You take a weakness and start making it stronger.. You don't have to build your strengths - that you already possess... It is your weakness that needs the exercise
Interpretation
Focus on improving weaknesses rather than solely relying on your existing strengths.
This quote emphasizes the importance of acknowledging and working on our weaknesses instead of only celebrating our strengths. Ralph Waldo Emerson suggests that true growth comes from addressing our shortcomings, as enhancing these areas can lead to a more balanced and capable individual.
In practice
In a motivational speech about personal development, you might say, 'Remember, you take a weakness and start making it stronger.'
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Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations
Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear.
The world belongs to the energetic.
Hast thou named all the birds without a gun?
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The most evident difference springs from the important part which is played in man by a relatively strong power of imagination and by the capacity to think, aided as it is by language and other symbolically devices.
Our dependency makes slaves out of us, especially if this dependency is a dependency of our self-esteem. If you need encouragement, praise, pats on the back from everybody, then you make everybody your judge.
You learn nothing form your successes except to think too much of yourself. It is from failure that all growth comes, provided you can recognize it, admit it, learn from it, rise above it, and then try again.
Read the Bible. Work hard and honestly. And don't complain.
You seem to me to be a pretty lucky young man; keep your eyes open to your mercies. That part of piety is eternal; and the man who forgets to be grateful has fallen asleep in life.
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