Quotes on Strength And Weakness

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.

You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.

Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.

Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.

Being desirable means being comfortable with your own ambiguity. The most ambiguous reality is that we are flesh and spirit at the same time. Within everyone there is light and shadow, good and evil, love and hate. In order to be truthful, you must embrace your total being. A person who exhibits both positive and negative qualities, strengths and weaknesses is not flawed, but complete.

Healing is a different type of pain. It’s the pain of becoming aware of the power of one’s strength and weakness, of one’s capacity to love or do damage to oneself and to others, and of how the most challenging person to control in life is ultimately yourself.

As I talk about strengths and weaknesses in academic economics, one interesting fact you are entitled to know is that I never took a course in economics. And with this striking lack of credentials, you may wonder why I have the chutzpah to be up here giving this talk. The answer is I have a black belt in chutzpah. I was born with it.

He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.

A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.

Life is very interesting... in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths.

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.

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.

The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.

I have ever been the queerest mixture of weakness and strength, and have paid heavily for the weakness.

'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.