Quotes on Weakness

The srongest love is the love which is not afraid to show the weakness

The commonest weakness of our race is our ability to rationalize our most selfish purposes.

Jimmy found himself wishing to make a dent in Crake, get a reaction; it was one of his weaknesses, to care what other people thought of him.

It's not so much that he can't fall in love, but he has not the weakness necessary.

To be weak is miserable, Doing or suffering.

The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion.

And life goes on, which seems kind of strange and cruel when you're watching someone die. But there's a joy and an abundance of everything, like information and laughter and summer weather and so many stories.

Pessimism leads to weakness. Optimism leads to power.

Men like us are good and proud and strong...if we had a faith, a God, nothing could undermine us. But we had nothing, we had to learn everything, and living for honor alone has its weaknesses.

All the girls in the world were divided into two classes: one class included all the girls in the world except her, and they had all the usual human feelings and were very ordinary girls; while the other class -herself alone- had no weaknesses and was superior to all humanity.

I've always had a weakness for lost causes once they're really lost.

My weakness has always been to prefer the large intention of an unskilful artist to the trivial intention of an accomplished one: in other words, I am more interested in the high ideas of a feeble executant than in the high execution of a feeble thinker.

I've made peace with the fact that the things that I thought were weaknesses or flaws were just me. I like them.

I love life - that’s my real weakness. I love it so much that I am incapable of imagining what is not life.

Bathsheba loved Troy in the way that only self-reliant women love when they abandon their self-reliance. When a strong woman recklessly throws away her strength she is worse than a weak woman who has never any strength to throw away. One source of her inadequacy is the novelty of the occasion. She has never had practice in making the best of such a condition. Weakness is doubly weak by being new.

Power was my weakness and my temptation.

Every man finds his limitations, Mr. Holmes, but at least it cures us of the weakness of self-satisfaction.

...in his gambling, he had one besetting weakness -- faith in a system; and this made his damnation certain.

Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity.

On the day when it will be possible for woman to love not in her weakness but in her strength, not to escape herself but to find herself, not to abase herself but to assert herself--on that day love will become for her, as for man, a source of life and not of mortal danger.

Lord, give me firmness without hardness, steadfastness without dogmatism, love without weakness.