Best weakness & sometimes Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: The plays of William Shakespeare

“Sometimes our weakness is considered strength, and we take delight in borrowed greatness.”

Sometimes Strength Greatness Weakness Delight Borrowed

“I think that a good person can sometimes do wrong out of ignorance or weakness or wrong thinking, but when hard times come, the goodness wins out after all. And a bad person can often seem good and trustworthy for a long time, but when hard times come, the evil in him gets revealed.”

Thinking Persons Long Sometimes Hard Seems Evil Winning Ignorance Goodness Long Time Weakness Hard Times Good Person Trustworthy Wrong Thinking

Book:Alvin Journeyman: The Tales of Alvin Maker

Source: Alvin Journeyman: The Tales of Alvin Maker

“Passions often produce their contraries: avarice sometimes leads to prodigality, and prodigality to avarice; we are often obstinate through weakness and daring through timidity.”

Sometimes Passion Produce Weakness Contrary Daring Avarice Timidity Obstinate

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Women deluded by these sentiments, sometimes boast of their weakness, cunningly obtaining power by playing on the weakness of men; and they may well glory in their illicit sway, for, like Turkish bashaws, they have more real power than their masters: but virtue is sacrificed to temporary gratifications, and the respectability of life to the triumph of an hour.”

Source: A vindication of the rights of woman: with strictures on political and moral subjects

“How strong sometimes is weakness!”

Sometimes Strong Weakness

Book:Folly as It Flies

Source: Folly as It Flies

“No man is so much a fool as not to have wit enough sometimes to be a knave; nor any so cunning a knave as not to have the weakness sometimes to play the fool.”

Men Sometimes Enough Play Fool Weakness Wit Cunning Knaves

Author:Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

“We can love with all our hearts those in whom we recognize great faults. It would be impertinent to believe that perfection alone has the right to please us; sometimes our weaknesses attach us to each other as much as our virtues.”

Believe Heart Sometimes Would Be Virtue Please Weakness Perfection Faults

Book:La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims

Source: La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims

“When it comes to explaining the Blessed Virgin Mary, having a lot of love is more important than having a lot of answers. When we come up lacking, she’ll make greater goods out of our deficiencies, as only a mother can do. Whenever we're humiliated and shown our weakness, we should get ready for something better than we could ever plan and prepare to accomplish. Evangelize with joy, then, and with confidence. Know from the start that you don’t have all the answers-but your Savior does, and He loves His mother. He will give you everything you need, even if sometimes you need to fail.”

“Sometimes you'll have great actors who aren't comfortable with improvising. Which can get pretty frustrating. But every actor's coming from a different place and they have their own strengths and weaknesses and your job is to sell them as two people in the same world. Some of them have to have their hands held and some I just let loose entirely.”

People World Two Different Sometimes Hands Jobs Actors Comfortable Weakness Sells Frustrating Different Place Great Actors Strength And Weakness Improvising

Author:David Gordon Green

“We have entered a period of intolerance which combines, as it sometimes does in America, with a sugary taste for euphemism. This conjunction fosters events that go beyond the wildest dream of satire- if satire existed in America anymore; perhaps the reason for its weakness is that reality has superseded it.”

Ifs Doe Sometimes Reason Dream Reality America Events Internet Periods Taste Weakness Satire Intolerance Free Speech Euphemism Conjunctions Wildest Dreams

Author:Robert Hughes

“I think I'm very strong at dialogue, I think I'm very strong in characterization. I think sometimes I use dialogue and character work to cover weaknesses in my plotting.”

Thinking Sometimes Character Use Strong Weakness Dialogue Very Strong Characterization

Author:Kelly Sue DeConnick

“Contrary to conventional military and game theory, the most effective offense is sometimes a direct attack against your political opponent's greatest strength - not his weaknesses - to place him immediately on the defensive.”

Sometimes Political Games Military Theory Weakness Direct Contrary Opponents Conventional Offense Political Opponents

Author:Mark McKinnon

“Strangely, although they may seem worlds apart, boxing and tennis have a certain kinship. Two individuals head-to-head, probing for weakness and attacking it. Footwork, timing and stamina are essential. Just you and your opponent until one of you is beaten. There's no brain damage in tennis - although sometimes I wonder.”

“I was never the biggest kid or the best looking kid or the most popular kid, but that's not all it takes. Sometimes you turn those weaknesses into strengths and wear it like a badge and see what it does.”

Doe Sometimes Kids Turns Weakness Badges

Author:Colin Munroe

“[Freud's] great strength, though sometimes also his weakness, was the quite extraordinary respect he had for the singular fact... When he got hold of a simple but significant fact he would feel, and know, that it was an example of something general or universal, and the idea of collecting statistics on the matter was quite alien to him.”

Knows Feels Ideas Sometimes Matter Facts Science Simple Example Weakness Universal Extraordinary Significant Aliens Statistics Biographies Collecting

Book:The life and work of Sigmund Freud

Source: The life and work of Sigmund Freud

“Sometimes the truth hurts. It hurts because they have a weakness - and I exploit weakness.”

Sometimes Hurt Weakness It Hurts Exploits Truth Hurts

Author:Conor McGregor

“I don't speak any languages well enough to make an expert assessment on writing in translation, but since I'm interested in awkwardness in prose, I find I like the way translated texts can sometimes acquire awkwardness in the process of translation. There's a discordance translation can create which I think is sometimes seen as a weakness but which I think can be a really interesting aspect of the text.”

Thinking Writing Sometimes Enough Speak Language Interesting Weakness Prose Translations Really Interesting Awkwardness

Author:Katie Kitamura

“All writers have strengths and weaknesses. I am terrified of being boring, so I write short, compressed stories that sometimes don't give a reader time to think about what they have read. I struggle to slow down.”

Thinking Giving Writing Sometimes Struggle Weakness Boring Slow Down Time To Think Having Strength

Author:Susan Cheever

“People just take your kindness for weakness sometimes, and that's just the bottom line.”

People Sometimes Lines Kindness Weakness Bottom Bottom Line Kindness For Weakness

Author:Ruben Studdard

“Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.”

Knows Men Sometimes Literature Knowing Strength Weakness Gold Soil Owners Not Knowing Veins Accused

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Jonathan Swift (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Jonathan Swift (Illustrated)

“It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not.”

Knows Men Sometimes Strength Weakness Gold Soil Owners Veins Weakness Of Character

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Jonathan Swift (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Jonathan Swift (Illustrated)

“Sometimes you’re loved because of your weaknesses. What you can’t do is sometimes more compelling than what you can.”

Sometimes Weakness Compelling

Book:The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing

Source: The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing

“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

“I know our culture will sometimes understand a love for Jesus as weakness. There is this lie floating around that says I am supposed to be able to do life alone, without any help, without stopping to worship something bigger than myself. But I actually believe there is something bigger than me, and I need for there to be something bigger than me. I need someone to put awe inside me; I need to come second to someone who has everything figured out.”

Knows Needs Believe Sometimes Helping Able Lying Culture Jesus Worship Weakness Bigger Supposed To Be Awe Stopping Floating

Book:Miller 3-in-1: Blue Like Jazz, Through Painted Deserts, Searching for God

Source: Miller 3-in-1: Blue Like Jazz, Through Painted Deserts, Searching for God

“And then sometimes I think the people to feel saddest for are people who once knew what profoundness was, but who lost or became numb to the sensation of wonder – people who closed the doors that leads us into the secret world – or who had the doors closed for them by time and neglect and decisions made in times of weakness.”

People Thinking World Feels Made Sometimes Lost Decision Secret Wonder Doors Weakness Neglect Sensations Numb Saddest Decisions Made

Book:Life After God

Source: Life After God

“Confronting our feelings and giving them appropriate expression always takes strength, not weakness. It takes strength to acknowledge our anger, and sometimes more strength yet to curb the aggressive urges anger may bring and to channel them into nonviolent outlets. It takes strength to face our sadness and to grieve and to let our grief and our anger flow in tears when they need to. It takes strength to talk about our feelings and to reach out for help and comfort when we need it.”

Source: The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember

“I am not good at noticing when I'm happy, except in retrospect. My gift, or fatal flaw, is for nostalgia. I have sometimes been accused of demanding perfection, of rejecting heart's desires as soon as I get close enough that the mysterious impressionistic gloss disperses into plain solid dots, but the truth is less simplistic than that. I know very well that perfection is made up of frayed, off-struck mundanities. I suppose you could say my real weakness is a kind of long-sightedness: usually it is only at a distance, and much too late, that I can see the pattern.”

“We must begin looking at each other as brothers and sisters...and not walking brochures. We must see each other's strengths and encourage those strengths....We must see each others weaknesses and be patient with those weaknesses... sometimes even look beyond what we see as "weaknesses" and move on with compassion and love and respect. That takes true faith.”

Looks Sometimes Wisdom Moving Compassion Brother Walking Weakness And Love Patient Islamic Brothers And Sisters Be Patient Love And Respect True Faith Islamic Wisdom Brochures

Author:Dawud Wharnsby Ali

“Capablanca plays very superficially sometimes, in a way that can only be ascribed to lack of concentration. This is an integral weakness of his make-up and can only be partially compensated by his employing his time allowance to the full.”

Way Sometimes Play Weakness Chess Concentration Allowance Employing Capablanca

Author:Max Euwe

“The reality of the final moment, just before shooting [the scene], is so powerful that all previous analysis must yield before the impressions you receive under these circumstances, and unless you use this feedback to your positive advantage, unless you adjust to it, adapt to it and accept the sometimes terrifying weaknesses it can expose, you can never realize the most out of your film.”

Sometimes Moments Use Reality Film Realizing Powerful Accepting Design Circumstances Scene Weakness Advantage Finals Impression Shooting Analysis Yield Feedback

Author:Stanley Kubrick

“That was one of the things that worried me – to be raised to the position of a semi-god – because then you are no longer a human being. I wanted to be known as Mandela, a man with weaknesses, some of which are fundamental, and a man who is committed, but never the less, sometimes he fails to live up to expectations.”

Men Humans Sometimes Wanted Human Beings Known Failing Position Expectations Weakness Fundamentals Raised Committed Worried

Author:Nelson Mandela

“Even in a jungle, lovely flowers will spring up here and there, such being the fecundity of nature, and however badly our pastors and masters run our society, however much they pull to pieces that which they claim to be keeping intact, nature remains fecund, human beings are born with human traits, sometimes human strength outweighs human weakness, and human grace shows itself amid human ugliness. ‘In the bloodiest times,’ as our play has it, ‘there are kind people.’”

Source: Bentley on Brecht

“It is very important for I think those of us who desperately want peace, who see war as, at some level, a break-down, a manifestation of human weakness, to understand that sometimes it’s also necessary – and you know, to – to be able to balance two ideas at the same time; that we are constantly striving for peace, we are doubling up on our diplomacy, we are going to actively engage, we are going to try to see the world through other people’s eyes and not just our own.”

People Thinking Knows World Want Trying Humans Two Important Ideas War Sometimes Eye Able Levels Break Balance Empathy Weakness Strive Manifestation Breaking Down Diplomacy

Author:Barack Obama

“So sometimes things are ahead and sometimes they are behind; Sometimes breathing is hard, sometimes it comes easily; Sometimes there is strength and sometimes weakness; Sometimes one is up and sometimes down. Therefore the sage avoids extremes, excesses, and complacency.”

Sometimes Hard Behinds Strength Balance Weakness Extremes Breathing Thrive Excess Sage Complacency Tao Te Ching Leadership Tao Ching

Book:道德经

Source: 道德经

“People are very surprised to hear me say that a lot of my values are Christian values. I think that's part of my shock. I just don't like the way that Christianity combined with the influence of television has bred a nation of weakness. (Christian television do get the facts wrong sometimes and the image they portray turns most people off.)”

People Thinking Way Sometimes Facts Christian Values Turns Nations Christianity Influence Television Weakness Shock Christian Values

Author:Marilyn Manson

“Today our duty is to destroy the myth of evolution, considered as a simple, understood, and explained phenomenon which keeps rapidly unfolding before us. Biologists must be encouraged to think about the weaknesses and extrapolations that theoreticians put forward or lay down as established truths. The deceit is sometimes unconscious, but not always, since some people, owing to their sectarianism, purposely overlook reality and refuse to acknowledge the inadequacies and falsity of their beliefs.”

“My biggest weakness as a endurance athlete has been in not drinking enough water after training, thereby racing sometimes while dehydrated.”

Has Beens Sometimes Enough Motivational Water Training Weakness Drinking Athlete Inequality Endurance Racing

Author:Bill Rodgers

“Sometimes you have to resist working on your strengths in favour of your weaknesses. The decathlon requires a wide range of skills.”

Sometimes Skills Weakness Wide Range Favour Decathlon

Author:Daley Thompson

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