is not a competition with others. In its truest sense it is a rivalry with ourselves. We should each day seek to break the record of our yesterday. We should seek each day to live stronger, better, truer lives; each day to master some weakness of yesterday; each day to repair past follies; each day to surpass...ourselves. And this is but progress.
William George Jordan
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Are you or aren't you convinced that weakness is a man's condition? How can you raise yourself if you haven't fallen first?
Cesare Pavese
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It was our belief that the love of possessions is a weakness to be overcome. . . . Children must early learn the beauty of generosity. They are taught to give what they prize most, that they may taste the happiness of giving. . . . The Indians in their simplicity literally give away all that they have—to relatives, to guests of other tribes or clans, but above all to the poor and the aged, from whom they can hope for no return.
Charles Alexander Eastman
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You know, women do not really condemn any weakness: rather, they try to humiliate or disarm our strengths. That is why women arethe reward, not of the warrior, but of the criminal.
Albert Camus
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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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Weakness indicates dependence, and there is a degree of trust and tenderness also in it.
Eugene Sue
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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 argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it / immediately.
Stephen Covey
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Social media's greatest assets - anonymity, 'virality,' interconnectedness - are also its main weaknesses.
Evgeny Morozov
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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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When we look through the lens of each others' weaknesses, we make others' strengths irrelevant and their weaknesses more evident.
Stephen Covey
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Woman's weakness, not man's merit, oftenest gains the suitor's victory.
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
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I also loved that there in Into the Forest was a beautiful balance to it, where they were strong and survivors and doing things in the film that we normally only see men do, but they were still human and vulnerable, and they still broke and had moments of weakness. That's something that we don't often get to see in these films, either.
Evan Rachel Wood
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Ambition, old as mankind, the immemorial weakness of the strong.
Vita Sackville-West
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The smartest thing I ever did was to hire my weakness.
Sara Blakely
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We like to say that India has the advantage of being a large market. We have provinces, we have the rule of law, we have a system of justice. But those are also weaknesses when compared with China. On the other hand, one of our strengths is that we are very individualistic, and as individuals we are very creative. But that, too, is a weakness, because it keeps us from working well together. Everyone thinks only about his own profit.
Ratan Tata
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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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Fear arises from the weakness of the flesh over which the devil has power.
Brigham Young
