Weakness Quotes

Overlook and forgive the weaknesses of the generous people because if they fall down, God will help them.
Ali bin Abu-Talib



The weakness of little children's limbs is innocent, not their souls.
St. Augustine of Hippo



If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?
Lois McMaster Bujold



We all have a weakness for beauty.
Albert Camus



The scoundrel has his good qualities, and the good man his weaknesses.
Pierre Ambroise Franois Choderlos de Laclos



Simon: "Love isn't a weakness." Lilith: "Oh, isn't it?"
Cassandra Clare



Faith of consciousness is freedom Faith of feeling is weakness Faith of body is stupidity.
Georges Ivanovich Gurdjieff



And thou, who didst the stars and sunbeams know, Self-school'd, self-scann'd, self-honour'd, self-secure, Didst tread on earth unguess'd at. Better so! All pains the immortal spirit must endure, All weakness which impairs, all griefs which bow, Find their sole speech in that victorious brow.
Matthew Arnold



Physician of the Iron Age, Goethe has done his pilgrimage. He took the suffering human race, He read each wound, each weakness clear And struck his finger on the place, And said Thou ailest here, and here.
Matthew Arnold



Life more often teaches us how to perfect our weaknesses than how to develop our strengths.
Elizabeth (Asquith) Bibesco



The greatest weakness of all weaknesses is to fear too much to appear weak.
Jacques-Bnigne Bossuet



I know that if I am not at my best and I do not perform I will lose. I'm never over-confident. Over-confidence is a weakness because it stops you training as hard as you should. It has happened to fighters like Naseem Hamed and Lennox Lewis. Complacency beats fighters.
Joe Calzaghe



Lets not beat around the bush; I love life thats my real weakness. I love it so much that I am incapable of imagining what is not life.
Albert Camus



I will not be tamed, only persuaded. I will not be coerced or led blindly or tricked or bullied - I am willing only to be convinced. If you don't trust your own basic goodness enough to tell me what you're trying to do... Then you're confessing your own moral weakness and I'll never serve you.
Orson Scott Card



I interpreted all you did as weakness but I should have known that it was wisdom and strength, freely shared with all of us, even the ones who don't deserve it.
Orson Scott Card





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