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Quotes about Weakness

Have you noticed that weak people are the ones who delight to show you how weak you are, while, at the same time, strong people are the ones who delight to show you how strong you are? 

Laura Teresa Marquez
Source: Early Morning Conversation
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I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.

Leo Rosten
Source: From a website
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the complementary movement towards divine love is growth in humility which is the acceptence of the reality about ourselves, our own weakness and limitations.

Thomas Keating
Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04gdsFt_zDY
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I am willing to allow that smoking is a moral weakness, but on the other hand, we must beware of the man without weaknesses. He is not to be trusted. He is apt to be always sober and he cannot make a single mistake. His habits are likely to be regular, his existence more mechanical and his head always maintains its supremacy over his heart. Much as I like reasonable persons, I hate completely rational beings.

Lin Yutang (1895 - 1976)
Source: The Importance Of Living
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If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?

Lois Bujold
Source: A Civil Campaign
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I am sorry if my own humanity and and pain and struggles to do the right thing are proof to you of something wrong or weak in me.

Raphie : Raphie Frank :: Business Artivist
Raphie Frank
 
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Truly brilliant marketing happens when you take something most people think of as a weakness and reposition it so people think of it as a strength.

Reed Hastings
Source: Business 2.0: How To Succceed: Turn Your Biggest Weakness Into Your Greatest Asset: http://money.cnn.com/popups/2006/biz2/howtosucceed/18.html
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strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others.

Joseph Conrad (1857 - 1924)
Source: Heart of Darkness
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Strength is not ust victory, but the ability to fail with integrity and take tfe lessons of losing and weakness as oportunites to learn.

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

Nathaniel Summers
 
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"We are weak," Dan said. "We are weak for alcohol.  Just like white people are weak for owning things."  He turned to me.  "But those weaknesses are gifts, just like our strengths are gifts.  Weaknesses make us strong, because they make us stand up to ourselves."

Kent Nerburn
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It has often been said that power corrupts. But it is perhaps equally important to realize that weakness, too, corrupts.  Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.  Hatred, malice, rudeness, intolerance, and suspicion are the faults of weakness. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from their sense of inadequacy and impotence. We cannot win the weak by sharing our wealth with them. They feel our generosity as oppression.

Eric Hoffer : American writer & philosopher
Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)
 
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"I will give you a talisman. Whenever you are in doubt, or when the self becomes too much with you, apply the following test. Recall the face of the poorest and the weakest man [woman] whom you may have seen, and ask yourself, if the step you contemplate is going to be of any use to him [her]. Will he [she] gain anything by it? Will it restore him [her] to a control over his [her] own life and destiny? In other words, will it lead to swaraj [freedom] for the hungry and spiritually starving millions? Then you will find your doubts and your self melt away." -M. K. Gandhi

unknown : Gaia Child
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Cry Out In Your Weakness
A dragon was pulling a bear into its terrible mouth.

A courageous man went and rescued the bear.
There are such helpers in the world, who rush to save
anyone who cries out.  Like Mercy itself,
they run toward the screaming.

And they can't be bought off.
If you were to ask one of those, "Why did you come
so quickly?" he or she would say, "Because I heard
your helplessness."

Where lowland is,
that's where water goes.  All medicine wants
is pain to cure

And don't just ask for one mercy.
Let them flood in.  Let the sky open under your feet.
Take the cotton out of your ears, the cotton
of consolations, so you can hear the sphere-music…

Accept your new good luck.

Give your weakness
to one who helps.

Crying out loud and weeping are great resources.
A nursing mother, all she does
is wait to hear her child.

Just a little beginning-whimper
and she's there.

God created the child, that is, your wanting
so that it may cry out, so that milk might come.

Cry out!  Don't be stolid and silent
with your pain.  Lament!  And let the milk
of loving flow into you.

The hard rain and wind
are ways the cloud has
to take care of us.

Be patient.
Respond to every call
that excites your spirit.

Ignore those that make you fearful
and sad, that degrade you
back toward disease and death.

   -Rumi

Mevlana Jelalu'ddin Rumi : Persian sufi mystic
Mevlana Rumi (1207 - 1273)
Source: Essential Rumi, Page: 156..157
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Ordinary people, even weak people, can do extraordinary things through temporary courage generated by a situation. But the person of character does not need the situation to generate his courage. It is a part of his being and a standard approach to all life's challenges.

Michael Josephson
 
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Success is achieved by development of our strengths, not by elimination of our weakness.

Marilyn vos Savant (1946 - )
 
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As the physically weak man can make himself strong by careful and patient training, so the man of weak thoughts can make them strong by exercising himself in right thinking.

James Allen : English author of As A Man Thinketh
James Allen (1864 - 1912)
Source: As a Man Thinketh
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Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.

George Washington : US statesman (1st US president: 1789-97) & general of the Revolutionary Army
George Washington (1732 - 1799)
 
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Recipe for greatness - To bear up under loss, to fight the bitterness of defeat and the weakness of grief, to be victor over anger, to smile when tears are close, to resist evil men and base instincts, to hate hate and to love love, to go on when it would seem good to die, to seek ever after the glory and the dream, to look up with unquenchable faith in something evermore about to be, that is what any man can do, and so be great.

Zane Grey (1875 - 1939)
 
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Oh, Vanity of vanities! How wayward the decrees of Fate are; How very weak the very wise, How very small the very great are!

William Makepeace Thackeray : English novelist & satirist
William Thackeray (1811 - 1863)
Source: Vanitas Vanitatum
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Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.

William Somerset Maugham : British novelist & playwright
William Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)
Source: Of Human Bondage, 1915, ch. 39
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There is an old poor man, • • • •. . . . Oppress'd with two weak evils, age and hunger.

William Shakespeare : English poet, the greatest poet ever
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
Source: As You Like It, Act 2, scene 7.
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If thou wouldst conquer thy weakness thou must not gratify it.

William Penn (1644 - 1718)
 
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You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.

William J. H. Boetcker
Source: quoting Abraham Lincoln
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1. You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. 2. You cannot help small men by tearing down big men. 3. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. 4. You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer. 5. You cannot help the poor man by destroying the rich. 6. You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than your income. 7. You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred. 8. You cannot establish security on borrowed money. 9. You cannot build character and courage by taking away men's initiative and independence. 10. You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.

William J. H. Boetcker
Source: written in 1916 by Rev. Boetcker,
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Better to be a strong man with a weak point, than to be a weak man without a strong point. A diamond with a flaw is more valuable than a brick without a flaw.

William J. H. Boetcker
 
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Lord, it is my chief complaint, That my love is weak and faint; Yet I love thee and adore, Oh for grace to love thee more!

William Cowper : English poet
William Cowper (1731 - 1800)
Source: Olney Hymns
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What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.

William Blake : English poet, painter, engraver & mystic
William Blake (1757 - 1827)
Source: Letter (23 August 1799)
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The American people are very generous people and will forgive almost any weakness, with the possible exception of stupidity.

Will Rogers : American humorist & writer
Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
 
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The moment a man or a woman becomes angry they show a great weakness.

Wilford Woodruff (1807 - 1898)
Source: Journal of Discourses 4:98.
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