“The weak are not a noble breed. Their sublime deeds of faith, daring, and self-sacrifice usually spring from questionable motives. The weak hate not wickedness but weakness; and one instance of their hatred of weakness is hatred of self. All the passionate pursuits of the weak are in some degree a striving to escape, blur, or disguise an unwanted self. It is a striving shot through with malice, envy, self-deception, and a host of petty impulses; yet it often culminates in superb achievements.” SelfHateSacrificeDegreesAchievementSpringWeaknessShotsWeakHatredStrivePassionateDeedsEnvyNoblePursuitInstanceDeceptionImpulseMotiveHostDaringDisguiseSublimeWickednessPettyMaliceSelf DeceptionSelf SacrificeBlurUnwantedQuestionableSuperb Book:The Ordeal of Change Source: The Ordeal of Change
“Fate knows all about you, it knows your fears and your weaknesses and your confidences and strengths, and it can be ready for all of them when it decides that the time is right. It can move you like a pawn in a terrible game of chess, sacrifice you for the good of others, drop you from a building you should never have been inside, give you a disease that no one has ever heard of. Luck and chance are impartial. Fate is active. It picks on people. Almost as if it thinks about things too much.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsGivingShouldHas BeensMovingGamesChanceToo MuchFateHeardSacrificeBuildingReadyTerribleDiseasePicksWeaknessLuckActiveChessChances ArePawnsConfidence And Strength Book:Face Source: Face
“If churches around the world would grasp the revolutionary truth that Christ's transforming power always comes through sacrifice and weakness, it would dramatically alter the landscape of the global church.” IfsWorldChristChurchSacrificeWeaknessAround The WorldLandscapeRevolutionaryTransforming Author:Joni Eareckson Tada
“Well, that's exactly the wrong attitude. That is not the attitude they had in World War II. You're attitude is that freedom means you can do whatever you want whenever you want it. And that sacrifice is somehow un-American. [...] But the idea that we should also be defensive about our flaws and our weaknesses and our vulnerabilities is ridiculous.” WorldWantShouldWellsMeanIdeasWarCan DoAttitudeSacrificeWeaknessRidiculousWar Of The WorldsVulnerabilityFlawsWorld War IiWorld War IDo Whatever You WantWrong Attitude Author:Bill Maher
“Highly unequal societies are morally defective because they get to be that way through the exploitation by the clever and well-positioned ones of the vulnerabilities and weaknesses of others. The well-off then use their acquired political power to refuse to make sacrifices for others. This system brings us a wonderful range of products and experiences for consumers at the top of the privilege scale, but it also degrades and benumbs the workers at the lower end, as Adam Smith and Marx both said.” WayWellsSaidEndsUsePoliticalWonderfulSacrificeProductsWeaknessWorkersPrivilegeRefuseScalesCleverConsumersRangeVulnerabilityAdamExploitationPolitical PowerDegradeSacrifice For OthersDefective Author:Catherine Wilson
“I think thing that makes Batman so endlessly interesting is that he's one of the most flawed and deeply human characters, even though he seems completely the most inhuman and infallible in costume. Psychologically he's one of the most complicated in both his strengths and his weaknesses. For me, one of his great strengths and weaknesses is that confidence. His emotional self-protection is one of the things that makes him heroic and sacrificing; he doesn't have a personal life. He sacrifices those to be the best hero he can be.” ThinkingHumansSelfCharacterSeemsInterestingSacrificeEmotionalHeroWeaknessComplicatedProtectionBeing The BestHeroicPersonal LifeCostumesFlawedInfallibleInhumanStrength And WeaknessSelf ProtectionBest Hero Author:Scott Snyder
“A sacrifice to be real must cost, must hurt, and must empty ourselves. Give yourself fully to God. He will use you to accomplish great things on the condition that you believe much more in his love than in your weakness.” GivingBelieveRealUseHurtSacrificeConditionsCostWeaknessEmptyAccomplishGreat ThingsBeing RealHis LoveCalcuttaSpiritual LoveInspiring Love Author:Mother Teresa
“Oh, Black known and unknown poets, how often have your auctioned pains sustained us? Who will compute the lonely nights made less lonely by your songs, or by the empty pots made less tragic by your tales? If we were a people much given to revealing secrets, we might raise monuments and sacrifice to the memories of our poets, but slavery cured us of that weakness.” PeopleIfsInspirationalMadeMightPainNightSongGivenBlackMemoriesSecretKnownSacrificePoetWeaknessLonelyEmptyRaisesSlaveryTalesTragicPotRevealingMonumentLonely Nights Author:Maya Angelou
“When pressure mounts and strain increases everyone begins to show the weaknesses in his makeup. It is up to the Commander to conceal his: above all to conceal doubt, fear, and distrust.” ShowsDoubtSacrificeWeaknessIncreasePressureMakeupDistrustStrainCommandersGhettoD Day Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower