Best weakness & causes Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“From powerful causes spring the empiric's gains, Man's love of life, his weakness, and his pains; These first induce him the vile trash to try, Then lend his name, that other men may buy.”

Men Trying Firsts May Pain Names Causes Powerful Spring Weakness Gains Love Life Trash Quackery

Book:The Poetical Works with His Letters and Journals and His Life by His Son. - London, John Murray 1834

Source: The Poetical Works with His Letters and Journals and His Life by His Son. - London, John Murray 1834

“Strength must build up, not destroy. It should outdo itself, not others who are weaker. Used without responsibility, it causes nothing but harm and death. I can lift the heaviest weights, but I can not take the responsibility off my shoulders. Because the way we use our strength defines our fate. What traces will I leave on my path into the future? Do we really have to kill in order to live? My true strength lies in not seeing weakness as weakness. My strength needs no victims. My strength is my compassion.”

Way Needs Should I Can Use Used Lying Order Causes Responsibility Compassion Path Fate Seeing Weakness Weight Victim Harm Shoulders Lifts Can Not True Strength

Author:Patrik Baboumian

“It is weakness which makes us hate an enemy and seek revenge, and it is idleness that pacifies us and causes us to neglect it.”

Hate Causes Enemy Weakness Revenge Neglect Idleness

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“Patience is only one faculty; earnestness the devotion of all the faculties. Earnestness is the cause of patience; it gives endurance, overcomes pain, strengthens weakness, braves dangers, sustains hope, makes light of difficulties, and lessens the sense of weariness in overcoming them.”

Giving Light Pain Causes Danger Weakness Overcoming Difficulty Brave Devotion Endurance Faculty Weariness Earnestness Overcoming Pain

Author:Christian Nestell Bovee

“And though I have done many shameful things, I am not ashamed of who I am. I am not ashamed of who I am because I know who I am. I have tried to rip myself open and expose everything inside - accepting my weaknesses and strengths - not trying to be anyone else. 'Cause that never works, does it?So my challenge is to be authentic. An I believe I am today. I believe I am.”

Knows Trying Believe Doe Done Today I Believe Causes Challenges Accepting Weakness Who I Am Ashamed Rip Shameful Strength And Weakness Tweak

Book:Tweak: Growing up on Crystal Meth

Source: Tweak: Growing up on Crystal Meth

“Few things are more agreeable to self-love than revenge, and yet no cause so effectually restrains us from revenge as self-love. And this paradox naturally suggests another; that the strength of the community is not unfrequently built upon the weakness of those individuals that compose it.”

Self Individual Causes Community Self Love Weakness Built Revenge Paradox

Book:Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

“People with really weak characters cause an immense amount of suffering in the world. They destroy whole civilisations.”

People World Whole Character Suffering Causes Amount Weakness Weak Immense Civilisation Weak Character

Book:A gesture of belonging: letters from Bessie Head, 1965-1979

Source: A gesture of belonging: letters from Bessie Head, 1965-1979

“Passionate expression and vehement assertion are no arguments, unless it be of the weakness of the cause that is defended by them, or of the man that defends it.”

Men Causes He Man Expression Weakness Argument Passionate Assertion Vehement

Author:William Chillingworth

“When (an advocate) is not thoroughly acquainted with the real strength and weakness of his cause, he knows not where to choose the most impressive argument. When the mark is shrouded in obscurity, the only substitute for accuracy in the aim is in the multitude of the shafts.”

Knows Real Causes Weakness Argument Mark Aim Substitutes Multitudes Impressive Obscurity Accuracy Strength And Weakness Real Strength

Book:Lectures on Rhetoric and Oratory: Delivered to the Classes of Senior and Junior Sophisters in Harvard University

Source: Lectures on Rhetoric and Oratory: Delivered to the Classes of Senior and Junior Sophisters in Harvard University

“It is a confession of the weakness of our own faith in the righteousness of our cause when we attempt to suppress by law those who do not agree with us.”

Law Causes Weakness Agree Righteousness Confession

Author:Al Smith

“All that causes one man to differ from another is a very slight thing. What is it that is the origin of beauty or ugliness, health or weakness, ability or stupidity? A slight difference in the organs, a little more or a little less bile. Yet this more or less is of infinite importance to men; and when they think otherwise they are mistaken.”

Thinking Men Littles Causes Differences Ability Weakness Importance Infinite Stupidity Distinction One Man Organs Mistaken Ugliness

Author:Luc de Clapiers

“It is not the mediocrity of women's education which makes their weakness; it is their weakness which necessarily causes their mediocrity.”

Causes Education Weakness Mediocrity Women's Education

Author:Joseph de Maistre

“The inner speech, your thoughts, can cause you to be rich or poor, loved or unloved, happy or unhappy, attractive or unattractive, powerful or weak.”

Love Causes Poor Powerful Rich Speech Weakness Weak Unhappy Attractive Affirmation Unattractive Attractiveness Unloved Self Talk Rich Or Poor Being Unloved

Author:Ralph Charell

“It is weakness, says the Vedanta, which is the cause of all misery in this world. Weakness is the one cause of suffering. We become miserable because we are weak. We lie, steal, kill and commit other crimes, because we are weak. We die because we are weak. Where there is nothing to weaken us, there is no death nor sorrow. We are miserable through delusion. Give up the delusion and the whole thing vanishes.”

World Giving Whole Lying Suffering Dies Causes Strength Crime This World Sorrow Giving Up Weakness Weak Misery Stealing Commit Miserable Delusion Vedanta

Author:Swami Vivekananda

“The best way of losing a cause is to abuse your opponent and to trade upon his weakness.”

Way Causes Losing Weakness Abuse Trade Best Way Opponents

Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

“To bring the worst of the worst terrorists inside the United States would be cause for great danger and regret in the years to come. It is recklessness cloaked in righteousness, and would make the American people less safe.”

People States Would Be Opportunity Causes United Leader United States Gone Worst Danger Safe Weakness Unity Terrorist Resolve Righteousness Distracted Recklessness

Author:Dick Cheney

“Regardless of its causes, thoughtlessly blaming the present is a weakness which, even if it is never outlawed, ought to be resisted. Though commonly flaunted as a sign of sophistication, it can be an opportunity for one-upmanship and an excuse for misanthropy, especially against the young.”

Ifs Young Opportunity Causes Ought Weakness Blame Excuse Sophistication Misanthropy

Author:Steven Pinker

“I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.”

Causes Effects Weakness Seeking Disaster Sequence Cause And Effect Atrocities

Book:The Collected Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

Source: The Collected Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

“Upon reflection, I decided I had three main weaknesses: I was confused (evidenced by a lack of facts, an inability to coordinate my thoughts, and an inability to verbalize my ideas); I had a lack of confidence, which cause me to back down from forcefully stated positions; and I was overly emotional at the expense of careful, 'scientific' though. I was thirty-seven years old and still discovering who I was.”

Source: My Life in France

“I've always had a weakness for lost causes once they're really lost.”

Lost Causes Weakness Lost Cause Scarlett O Hara Rhett Butler

Author:Margaret Mitchell

“Hearken, my believing reader. What is the cause of your weakness? Is it not because the fountain of life is little used? Is it not because you are resting on old experiences, and not daily gathering new manna—daily drawing new strength from Christ?”

Believe Littles Life Is Used Causes Christ Reader Weakness Drawing Fountain Gathering

Book:Old Paths: Being Plain Statements on Some of the Weightier Matters of Christianity

Source: Old Paths: Being Plain Statements on Some of the Weightier Matters of Christianity

“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

“This curious faith is predicated on the notion that we will soon develop unlimited new sources of energy: domestic oil fields, shale oil, gasified coal, nuclear power, solar energy, and so on. This is fantastical because the basic cause of the energy crisis is not scarcity: it is moral ignorance and weakness of character. We don't know how to use energy or what to use it for. And we cannot restrain ourselves. Our time is characterized as much by the abuse and waste of human energy as it is by the abuse and waste of fossil fuel energy.”

Source: The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture

“We could not guard every water pipeline from being blown up and every tree from being uprooted. We could not prevent every murder of a worker in an orchard or a family in their beds. But it was in our power to set high price for our blood, a price too high for the Arab community, the Arab army, or the Arab governments to think it worth paying... It was in our power to cause the Arab governments to renounce 'the policy of strength' toward Israel by turning it into a demonstration of weakness.”

Thinking Government Causes Water Community Tree Blood Policy Bed Weakness Army Murder Workers Israel Palestinian Demonstration Renounce Orchard Pipeline High Prices

Author:Moshe Dayan

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