Weakness Quotes

We think in terms of apostolic journeys. God dares to put His greatest ambassadors in chains.

~ Watchman Nee

This sense of my own weakness and emptiness comforts me. I feel myself a mere speck of dust lost in space, yet I am part of that endless grandeur which envelopes me. I could never see why that should be cause for despair, since there could very well be nothing at all behind the black curtain.

~ Gustave Flaubert

The jinni sighed. 'I'm less grateful to him than I should be. He's a good and generous man, but I'm not accustomed to relying on someone else. It makes me feel weak.’'How is relying on others a weakness?''How can it be anything else? If for some reason Arbeely died tomorrow, I'd be forced to find another occupation. The event would be outside my control, yet I'd be at its mercy. Is that not weakness?''I suppose. But then, going by your standard, everyone is weak. So why call it a weakness, instead of just the way things are?

~ Helene Wecker

A genius in the wrong position could look like a fool.

~ Idowu Koyenikan

Whether you are aged or weak, you can still serve the Lord

~ Sunday Adelaja

Don't show emotion. Kurt Löwe gave his son a rough shake, Don't you ever show emotion. Tears are weakness. And I won't have any son of mine being weak. You're going to stand here until you top crying.

~ Ryan Graudin

Our weaknesses as a worker are only amplified by being in leadership.

~ Miles Anthony Smith

Satirize wickedness if you must--but pity weakness.

~ L.m. Montgomery

What's important is the ambition that results from our weakness.

~ Sharon Creech

In a fight, your doubt is a target of enemy's attack.

~ Toba Beta

Before you either turn away in disgust or wink knowingly at one another, you should know that the artist insists that this is a picture about love. Filial love. The old man has been condemned by the Roman senate to die of hunger, and his daughter has come to his prison cell and offered her breast to feed him. This has nothing to do with with the decorous love or amorous passions one is more accustomed to seeing in a painting. It is raw and wretched and demeaning. In the end, we are physical bodies and every abstract notion about love sinks beneath this fact.

~ Debra Dean

The forest did not tolerate frailty of body or mind. Show your weakness, and it would consume you without hesitation.

~ Tahir Shah

She took a life because someonehumiliated her, hurt her image of herself as the Valkyrie, thestainless warrior. Exposed her weakness, which was only love. So sheavenged herself. So easy to justify, I wrote to her. It's because youfelt like a victim you did it. If you were really strong, you couldhave tolerated the humiliation.

~ Janet Fitch

His looks are my weakness, his mind my undoing.

~ Alessandra Torre

She might have been born this way, without an empathy gene and other essentials. In that case, she would interpret any kindness as weakness. Among predatory beasts, any display of weakness is an invitation to attack.

~ Dean Koontz

But I value their hatred. I find it very useful. You see, people are always at their weakest when they're angry.

~ Lionel Luthor From Smallville

Hatred makes you weak where else love makes you vulnerable. There's a difference.

~ Girl234

We're taught and trained to hold it all inside, to not feel the beauty of the innocence of letting it out when and how we feel it.And we do; we do for the fear of avoiding the stigma of weakness, until it breaks us from the inside, slowly and silently, and there is little or nothing left of us. Those who are courageous to hold on, learn to be strong and proficiently wave off the numerous darts as they come. Do they, really? It takes just one planned move, and all the impenetrable walls come crashing down.

~ Ufuoma Apoki

Weakness, like not being able to bury the past. Weakness, like not giving up hope when you know you should.

~ Julianna Baggott

A great many grown-up and intelligent people believe, or pretend to believe, that by behaving in a friendly and accommodating way to our attackers, we will show them that they have nothing to fear from us and so defuse their wrath. The idea that such behavior would be taken by a ruthless and implacable enemy only as a sign of weakness is as foreign to them as the idea of honor itself.

~ James Bowman

To become reconciled to a friend with whom you have broken, is a form of weakness; and you pay the penalty of it when he takes the first opportunity of doing precisely the very thing which brought about the breach.

~ Arthur Schopenhauer

Is it a crime to be strong?' That's something you might have asked. And I would have answered by asking the opposite question...'Is it a crime to be weak?

~ Naoyuki Ochiai

You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.

~ John Wooden

You can’t let praise or criticism get to you. It’s a weakness to get caught up in either one.

~ John Wooden

I’ve read so many stories online about how tragedy brings people together, how hard times encourage bravery and sacrifice, how a crisis can turn ordinary folks into heroes. But what about the opposite, when something horrible happens and it strips us bare, exposing weaknesses we didn’t even know we had. What about when tragedy makes people worse?

~ Paula Stokes

Violence is weakness. True strength comes not through brutality and savagery, but through tenderness, mercy and grace.

~ Mango Wodzak

Guys always think tears are a sign of weakness. They’re a sign of FRUSTRATION. She’s only crying so she won’t cut your throat in your sleep. So make nice and be grateful.

~ Donna Barr

Tears won’t help me right now. They’ll just make me weaker.

~ Colleen Hoover

I grab the pillows off the bed and chuck them at the reflection in the mirror of the girl I no longer know. I watch as the girl in the mirror stares back at me, sobbing pathetically. The weakness in her tears infuriates me.

~ Colleen Hoover

Women were the very devil, at the mercy of their frail strength.

~ Margaret Way

As children, a great number of us were taught by our parents, carers, extended family members, and teachers, that showing any form of emotional vulnerability was “not OK.” We were conditioned to believe that in order to be acceptable as human beings, we had to be like the other children. We were taught to “suck it up,” “stop being cry babies,” “get thicker skin,” “stop being so sensitive” and go participate with the other kids, even if they overwhelmed us with their energy.

~ Mateo Sol

Maybe he would see me as weak and stupid. Maybe he was right.

~ Leslea Tash

It is not a vice or a show of weakness when you live by the principle of delay gratification.

~ Sunday Adelaja

And so I begin to be free no longer trapped by the weakness in me.

~ Jess Chief Brynjulson

It was, however, time to accept fear for what it was, an emotion that was preventing them from being who they needed to be.

~ Stephen Reid Andrews

You're weak because you're afraid of people seeing your weakness. You're letting shame decide who you are.

~ Leigh Bardugo

If you feel ashamed about your need for love & support, it's because you were made to feel this way as a child. It's not a sign of weakness to want affirmation, reassurance or someone to count on; these are natural, appropriate needs. Just make sure to be there for yourself first.

~ Marcia Sirota

As yet, if a man has no feeling for art he is considered narrow-minded, but if he has no feeling for science this is considered quite normal. This is a fundamental weakness.

~ Isidor Isaac Rabi

Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.

~ Eric Hoffer

People with weaknesses get killed by the people who lack them. Notice I'm not dead.

~ Sherrilyn Kenyon