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?
For solving a surprisingly large and varied number of problems, crowds are smarter than individuals.
To eat with a fuller consciousness of all that is at stake might sound like a burden, but in practice few things in life afford quite as much satisfaction.
A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners.
Knowledge does not mean mastering a great quantity of different information, but understanding the nature of mind. This knowledge can penetrate each one of our thoughts and illuminate each one of our perceptions.
I used many times to touch my own chest and feel, under its asthmatic quiver, the engine of the heart and lungs and blood and feel amazed at what I sensed was the enormity of the power I possessed. Not magical power, but real power. The power simply to go on, the power to endure, that is power enough, but I felt I had also the power to create, to add, to delight, to amaze and to transform.
Whenever you feel happiness it is always from the inner. Then mind immediately jumps in and takes control and says, 'It is because of me.' When you are in love, it is like death, you feel blissful. Immediately mind comes in and says, 'Okay, this is me, this is because of me.'
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