If we know anything, it is that weakness is provocative.

But laughter is weakness, corruption, the foolishness of our flesh.

I think we’re all constantly searching for who we are.

Our Lord has many weak children in his family, many dull pupils in his school, many raw soldiers in his army, many lame sheep in his flock. Yet he bears with them all, and casts none away. Happy is that Christian who has learned to do likewise with his brethren.

Men fall in private long before they fall in public.

Humility can weep over other men’s weaknesses, and joy and rejoice over their graces

It is good to be often reminded of the inconsistency of human nature, and to learn to look without wonder or disgust on the weaknesses which are found in the strongest minds

I don’t want to be part of a world where being kind is a weakness.

Compared with White Fang, they were frail and flabby, and clutched life without any strength in their grip. White Fang had come straight from the Wild, where the weak perish early and shelter is vouchsafed to none. In neither his father nor his mother was there any weakness, nor in the generations before them.

John Barleycorn makes his appeal to weakness and failure, to weariness and exhaustion. He is the easy way out. And he is lying all the time. He offers false strength to the body, false elevation to the spirit, making things seem what they are not and vastly fairer than what they are.

The acknowledgment of our weakness is the first step in repairing our loss.

You will never be an inwardly religious and devout man unless you pass over in silence the shortcomings of your fellow men, and diligently examine your own weaknesses

He must master or be mastered; while to show mecy was a weakness. Mercy did not exist in the primordial life. It was misunderstood for fear, and such misunderstandings made for death. Kill or be killed, eat or be eaten, was the law; and this mandate, down out of the depths of Time, he obeyed.

Any system that is built on a false understanding of human nature is doomed to fail. Building a society where the primary objective is to protect one’s fragile self-esteem from the dangers of competition will only lead to a society of weakness, entitlement, and apathy. Life is necessarily competitive; society is necessarily hierarchical. It does no one any favors to pursue a utopian vision of society where no one’s feelings are hurt.

What a joy to remember that she is our Mother! Since she loves us and knows our weakness, what have we to fear?

True charity consists in putting up with all one’s neighbors fault’s; never being surprised by his weakness, and being inspired by the least of his virtues

Perfect love means putting up with other peoples shortcomings, feeling no surprise at their weaknesses, finding encouragement even in the slightest evidence of good qualities in them

It is my weakness that gives me all my strength.

Holiness is a disposition of the heart that makes us humble and little in the arms of God, aware of our weakness, and confident – in the most audacious way – in His Fatherly goodness

My biggest weakness is steak. I have to be careful not to eat too much of it these days – but I do love it done medium rare, with peppercorn sauce.

Strength is overcome by weakness/Joy is overcome by Pain/The night is overcome by Brightness/and Love-it remains the same

Emotions are my weakness. It is in my blood. It is very difficult to control.

The Congresswoman was depressed by the fact that a woman of her standing could no longer count on making it to the rest room “in time” during the extensive rehabilitation that followed her shooting. Her husband, commander of a space shuttle crew, encouraged her by identifying with her limitation. Even revered astronauts, he revealed, have bodily limits and have to rely on Huggies during extended launch exercises.

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time

Being vulnerable is not a weakness, it’s a sign of strength and authenticity.

As far as I am concerned, I resign from humanity. I no longer want to be, nor can still be, a man. What should I do? Work for a social and political system, make a girl miserable? Hunt for weaknesses in philosophical systems, fight for moral and esthetic ideals? It’s all too little. I renounce my humanity even though I may find myself alone. But am I not already alone in this world from which I no longer expect anything?

I tremble for my country when I hear of confidence expressed in me. I know too well my weakness, that our only hope is in God.

Our greatest strength is realized when we feel and acknowledge our weakness.

A life in Christ is a life of restfulness. There may be no ecstasy of feeling, but there should be an abiding peaceful trust. Your hope is not in yourself; it is in Christ. Your weakness is united to His strength, your ignorance to His wisdom, your frailty to His enduring might….Let the mind dwell upon His love, upon the beauty, the perfection of His character.

Every man has his little weakness. It often takes the form of a desire to get something for nothing.

Sometimes the truth hurts. It hurts because they have a weakness – and I exploit weakness.

Your concentration must come as easily as the breath. Fix yourself on one thing and try to hold onto it. All will come right. Meditation is sticking to one thought. That single thought keeps away other thoughts. The dissipated mind is a sign of its weakness. By constant meditation it gains strength.

By themselves, character and integrity do not accomplish anything. But their absence faults everything else. Here, therefore, is the one area where weakness is a disqualification by itself rather than a limitation on performance capacity and strength.

A manager’s task is to make the strengths of people effective and their weakness irrelevant – and that applies fully as much to the manager’s boss as it applies to the manager’s subordinates.

Some of the best business and nonprofit CEOs I’ve worked with over a sixty-five-year consulting career were not stereotypical leaders. They were all over the map in terms of their personalities, attitudes, values, strengths, and weaknesses.

We can’t make people better by trying to eliminate their weaknesses, but we can help then perform better by building on their strengths.

Strong people have strong weaknesses.

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

Cultivate a deep understanding of yourself – not only what your strengths and weaknesses are but also how you learn, how you work with others, what your values are, and where you can make the greatest contribution. Because only when you operate from strengths can you achieve true excellence.

The task of management is to make people capable of joint performance, to make their strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant.

It is through weakness and vulnerability that most of us learn empathy and compassion and discover our soul.

You cannot build performance on weaknesses. You can build only on strengths.

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

Tested faith brings experience. You would never have believed your own weakness had you not needed to pass through trials. And you would never have known God’s strength had His strength not been needed to carry you through.

Don’t ever mistake my silence for ignorance, my calmness for acceptance or my kindness for weakness. Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength.

When divine strength comes, human weakness is no more a hindrance.

My own weakness makes me shrink, but God’s promise makes me brave.

So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.

‎And yet I have had the weakness, and have still the weakness, to wish you to know with what a sudden mastery you kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into fire.

The valor that struggles is better than the weakness that endures.

Part of the problem with America is that letting go of emotions is viewed as a weakness, but it’s my strength. That enabled me to write my songs.

Whether it is in the United States or in mainland Europe, written constitutions have one great weakness. That is that they contain the potential to have judges take decisions which should properly be made by democratically elected politicians.

Hard people are weak people whom nobody wants, and the strong, caring little whether they are wanted or not, have alone that meekness which the common herd mistake for weakness.

I’m learning to use others’ weaknesses. I don’t hammer a man’s soft spot constantly, because he may strengthen it. I just save it as a trump up my sleeve for moments when I really need a point.

I’ve always had a weakness for foreign affairs.

We have all feet of clay, women as well as men; but when we men love women, we love them knowing their weaknesses, their follies, their imperfections, love them all the more, it may be, for that reason

Some women have a weakness for shoes. I can go barefoot if necessary. I have a weakness for books.

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one’s weakness.

Prayer is a confession of one’s own unworthiness and weakness.

Doubt is invariably the result of want or weakness of faith.

I grew up in an environment where being polite was taken as a weakness. So, I just fought everybody

If we do not know ourselves to be full of pride, ambition, lust, weakness, misery, and injustice, we are indeed blind. And if, knowing this, we do not desire deliverance, what can we say of a man…?

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

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

One of the main weaknesses of mankind is the average person’s familiarity with the word “impossible

He that can carp in the most eloquent or acute manner at the weakness of the human mind is held by his fellows as almost divine.

The more alike men are, the weaker each feels in the face of all.

One of the most ordinary weaknesses of the human intellect is to seek to reconcile contrary principles, and to purchase peace at the expense of logic

United you will be more than a match for your enemies. But if you quarrel and separate, your weakness will put you at the mercy of those who attack you

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

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.