Strength Weakness Quotes

But borrowing strength builds weakness. ~ Stephen R. Covey

It's not that you should never love something so much that it can control you.
It's that you need to love something that much so you can never be controlled.
It's not a weakness.
It's your best strength. ~ Patrick Ness

Religious beliefs evolved by group-selection, tribe competing against tribe, and the illogic of religions is not a weakness but their essential strength. ~ E. O. Wilson

Know your strengths, weaknesses, and needs. ~ Pat Summitt

Other people's weakness can destroy you just as much as their strength can. Weak people are not harmless. Their weakness can be their strength. ~ Philip Roth

My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn that perceived weakness into a strength. ~ Michael Jordan

The weak will try to convince you that weakness is strength. ~ Wayne Gerard Trotman

I'm no expert. I have no psychic powers, and I sure don't possess any secret wisdom. I'm just Janet. I have strengths, weaknesses, fears, happiness, sadness. I experience joy and I experience pain. I'm highly emotional. I'm very vulnerable. ~ Janet Jackson

Father didn't want to seem weak in front of us and that itself was a weakness. ~ Maddy Kobar

Grace does not contest the powers-that-be through an effective show of verifiable strength but through a persistent and subversive recoding of how one defines what strength and weakness are. ~ Adam Miller

A barrier for me - which has been both a strength and a weakness - has been my taste. The kind of things I'm interested in aren't always mainstream. ~ Randa Haines

You know your strengths but you must know your weaknesses more. ~ Girdhar Joshi

We all have weakness and strength. I have to fight against the weakness in my personality. Everyone of should fight against the weakness of the soul. Seek to build on your strengths. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Gefarhrgeist excelled at convincing themselves. It was their greatest strength and most terrible weakness. ~ Michael R. Fletcher

Never let a person's weakness get in the way of their strength. ~ Mike Krzyzewski

Some are drawn to the light of your strength but can't handle the darkness of your weaknesses. If they run when the light gets dim, don't chase them. They have no understanding of how dark is necessary for light to shine its brightest. ~ Sanjo Jendayi

Eliminating one weakness is better than adding one strength. ~ Tsutomu Ohshima

All we have is the story we tell. Everything we do, every decision we make, our strength, weakness, motivation, history, and character-what we believe-none of it is real; it's all part of the story we tell. But here's the thing: it's our goddamned story! ~ Jess Walter

Rather than assuming weakness or defectiveness, we should acknowledge that getting through depression requires considerable strength. Rather than assuming permanent debility, we should recognize that some depressions are followed by thriving. ~ Jonathan Rottenberg

A woman's heart is much stronger than a man's. They are weak creatures, dear. Weak, and often far more insecure than they present on the outside. Trust your love, child. The rest will follow. ~ Joyce Reardon

According to energy medicine, we are all living history books. Our bodies contain our histories- every chapter, line and verse of every event and relationship in our lives. As our lives unfold, our biological health becomes a living, breathing biographical statement that conveys our strengths, weaknesses, hopes and fears. ~ Caroline Myss

Who am I? They often tell me I would step from my cell's confinement calmly, cheerfully, firmly, like a squire from his country-house.

Who am I? They often tell me I would talk to my warden freely and friendly and clearly, as though it were mine to command.

Who am I? They also tell me I would bear the days of misfortune equably, smilingly, proudly, like one accustomed to win.

Am I then really all that which other men tell of, or am I only what I know of myself, restless and longing and sick, like a bird in a cage, struggling for breath, as though hands were compressing my throat, yearning for colors, for flowers, for the voices of birds, thirsting for words of kindness, for neighborliness, trembling with anger at despotisms and petty humiliation, tossing in expectation of great events, powerlessly trembling for friends at an infinite distance, weary and empty at praying, at thinking, at making, faint and ready to say farewell to it all.

Who am I? This or the other? Am I one person today, and tomorrow another? Am I both at once? A hypocrite before others, and before myself a contemptibly woebegone weakling? Or is something within me still like a beaten army, fleeing in disorder from victory already achieved?

Who am I? They mock me, these lonely questions of mine.

Whoever I am, Thou knowest, O God, I am thine! ~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer

But underneath it all I tell myself the tiny glow-worm of the Leave event will be blinking. Up to me to surmount the trial, everything is dependent upon my will, impotent, tenacious, helpless, dogged, with a swollen sense of honor, I tell myself. I know me. Not that I'm the strongest as my friend used to claim, but I've always had the strength - weakness maybe - to believe that if "in the end we die, too fast," as he puts it, later on, as sequel, there's a chance that someone-I-don't-know-who - or I-don't-know-what - may come back. No keeping oneself from dying. Afterwards nothing stops one returning. ~ Helene Cixous

Sometimes you don't realize your own strength until you come face to face with your greatest weakness. ~ Susan Gale

You'll feel afraid at times. You'll feel weak at times. But remember, fear and weakness are not your enemies. They are forms of evolutionary wisdom in the face of danger. Take some time to assess the situation and shake the weakness and fear off your limbic system. ~ Abhijit Naskar

I don't think it's weak to admit you made a mistake. That takes strength, if you ask me. ~ Terry Pratchett

This is how we are: we fall in love with each other's strengths, but love deepens towards permanence when we fall in love with each other's weaknesses. ~ Salman Rushdie

Weakness drives us to set goals, to try harder, to put forth more effort, to dream and wish and hope, to reach out further and down deeper, to pray earnestly, to cry mightily, to understand and empathize with valid sincerity. In truth, weakness is a catalyst for greater strength. ~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg. ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

Getting weak is easy. It's staying strong that makes you. ~ Avinash Rao

He read disappointment at his response and wondered if she realized that she expected a certain amount of effusive sympathy from the people she told. Rejecting that sympathy made her feel strong, compensating for what she perceived as her weakness. He suspected that the disease was the first time she hadn't been able to make everything come out all right through the sheer determination that it would be. ~ Tanya Huff

God knows your abilities, and he also knows how to turn your weak points into strong ones ~ Sunday Adelaja

Strength that goes wrong is even more dangerous than weakness that goes wrong. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

There is weakness in resistance, strength in letting go. ~ Thomas Lloyd Qualls

You're free to dream however you wish," Nollin teased. "But don't ask the rest of us to share your unrealistic - "
"Then don't ask us to share your weakness!" Jason interrupted. ~ Brandon Mull

As for my looks, if I didn't look the way I do, I would probably be one of those many faces doing a romcom, which I detest. The way I look has somewhere defined the characters I played. My weakness has become my strength. ~ Emraan Hashmi

The scope of one's personality is defined by the magnitude of that problem which is capable of driving a person out of his wits. ~ Sigmund Freud

I have attended weddings, with chipped nail paints.
I have worn same blue denim for days in a row.
I have not followed etiquette sometimes, I was too happy to bother.
I have picked up fights, ugly ones too.
I have been notorious because I stood up for myself.
I have flaws. I am flawed.
But I have come to realize,
It's okay to life a life others don't understand.
My life should be my LIBERATION,
Not anyone's REGULATION. ~ Jasleen Kaur Gumber

It was amazing to think that she'd always had it wrong, imagining that they were the weak ones, the ones who took their chance. No. The weakest are those who stay put and call it sacrifice, call it not having a choice. ~ Sunjeev Sahota

In our thoughts and words we create our own weaknesses and our own strengths. ~ Betty Eadie

It requires far more strength to experience emotion than to suppress it. ~ Wendy Walker

I am a strong individual that may seem weak; but, my strength is in my ability to stay in the fight and sure my enemies that I can take the punches; and, still stay strong in my weakness.
Because within time God will turn my weak persona to my strength. I will be able to show myself and others that being strong in a weak persona is a sign of humility. ~ Temitope Owosela

When you stop seeing your weaknesses as weaknesses you will overcome them. ~ Marty Rubin

This is a great fact: strength is life; weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal; weakness is constant strain and misery, weakness is death. ~ Swami Vivekananda

Weak people believe what is forced on them. Strong people what they wish to believe, forcing that to be real. ~ Gene Wolfe

Weakness is practiced and learned as much as strength is! ~ F.C. Yee

His strength for your weakness! His wisdom for your folly! His drive for your drift! His grace for your greed! His love for your lust! His peace for your problems! His joy for your sorrow! His plenty for your poverty! ~ Major Thomas

She was too quiet, or she was too loud. She took things too seriously, or not seriously at all. She was too sensitive, or too cold-hearted. She hated with every fiber of her being, or loved with all her heart. There was no in-between for her. It was either all or nothing. She wanted everything, but in the end, she settled for nothing. ~ Stacey T. Hunt

Let me struggle like a woman- my strength lies in my weakness. - Milady ~ Alexandre Dumas

Having recovered from an inexplicable moment of weakness Claire was on the defensive, ready to bite. I had the impression that she was now looking for a chance to demonstrate her strength, or her hard-heartedness. ~ Jean De Berg

Knowing what she did to him made her feel powerful, just as knowing what he did to her made her feel weak. ~ Kate Meader

When we think about our strengths, we are strong. When we think about our weaknesses, we are weak. ~ Peter A. Cohen

The strength of any weakness within us is the degree to which it is feared. ~ Guy Finley

I guess that makes our biggest weakness lack of strength. ~ Gene Stallings

When you give your weakness permission to be because you understand that it is simply an expression of your strength, it tends to no longer be a weakness. ~ Chris Matakas

God always turns a person's weakness into strength ~ Sunday Adelaja

I know, I know. You're a badass. The best of the best. But everyone has a weakness. Even you. ~ Lindsey Allyson

If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

You will be loved the day when you will be able to show your weakness without the other person using it to assert his strength. ~ Cesare Pavese

Strength without compassion is soulless and cruel. Weakness, too, has its place, for it brings understanding. ~ Isobelle Carmody

For fanaticism is the only form of willpower that even the weak and insecure can be brought to attain. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

When a nation which has long groaned under the intolerable yoke of a tyrant rises at last and throws off its chains, do you call that weakness? The man who, to rescue his house from the flames, finds his physical strength redoubled, so that he lifts burdens with ease which in the absence of excitement he could scarcely move; he who under the rage of an insult attacks and puts to flight half a score of his enemies, - are such persons to be called weak? My good friend, if resistance be strength, how can the highest degree of resistance be a weakness? ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Then Anu and Bel called by name me, Hammurabi, the exalted prince, who feared God, to bring about the rule of righteousness in the land, to destroy the wicked and the evil-doers; so that the strong should not harm the weak. ~ Code Of Hammurabi 1772 B.C.

I'm strong beyond appearances reveal,
But I'm human, and have weak moments still. ~ Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

My family is my strength and my weakness. ~ Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

We all have strengths, weaknesses and blind spots. In fact, an average person has 3.4 blind spots. ~ Bill Hybels

Weakness or strength: there you are, strength. You do not know where you are going, nor why you are going; enter anywhere, reply to anything. They will no more kill you than if you were a corpse. In the morning I had a look so lost, a face so dead, that perhaps those whom I met did not see me.
In cities, suddenly, the mud seemed red and black like a mirror when the lamp moves about in the adjoining room, like a treasure in the forest! Good luck, I cried, and I saw a sea of flames and smoke in the sky; to the right, to the left all the riches of the world flaming like a billion thunder-bolts. ~ Arthur Rimbaud

Strength conquers weakness through force.
Weakness conquers strength through seduction,
the look and feel of ease,
the illusion of rest without responsibility,
and the hallucination of unaccountability in general. ~ Justin K. McFarlane Beau

You can't retire to weakness
you've got to learn to control strength. ~ Wallace Stegner

We are, none of us, pillars of strength. We use our moments of strength to carry us through our moments of weakness. ~ Neetal Parekh

Audiences will admire your character's strength but connect with them through their weakness. ~ Don Roff

Well, there is a piece of famous advice, grand advice even if it is German, to forget what you can't bear. The strong can forget, can shut out history.
Very good. Even if it is self-flattery to speak of strength--these aesthetic philosophers, they take a posture, but power sweeps postures away. Still, it's true you can't go on transposing one nightmare into another, Nietzsche was certainly right about that. The tender-minded must harden themselves. Is this world nothing but a barren lump of coke? No, no, but what sometimes seems a system of prevention, a denial of what every human being knows.
I love my children, but I am the world to them, and bring them nightmares.
I had this child by my enemy. And I love her. The sight of her, the odor of her hair, this minute, makes me tremble with love. Isn't it mysterious how I love the child of my enemy?
But a man doesn't need happiness for himself.
No, he can put up with any amount of torment--with recollections, with his own familiar evils, despair.
And this is the unwritten history of man, his unseen, negative accomplishment, his power to do without gratification for himself provided there is something great, something into which his being, and all beings can go. He does not need meaning as long as such intensity has scope. Because then it is self-evident; it is meaning. ~ Saul Bellow

When we resort to screaming at someone, we are revealing weakness and a sense of helplessness. If we can't seem to get our message or feelings across any other way, then we get angry, and we get loud! ~ Cathy Burnham Martin

Every day, we have to strive to be better people. Some days we give in to weakness, and sometimes we give in to strength. ~ Edward Kitsis

Deny your weakness, and you will never realize God's strength in you. ~ Joni Eareckson Tada

She reminded him that the weak will never enter the kingdom of love, which is a harsh and ungenerous kingdom,and that women give themselves only to men of resolute spirit, who provide them with the security they need in order to face life. ~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez

More often than not, anger is actually an indication of weakness rather than of strength. ~ Dalai Lama

Only the weak hit the fly with a hammer ~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

If you live by the grace of God and you constantly recognise His grace in your life, then your weakness turns into strength ~ Sunday Adelaja

People make mistakes. When you judge them, you measure their weakness against your own strength. That's not a fair measure. They have their strength, too. Their strength might be the weakest point in your life. ~ Nesta Jojoe Erskine

I'm not weak, I've just been strong for to long. ~ Henry Kenny Lee

Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength. ~ Billy Graham

Friendship love. This is a very special thing. It's the sort of love where you know another being's strengths and weaknesses, perfections and imperfections, and you love the whole package. ~ Angelo Dirks

Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. Silently and perceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or weak; and last some crisis shows what we have become. ~ Brooke Foss Westcott

If your weakness is love then you are extremely strong. ~ Efrat Cybulkiewicz

The world was so much more forgiving of strength when it took on the appearance of weakness. ~ Robin Wasserman

Not to discover weakness is The Artifice of strength. ~ Emily Dickinson

Negotiating with the Taliban must be done from a position of strength. Negotiating from a position of weakness would be a disaster. ~ Philip Hammond

True strength is the courage to admit our weaknesses. ~ Simon Sinek

What! Would I be turned back from doing a thing that I had determined to do, and that I knew to be right, by the airs and interference of such a person, or any person I may say? No, I have no idea of being so easily persuaded. When I have made up my mind, I have made it. ~ Jane Austen

Not all men are handsome and strong. There are some who are cowards from birth. There are some who are weak by nature. There are even some who cry easily. But for such a man, a man both weak and cowardly, to bear the burden of his weakness and struggle valiantly to live a beautiful life-- that's what I call great. The reason I'm so fond of Gaston is not because he has a strong will or a good head. Rather it's because, weakling and coward that he is, he keeps on fighting in his own way. ~ Shusaku Endo

If you think a weakness can be turned into a strength, I hate to tell you this, but that's another weakness. ~ Jack Handy

Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don't have the strength. ~ Theodore Roosevelt

Right now, we continue to see demand at very strong levels. It's tough to find a Wii now. If we hit 100 stores in the area, we would find Wiis in only 20 percent of them today. That tremendous strength we had in December really wiped the pipeline clean. Our pipeline, the retailer pipeline. And so, with that kind of demand, it doesn't suggest the need for any pricing actions. ~ Cammie Dunaway

The social pact, far from destroying natural equality, substitutes, on the contrary, a moral and lawful equality for whatever physical inequality that nature may have imposed on mankind; so that however unequal in strength and intelligence, men become equal by covenant and by right. ~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau

If community is for growth of the personal consciousness and freedom, and not just for the collective consciousness, with the security it brings, there will be times when some people find themselves in conflict with their community ...
This happens particularly when someone is called to personal growth and is in a group which has become lukewarm, mediocre and closed in on itself. The loneliness and anguish felt by this person can lead to a more intimate and mystical union with God. The person no longer finding support from the group cries out to God, "Let those who thirst come to me and drink," says Jesus. Those who suffer in this way find a new strength and love in the heart of God. Their communion with the father deepens.
The authenticity of their communion with God is shown as they continually try to love their brothers and sisters with greater fidelity, without judgment or condemnation. ~ Jean Vanier

Can you drown in grief? She turned away sharply, angry with her own frailty. She had no time for the luxury of self-pity. ~ George R R Martin

You don't always get stronger on the days that everything comes easily to you. ~ Nastia Liukin

My beloved is the sun
And I am the earth that thrives only in her warmth. My beloved is the rain
And I am the grass that thirsts for her quenching kiss. My beloved is the wind
And I am the wings that soar when she fills me with her gentle strength.
My beloved is the rock
Upon which rests the happiness of all my days.
- The Elements of Love, a poem by Aileron v'En Kavali of the Fey ~ C.L. Wilson

Fear is a healthy instinct, not a sign of weakness. It is a natural self-defense mechanism that is common to felines, wolves, hyenas, and most humans. Even fruit bats know fear, and I salute them for it. If you think the world is weird now, imagine how weird it would be if wild beasts had no fear. ~ Hunter S. Thompson