Best weakness & mistake Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Creative people often feel highs of joy and lows of sorrow that others may never experience, and perhaps could not even handle if they did. Little wonder many outside the creative world mistake (or dismiss) eccentric responses of the spirit as weakness or mental illness. But in the end, these dismissive souls will never know what it is to be moved by tears by the beauty of rose or brought to joy by sunlight filtering through the leaves of spring or autumn. The creative walk in glades invisible to those outside their realms.”

“If someone mistakes your kindness for weakness, that's their fault - not yours. And it's OK to be a decent human being in this life.”

Ifs Humans Human Beings Mistake Kindness Weakness Faults This Life Decent One Mistake Kindness For Weakness

Author:Jeremy Piven

“Don't get upset with your imperfections. It's a great mistake because it leads nowhere - to get angry because you are angry, upset at being upset, depressed at being depressed, disappointed because you are disappointed. So don't fool yourself. Simply surrender to the Power of God's Love, which is always greater than our weakness.”

Inspiration Faith Mistake Greater Fool Weakness Angry Christian Inspirational Surrender Upset Disappointed Imperfection God's Love Power Of God Great Mistakes Being Depressed

Author:Saint Francis de Sales

“An organization belongs on a sick list when promotion becomes more important to its people than accomplishment of their job they are in. It is sick when it is more concerned with avoiding mistakes than with taking risks, with counteracting the weaknesses of its members than with building on their strength. But it is sick also when "good human relations" become more important than performance and achievement.”

“So I learned that the people who make the most of the process of encountering reality, especially the painful obstacles, learn the most and get what they want faster than people who do not. ... In short, I learned that being totally truthful, especially about mistakes and weaknesses, led to a rapid rate of improvement and movement toward what I wanted.”

People Want Reality Wanted Process Mistake Movement Weakness Rate Painful Obstacles Improvement Faster Truthful Rapids

Author:Ray Dalio

“Weaknesses in men of genius are usually an exaggeration of their personal feeling; in the hands of feeble imitators they become the most flagrant blunders. Entire schools have been founded on misinterpretations of certain aspects of the masters. Lamentable mistakes have resulted from the thoughtless enthusiasm with which men have sought inspiration from the worst qualities of remarkable artists because they are unable to reproduce the sublime elements in their work.”

“He who wants to educate himself in Chess must evade what is dead in Chess... the habit of playing with inferior opponents; the custom of avoiding difficult tasks; the weakness of uncritically taking over variations or rules discovered by others; the vanity which is self-sufficient; the incapacity for admitting mistakes; in brief, everything that leas to standstill or to anarchy.”

“Mistaking Palestinian military weakness for moral innocence seems to further amplify the inattention of journalists to the culture of lies.”

World Mistake Moral Military Weakness Innocence Palestinian

Author:Ilana Mercer

“On your way towards becoming a bad theoretician, take your own immature theory, stop checking it for mistakes, don't listen to colleagues who do spot weaknesses, and start admiring your own infallible intelligence.”

Way Mistake Theory Becoming Weakness Spots Colleagues Immature Infallible Admiring

Author:Gerard 't Hooft

“Don't mistake niceness for weakness.”

Mistake Weakness Niceness

Author:Jennifer Granholm

“We're all flawed, and we all make mistakes, and we all have weaknesses. And those are the kind of people I want to see onscreen, the ones that feel like real flesh-and-blood human beings and not the weird, whitewashed, Hollywood stand-ins for people with the rough edges sanded off that I can't connect to because they just don't resonate with me.”

People Want Feels Humans Kind I Can Real Human Beings Mistake Blood Weakness Hollywood Edges Flesh Making Mistakes Rough Flawed Flesh And Blood We All Make Mistakes Rough Edges

Author:Lynn Shelton

“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

“We often mistake the original part of ourselves for a weakness.”

Mistake Weakness Originals Originality

Author:Mason Cooley

“I learned that everyone makes mistakes and has weaknesses and that one of the most important things that differentiates people is their approach to handling them. I learned that there is an incredible beauty to mistakes, because embedded in each mistake is a puzzle, and a gem that I could get if I solved it, i.e. a principle that I could use to reduce my mistakes in the future.”

“Don't mistake kindness for weakness, baby.”

Mistake Kindness Baby Weakness Kindness For Weakness

Author:Albert Collins

“We must never mistake the process for the result...there is suffering; but this is only the process. God isn't going to stop with the process; He wants to produce the final result. Suffering leads to glory; shame leads to honor; weakness leads to power. This is God's way of doing things.”

Way Want Suffering Process Results Mistake Produce Honor Glory Weakness Shame Finals

Author:Warren W. Wiersbe

“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'm a very nice guy, but don't mistake my kindness for weakness.”

Guy Mistake Kindness Nice Weakness Very Nice Nice Guy Kindness For Weakness

Author:Robert Herjavec

“General Napoleon says that 'Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.' Well, I suggest doing the opposite: Interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. Don't be opportunist; don't benefit from the weakness of your enemy! Be just even to your enemy! Try to find a way to defeat him without harming him; prove to be as intelligent as to find such a way! Only then, your victory will be meaningful and honourable!”

Way Trying Wells Mistake Enemy Victory Prove Benefits Weakness Opposites Intelligent Defeat Meaningful Making Mistakes Opportunist

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“My plea is that as we continue our search for truth, particularly we of the Church, that we look for strength and goodness rather than weakness and failings in those who did so great a work in their time. We recognize that our forefathers were human. They doubtless made mistakes. Some of them acknowledged making mistakes. But the mistakes were minor when compared with the marvelous work which they accomplished.”

Humans Looks Made Church Mistake Failing Goodness Weakness Accomplished Making Mistakes Minors Marvelous Made A Mistake Forefathers Search For Truth

Author:Gordon B. Hinckley

“You don't accept your weaknesses the same way that you love the weaknesses of another artist, because when they make mistakes they don't look like weaknesses.”

Way Looks Artist Mistake Accepting Weakness Making Mistakes

Author:Charlotte Gainsbourg

“Most people have a hard time confronting their weaknesses in a really straightforward, evidence-based way. They also have problems speaking frankly to others. Some people love knowing about their weaknesses and mistakes and those of others because it helps them be so much better, while others can't stand it.”

People Way Hard Helping Problem Mistake Knowing Weakness Evidence Hard Times Straightforward Confronting

Author:Ray Dalio

“I look at my older writing to see where my weaknesses are and then I try to address those weaknesses and make new mistakes.”

Writing Trying Looks Mistake Weakness Addresses

Author:Roxane Gay

“When I say I believe in radical truth and radical transparency, all I mean is we take things that ordinarily people would hide, and we put them on the table, particularly mistakes, problems, and weaknesses. We put those on the table, and we look at them together. We don't hide them.”

People Believe Looks Mean Problem Together I Believe Mistake Weakness Tables I Believe In Radical Transparency

Author:Ray Dalio

“During normal times or boom times, there are some parts of the business that are going to so well, that that can cover for weakness and other parts of the business. What happens during recessions, is you have less windfalls just helping you cover mistakes. You have to be more careful about not making mistakes.”

Wells Helping Happens Mistake Normal Weakness Careful Making Mistakes Recessions

Author:Reid Hoffman

“The most difficult part is training and competing while observing the holy month of Ramadan, which involves fasting. The most rewarding part of being a Muslim athlete is my faith in God paired with my faith in myself. I approach every match with positivity and the belief that I can beat anyone on any given day. And in the face of defeat, I am able to learn from my mistakes and work on my weaknesses to prepare for next time.”

Belief Difficult Mistake Holy Training Weakness Defeat Athlete Positivity Faith In God Next Time Competing Observing My Mistakes

Author:Ibtihaj Muhammad

“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

“...Hard people are weak people whom nobody wants, and the strong, caring little whether they are wanted or not, have alone that meekness which the common herd mistake for weakness.”

People Want Littles Hard Wanted Strong Common Mistake Weakness Weak Caring Herds Meekness Weak People

Book:Sodom et Gomorrhe

Source: Sodom et Gomorrhe

“Memories assailed him of how gently she had spoken, touched, and moved; of how she'd loved him fiercely despite his mistakes and obsessions and weaknesses. And the conviction descended on him that love like theirs couldn't possibly suffer any change.”

Suffering Memories Mistake Weakness Moved Conviction Obsession Despite Touched

Book:Angels

Source: Angels

“None of us is perfect. There was only one perfect man who ever walked the earth, and He was the Son of God. We all have weaknesses and I guess we all make mistakes and will make mistakes in the future, but look for the virtues, the strengths, the goodness in those with whom you labor, and draw those characteristics into your own lives and make them a part of yourselves, and you will be the richer for it all the days that you live.”

Men Looks Earth Perfect Mistake Virtue Son Goodness Draws Weakness Labor Characteristics Making Mistakes Perfect Man We All Make Mistakes

Author:Gordon B. Hinckley

“Great teams do not hold back with one another. They are unafraid to air their dirty laundry. They admit their mistakes, their weaknesses, and their concerns without fear of reprisal.”

Source: The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable

“Everywhere man blames nature and fate yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passion, his mistakes and his weaknesses.”

Men Character Passion Mistake Fate Weakness Blame Echoes

Author:Democritus

“But one thing I realized with my brother is that you can’t toss your pearls before the swine. I think that’s why my mother insisted you give anonymously. The instant anyone sees that you’re kind and giving, they immediately take advantage of it. They seem to mistake kindness for weakness and giving for stupidity. (Aiden)”

Source: Upon The Midnight Clear

“Everywhere man blames nature and fate, yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character, and passions, his mistakes, and weaknesses."--Democritus An Abundance of Katherines---John Green”

Men Character Passion Mistake Fate Weakness Blame Green Abundance Echoes

Author:John Green

“Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it / immediately.”

People Mistake Weakness Productivity Arguing Learning From Mistakes Made A Mistake Great Mistakes Learn From Your Mistakes I Made A Mistake 7 Habits Continuous Learning

Book:Daily Reflections for Highly Effective People: Living THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE Every Day

Source: Daily Reflections for Highly Effective People: Living THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE Every Day

“The world," he said, "is not a wish-granting factory," and then he broke down, just for one moment, his sob roaring impotent like a clap of thunder unaccompanied by lightning, the terrible ferocity that amateurs in the field of suffering might mistake for weakness.”

World Said Moments Might Suffering Wish Mistake Fields Terrible Weakness Broke Factories Lightning Thunder Roaring Ferocity

Book:The Fault in Our Stars

Source: The Fault in Our Stars

“You forget who submits, Eva,” he said gruffly. “I’ve given up control for you. I’ve bent and adjusted for you. I’ll do anything to keep you and make you happy. But I can’t be tamed or topped. Don’t mistake indulgence for weakness.”

Said I Can Given Forget Mistake Weakness Submit Bent Indulgence Given Up Make You Happy Tamed Crossfire Gideon Cross

Author:Sylvia Day

“One thing that has helped me personally in the past was to stop interfering with the people around me and getting frustrated when I couldn’t change them. Instead of intrusion and passivity, may I suggest submission? Some people make the mistake of confusing “submission” with “weakness”, whereas it is anything but. Submission is a form of peaceful acceptance of the terms of the universe, including the things we are currently unable to change or comprehend.”

People May Past Form Universe Term Mistake One Thing Acceptance Weakness Including Peaceful Frustrated Interfere Submission Confusing Passivity Intrusion Unable To Change

Author:Elif Safak

“We all make mistakes, we all have fears, and we all have weaknesses. Behind all that is our essential self. When our essential self has made contact with another, the light is dazzling and would fill the universe. The challenge of enchantment is to remain faithful to that light, to believe in it when it is not so apparent. Then that light becomes an incandescent glow and it wraps itself around everything.”

Believe Made Self Light Universe Challenges Behinds Mistake Essentials Weakness Contact Faithful Making Mistakes Wraps Enchantment Dazzling We All Make Mistakes

Author:Marianne Williamson

“Have this faith that someone is there to take away your weaknesses. Ok, you slipped once, twice, thrice. It does not matter. Keep moving ahead. People take vows never to commit mistakes again. Breaking the vows makes it worse. Surrendering is better”

People Doe Matter Moving Mistake Weakness Commit Keep Moving Vow Moving Ahead Thrice

Author:Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

“I don’t think it's weak to admit you made a mistake. That takes strength, if you ask me.”

Ifs Thinking Made Asks Mistake Weakness Weak Ask Me Made A Mistake

Book:The Long Earth: (Long Earth 1)

Source: The Long Earth: (Long Earth 1)

“IF - and this is the greatest of them all - I had the courage to see myself as I reallyam, I would find out what is wrong with me, and correct it, then I might have a chance to profit by my mistakes and learn something from the experience of others,for I know that there is something WRONG with me, or I would now be where I WOULD HAVE BEEN IF I had spent more time analyzing my weaknesses, and less time building alibis to cover them.”

Ifs Knows Has Beens Might Chance Mistake Building Weakness Profit More Time My Mistakes Analyzing Think Rich Grow Rich Ifs And Alibis

Book:Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition

Source: Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition

“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

“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

“Even mistaken hypotheses and theories are of use in leading to discoveries. This remark is true in all the sciences. The alchemists founded chemistry by pursuing chimerical problems and theories which are false. In physical science, which is more advanced than biology, we might still cite men of science who make great discoveries by relying on false theories.”

“I am willing to allow that smoking is a moral weakness, but on the other hand, we must beware of the man without weaknesses. He is not to be trusted. He is apt to be always sober and he cannot make a single mistake. His habits are likely to be regular, his existence more mechanical and his head always maintains its supremacy over his heart. Much as I like reasonable persons, I hate completely rational beings.”

Men Heart Persons Hands Hate Existence Mistake Moral Willing He Man Habit Weakness Perfection I Hate Rational Reasonable Smoking Trusted Sober Supremacy

Book:The Importance of Living

Source: The Importance of Living

“Some people mistake weakness for tact. If they are silent when they ought to speak and so feign an agreement they do not feel, they call it being tactful. Cowardice would be a much better name. Tact is an active quality t hat is not exercised by merely making a dash for cover. Be sure, when you think you are being extremely tactful, that you are not in reality running away from something you ought to face.”

People Ifs Thinking Feels Reality Would Be Running Faces Names Speak Mistake Quality Ought Weakness Silent Active Hats Agreement Running Away Cowardice Tact

Author:Frank Medlicott

“Life is a competition not with others, but with ourselves. We should seek each day to live stronger, better, truer lives; each day to master some weakness of yesterday; each day to repair a mistake; each day to surpass ourselves.”

Life Should Life Is Mistake Masters Weakness Stronger Competition Yesterday Each Day Live Each Day

Author:David B. Haight

“You should be real witnesses of a world of doing and acting differently. But in life it is difficult for everything to be clear, precise, outlined neatly. Life is complicated; it consists of grace and sin. He who does not sin is not human. We all make mistakes and we need to recognise our weakness. A religious who recognises himself as weak and a sinner does not negate the witness that he is called to give, rather he reinforces it, and this is good for everyone. What I expect of you therefore is to give witness. I want this special witness from religious.”

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