Quotes about weakness

And he has said to me, My grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness. Most gladly, therefore, I will rather boast about my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may dwell in me. [2 Corinthians 12:9]

— Bible

The weak have one weapon: the errors of those who think they are strong.

— George Bidault

The greatest weakness of all is the great fear of appearing weak.

— Jacques BeNigne Bossuet

The yielding of the weak is the concession to fear.

— Edmund Burke

Weak souls always set to work at the wrong time.

— Cardinal De Rets

The weak are the most treacherous of us all. They come to the strong and drain them. They are bottomless. They are insatiable. They are always parched and always bitter. They are everyone's concern and like vampires they suck our life's blood.

— Bette Davis

The weak are more likely to make the strong weak than the strong are likely to make the weak strong.

— Marlene Dietrich

Our strength grows out of our weakness.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The weakest spot in any person is where they think themselves to be the wisest.

— G. Emmons

Man's biological weakness is the condition of human culture.

— Erich Fromm

The weakest and most timorous are the most revengeful and implacable.

— Thomas Fuller

Some of our weakness is born in us, some of it comes through education; it is a big question as to which gives us the most trouble.

— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

It is a talent of the weak to persuade themselves that they suffer for something when they suffer from something; that they are showing the way when they are running away; that they see the light when they feel the heat; that they are chosen when they are shunned.

— Eric Hoffer

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

— Thomas Kempis

We are more often treacherous, through weakness than through calculation.

— Francois De La Rochefoucauld

There are two kinds of weakness, that which breaks and that which bends.

— James Russell Lowell

A woman of mystique is fully aware of her flaws and weaknesses, yet she is strong enough to admit them and not be embarrassed by them.

— Jean Lush

Human love is often but the encounter of two weaknesses.

— Francois Mauriac

Weaklings must lie.

— Jean Paul Richter

Build up your weaknesses until they become your strong points.

— Knute Rockne

All cruelty springs from weakness.

— Seneca

Union of the weakest develops strength not wisdom. Can all men, together, avenge one of the leaves that have fallen in autumn? But the wise man avenges by building his city in snow.

— Wallace Stevens

You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?

— Robert Louis Stevenson

She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness.

— Oscar Wilde

Come out from within yourself, speak out.

— Dejan Stojanovic

Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence.

— Dorothy Dix

Verily, I have often laughed at the weaklings who thought themselves good because they had no claws.

— Friedrich Nietzsche