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“[The] weakness of biological balance studies has aptly been illustrated by comparison with the working of a slot machine. A penny brings forth one package of chewing gum; two pennies bring forth two. Interpreted according to the reasoning of balance physiology, the first observation is an indication of the conversion of copper into gum; the second constitutes proof.”

“To the humble, the Lord has given this promise: "If men come unto me I will show unto them their weakness. I give unto men weakness that they may be humble; and my grace is sufficient for all men that humble themselves before me."”

Ifs Men Giving May Shows Strong Grace Humility Weakness Weak Humble Sufficient Have Faith Be Humble

Author:Ezra Taft Benson

“Humility does not mean weakness. It does not mean timidity. It does not mean fear. A man can be humble and fearless. A man can be humble and courageous.”

Men Mean Doe Humility Weakness Humble Fearless Courageous Be Humble Timidity

Book:Come unto Christ

Source: Come unto Christ

“To lack confidence is to have feelings of low self-worth. We are preoccupied with our weaknesses, and we lack faith in the Lord's ability to use those weaknesses for our good. We do not understand our inestimable worth in the eyes of God, nor do we appreciate our divine potential. Ironically, both pride and a lack of self-confidence cause us to focus excessively on ourselves and to deny the power of God in our lives.”

Self Use Feelings Eye Causes Ability Lord Focus Our Lives Humility Divine Pride Lows Weakness Appreciate Deny Self Confidence Self Worth Power Of God Lack Of Self Confidence

Author:Glenn L. Pace

“These fiery trials are designed to make you stronger, but they have the potential to diminish or even destroy your trust in the Son of God and to weaken your resolve to keep your promises to Him. These trials are often camouflaged, making them difficult to identify. They take root in our weaknesses, our vulnerabilities, our sensitivities, or in those things that matter most to us. A real but manageable test for one can be a fiery trial for another.”

Real Matter Difficult Son Promise Weakness Roots Tests Stronger Adversity Trials Vulnerability Resolve Sensitivity Diminish Fiery Things That Matter Manageable Makes You Stronger

Author:Neil L. Andersen

“Actually, the inability of any society to resist immigration, the inability to find other solutions to the problem of employment at the lower, more physical, and menial levels of the economic process, is a serious weakness, and possibly even a fatal one, in any national society. The fully healthy society would find ways to meet those needs out of its own resources.”

Way Needs Problem Process Levels Economic Serious Healthy Solutions Weakness Resources Immigration Employment Inability Healthy Society

Author:George F. Kennan

“Hang on the walls of your mind the memory of your successes. Take counsel of your strength, not your weakness. Think of the good jobs you have done. For whenever excellence is recounted, it is increased.”

Thinking Mind Done Jobs Memories Self Esteem Wall Weakness Excellence Esteem Good Job

Author:Sterling W Sill

“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.”

Self Form Mistake Humility Highest Respect Weakness Humble Self Respect Be Humble Amends Humility And Leadership

Author:John J. McCloy

“The power of God is effective when a person asks for the help from God, acknowledging his own weakness and sinfulness. This is why humility and the striving towards God are the fundamental virtues of a Christian.”

Persons Helping Christian Asks Virtue Humility Weakness Fundamentals Strive Power Of God God Help Sinfulness

Author:John of Shanghai and San Francisco

“I do not share the crusading spirit of the professional atheist whose fervor is mostly due to a painful act of liberation from the fetters of religious indoctrination received in youth. I prefer an attitude of humility corresponding to the weakness of our intellectual understanding of nature and of our own being.”

“War rages on the teeming earth; The hot and sanguinary fight Begins with each new creature's birth: A dreadful war where might is right; Where still the strongest slay and win, Where weakness is the only sin.”

Men Stills War Might Earth Fighting Winning Sin Birth Creatures Weakness Hot Rage Strongest Might Is Right

Book:The Ascent of Man

Source: The Ascent of Man

“You do not know the unfathomable cowardice of humanity...servile in the face of force, pitiless in the face of weakness, implacable before blunders, indulgent before crimes...and patient to the point of martyrdom before all the violences of bold despotism.”

Knows Faces Humanity Force Liberty Violence Crime Weakness Patient Cowardice Despotism Martyrdom Blunders Unfathomable

Author:Niccolo Machiavelli

“Even if no command to pray had existed, our very weakness would have suggested it.”

Ifs Prayer Praying Weakness Command

Author:Francois Fenelon

“The child of God ought to confess his weakness that he does not know how to pray, and petition the Holy Spirit to teach him.”

Knows Children Doe Spirit Prayer Teach Know How Ought Praying Holy Weakness Holy Spirit Child Of God Petitions

Book:Journeying Towards the Spiritual: A Digest of the Spiritual Man in 42 Lessons

Source: Journeying Towards the Spiritual: A Digest of the Spiritual Man in 42 Lessons

“Non-violent resistance implies the very opposite of weakness. Defiance combined with non-retaliatory acceptance of repression from one's opponents is active, not passive. It requires strength, and there is nothing automatic or intuitive about the resoluteness required for using non-violent methods in political struggle and the quest for Truth.”

“It is far better to know our own weaknesses and failures than to point out those of others.”

Knows Humorous Weakness

Book:India's foreign policy: selected speeches, September 1946-April 1961

Source: India's foreign policy: selected speeches, September 1946-April 1961

“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.”

Knows Giving Humans Turns Can Do Prayer Divine Weakness Mortals Folly Heavenly Human Folly

Book:Morning by Morning

Source: Morning by Morning

“The real victim of bigotry is the white man who hides his weakness under his myth of superiority.”

Men Real Culture Justice White Diversity Weakness Victim Social Justice Myth Bigotry Superiority White Man

Author:James A. Baldwin

“I write from my knowledge not my lack, from my strength not my weakness. I am not interested if anyone knows whether or not I am familiar with big words, I am interested in trying to render big ideas in a simple way. I am interested in being understood not admired.”

Ifs Knows Way Writing Trying Ideas Bigs Culture Justice Simple Diversity Understood Weakness Social Justice Familiar Not Interested Big Ideas Simple Ways

Author:Lucille Clifton

“It would be an endless task to trace the variety of meannesses, cares, and sorrows into which women are plunged by the prevailing opinion that they were created rather to feel than reason, and that all the power they obtain must be obtained by their charms and weaknesses.”

Feels Reason Would Be Care Justice Opinion Sorrow Diversity Weakness Tasks Social Justice Endless Variety Charm Prevailing Meanness

Author:Mary Wollstonecraft

“In the many trials of life, when we feel abandoned and when sorrow, sin, disappointment, failure, and weakness make us less than we should ever be, there can come the healing salve of the unreserved love in the grace of God. It is a love that lifts and blesses. It is a love that sustains a new beginning on a higher level and thereby continues "from grace to grace."”

Life Feels Should Sin Levels Healing Grace Failure Higher Sorrow Weakness Disappointment Trials Lifts Bless Abandoned New Beginnings Grace Of God Higher Level

Author:James E. Faust

“Outside of Christ, I am only a sinner, but in Christ, I am saved. Outside of Christ, I am empty; in Christ, I am full. Outside of Christ, I am weak; in Christ, I am strong. Outside of Christ, I cannot; in Christ, I am more than able. Outside of Christ, I have been defeated; in Christ, I am already victorious. How meaningful are the words, "in Christ."”

Source: Secrets to Spiritual Power: From the Writings of Watchman Nee

“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.”

Inspirational Giving Wisdom Lying Wise Positive Thinking Succeed Giving Up Weakness Perseverance Persistence Persist Never Giving Up Given Up Persevere Don't Give Up Student Success Great Success Rehabilitation Motivational Success Motivational Sales Achieved Success Determination Perseverance Never Surrender Never Give Up On Something Perseverance And Determination Determination And Persistence Failure Motivational Great Perseverance Great Determination Positive Thinking Success Just Give Up I Will Never Give Up Inspirational Career Achievement And Success Inspirational Positive Attitude Professional Career Great Sales Motivational Career Never Give Up Hope Motivational Job Sales People Way To Success Student Motivation I Will Not Give Up Never Give Up Motivational Career Motivation Trying To Succeed Short Never Give Up Student Motivational Motivational Keep Going Exam Motivational Positive Motivational Famous Never Give Up Feel Like Giving Up Positive Thinking Motivational Motivate Students

Author:Thomas A. Edison

“The terrorists thought they would change my aims and stop my ambitions. But nothing changed in my life except this: weakness, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage was born.”

“Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.”

Life Art War Wisdom Strong Strength Weakness Weak Deception Deceit Thought Provoking Art Of War Wise Man Once Said Appearing Trickery Weak And Strong

Author:Sun Tzu

“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.”

May Art War Water Weakness Army Strikes Height Art Of War Flowing Water

Book:The Art of War

Source: The Art of War

“When strong, avoid them. If of high morale, depress them. Seem humble to fill them with conceit. If at ease, exhaust them. If united, separate them. Attack their weaknesses. Emerge to their surprise.”

Ifs Art War Seems Strong United Weakness Surprise Humble Ease Depressing Art Of War Conceit Morale

Author:Sun Tzu

“Members of trusting teams admit weaknesses and mistakes, take risks in offering feedback and assistance, and focus time and energy on important issues, not politics.”

Important Energy Mistake Issues Focus Risk Team Conflict Members Weakness Collaboration Offering Assistance Feedback Consensus Time And Energy Important Issues

Author:Patrick Lencioni

“Beer is the Danish national drink, and the Danish national weakness is another beer.”

Food Drink Weakness Cooking Beer Culinary Danish

Author:Clementine Paddleford

“Golf is said to be an humbling game, but it is surprising how many people are either not aware of their weaknesses of else reckless of consequences.”

People Said Games Weakness Consequence Golf Surprising Reckless Humbling

Author:Bobby Jones

“A saying from the area of Chinese medicine would be appropriate to mention here: "One disease, long life; no disease, short life." In other words, those who know what's wrong with them and take care of themselves accordingly will tend to live a lot longer than those who consider themselves perfectly happy and neglect their weakness. So, in that sense at least, a Weakness of some sort can do you a big favor, if you acknowledge that it's there.”

Ifs Knows Long Bigs Would Be Care Can Do Strength Acceptance Disease Weakness Areas Medicine Take Care Favors Chinese Acknowledge Appropriate Neglect Long Life Short Life Chinese Medicine

Author:Benjamin Hoff

“The complementary movement towards divine love is growth in humility which is the acceptence of the reality about ourselves, our own weakness and limitations.”

Love Reality Growth Love Is Movement Acceptance Humility Divine Weakness Limitation Divine Love Complementary

Author:Thomas Keating

“When a man has once brought himself to accept uncritically all the absurdities that religious doctrines put before him and even to overlook the contradictions between them, we need not be greatly suprised at the weakness of his intellect.”

Men Needs Religious Accepting Acceptance Weakness Intellect Doctrine Contradiction Absurdity

Book:The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud

Source: The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud

“The greatest strength any human being an have is to recognize his or her own weaknesses. When you identify your weaknesses, you can begin to remedy them - or at least figure out how to work around them.”

Humans Human Beings Figures Basketball Weakness Remedy Famous Basketball

Book:Reach for the Summit

Source: Reach for the Summit

“Team leaders have to connect with their team and themselves. If they don't know their team's strengths and weaknesses, they cannot hand off responsibilities to the team. And if they don't know their own strengths and weaknesses, they will not hand off responsibilities to the team.”

Ifs Knows Hands Responsibility Leader Team Building Weakness Team Building Strength And Weakness Team Leader

Author:John C. Maxwell

“The prayer power has never been tried to its full capacity...if we want to see mighty wonders of divine power and grace wrought in the place of weakness, failure and disappointment, let us answer God's standing challenge, "Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and show thee great and mighty things which thou knowest not."”

Ifs Want Shows Might Challenges Prayer Answers Wonder Grace Divine Weakness Capacity Standing Disappointment Thee Divine Power Answers To Prayer

Author:Hudson Taylor

“Life never forgives weaknesses.”

Nations Weakness Forgiving Never Forgive

Author:Adolf Hitler

“I have not come into this world to make men better, but to make use of their weaknesses.”

Men World Use Nations This World Weakness

Author:Adolf Hitler

“In the weakness of one kind of authority, and in the fluctuation of all, the officers of an army will remain for some time mutinous and full of faction, until some popular general, who understands the art of conciliating the soldiery, and who possesses the true spirit of command, shall draw the eyes of all men upon himself. Armies will obey him on his personal account. There is no other way of securing military obedience in this state of things.”

Source: Reflections on the Revolution in France and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event: 1790

“Ambition is not a weakness unless it be disproportioned to the capacity. To have more ambition than ability is to be at once weak and unhappy.”

Ability Ambition Weakness Capacity Weak Unhappy

Book:A Memorial of Daniel Webster: From the City of Boston

Source: A Memorial of Daniel Webster: From the City of Boston

“Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity, and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness, and ugliness.”

World Want Life Important Success Money Beauty Honor Healthy Weakness Important Things Illness Generosity Sarcastic Ugliness Disgrace Meanness

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“Strength alone knows conflict, weakness is born vanquished.”

Knows Born Strength Conflict Weakness Vanquish

Author:Sophie Swetchine

“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.”

Shows Doubt Sacrifice Weakness Increase Pressure Makeup Distrust Strain Commanders Ghetto D Day

Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower

“True spirit of Judo is nothing but the gentle and diligent free spirit. Judo rests on flexible action of mind and body. The word flexible however never means weakness but something more like adaptability and openmindedness. Gentleness always overcomes strength.”

Mind Mean Body Action Spirit Strength Words Of Wisdom Weakness Overcoming Gentle Gentleness Flexible Mind And Body Diligence Open Minded Adaptability Free Spirit Diligent Judo

Author:Kyuzo Mifune

“Give us, O God, the vision which can see Your love in the world in spite of human failure. Give us the faith to trust Your goodness in spite of our ignorance and weakness. Give us the knowledge that we may continue to pray with understanding hearts. And show us what each one of us can do to set forward the coming of the day of universal peace.”

“Arbitrary rule has its basis, not in the strength of the state or the chief, but in the moral weakness of the individual, who submits almost without resistance to the domineering power.”

States Individual Freedom Moral Democracy Revolution Weakness Bases Resistance Chiefs Submit Arbitrary

Author:Friedrich Ratzel

“Not to be afflicted is a sign of weakness; for, therefore God imposeth no more on me, because He sees I can bear no more.”

I Can Christian Religious Bears Weakness Adversity Thanksgiving Affliction

Book:The Works of Joseph Hall: Devotional works; Miscellaneous theology

Source: The Works of Joseph Hall: Devotional works; Miscellaneous theology

“Pride and weakness are Siamese twins.”

Pride Weakness Twins

Book:Conversations on Some of the Old Poets

Source: Conversations on Some of the Old Poets

“The mother is everything - she is our consolation in sorrow, our hope in misery, and our strength in weakness. She is the source of love, mercy, sympathy, and forgiveness. He who loses his mother loses a pure soul who blesses and guards him constantly”

Soul Mother Loses Source Sorrow Pure Weakness Mercy Misery Motherhood Bless Consolation Pure Soul

Author:Khalil Gibran

“For there is a great difference in delivery of the mathematics , which are the most abstracted of knowledges, and policy , which is the most immersed. And howsoever contention hath been moved , touching a uniformity of method in multiformity of matter, yet we see how that opinion, besides the weakness of it, hath been of ill desert towards learning, as that which taketh the way to reduce learning to certain empty and barren generalities; being but the very husks and shells of sciences, all the kernel being forced out and expulsed with the torture and press of the method.”

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