Failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done is a great weakness in any man.
~ William Howard Taft
I think that when you are famous every weakness is exaggerated.
~ Marilyn Monroe
Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.
~ Joseph Addison
Science has yet to isolate the Godiva Chocolate or Prada gene, but that doesn't mean your weakness for pricey swag isn't woven into your DNA. According to a new study of identical twins, it's less TV ads or Labor Day sales that make you buy the things you do than the tastes and temperaments that are already part of you at birth.
~ Jeffrey Kluger
I like to be loved by my children, and I quite like the 'Guardian' hating me. I like it when I read they want me to die painfully. Then I think I've really got under their skin. It's like annoying a teacher. Once they've shown signs of weakness, you really can go for them.
~ Jeremy Clarkson
My family is my strength and my weakness.
~ Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
Try to look at your weakness and convert it into your strength. That's success.
~ Zig Ziglar
Each relationship nurtures a strength or weakness within you.
~ Mike Murdock
Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
Sometimes your greatest strength can emerge as a weakness if the context changes.
~ Harsha Bhogle
My strength and my weakness are twins in the same womb.
~ Marge Piercy
Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.
~ Eckhart Tolle
Religious beliefs evolved by group-selection, tribe competing against tribe, and the illogic of religions is not a weakness but their essential strength.
~ E. O. Wilson
When we have nothing to cling to as our own and cease thinking of ourselves as people who must defend privileges, we can open ourselves freely to others with the faithful expectation that our strength will manifest itself in our shared weakness.
~ Henri Nouwen
Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.
~ Jonathan Swift
I have a theory and I really believe it. I think your worst weakness can become your greatest single strength.
~ Barbara Corcoran
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.
~ George Mason
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.
~ Oscar Wilde
Peace is purchased from strength. It's not purchased from weakness or unilateral retreats.
~ Benjamin Netanyahu
The fact that people in Hollywood are open to what I teach is not because they're more desperate than anyone else, but because they're more touched by it. That's not their weakness. It's their strength!
~ Marianne Williamson
If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.
~ François De La Rochefoucauld
With Iran, we negotiated privately in 2012-2013 from a position of strength, not a position of weakness. The secret negotiations in Oman. This ultimately led to the Joint Plan of Action of November 2013.
~ Tom Cotton
The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I have ever been the queerest mixture of weakness and strength, and have paid heavily for the weakness.
~ Annie Besant
To be loved is a strength. To love is a weakness.
~ Zsa Zsa Gabor
Dealing with depression effectively is a mark not of weakness, but of strength.
~ Andrew Solomon
Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.
~ Amos Bronson Alcott
My biggest weakness is patience, wanting to see things happen too quickly or get changes in place right away. Not having the patience to let things develop.
~ Paul Gleason
Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.
~ John Keats
My weakness, that is, my quadriplegia, is my greatest asset because it forces me into the arms of Christ every single morning when I get up.
~ Joni Eareckson Tada
Like all my family and class, I considered it a sign of weakness to show affection; to have been caught kissing my mother would have been a disgrace, and to have shown affection for my father would have been a disaster.
~ Agnes Smedley
The weakness in traditional Scottish nationalism lay in its own inability to grasp that identity could not be the only factor in the march to independence.
~ Tariq Ali
Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft
Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.
~ William James
I believe in the power of weakness.
~ Pat Buckley
It is up to God to take revenge. Only God can judge. I don't have to worry about getting even with anybody or taking out any kind of aggression on anybody. Doing that is a weakness, anyway.
~ Jim Brown
The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
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.
The difficult thing is that vulnerability is the first thing I look for in you and the last thing I'm willing to show you. In you, it's courage and daring. In me, it's weakness.
~ Brené Brown
Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.
~ Leon Trotsky
