Quotes on Weakness

Enlightenment doesn't mean we were never wounded; it means we've found a way to evolve beyond our wounds. Enlightenment isn't idealistic; it's practical. What's idealistic is thinking we can live from our wounds, stay in our weakness, and ever transform the world.

I prefer an attitude of humility corresponding to the weakness of our intellectual understanding of nature and of our own being.

The task of leadership is to create an alignment of strengths so strong that it makes the system's weaknesses irrelevant.

Start being brave about everything. Drive out darkness and spread light. Don’ look at your weaknesses. Realize instead that in Christ crucified you can do everything.

No one should be judged by their defects. The great virtues a person has are his or her especially. But their errors are the common weakness of humanity and should never be counted in estimating a person’s character.

The major weakness of all educational systems is that they neither teach nor encourage the habit of definite decision.

Surrendering is not a weakness. At the contrary it is strength. The surrender stops living in boiling water and starts living in a secure place.

Scientists make mistakes. Accordingly, it is the job of the scientist to recognize our weakness, to examine the widest range of opinions, to be ruthlessly self-critical. Science is a collective enterprise with the error-correction machinery often running smoothly.

Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others.

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

Without doubt, the most common weakness of all human beings is the habit of leaving their minds open to the negative influence of other people.

Complete weakness and dependence will always be the occasion for the Spirit of God to manifest His power.

You will always be criticized and teased and bullied for things that make you different, but usually those things will be what set you apart. The things that set you apart from the pack, the things that you once thought were your weaknesses will someday become your strengths.

Management is about human beings. Its task is to make people capable of joint performance, to make their strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant.

Many people think that patience is a sign of weakness. _x000D_ I think this is a mistake. It is anger that is a sign of _x000D_ weakness, whereas patience is a sign of strength

Many times our weaknesses are extensions of our strengths.

Comedy naturally wears itself out - destroys the very food on which it lives; and by constantly and successfully exposing the follies and weaknesses of mankind to ridicule, in the end leaves itself nothing worth laughing at.

Praise of power leads to weakness; Love of things leads to loss; The wise one leads by filling people's hearts; He destroys illusion and disturbs those who believe they are wise; He does nothing yet everything happens.

Until a man selects a DEFINITE PURPOSE IN LIFE, he dissipates his energies & spreads his thoughts over so many subjects & in so many different directions that they lead not to power, but to indecision & weakness.

We must not mistake kindness for weakness. Kindness isn't weak. Kindness is a certain type of strength.

Winners evaluate themselves in a positive manner and look for their strengths as they work to overcome weaknesses.