Quotes about weakness and Strength

I have ever been the queerest mixture of weakness and strength, and have paid heavily for the weakness. Votes: 4

There are weakness and strengths of every man. Focus and build on your strengths Votes: 3

Think not that humility is weakness; it shall supply the marrow of strength to thy bones. Stoop and conquer; bow thyself and become invincible. Votes: 3

I now know myself to be a person of weakness and strength, liability and giftedness, darkness and light. I now know that to be whole means to reject none of it but to embrace all of it. Votes: 3

My family is my strength and my weakness. Votes: 2

You know, larger-than-life politicians have larger-than-life strengths and larger-than-life weaknesses. Votes: 2

My strength and my weakness are twins in the same womb. Votes: 2

Try to look at your weakness and convert it into your strength. That's success. Votes: 2

You know, the whole philosophy of ad hoc combinations has its strengths and its weaknesses. Votes: 2

Just make the right estimation of your own strengths and weaknesses, and also that of your opponent. Votes: 2

I have a theory and I really believe it. I think your worst weakness can become your greatest single strength. Votes: 2

I think I'm good at amplifying an actor's strengths, and minimizing their weaknesses. And they all have strengths and weaknesses. Votes: 2

Nations need to understand their own strengths and weaknesses, and India's tradition of dissent and democratic debate is a positive aspect. Votes: 2

Religious beliefs evolved by group-selection, tribe competing against tribe, and the illogic of religions is not a weakness but their essential strength. Votes: 2

Every day, we have to strive to be better people. Some days we give in to weakness, and sometimes we give in to strength. Votes: 2

When you know your cast well and their strengths and weaknesses, you can start writing for them, just the way Shakespeare wrote for his actors. Votes: 2

I love working fictional characters into a piece of history. It plays to my strengths, which are characterization and dialogue, and assists me in my admitted weakness, plot. Votes: 2

You learn from things that don't go well, and you try to capitalize when they do. You build on those strengths and try to make your weaknesses stronger. Votes: 2

I have strengths, and I have weaknesses. I don't pretend to be able to write a great thesis or doctorate - I have no pretensions in that direction. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

Yes, forget your weakness, whatever that weakness may be. It is egotism, it is selfishness after. all, for it is a dwelling on self. Forget your weakness; and remember your strength. Votes: 2

You always have certain strengths and certain weaknesses, and you want to compensate for your weaknesses... I have a real duty to earn the trust of the faculty. I don't just deserve it. I have to earn it. Votes: 2

Every weakness contains within itself a strength. Votes: 1

Out of the cross comes the resurrection. Out of weakness comes real strength. Votes: 1

Weakness is strength. Votes: 0

But borrowing strength builds weakness. Votes: 0

Your weakness is your strength Votes: 0

But borrowing strength builds weakness. Votes: 0

Liberals exploit weakness; conservatives offer strength. Votes: 0

Strength is life, Weakness is death. Votes: 0

Our strength grows out of our weakness. Votes: 0

An unguarded strength is a double weakness. Votes: 0

Joy is a strength; intoxication, a weakness. Votes: 0

Non- reaction is not weakness, But Strength! Votes: 0

Humility is not weakness, but strength under control Votes: 0

Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg. Votes: 0

People commit suicide through weakness, not through strength. Votes: 0

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength. Votes: 0

Strength alone knows conflict, weakness is born vanquished. Votes: 0

There's no weakness as great as false strength. Votes: 0

I believe in strength over lack of weakness. Votes: 0

Maybe weakness is a strength of a kind. Votes: 0

We are all one, learning strength from weakness. Votes: 0

Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness. Votes: 0

Each relationship nurtures a strength or weakness within you. Votes: 0

Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength. Votes: 0

A woman's strength is the unresistible might of weakness. Votes: 0

Our weakness is an invitation to discover God's strength. Votes: 0

Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength Votes: 0

Eliminating one weakness is better than adding one strength. Votes: 0

Life before Death. Strength before Weakness. Journey before Destination. Votes: 0

Life comes from death, and weakness teaches us strength. Votes: 0

Not to discover weakness is The Artifice of strength. Votes: 0

Your greatest strength is love. Your greatest weakness is fear. Votes: 0

Every form of strength is also a form of weakness, Votes: 0

Tranquility is not weakness; from tranquility emerges power and strength. Votes: 0

Insincerity is always weakness; sincerity even in error is strength. Votes: 0

Strength and manliness are virtue; weakness and cowardice are sin. Votes: 0

Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness. Votes: 0

God gets glory when his strength shines in our weakness. Votes: 0

Your weakness can be turned to strength for God's glory. Votes: 0

Strength is incomprehensible by weakness, and, therefore, the more terrible. Votes: 0

My strength is my weakness and weakness is my strength Votes: 0

I guess that makes our biggest weakness lack of strength. Votes: 0

Real true faith is man's weakness leaning on God's strength. Votes: 0

From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me. Votes: 0

It is my weakness that gives me all my strength. Votes: 0

Strength grows from building other strength, not from trampling on weakness. Votes: 0

In both cases, weakness and scruples had defeated strength and ruthlessness. Votes: 0

To be loved is a strength. To love is a weakness. Votes: 0

Weakness, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage was born, Votes: 0

Human affinity to human weakness surpasses human affinity to human strength Votes: 0

Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength. Votes: 0

We maintain the peace through our strength; weakness only invites aggression. Votes: 0

The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized. Votes: 0

Risking the appearance of weakness takes strength. And the market knows it. Votes: 0

Dee's search for knowledge was always his greatest strength... and his weakness. Votes: 0

Terrorism emanates from weakness, not strength. It is the sign of despair. Votes: 0

Deny your weakness, and you will never realize God's strength in you. Votes: 0

That weakness in human nature which goes by the name of strength. Votes: 0

The strength in gold is revealing the general weakness in the dollar. Votes: 0

The lust for power is not rooted in strength but in weakness. Votes: 0

Nature is as well adapted to our weakness as to our strength. Votes: 0

He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength. Votes: 0

Never let a person's weakness get in the way of their strength. Votes: 0

The very strength of a nation eventually proves to be its weakness. Votes: 0

Your strength is just an accident owed to the weakness of others. Votes: 0

My kindness is my weakness but my weakness is my biggest strength. Votes: 0

For we know that our patchwork heritage is a strength, not a weakness. Votes: 0

Peace is purchased from strength. It's not purchased from weakness or unilateral retreats. Votes: 0

Sometimes your greatest strength can emerge as a weakness if the context changes. Votes: 0

The remedy for weakness is not brooding over weakness, but thinking of strength. Votes: 0

Strength that goes wrong is even more dangerous than weakness that goes wrong. Votes: 0

A man's strength is ultimately born of his knowledge of his own weakness ... Votes: 0

Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength. Votes: 0

The rock is a field of battle between our weakness and our strength. Votes: 0

You can't retire to weakness -- you've got to learn to control strength. Votes: 0

We Americans... like change. It is at once our weakness and our strength. Votes: 0

Sometimes our weakness is considered strength, and we take delight in borrowed greatness. Votes: 0

Peace through strength works; but the flip side is war invited by weakness. Votes: 0

Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength. Votes: 0

You have summoned me in my weakness. You must sustain me in your strength. Votes: 0

Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength. Votes: 0

Patience is the strength of the weak, impatience is the weakness of the strong. Votes: 0

Strength is a facade for the proud, weakness is a mask for the lazy. Votes: 0

Actually I don't know if honesty is a strength or some kind of weakness. Votes: 0

Honesty in politics is the result of strength; hypocrisy is the result of weakness. Votes: 0

Let me struggle like a woman- my strength lies in my weakness. - Milady Votes: 0

A 'weakness,' I now realize, is nothing but a strength not properly developed. Votes: 0

Strength is happiness. Strength is itself victory. In weakness and cowardice there is no happiness Votes: 0

My strength and my weakness is that I see normally impersonal events vividly and personally. Votes: 0

More often than not, anger is actually an indication of weakness rather than of strength. Votes: 0

Strength is found in weakness. Control is found in dependency. Power is found in surrender. Votes: 0

The Days tried to put inside me " weakness ..." .. But my soul will always beat " strength". Votes: 0

If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength. Votes: 0

America is not dying because of the strength of humanism but the weakness of evangelism. Votes: 0

What makes a man stand up and work? Strength. Strength is goodness, weakness is sin. Votes: 0

The strength of any weakness within us is the degree to which it is feared. Votes: 0

God never makes us sensible of our weakness except to give us of His strength. Votes: 0

Apparent confusion is a product of good order; apparent cowardice, of courage; apparent weakness, of strength. Votes: 0

Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution. Votes: 0

Strength without compassion is soulless and cruel. Weakness, too, has its place, for it brings understanding. Votes: 0

Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution. Votes: 0

We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more. Votes: 0

Order or disorder depends on organisation; courage or cowardice on circumstances; strength or weakness on dispositions. Votes: 0

Tolerance and patience should not be read as signs of weakness. They are signs of strength. Votes: 0

As long as I fear my weakness, I am stronger than when I trust my strength. Votes: 0

Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we're damned if we're going to show. Votes: 0

A small kindness, a confluence of compassion, had saved his life. Was that strength, or a weakness~? Votes: 0

Men's greatest weakness is their facade of strength, and women's greatest strength is their facade of weakness. Votes: 0

Humility takes a supply of supernatural strength that comes only to those strong enough to admit weakness Votes: 0

In relations with other nations, there is neither right nor wrong; there is only strength and weakness. Votes: 0

We must not mistake kindness for weakness. Kindness isn't weak. Kindness is a certain type of strength. Votes: 0

When you fear a foe, fear crushes your strength; and this weakness gives strength to your opponents. Votes: 0

Prayer is the sign of your weakness. Rely on your inner strength. You will be the winner. Votes: 0

Never be afraid to expose a weakness in yourself. Exposing a weakness is the beginning of strength. Votes: 0

Being able to ask for helpis not a sign of weakness,it is a sign of strength. Votes: 0

Reprogram your life and mind-set by replacing the bad with the positive, the weakness with the strength. Votes: 0

A small kindness, a confluence of compassion, had saved his life. Was that strength, or a weakness? Votes: 0

Strength is Life, Weakness is Death. Expansion is Life, Contraction is Death. Love is Life, Hatred is Death. Votes: 0

You couldn't have strength without weakness, you couldn't have light without dark, you couldn't have love without loss Votes: 0

Usually I write about what I care about, which is a weakness but I think also a strength. Votes: 0

If you have love in you, it's a strength. But if you are in love, it's a weakness. Votes: 0

Every moment is an invitation to live out of your weakness or to live out of your strength. Votes: 0

Weakness is a better teacher than strength. Weakness must learn to understand the obstacles that strength brushes aside. Votes: 0

Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength. Votes: 0

The weakness of men is the facade of strength; the strength of women is the facade of weakness. Votes: 0

It's very important to make nuclear deals but you have to make them from strength, not from weakness. Votes: 0

To share your weakness is to make yourself vulnerable; to make yourself vulnerable is to show your strength. Votes: 0

I believe we must be strong militarily, but beyond a certain point military strength can become a national weakness. Votes: 0

In this world is a God whose matchless strength is a fit contrast to the sordid weakness of man. Votes: 0

Why is it that people who cannot show feeling presume that that is a strength and not a weakness? Votes: 0

When God is our strength, it is strength indeed; when our strength is our own, it is only weakness. Votes: 0

Because of course, for every revelation of weakness, there had to be an equal and opposite show of strength. Votes: 0

Look for strength in people, not weakness; for good, not evil. Most of us find what we search for. Votes: 0

God does not reveal himself in strength or power, but in the weakness and fragility of a newborn babe. Votes: 0

My greatest strength is the love for my people, my greatest weakness is that I love them too much. Votes: 0

Our strength is that we don't have any weaknesses. Our weakness is that we don't have any real strengths. Votes: 0

They [Republicans] assume that military action always shows strength, while avoiding military action always shows weakness. That's just crazy. Votes: 0

One who sees the weakness of his strength can also leverage the strength of his weakness, readily, to his advantage. Votes: 0

The deepest repentance and humility and our own frailty and weakness must be realized before we can know God's strength. Votes: 0

Find answers in your weakness and surprise in your strength and always remember the golden rule every failure has HOPES Votes: 0

People confuse goodness with weakness. It is weak people, not good people (goodness demands strength), who are taken advantage of. Votes: 0

We all come unique packages with strength and weakness, and somewhere there is a precious gift in all of us Votes: 0

Social reforms are never carried out by the weakness of the strong; but always by the strength of the weak. Votes: 0

Christ's strength is manifest in our weakness, so if we had everything together there would be no need for Him. Votes: 0

You don't have to explain yourself. Let your weakness be yours. Let your strength be everybody's. You understand the principle? Votes: 0

Our strength is seen in the things we stand for; our weakness is seen in the things we fall for. Votes: 0

To be conscious of one's weakness and to trust in God's help is the way to authentic strength and victory. Votes: 0

We were each other's only link to the past . . . that was the strength of our bond, and also our weakness. Votes: 0

Remember, what may appear to be the source of one's strength can often also be the source of one's weakness. Votes: 0

The individual act of obedience is the cornerstone not only of the strength of authoritarian society but also of its weakness. Votes: 0

In any situation you can think of, impatience is a source of weakness and fear, while patience represents substance and strength. Votes: 0

The simple faith in progress is not a conviction belonging to strength, but one belonging to acquiescence and hence to weakness. Votes: 0

There seldom is enmity between seasoned old politicians, who know as much as men can of human weakness and human strength. Votes: 0

strength is overcome by weakness/Joy is overcome by Pain/The night is overcome by Brightness/and Love-it remains the same. Votes: 0

In order for us to liberate the energy of our strength, our weakness must first have a chance to reveal itself. Votes: 0

Building up a weakness just makes you less disabled. Building a strength can take you to the top of the world. Votes: 0

Strength and weakness of mind are misnomers; they are really nothing but the good or bad health of our bodily organs. Votes: 0

When danger is far off we may think of our weakness; when it is near we must not forget our strength. Votes: 0

You can fall in the area of your strength as easily as you could fall in the area of your weakness. Votes: 0

If you know your strength it never becomes a weakness. If the market knows your strength then it becomes a weakness. Votes: 0

If your child has a weakness, teach them how to turn it into a strength! The only Failure is not trying. Votes: 0

As the heart is, so is love to the heart. It partakes of its strength or weakness, its health or disease. Votes: 0

Reserve is strength; overstatement is weakness. No one cares to hear the singer's topmost notes when the voice is 'nigh onto breaking. Votes: 0

Nature endows woman alternately with a particular strength which helps her to suffer and a weakness which counsels her to be resigned. Votes: 0

He teaches best, Who feels the hearts of all men in his breast, And knows their strength or weakness through his own. Votes: 0

A person can perform only from strength. One cannot build performance on weakness, let alone on something one cannot do at all. Votes: 0

Looking at her, bedraggled and beaten, some might have seen weakness. He saw strength, determination, and a will no one could crush. Votes: 0

The Elders had nothing but contempt for human emotion; they considered it their biggest weakness. Perenelle knew it was humankind's greatest strength. Votes: 0

Negotiating with the Taliban must be done from a position of strength. Negotiating from a position of weakness would be a disaster. Votes: 0

...as man under pressure tends to give in to physical and intellectual weakness, only great strength of will can lead to the objective. Votes: 0

Husband and wife,--so much in common, how different in type! Such a contrast, and yet such harmony, strength and weakness blended together! Votes: 0

Silence is no weakness of language. It is, on the contrary, its strength. It is the weakness of words not to know this. Votes: 0

The exhibition of real strength is never grotesque. Distortion is the agony of weakness. It is the dislocated mind whose movements are spasmodic. Votes: 0

Bad companies are destroyed by crisis. Good companies survive them. Great individuals, like great companies, find a way to transform weakness into strength. Votes: 0

Find strength in your heartbeat, than weakness with a beat heart. Take each breath as another chance, and love for a new day. Votes: 0

Surrender is not a weakness it is strength.It takes tremendous strength to surrender life to the supreme - to the cosmic unfolding. Votes: 0

If you live by the grace of God and you constantly recognise His grace in your life, then your weakness turns into strength Votes: 0

Thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine, Whose weakness, married to thy stronger state, Makes me with thy strength to communicate. Votes: 0

We are for ever trying to make our weakness look like strength, our sentiment like love, our cowardice like courage, and so on. Votes: 0

Giants are not what we think they are. The same qualities that appear to give them strength are often the sources of great weakness. Votes: 0

Ignorance makes for weakness and fear; knowledge gives strength and confidence. Nothing surprises an intellect that knows all things with a sense of discrimination. Votes: 0

Working on a weakness within a strength zone will always produce positive results. Working on a weakness outside of the strength zone will not. Votes: 0

The great lesson of history for us is that strength and resolve bring peace and order, and weakness and vacillation invite chaos and conflict. Votes: 0

Fathers, your are the head and strength of the family unit. If you are not in place, there is a weakness in the link. Votes: 0

Humility leads to strength and not to weakness. It is the highest form of self-respect to admit mistakes and to make amends for them. Votes: 0

For me, the hero's journey is not the voyage from weakness to strength. The true hero's journey is the voyage from strength to weakness. Votes: 0

A lot of what we experience as strength comes from knowing what to do with weakness. Nickel and Dimed On (Not) Getting By in America Votes: 0

Lord, may the pain be ours, And the weakness that it brings, But at least give us the strength, Of not showing it to anyone! Votes: 0

The role of the leader is to foster mutual respect and build a complementary team where each strength is made productive and each weakness irrelevant. Votes: 0

Giving up is not a sign of weakness but a sign of strength. To know that you can't a win a particular battle is wisdom Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Whenever the strength of a belief strongly steps into the foreground, we must infer a certain weakness of demonstrability and the improbability of that belief. Votes: 0

Truly brilliant marketing happens when you take something most people think of as a weakness and reposition it so people think of it as a strength. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

It was in our power to cause the Arab governments to renounce the policy of strength toward Israel by turning it into a demonstration of weakness. Votes: 0

You know how the Eclipse of the sun shows it? Christ's strength eclipses your powerlessness in God's likeness, and there is total darkness on your weakness. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Weakness employs many weapons in its perpetual war against strength. True strength does not attack; it is too busy enduring attacks, and defending itself against weakness. Votes: 0

America's greatest strength, and its greatest weakness, is our belief in second chances, our belief that we can always start over, that things can be made better. Votes: 0

Humility is not weakness; it is the epitome of strength. Humility moves a person away from human, personal weakness and limitation into divine expression, strength, and expansion. Votes: 0

Never treat somebody’s cleverness as his life’s smartness. Cleverness is to hide the weakness and the smartness is to project the strength of his weakness. Votes: 0

To say that man is a compound of strength and weakness, light and darkness, smallness and greatness, is not to indict him, it is to define him. Votes: 0

No one feels strong when she examines her own weakness. But in facing weakness, you learn how much there is in you, and you find real strength. Votes: 0

At the heart of its strength is a weakness: a lone candle can hold it back. Love is more than a candle, love can ignite the stars. Votes: 0

Strength is not born from strength. Strength can be born only from weakness. So be glad of your weaknesses now, they are the beginnings of your strength. Votes: 0

There is this fine line between presenting to You all of my weakness and thinking that it can't be done. In Your strength, I find my own. Votes: 0

In the stillness of the quiet, if we listen, we can hear the whisper of the heart giving strength to weakness, courage to fear, hope to despair. Votes: 0

An army may be likened to water, for just as flowing water avoids the heights and hastens to the lowlands, so an army avoids strength and strikes weakness. Votes: 0

Meditation is sticking to one thought. That single thought keeps away other thoughts; distraction of mind is a sign of its weakness; by constant meditation it gains strength. Votes: 0

Do you love me enough that I may be weak with you? Everyone loves strength, but do you love me for my weakness? That is the real test. Votes: 0

Soft things are terrifying. They're the real signals of death. Images of strength can never be that terrifying. It's the images of weakness that are a real apocalypse. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

There is no better way to fight weakness than with strength. Once the mind and body have been awakened to their true potential, it's impossible to turn back. Votes: 0

Solitude is strength; to depend on the presence of the crowd is weakness. The man who needs a mob to nerve him is much more alone than he imagines. Votes: 0

Here and there, human nature may be great in times of trial, but generally speaking it is its weakness and not its strength that appears in a sick chamber. Votes: 0

Prayer girds human weakness with divine strength, turns human folly into heavenly wisdom, and gives to troubled mortals the peace of God. We know not what prayer can do. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Man seems merely dust postponed: the sublime as an encounter - pleasurable, intoxicating, even - with human weakness in the face of strength, age and size of the universe. Votes: 0

There is a sort of subjection which is the peculiar heritage of largeness and of love; and strength is often only another name for willing bondage to irremediable weakness. Votes: 0

I believe that in a good collaboration, the authors bring their strengths to the story; one author's strength cancels the other author's weakness, and back and forth it goes. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

An intimate relationship is one in which neither party silences, sacrifices, or betrays the self and each party expresses strength and vulnerability, weakness and competence in a balanced way. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0