Strength And Weakness Quotes Quotes

It is better to deny God, than to defy God. Sometimes our weakness is considered strength, and we take delight in borrowed greatness. To profess to be a lover of God and then to be dishonest to God, to the world and to himself, is unparalleled hypocrisy. Difficulties give us the opportunity to prove our greatness by overcoming them.

Meher Baba

...as man under pressure tends to give in to physical and intellectual weakness, only great strength of will can lead to the objective.

Carl von Clausewitz

Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair but manifestations of strength and resolution.

Kahlil Gibran

The better the singer's voice is, the harder it is to believe what they're saying. So I turn my weaknesses into strengths.

David Byrne

Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength.

Lao Tzu

Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength.

Charles Caleb Colton

How few are the Romans and how numerous are we ! 'An army's strength lies not in numbers of men but in Allah's help, and its weakness lies in being forsaken by Allah"

al-Walid, Khalid ibn

Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.

Dwight Eisenhower

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.

Paul J. Meyer

Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolutions.

Kahlil Gibran

Our soultries to direct us to individuals who share our purpose in life, complement our strengths, and supplement our weaknesses. But there is no guarantee that these ideal mates are going to look the way we expect, or be of our own background.

Carolyn Miller

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength. True power if within, and it is available to you now.

Eckhart Tolle

Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.

Dwight Eisenhower

The world abhors closeness, and all but admires extravagance; yet a slack hand shows weakness, and a tight hand strength.

Thomas Fowell Buxton

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.

Paul Brunton

It is a sign of strength, not of weakness, to admit that you don't know all the answers.

John P. Loughrane

A woman's strength is the irresistible might of weakness.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The strength of a person is often weighed by how they deal with their weaknesses.

Nathaniel Summers

If you think a weakness can be turned into a strength, I hate to tell you this, but that's another weakness

Jack Handy

Our strength grows out of our weaknesses

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A true friend knows your weaknesses but shows you your strengths; feels your fears but fortifies your faith; sees your anxieties but frees your spirit; recognizes your disabilities but emphasizes your possibilities.

William Arthur Ward

Men are taught to apologize for their weaknesses, women for their strengths.

Lois Wyse

Courage is the dividing line between weakness and strength of character.

Steve Pavlina

Humility leads to strength and not to weakness. It is the highest form of self-respect to admit mistakes and to make amends for them.

John J. McCloy

A woman's strength is the irresistible might of weakness.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.

Charles Lamb

Our strength grows out of our weaknesses

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am not thinking of those shining precepts which are the registered property of every school; that is to say learn as much by writing as by reading; be not content with the best book; seek sidelights from the others; have no favourites; keep men and things apart; guard against the prestige of great names; see that your judgments are your own; and do not shrink from disagreement; no trusting without testing; be more severe to ideas than to actions; do not overlook the strength of the bad cause of the weakness of the good; never be surprised by the crumbling of an idol or the disclosure of a skeleton; judge talent at its best and character at its worst; suspect power more than vice, and study problems in preference to periods.

John Dalberg-Acton, Lord Acton

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