Top 150 Weaknesses Quotes

Of all the things I could know, my own faults and weaknesses are pretty much the most important.

I feel like we’re attracted to paths in life that force us to look at our weaknesses or deficiencies as human beings. Not to get all deep on you, but that’s how I feel.

Acting is an opportunity for me to try to explore and examine and expose humanity’s weaknesses that are intrinsic to our nature as humans and learn from them; thereby, it’s like a sociological expose.

Every running back has their own strengths and weaknesses. There are some that are better as pass receivers. There are some that are better inside, tight zones and mid zones and outside zones.

When a batter swings and I see his knees move, I can tell just what his weaknesses are then I just put the ball where I know he can’t hit it.

I gotta say, I know my strengths, and I know my weaknesses, and, well, Fix-It Felix, I’m not too far from that kid.

Usually that’s going into biology in a certain way. There’s certain strengths and weaknesses to both of the sexes. And I’m not against employing those nor am I against denying those, what I am looking for is a very large array of options.

Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm.

Ultimately, we stars are human being at the end of the day. We also have bad habits, weaknesses, we also make mistakes.

Women use men’s weaknesses toward them to cause trouble and distraction.

I have a million career weaknesses, and although it’s uncomfortable, I believe that authentically acknowledging and working through your vulnerability is more powerful than the delusion of perfection.

Silicon Valley tends to be very myopic – to be focused on one or two things – which has some strengths as well as weaknesses.

Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

You hear about quality time a lot but I really think that quantity time with a person is really what strengthens a relationship. That’s when you really get to know somebody. You get to know their strengths and their weaknesses and that brings you closer. That’s what ‘Time Is Love’ is all about.

Even the best teams have their weaknesses, and Barcelona struggle at set-pieces and counter-attacks when they lose the ball in attacking positions.

When you’re fighting the best, best guys in the world, there’s no glaring weaknesses. There’s X-factors and there’s small openings that you have to prepare for better and that’s really it.

The old adage that you shouldn’t change a winning team doesn’t apply in modern international football because managers have to study the opposition and pick players who exploit their weaknesses.

Indian cricket fans are manic-depressive in their treatment of their favorite teams. They elevate players to god-like status when their team performs well, ignoring obvious weaknesses; but when it loses, as any team must, the fall is equally steep, and every weakness is dissected.

One of my weaknesses is impatience. I just have this aching need to get great things done. Can’t stand slow change.

The art of coalition command – whether it is here in Afghanistan, whether it was in Iraq or in Bosnia or in Haiti – is to take the resources you are provided with, understand what the strengths and weaknesses are and to employ them to the best overall effect.

Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows.

Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.

We’re all human; we all have weaknesses.

People who know your work and know your personality, they know your strengths and weaknesses. A director like Guillermo del Toro, he knows more about me than I do. I trust him when he tells me what part I’m going to be playing in something, because he’s envisioned that that can only be done by me. He knows it.

Over the years, I’ve learned that a confident person doesn’t concentrate or focus on their weaknesses – they maximize their strengths.

If you don’t have to have a partner, don’t take one. If you do need one, look for a partner who can complement your weaknesses with their strengths. If you are at odds, you are never going to get anything done.

Being a player, I am supposed to train and practice and only think about my game, what I have to develop and what weaknesses I have to take care of.

Mr. Chairman, on September 11, we were attacked by terrorists who took advantage of weaknesses in our border security. After infiltrating our country, the terrorists were able to conceal their real identities, and thereby plot their attacks without fear of being apprehended.

I have dedicated many years to economic study, up to the Ph.D. level, to analyze and understand the inherent weaknesses of aid and why aid policies have consistently failed to deliver on economic growth and poverty alleviation.

Build up your weaknesses until they become your strong points.

Just as a child respects his father even when he perceives his weaknesses and faults, so a German will not despise the old Germany which was once a symbol of greatness to him.

I realised at Miss S.A. and more so at Miss Universe that it’s important to focus on your strengths and work on your weaknesses to know yourself well.

I know the kind of street I’m going down. I know my own strengths and weaknesses.

I love all my characters. I love their weaknesses and flaws. I feel like they’re all my best friends and I adore being with them.

The incorrectness and weaknesses of a theory cause other minds to formulate the problems more exactly and in this way scientific progress is made.

I think that comics can do things movies can’t and vice versa. In my opinion, you only expose their weaknesses if you try too hard at making one exactly like the other.

What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer’s own weaknesses reflected back from others.

Most of the time, when you are in the studio, you are revealing yourself; you’re a bit naked. You can express your weaknesses, your awkward way of approaching sound. Sharing these intimate moments is like inviting somebody into your private room.

Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, – for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it – not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation.

My music started as a way to break through weaknesses – like anxiety, which was completely taking over my whole life, where I could barely function.

Captains realise over a period that if they plan right and understand the strengths and weaknesses of the opposition, luck attaches itself to their side.

I look at my paintings for a very long time before letting them out of my studio. I like to get on the treadmill and look around at all of my paintings while I exercise. I try to stare them down to make them reveal their weaknesses. If they reveal weaknesses, they get repainted.

It’s that beautiful thing to love your weaknesses, your insecurities, and then put them all on blast. That’s why I started writing, and that’s why it was so hard to do it in public.

It’s all about the hard work, knowing your strengths and weaknesses. You work on what you know you can do best. I have speed.

Obviously, that’s the thing any athlete wants to be able to do, to take weaknesses and turn them into strengths.

When you train outside of camp, it’s fun, I’m playing around, I’m working hard but I’m having fun. When I get into that camp it’s 10 weeks of tunnel vision on that opponent, you’re trying to work on your strengths and weaknesses, really trying to get better in different areas before the fight.

What we learned several years ago was that one of our weaknesses would be if we didn’t develop enough people with the know-how to run our company, it would come to the point where we would just stop.

I’m constantly watching people. Watching their strengths and weaknesses. I find myself going into theater less and less, let alone horror. I gave that up when I was seven or eight years old.

A pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men.

Everybody comes in with a certain goal. Some are performance, some are aesthetic. Even athletes have aesthetic goals, but first and foremost, they have performance goals, and those need to be addressed. They have weaknesses that need to be shored up. You have to manage expectations sometimes.

Success is achieved by developing our strengths, not by eliminating our weaknesses.

Captain America is an interesting character because it makes you ask those questions in yourself as a writer. What do we want as a nation, what do we mean as a nation, what is our role in the world as a nation? What are our strengths and weaknesses as a country?

The biggest challenge is to not be affected by praise because a lot of it is not from the heart. Being true to yourself about your strengths and weaknesses, when everyone out there has a strong opinion and wants to give advice, is another challenge.

It is very important for a priest, in the parish itself, to see how people trust in him and to experience, in addition to their trust, also their generosity in pardoning his weaknesses.

It’s important to air your concerns and fears with someone you trust. When you’re honest about how you can change and grow, and where your weaknesses are, then you open the door for improvement and change.

After so many books and so many years of writing, I have a good idea of my strengths and weaknesses. I love the process of writing and, if I allowed myself, I would write far too much every day. One weakness which I’ve struggled to overcome is my tendency to having my characters ruminate for pages.

One of those things that I like about TV is that if you get a group of people you like, you can work with these people for months at a time, and you can discover their strengths and weaknesses, and you can use those in the direction where you take the characters.

I have MMA strengths, but I need to build on my weaknesses.

You have to know your strengths and weaknesses. If you don’t have a particular strength, you need to go out and replace that.

The new generation of researchers must be given the skills and values – not just scientific ideals, but also awareness of human weaknesses – that will enable it to correct its forebears’ mistakes.

It’s more important to know your weaknesses than your strengths.

Breaking into a system or exposing its weaknesses is a good thing because truth and knowledge must win out.

I learned my weaknesses at the Asian Games and other competitions where I lost. My guard was down.

A good general always makes you search for his weaknesses.

People and organizations don’t grow much without delegation and completed staff work because they are confined to the capacities of the boss and reflect both personal strengths and weaknesses.

I had to take a hard look at myself and my strengths and weaknesses as a singer, songwriter and musician.

Weaknesses have a certain function in a poem… some strategy in order to pave the reader’s way to the impact of this or that line.

The Lord is well aware of our mortality. He knows our weaknesses. He understands the challenges of our everyday lives. He has great empathy for the temptations of earthly appetites and passions.

I don’t like to show my weaknesses.

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor’s relative weaknesses.

I’m hard on myself, so I’m working on shifting perspective toward self-acceptance, with all my flaws and weaknesses.

Nations need to understand their own strengths and weaknesses, and India’s tradition of dissent and democratic debate is a positive aspect.

Since others have to tolerate my weaknesses, it is only fair that I should tolerate theirs.

You learn from things that don’t go well, and you try to capitalize when they do. You build on those strengths and try to make your weaknesses stronger.

We all can relate to people’s weaknesses. We might put up a facade that everything is perfect but none of us are. When we see that weakness in somebody else, we understand or give ourselves a little bit of leeway.

I need to build my team around my weaknesses.

And I was very comfortable with this band even when we disagreed. It takes a long time to feel comfortable enough to disagree with somebody. When everything happened, it just was really confusing. It’s like our weaknesses were nurtured and brought out front by outsiders.

Whether we’re talking about leadership, teamwork, or client service, there is no more powerful attribute than the ability to be genuinely honest about one’s weaknesses, mistakes, and needs for help.

One of my favorite things to do is formulate powers for a character, then come up with their corresponding weaknesses and liabilities. And I delight in world-building: melding the supernatural with the natural, then tweaking and polishing until it feels organic.

My experience in decision-making has shown that patterns are tough to break. In the military, we study an opponent, looking for gaps, flaws, or weaknesses that can be exploited. Successful leaders at all levels in all disciplines conduct this kind of analysis.

In the matter of learning, the difference between the earnest and the careless student stands out clearly. The same holds true in the mastering of passion and the weaknesses to which our nature is subject, as in the acquiring of virtue.

To discern what weaknesses and faults separate you from God, you must enter into your own inward ground and then confront yourself.

As women, we all have certain weaknesses. I know one who can’t resist pretty shoes but has nothing suitable to wear with them. Others adore frilly lingerie but never have any money to buy outer clothing.

The heptathlon is made up of seven events, and people have strengths and weaknesses.

The Enron scandal is worthy of the highest level of scrutiny, both because of the enormity of the crimes that may have been committed and because of what the largest bankruptcy in American history has already begun to reveal about the weaknesses in our nation’s corporate structures and regulatory oversight.

All directors have their strengths and weaknesses, as all actors have, and all artists. What you try to do is complete the relationship and take care of the stuff that the director won’t take care of.

Well, when the Raspberries ended in early 1975 suddenly I didn’t have to write to anybody’s strengths or weaknesses. I was completely wide open and I thought wow, I can write anything I want now. I can use session musicians. I can find another band that sings like the Beach Boys, I can do all kinds of things.

I’ve made peace with the fact that the things that I thought were weaknesses or flaws were just me. I like them.

There is not one style in particular that suits me. I think that every formation has its pros and cons. It’s crucial to have a coach who understands your strengths and weaknesses. Obviously, I prefer to play up front, close to the opponents. That way I can make use of my strengths in one-on-one situations.

I think there’s a difference when you make fun of yourself and your own behavior, and when you dishonor or disrespect Christ. If you’re making a mockery of Christ is one thing. But if you’re just joking about human foibles and weaknesses, I think that’s perfectly acceptable.

Try to help others. Consult their weaknesses, relieve their maladies; strive to raise them up, and by so doing you will most effectually raise yourself up also.

You always have certain strengths and certain weaknesses, and you want to compensate for your weaknesses… I have a real duty to earn the trust of the faculty. I don’t just deserve it. I have to earn it.

There’s weaknesses in every fighter.

Art is very much about making your weaknesses your strength.

Resilient people aren’t afraid to admit they have weaknesses. Whether an effective leader acknowledges problems within an organization, or an individual recognizes areas in need of personal growth, resilient people use failure as an opportunity to spot their weaknesses.

I have no weaknesses. I have no weaknesses at all.

At the combine and at my workouts, I tried to be the perfect player. I tried to promote my strengths and conceal my weaknesses, and on paper, I kind of succeeded: I was the first pick in the draft. And with that, I inherited this big shiny trophy that I carried around, and it had one word engraved on it – anxiety.

I’ve got to know my strength and weaknesses and the same for my competitors.

The financial crisis revealed important weaknesses in many areas of our financial system.

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.

Team members need to be able to admit their weaknesses and mistakes, to acknowledge the strengths of others, and to apologize when they do something wrong.

I even ate chips because I love the crunchy sound they make. And I didn’t give much thought to what I was eating or what I was putting inside my body, except hummus, of course, which is one of my weaknesses.

I forgive all personal weaknesses except egomania and pretension.

Shoes and watches are my weaknesses.

What really makes a hero a hero is if you take that person’s hand, and you walk with that person, and they have a lot of weaknesses, but in the end, they overcome all of their obstacles.

I have to enhance the strengths but be honest about our weaknesses and get the players to consider a new way of doing some things.

Weaknesses are part of human nature. What matters are the consequences they can have on a squad.

There’s not an orchestra in the world that doesn’t have weaknesses. None of us can play everything well. The repertoire is just too big.

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.

An Englishman bears with patience any ridicule which foreigners cast upon him. John Bull never laughs so loudly as when he laughs at himself; but the Americans are nationally sensitive and cannot endure that good-humoured raillery which jests at their weaknesses and foibles.

I’m learning how strong I am, how resilient I am. I’m learning my weaknesses.

Acting tough is all about developing an attitude and a persona that says, ‘Look at how great I am.’ But often, that tough exterior is meant to hide self-doubt. Mentally strong people invest more energy into working on their weaknesses rather than trying to cover them up.

I’ve got a lot of weaknesses. One of them is that I often get scared and tense when I’m working – and fear is one of the big threats to any good performance, because it closes you down and makes it harder for you to produce life in front of the camera.

The biggest challenge we all face is to learn about ourselves and to understand our strengths and weaknesses. We need to utilize our strengths, but not so much that we don’t work on our weaknesses.

Getting married and really digging in with another human being can point out your greatest strengths and your greatest weaknesses.

Curb Your Enthusiasm, is not so much about Hollywood. It’s more about Larry’s weaknesses.

For the weaknesses I have with spelling and all those other things with being dyslexic, I have a lot of other strengths also.

What Steve Nash and Chris Paul do is they kind of hide your weaknesses.

Cars, furs, and gems were not my weaknesses.

Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity.

Biographies are no longer written to explain or explore the greatness of the great. They redress balances, explore secret weaknesses, demolish legends.

It is the knowledge that all men have weaknesses and that many have vices that makes government necessary.

I love to argue. I’ve always loved to argue. And I love to point out the weaknesses of the opposing arguments. It may well be that I’m something of a shin kicker. It may well be that I’m something of a contrarian.

The happiest people I know as a nation are the Burmese; their brightness and cheeriness are proverbial. Kindness to animals is one of their greatest ‘weaknesses’; no Burmese will kill an animal, even if it is to put it out of pain.

The thing about the NBA, if you have a weakness, they are going to expose it on the first day of practice. You have to get rid of your weaknesses, and your strengths have to be as sharp as anything.

In 2009, when I was Health Minister, we re-engineered our business processes to examine the weaknesses and opportunities in our health system. Following that exercise, we established a public health emergency management system from national to district level to prevent and provide rapid response to outbreaks.

Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams.

I stick to bread-and-butter bodybuilding. I hit my muscles from various angles, work on bringing up any weaknesses, and design workouts that are always challenging and helping me progress.

To say we have to play a certain way, or try to, every game is great in theory, but depending what players you have got you have to play to their strengths and cover up their weaknesses.

I celebrate my weaknesses.

Management relationship, it’s very unique. You have to bare all of your weaknesses and warts and all for them to effectively manage you.

Would I still be playing at the top level at the age of 37 years if I had any weaknesses?

Before I go up against the best forwards in the world – Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi, Neymar – I study their strengths and weaknesses like an obsession, and then I plan how I am going to attack. My goal is to show the world that Dani Alves is on the same level.

Ever since I was a child, I have loved being the centre of attention, but similarly, I can’t remember a time in my life that I haven’t battled with all sorts of quandaries, fears and weaknesses.

We all have a tendency to avoid our weaknesses. When we do that, we never progress or get any better.

I had the brain for football, but I didn’t have the height. So I started using my brain to overcome those weaknesses and discovered football isn’t just about size or power: it’s about what’s up there. That was the making of me.

As for my speed, I’m not the fastest, but just like in other sports, you learn to stay away from your weaknesses and make more use of your strengths: my shooting ability, court awareness, rebounding, and helping out defensively.

You know, I analyze my faults and my weaknesses very carefully. I’m very hypercritical of myself.

I know my strengths and weaknesses, and I play to them.

We all fail, and we all have weaknesses. I think that’s what helps us relate to characters we see on TV or read in books, is that we recognize our frailties within them and maybe don’t feel so alone. We get to learn from their mistakes.

Luckily, I’m in a band with two other guys who really pull their own weight and have the skills and abilities to compensate for my weaknesses.

I surround myself with people that have certain strengths that are my weaknesses so they push me in certain areas.

If you’re confident, then you don’t feel weird about showing your vulnerability and opening yourself up to learning from somebody else. Insecure people stay where they are because they’re afraid of admitting their weaknesses.

Well, shoes, bags and clutches are usually my big weaknesses – my husband always laughs when I call them ‘investment pieces.’

Fitness, defending, the mental stuff – those were all weaknesses of mine. And I turned those into strengths.

No country can be complacent in making sure that excessive debt of the household doesn’t create excesses and weaknesses in the financial system. Everything is interconnected.

I think when you are playing at the international level, there is so much television exposure that people are looking at your weaknesses and strengths, and you need to fox them at times. You have got to do something different.

One of my weaknesses is that I actually have a conscience.

Human love is often but the encounter of two weaknesses.

We need to defend against weaknesses within and enemies without, using the tools of civil society and hard power. We don’t have to pick one over the other.