Weaknesses Quotes

• Plant seeds of expectation in your mind; cultivate thoughts that anticipate achievement. Believe in yourself as being capable of overcoming all obstacles and weaknesses.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Mind
  • Thoughts
  • Achievement

• The fact that, with time, this League [of Nations]-which was presumably designed by its founders to exist for all eternity-cannot be coupled with a Treaty the short term of which is inherent in its own weaknesses and impracticabilities, is a point which can perhaps be contested by today's interested parties, but which will one day be deemed a matter of course in history.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • History
  • Eternity
  • League

• At times, our strengths propel us so far forward we can no longer endure our weaknesses and perish from them.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Endure
  • Weaknesses
  • Propel

• The word 'God' is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, and religious scripture a collection of honourable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. No interpretation, no matter how subtle, can for me change this.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • God
  • Religious
  • Human

• The choreographer cannot deliberately make a ballet to appeal to an audience, he has to start from personal inspirations. He has to trust the ballet, to let it stand on its own strengths or fall on its weaknesses. If it reaches the audience, then he is lucky that round!

  

  Gerald Arpino
  • Weaknesses
  • Inspirations
  • Choreographer

• We are not so easily guided by our most prominent weaknesses as by those of which we are least aware.

  

  Arthur Helps
  • Weaknesses
  • Guided
  • Prominent

• We all make mistakes, we all have fears, and we all have weaknesses. Behind all that is our essential self. When our essential self has made contact with another, the light is dazzling and would fill the universe. The challenge of enchantment is to remain faithful to that light, to believe in it when it is not so apparent. Then that light becomes an incandescent glow and it wraps itself around everything.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Believe
  • Light
  • Universe

• A cartoonist's style is created by weaknesses and personal restrictions as much as strengths.

  

  Barry Blitt
  • Weaknesses
  • Cartoonist
  • Restrictions

• Two great virtues . . . give a man power with the heavens - integrity and purity of character. Let a man possess these, let his heart be true and unflinching, let his life be pure, and, if we add to these humility, he is protected against a multitude of weaknesses and can resist a host of temptations. We all have our weaknesses; God has permitted them that we might be taught humility in ourselves and charity towards others.

  

  Wilford Woodruff
  • God
  • Character
  • Humility

• My strengths—which are really quite modest—are limited to me, but with my weaknesses the possibilities are boundless.

  

  Jason Gray
  • Possibilities
  • Weaknesses
  • Strengths

• There are people who pay attention to the weaknesses of their friends; that is to no avail. I have always closely watched and profited from the strengths of my adversaries.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Friends
  • Weaknesses
  • Adversaries

• That historian or scholar who delights in pointing out the weaknesses and frailties of present or past leaders destroys faith. A destroyer of faith — particularly one within the Church, and more particularly one who is employed specifically to build faith — places himself in great spiritual jeopardy. He is serving the wrong master, and unless he repents, he will not be among the faithful in the eternities. Do not spread disease germs!

  

  Boyd K. Packer
  • Faith
  • Church
  • Disease

• Everyone, regardless of ability or disability, has strengths and weaknesses. Know what yours are. Build on your strengths and find a way around your weaknesses.

  

  Brad Cohen
  • Build
  • Regardless
  • Weaknesses

• Baseball is a game based on adversity. It's a game that's going to test you repeatedly. It's going to find your weaknesses and vulnerabilities and force you to adjust. That adversity, in the big picture, is a really good thing because it shows you where your weaknesses are. It gives you the opportunity to improve.

  

  Theo Epstein
  • Baseball
  • Adversity
  • Improve

• Some of us are inclined to look to the weaknesses and shortcomings of others in order to expand our own comfort zone.

  

  Marvin J. Ashton
  • Weaknesses
  • Comfort Zone
  • Expand

• In golf your strengths and weaknesses will always be there. If you could improve your weaknesses, you would improve your game. The irony is that people prefer to practice their strengths.

  

  Harvey Penick
  • Golf
  • Weaknesses
  • Strengths

• You always have certain strengths and certain weaknesses, and you want to compensate for your weaknesses... I have a real duty to earn the trust of the faculty. I don't just deserve it. I have to earn it.

  

  Erskine Bowles
  • Certain
  • Weaknesses
  • Strengths

• Why is it so important to affirm a child? Because a child who is truly accepted by his parents and/or influencing adults can growing up learning to accept himself. Without a constant, debilitating sense of guilt and defeat, he will become at ease with himself. He'll be able to admit his own failures and weaknesses. He'll be able to forget himself and love others. He won't spend his energies worrying about what people think of him, and he won't spend his energies putting down others.

  

  Anne Ortlund
  • Child
  • Accepted
  • Energies

• You know, the whole philosophy of ad hoc combinations has its strengths and its weaknesses.

  

  Evan Parker
  • Philosophy
  • Combination
  • Weaknesses

• I have not come into this world to make men better, but to make use of their weaknesses.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • World
  • Use
  • Weaknesses

• Acting is an opportunity for me to try to explore and examine and expose humanity's weaknesses that are intrinsic to our nature as humans and learn from them; thereby, it's like a sociological expose.

  

  Bokeem Woodbine
  • Opportunity
  • Humans
  • Examine

• I will not have the power of nonviolence to be underestimated in order to cover my limitations or weaknesses.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Power
  • Limitations
  • Weaknesses

• So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Life
  • Weaknesses
  • Despise

• My big weaknesses (in the past) have been a lack of preparation, a lack of knowledge and perhaps not enough confidence and afraid of mistakes. I need to stop trying to be perfect and just worry about becoming better.

  

  Sasha Cohen
  • Knowledge
  • Mistakes
  • Preparation

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