Best weakness & firsts Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“That man is formed for social life is an observation which, upon our first inquiry, presents itself immediately to our view, and our reason approves that wise and generous principle which actuated the first founders of civil government, an institution which hat its origin in the weakness of individuals, and hath for its end the strength and security of all; and so long as the means of effecting this important end are thoroughly known and religiously attended to government is one of the richest blessings to mankind, and ought to be held in the highest veneration”

“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

“Our practical choice is not between a tax-cut deficit and a budgetary surplus. It is between two kinds of deficits: a chronic deficit of inertia, as the unwanted result of inadequate revenues and a restricted economy; or a temporary deficit of transition, resulting from a tax cut designed to boost the economy, increase tax revenues, and achieve -- and I believe this can be done -- a budget surplus. The first type of deficit is a sign of waste and weakness; the second reflects an investment in the future.”

“The essential characteristic of the first half of the twentieth century is the growing weakness, and almost the disappearance, of the idea of value.”

Firsts Ideas Values Half Growing Century Essentials Weakness Characteristics Twentieth Century Disappearance

Book:The Simone Weil Reader

Source: The Simone Weil Reader

“Are you or aren't you convinced that weakness is a man's condition? How can you raise yourself if you haven't fallen first?”

Ifs Men Firsts Conditions Havens Weakness Raises Convinced Fallen

Book:Selected Works: Translated from the Italian and with an Introd. by R. W. Flint

Source: Selected Works: Translated from the Italian and with an Introd. by R. W. Flint

“I was creative before I started meditating, but I had, looking back, a weakness. I wasn't self-assured. I had a little bit of melancholy. I had a lot of anger for my situations in life, and I would take this out on my first wife.”

Firsts Littles Self Bits Situation Creative Wife Little Bit Weakness Melancholy Looking Back Assured Meditating Situations In Life

Author:David Lynch

“Rewrite, rewrite, rewrite, don't be precious about your first draft, it's an architectural blueprint to a whole building, be your own worst critic, confront your weakness and remember it's a craft.”

Firsts Whole Remember Worst Building Weakness Critics Crafts Blueprints

Author:Tobsha Learner

“My first big mistake was made when, in a moment of weakness, I consented to learn the game; for a man who can frankly say "I do not play bridge" is allowed to go over in the corner and run the pianola by himself, while the poor neophyte, no matter how much he may protest that he isn't "at all a good player, in fact I'm perfectly rotten," is never believed, but dragged into a game where it is discovered, too late, that he spoke the truth.”

Source: Of All Things

“The weak and misbegotten shall perish: first principle of our brotherly love. And they shall be given every assistance.”

Firsts Given Principles Weakness Weak Assistance Fellowship Brotherly Brotherly Love

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“What is toleration? It is the prerogative of humanity. We are all steeped in weaknesses and errors: Let us forgive one another's follies, it is the first law of nature.”

Firsts Law Humanity Weakness Forgiving Errors Tolerance Folly Laws Of Nature Toleration Prerogative

Author:Voltaire

“"The area in which the executive first encounters the challenge of strength is in staffing. The effective executive fills positions and promotes on the basis of what a man can do. He does not make staffing decisions to minimize weaknesses but to maximize strength."”

Men Firsts Doe Can Do Challenges Decision Position Weakness Areas Bases Encounters Executives Staffing

Author:Peter Drucker

“I think making shorts is really about giving yourself the opportunity to learn what your strengths and weaknesses are. That's really important to know before getting to your first feature. In many ways you can't afford to make too many mistakes while on that feature.”

Thinking Knows Way Giving Firsts Important Opportunity Mistake Weakness Features Shorts Strength And Weakness Opportunities To Learn Giving Yourself

Author:Aurora Guerrero

“I learned many lessons from my first race with my heroes. I learned it was easier to breathe when I cried, so I cried often and without shame. I learned that a teammate's faith in you can propel you up any mountain. I learned that winning requires an entirely different mind-set than not losing. I learned that the best teams in the world share not only their strengths but also their weaknesses. I learned that you don't inspire your teammates by showing them how amazing you are. You inspire them by showing them how amazing they are.”

World Mind Firsts Different Winning Race Team Share Inspire Hero Easier Lessons Mountain Losing Weakness Shame Breathe Cried Teammate My Hero Mind Set Best Team Different Minds

Author:Robyn Benincasa

“The Lord wants us to have a threefold confidence. First, we are to be confident that He loves us in our weakness. Second, we are to be confident that He esteems our weak love for Him as genuine.Third, we are to be confident that He still entrusts us with the calling that He originally gave us.”

Want Firsts Stills Lord Calling Weakness Weak Thirds Genuine Esteem Want U Be Confident Weak Love

Author:Mike Bickle

“O eternal truth and true love and beloved eternity! You are my God; to you I sigh by day and by night. And when I first knew you, you raised me up so that I could see that there was something to see and that I still lacked the ability to see it. And you beat back the weakness of my sight, blazing upon me with your rays, and I trembled in love and in dread.”

Firsts Stills Night Ability Eternal Beats Weakness Eternity Sight Raised Beloved Rays Dread Sigh Blazing Ability To See

Author:Saint Augustine

“This is a weakness of the world. Someone thinks they've discovered something for the first time. They want to be authoritative about it.”

Thinking World Want Firsts Weakness First Time

Author:Diana Vreeland

“Remain tranquil and prepare to bear still greater trials. All is not lost even though you be troubled oftener or tempted more grievously. You are a man, not God. You are flesh, not an angel. How can you possibly expect to remain always in the same state of virtue when the angels in heaven and the first man in paradise failed to do so? I am He who rescues the afflicted and brings to My divinity those who know their own weakness.”

Knows Men Firsts Stills States Lost Heaven Virtue Greater Bears Weakness Angel Flesh Trials Paradise Divinity Rescue Tempted Tranquil Angel In Heaven

Book:The Imitation of Christ

Source: The Imitation of Christ

“If you don't live in your strengths, you'll die in your weaknesses. Do first and most what you're good at, and bring others along who are good at your weaknesses.”

Ifs Firsts Dies Weakness

Author:Royce White

“To become reconciled to a friend with whom you have broken, is a form of weakness; and you pay the penalty of it when he takes the first opportunity of doing precisely the very thing which brought about the breach.”

Firsts Form Opportunity Pay Broken Weakness Penalties Breach

Book:The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer - Counsels and maxims (illustrated)

Source: The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer - Counsels and maxims (illustrated)

“As Harvard developmental psychologist Robert Kegan, who has studied Bridgewater, says, in most work places everyone is working two jobs. The first is whatever their actual job is; the second consists of managing others' impressions of them, especially by hiding weaknesses and inadequacies - which is an enormous waste of energy.”

Firsts Two Jobs Energy Waste Weakness Enormous Impression Hiding Harvard Psychologist Inadequacy Developmental Two Jobs Work Place

Author:Ray Dalio

“First, my congratulations to Yale on their success this year. The more film we watched, the more we realized what a good lacrosse team they were. They don't have any weaknesses. We told the guys all week long, we're going to have to roll up our sleeves and work hard to get this one. Congrats to them for their season.”

Years Firsts Long Hard Film Guy Week Team Hard Work Weakness Seasons Congratulations Sleeves Yale Lacrosse Congrats

Author:John Desko

“Many of the principle weapons that the Nazis used during World War II had their first trial in combat in Spain - the Messerschmitt 109 fighter plane for example, the Stuka dive bomber, the 88 millimeter artillery piece, which could be used both for antiaircraft purposes and also shelling on the ground. And American soldiers were the victims of these things in Spain, American volunteers. So this war was really a testing ground for Hitler. And he learned a great deal from it about the strengths and weaknesses of these different weapons.”

“We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.”

Source: A Philosophical Dictionary: From the French

“...we rarely confide in those who are better than we. Rather, we are more inclined to flee their society. Most often, on the other hand, we confess to those who are like us and who share our weaknesses. Hence we don't want to improve ourselves and be bettered, for we should first have to be judged in default. We merely wish to be pitied and encouraged in the course we have chosen. In short, we should like, at the same time, to cease being guilty and yet not to make the effort of cleansing ourselves.”

Want Should Firsts Hands Courses Wish Effort Share Weakness Cease Chosen Guilty Judged Default Cleansing

Author:Albert Camus

“In order for us to liberate the energy of our strength, our weakness must first have a chance to reveal itself.”

“Although love could grow in times of peace, it tempered in battle. Daddy told me once - when I'd said something about how perfect his relationship with Mom was - that I should have seen the first five years of their marriage, that they'd fought like hellions, crashed into each other like two giant stones. That eventually they'd eroded each other into the perfect fit, become a single wall, nestled into each other's curves and hollows, her strengths chinking his weaknesses, her weaknesses reinforced by his strengths.”

Should Years Firsts Said Two Grows Perfect Five Wall Mom Fit Battle Weakness Stones Should Have Giants Five Years Daddy Curves Perfect Fit

Author:Karen Marie Moning

“Sometimes our strengths are also our weaknesses. Sometimes to be strong you have to first be weak. You have to share your burdens; you have to lean on other people while you face your problems and yourself.”

People Firsts Sometimes Problem Faces Strong Share Weakness Weak Burden

Book:The Christmas Sweater

Source: The Christmas Sweater

“Often admitting our weakness and fear is the first step to finding rest in God. Our trust in Him isn't conveyed though superhuman confidence as much as it comes in the way of childlike reliance on Him.”

Way Firsts Steps Findings Weakness First Steps Reliance Admitting Childlike Superhuman Weakness And Fear

Book:Morning's Refrain (Song of Alaska Book #2)

Source: Morning's Refrain (Song of Alaska Book #2)

“Perhaps because the origins of a certain kind of love lie in an impulse to escape ourselves and out weaknesses by an alliance with the beautiful and noble. But if the loved ones love us back, we are forced to return to ourselves, and are hence reminded of the things that had driven us into love in the first place. Perhaps it was not love we wanted after all, perhaps it was simply someone in whom to believe, but how can we continue to believe the the beloved now that they believe in us?”

Ifs Firsts Believe Kind Wanted Beautiful Lying Certain Return Weakness Noble Driven Impulse Beloved Loved Ones Alliances Kinds Of Love Love Lies Believe In Us

Author:Alain de Botton

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

Inspirational Firsts Loss Steps Weakness First Steps Acknowledgment Repairing Weakness And Fear

Author:Thomas a Kempis

“[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.”

“This work somehow awakened my dormant powers of will and I began to practice self-control. At first my resolutions faded like snow in April, but in a little while I conquered my weakness and felt a pleasure I never knew before - that of doing as I willed.”

Firsts Littles Self Felt Pleasure Practice Weakness Snow Resolution Self Control April Awakened Will Power Faded Dormant

Book:My Inventions: [Illustrated & Biography Added]

Source: My Inventions: [Illustrated & Biography Added]

“I have urged on woman independence of man, not that I do not think the sexes mutually needed by one another, but because in woman this fact has led to an excessive devotion, which has cooled love, degraded marriage and prevented it her sex from being what it should be to itself or the other. I wish woman to live, first for God's sake. Then she will not take what is not fit for her from a sense of weakness and poverty. Then if she finds what she needs in man embodied, she will know how to love and be worthy of being loved.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Men Love Needs Should Firsts Facts Wish Sex Poverty Know How Needed Fit Weakness Independence Sake Worthy Devotion Being Loved How To Love

Book:Woman in the Nineteenth Century

Source: Woman in the Nineteenth Century

“When it comes to investing, my suggestion is to first understand your strengths and weaknesses, and then devise a simple strategy so that you can sleep at night!”

Firsts Night Values Sleep Simple Weakness Strategy Investing Insightful Suggestions Strength And Weakness

Author:Walter Schloss

“There is no physical pain, no spiritual wound, no anguish of soul or heartache, no infirmity or weakness you or I ever confront in mortality that the Savior did not experience first. In a moment of weakness we may cry out, “No one knows what it is like. No one understands.” But the Son of God perfectly knows and understands, for He has felt and borne our individual burdens.”

Knows Firsts May Soul Moments Pain Spiritual Individual Felt Cry Son Weakness Burden Wounds Heartache Mortality Savior Anguish Infirmity Physical Pain Moments Of Weakness

Author:David A. Bednar

“Vanity is a weakness. I know this. It's a shallow dependence on the exterior self, on how one looks instead of what one is. I know this well... Vanity and dishonesty may be vices, but they're also the first forms of protection I ever knew.”

Knows Firsts Wells Looks May Self Form Weakness Vices Protection Vanity Shallow Dependence Dishonesty Exterior

Author:Dennis Lehane

“With a little time, and a little more insight, we begin to see both ourselves and our enemies in humbler profiles. We are not really as innocent as we felt when we were first hurt. And we do not usually have a gigantic monster to forgive; we have a weak, needy, and somewhat stupid human being. When you see your enemy and yourself in the weakness and silliness of the humanity you share, you will make the miracle of forgiving a little easier.”

Firsts Humans Littles Humanity Felt Hurt Human Beings Enemy Share Stupid Easier Forgiveness Weakness Weak Miracle Forgiving Insight Monsters Innocent Profile Needy Little Time Silliness

Author:Lewis B. Smedes

“To me, the main weakness of EDA is its failure to enquire why the data were collected in the first place and its consequent tendency to apply ingenious methods largely because they are so attractively ingenious.”

Firsts Weakness Method Tendencies Data Statistics Ingenious

Author:Michael Healy

“Every defensive end who is going to be picked in the first round is going to be a good pick for whoever they're chosen by, but if I had to tell you what sets me apart, that would be my desire and determination to get better. I know what I need to work on, I know my weaknesses, but I have that work ethic to improve every day. I have that want to be the best player at my position, and I have the belief in myself that one day that will come true.”

Ifs Knows Want Needs Firsts Ends Would Be Desire Belief Player Position One Day Picks Ethics Weakness Determination Rounds Chosen Get Better Being The Best Work Ethic Best Players

Author:Justin Tuck

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