Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.
~By Charles Lamb ~
Stronger by weakness, wiser men become.
~By Edmund Waller ~
Flee an enemy who knows your weakness.
~By Pierre Corneille ~
There would not be enough talent that's educated, developed and ready to take on the next leadership challenge, and it would cap our growth. Now we've put programs in place not to have that happen, but that could be a weakness.
~By Kevin Rollins ~
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.
~By Erskine Bowles ~
Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength.
~By Charles Caleb Colton ~
What we learned several years ago was that one of our weaknesses would be if we didn't develop enough people with the know-how to run our company, it would come to the point where we would just stop.
~By Kevin Rollins ~
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.
~By Richard Krajicek ~
The Hamas has taken the path of avoiding causing harm to Zionist interests outside of Palestine, not from weakness or lack of ability to do so, but because Hamas does not wish for further fronts to be opened against it around the world.
~By Ahmed Yassin ~
Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.
~By Paul Gauguin ~
I think that maybe that's my weakness, in that I don't know how to do it, so I just do what I do and try to do it as passionately and as well as I can.
~By Aaron Eckhart ~
All cruelty springs from weakness.
~By Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
As I pass it, I feel as if I saw a dear old mother, sweet in her weakness, trembling at the approach of her dissolution, but not appealing to me against the inevitable, rather endeavouring to reassure me by her patience, and pointing to a hopeful future.
~By Thomas Edward Brown ~
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.
~By Washington Irving ~
Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength.
~By Billy Graham ~
God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses.
~By Henry Ward Beecher ~
I believe in the power of weakness.
~By Pat Buckley ~
Build up your weaknesses until they become your strong points.
~By Knute Rockne ~
The weakness of ourselves and of our reason makes us see flaws in beauties by making us consider everything piece by piece.
~By Johann G. Hamann ~
There is a price for popularity. Critics look for your weaknesses, your flaws, anything that makes the work seem like a fluke and not seem worthy of all the attention it's getting.
~By Terry McMillan ~
The Southerner is usually tolerant of those weaknesses that proceed from innocence.
~By Flannery O'Connor ~
Admitting weakness seems to be such a severe psychic threat for Bush that when he makes a mistake it's safer just to reinforce it. The strategy creates a perverse system of rewards and punishments.
~By Tina Brown ~
If the United States were to cut and run from Iraq, we would send a message of weakness that would embolden our terrorist enemies across the globe. A failed Iraq would destabilize the entire region and undermine U.S. national security for decades to come.
~By Dennis Cardoza ~
Can you hang in there with your investigators when things get going tough? Don't give up on investigators because they have a little weakness. Work with them until the Holy Ghost tells you not to.
~By Richard G. Scott ~
Morality is the weakness of the brain.
~By Arthur Rimbaud ~
Neutrality, as a lasting principle, is an evidence of weakness.
~By Lajos Kossuth ~
The Apple has the fewest bells and whistles. It has simple sound and few graphics special effects. In a way, that is a weakness because markets for the other machines are getting bigger.
~By Bill Budge ~
Usually that's going into biology in a certain way. There's certain strengths and weaknesses to both of the sexes. And I'm not against employing those nor am I against denying those, what I am looking for is a very large array of options.
~By Mark Morris ~
Enter every activity without giving mental recognition to the possibility of defeat. Concentrate on your strengths, instead of your weaknesses... on your powers, instead of your problems.
~By Paul J. Meyer ~
When the National Security Agency recruited me, they put me through a day of lie detector tests. They found out all my weaknesses and immediately seduced me. They used the strongest drugs in our culture, sex, power and money, to win me over.
~By John Perkins ~
The very strength of a nation eventually proves to be its weakness.
~By Paul Harris ~
This amateurism however, can sometimes be helpful in forging a style; you have to work around your weaknesses.
~By Bill Bruford ~
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.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.
~By Joseph Addison ~
Beer is the Danish national drink, and the Danish national weakness is another beer.
~By Clementine Paddleford ~
I am tired. My arm aches. My head boils. My feet are cold. But I am not aware of any weakness.
~By Zane Grey ~
I'd have to acknowledge that I have a weakness for the fairer sex - and I hope I never get over it.
~By Chuck Robb ~
It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong.
~By Wendell Willkie ~
Coffee and cigarettes, that's one of my weaknesses.
~By Jason Behr ~
Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
I would be surprised to see the White House scaling back on anything. That would be an admission they are operating from a position of weakness.
~By Rich Galen ~
If you're not going to tell something if you're not going to expose something it's real easy to go in and photograph from behind the camera and not expose any of your weaknesses.
~By Kim Weston ~
She needs to seem tough, and whatever Hillary's weaknesses, tough is a pretty good word to describe her.
~By John Podhoretz ~
When a Spanish man cries it's not a sign of weakness.
~By Geraldo Rivera ~
And yet you see the weakness of external evidence-and outward miracles; they were not sufficient to make true believers, or to make the Israelites believe that Jesus was their promised Messiah.
~By Elias Hicks ~
When mental energy is allowed to follow the line of least resistance and to fall into easy channels, it is called weakness.
~By James Allen ~
The beautiful seems right by force of beauty and the feeble wrong because of weakness.
~By Elizabeth Barrett Browning ~
My weaknesses... I wish I could come up with something. I'd probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they're the same thing.
~By Al Pacino ~
The weakness in the company is if we fail to execute.
~By Kevin Rollins ~
And I was very comfortable with this band even when we disagreed. It takes a long time to feel comfortable enough to disagree with somebody. When everything happened, it just was really confusing. It's like our weaknesses were nurtured and brought out front by outsiders.
~By Edie Brickell ~
Scientists tend to be skeptical, but the weakness of the community of science is that it tends to move into preformed establishment modes that say this is the only way of doing science, the only valid view.
~By Walter Gilbert ~
Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness.
~By Mary Wollstonecraft ~
It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.
~By Joseph Addison ~
I understand now that the vulnerability I've always felt is the greatest strength a person can have. You can't experience life without feeling life. What I've learned is that being vulnerable to somebody you love is not a weakness, it's a strength.
~By Elisabeth Shue ~
The weakness of a soul is proportionate to the number of truths that must be kept from it.
~By Eric Hoffer ~
They all in general had putrid gums, the spots and lassitude, with weakness of their knees.
~By James Lind ~
As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.
~By Charles de Secondat ~
Yes, forget your weakness, whatever that weakness may be. It is egotism, it is selfishness after. all, for it is a dwelling on self. Forget your weakness; and remember your strength.
~By Joseph Barber Lightfoot ~
You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.
~By John Wooden ~
We grow a little every time we do not take advantage of somebody's weakness.
~By Bern Williams ~
Solitude is strength; to depend on the presence of the crowd is weakness. The man who needs a mob to nerve him is much more alone than he imagines.
~By Paul Brunton ~
Death used to announce itself in the thick of life but now people drag on so long it sometimes seems that we are reaching the stage when we may have to announce ourselves to death. It is as though one needs a special strength to die, and not a final weakness.
~By Ronald Blythe ~
There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose.
~By Kin Hubbard ~
For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences.
~By Miguel de Cervantes ~
Making use of human weaknesses in intelligence work is a logical matter. It keeps coming up, and of course you try to look at all the aspects that interest you in a human being.
~By Markus Wolf ~
According to this way of arguing, there will be no true principles in the world; for there are none but what may be wrested and perverted to serve bad purposes, either through the weakness or wickedness of men.
~By Jonathan Mayhew ~
It is from a weakness and smallness of mind that men are opinionated; and we are very loath to believe what we are not able to comprehend.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
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.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
~By Quentin Crisp ~
My weaknesses have always been food and men - in that order.
~By Dolly Parton ~
It was in our power to cause the Arab governments to renounce the policy of strength toward Israel by turning it into a demonstration of weakness.
~By Moshe Dayan ~
I believe the most solemn duty of the American president is to protect the American people. If America shows uncertainty and weakness in this decade, the world will drift toward tragedy. This will not happen on my watch.
~By George W. Bush ~
Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength.
~By Lao Tzu ~
Each relationship nurtures a strength or weakness within you.
~By Mike Murdock ~
The 'morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.
~By Andrew Carnegie ~
My family is my strength and my weakness.
~By Aishwarya Rai ~
I didn't want to be on the losing side. I was fed up with Jewish weakness, timidity and fear. I didn't want any more Jewish sentimentality and Jewish suffering. I was sickened by our sad songs.
~By Lionel Blue ~
People in very high places suddenly fall, and we are always surprised because we don't factor in the basic element that they're humans and, therefore, they are flawed and have weaknesses.
~By Carlisle Floyd ~
Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.
~By William James ~
I have also been saddened, though hardly surprised, by the weakness of the EU's reaction to the criminal attack on the Danish embassy in Syria, which seems to have been permitted, if not actively encouraged, by the Syrian regime.
~By Timothy Garton Ash ~
Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.
~By Dwight D. Eisenhower ~
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.
~By Robert E. Lee ~
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?
~By Robert Louis Stevenson ~
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.
~By Arthur Schopenhauer ~
Sometimes a great wound or concussion of the head, especially which happens by falling headlong from an high place, brings a prejudice and weakness to the animal faculty, dulling the understanding.
~By Thomas Willis ~
Never apologize, mister. It's a sign of weakness.
~By Frank S. Nugent ~
The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
~By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ~
Weakness on both sides is, as we know, the motto of all quarrels.
~By Voltaire ~
As much as I value an union of all the states, I would not admit the southern states into the union, unless they agreed to the discontinuance of this disgraceful trade, because it would bring weakness and not strength to the union.
~By George Mason ~
Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason.
~By Ayn Rand ~
To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind.
~By Charlotte Perkins Gilman ~
But the weakness comes from these Westernised co-opted Muslim leaders who just want to look good in the eyes of the West and Western media.
~By Abu Bakar Bashir ~
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.
~By Satchel Paige ~
Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we're damned if we're going to show.
~By Mignon McLaughlin ~
Insincerity is always weakness; sincerity even in error is strength.
~By George Henry Lewes ~
Insecurity, commonly regarded as a weakness in normal people, is the basic tool of the actor's trade.
~By Miranda Richardson ~
The Green Lantern is a unique superhero because it's not that he's super that is his focus; it's that he's a man. He's very human. That's his greatest strength and his greatest weakness.
~By Blake Lively ~
Humility is not cowardice. Meekness is not weakness. Humility and meekness are indeed spiritual powers.
~By Swami Sivananda ~
I think I'm good at amplifying an actor's strengths, and minimizing their weaknesses. And they all have strengths and weaknesses.
~By Steven Soderbergh ~
Cars, furs, and gems were not my weaknesses.
~By Gene Tierney ~
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