I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain.
There is too much blind partisanship in Congress, which has blocked progress on critical issues. Too many members view compromise as weakness rather than the essence of our democracy. This has to end.
Books are my weakness.
Man can and does rationalize his sins. He finds reasons for all his weakness, invents excuses that first calm and then deaden his conscience. He blames God, society, education, and environment for his wrong doing.
My patience level can be my weakness, but I know I can deal with anyone.
You can be stern and forthright, and that’s my management style, but when you lose it totally, that’s a sign of weakness.
For me, my greatest weakness is also my greatest strength: I’m a complete overthinker about everything.
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.
Reaching compromise does not signal weakness, but rather is a sign of strength. The ability to compromise is the backbone of democracy.
New cell phones are my weakness.
One of my biggest fears – maybe my biggest weakness as a Christian – is that I have a hard time going up to a stranger and talking to them about Jesus.
Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.
When you’ve displayed a weakness, you’ve displayed something a person can grab a hold of and attack you there. If you’re not ashamed of it, who can make you feel bad about it? Nobody. If you make a mistake, at least you get to see them, identify them, acknowledge them and hopefully remedy them.
We need to help young people and their parents understand that it’s not a sign of weakness to ask for help.
When you are learning through poetry how to speak English, it lends to a great understanding of sound, of pitch, of pronunciation, so I think of my speech impediment not as a weakness or a disability, but as one of my greatest strengths.
In this league, if you’re going to be tested, you have to answer quickly. I feel like if you show signs of weakness, people attack that pretty quickly.
Weakness is something we don’t like to admit we have. We hold it against people, until we experience it, and then we feel more compassion for it.
But in my weakness, my God is strong. When I was reckless, His reckless love chased me down and brought healing that I never experienced.
You would be amazed how many important outs you can get by working the count down to where the hitter is sure you’re going to throw to his weakness, and then throw to his power instead.
In American culture at large, but especially in African American culture, it’s a sign of weakness to ask for help.
My biggest weakness is that I’m excessive. Fortunately for everyone concerned, I’m not as excessive as I used to be.
Emotions are my weakness. It is in my blood. It is very difficult to control.
My emotions are usually my weakness, but they are my strength while acting.
I am tired. My arm aches. My head boils. My feet are cold. But I am not aware of any weakness.
The ‘morality of compromise’ sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don’t compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.
I’m very sensitive in real life. I cannot not cry if someone around me is crying. I will start to cry if someone is crying, even if it’s not appropriate. I have that thing in me, a weakness or sensitivity.
Conservatives literally view it as a kind of a weakness to talk to people other than their own. Nothing would bore me more than to sit around talking and listening to a bunch of liberals all day.
Lack of consistency is a weakness shared by all nations.
Fog is my weakness, and every time there is low fog, I am out and about with my camera.
The very strength of a nation eventually proves to be its weakness.
Strength comes in so many forms. Not just the physical strength, but to understand the emotional strength. To have emotional vulnerability, to show that’s not a weakness.
Usually I write about what I care about, which is a weakness but I think also a strength.
Every team has its weakness, and every team has its strength.
Everybody has a weakness. Mine is food.
I have a weakness for watches. I have to stop myself buying more.
I have one weakness. I don’t like vacations. I like to work.
I watched players getting really battered by the coach and their head just goes down, they dont want to play, theyre not enjoying it. Back then theyd say: that shows mental weakness. No, you were just horrible.
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.
I have a weakness for anything savory or bad guys. Bad boys.
Like all my family and class, I considered it a sign of weakness to show affection; to have been caught kissing my mother would have been a disgrace, and to have shown affection for my father would have been a disaster.
Kids will pick up on weakness, and I was very shy growing up. I was skinny and flat-chested; I didn’t have the latest clothes. For me, it was about being left out and not having any friends and being laughed at. I was very lonely, but that happens to so many people.
The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion.
It’s important for the coach when you arrive to understand the players and to understand every single player’s strength and their weakness.
I grew up in a family where you were allowed to say anything; you were allowed to show weakness… I have no problems talking about anything, basically. But at the same time, I know I’m different than a woman.
My family is my strength and my weakness.
It’s tough to negotiate from a position of weakness.
The kind of music I’m dealing with is more a long-term music. Sometimes a little discourage runs along on your thought, but I am here to push it back. Discourage is a sign of weakness, and I don’t like to be weak.
Death used to announce itself in the thick of life but now people drag on so long it sometimes seems that we are reaching the stage when we may have to announce ourselves to death. It is as though one needs a special strength to die, and not a final weakness.
I truly do believe that history teaches that weakness arouses evil, and whether it be the horrific attack in France, the inspired attacks here in the United States, the instability in Turkey that led to a coup.
It might be asked, ‘How much time shall I allow myself for rest?’ The answer is that no rule of universal application can be given, as all persons do not require the same measure of sleep, and also the same persons, at different times, according to the strength or weakness of their body, may require more or less.
On Russia, President Trump reverses the weakness of Obama, who turned a blind eye as Putin marched into Crimea and Ukraine by hitting Putin where it hurts – on energy.
Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we’re damned if we’re going to show.
The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.
The nation’s chronic weakness is its political system, which is nearing dysfunction. If the U.S. can elect better political leadership, it should be able to manage problems better than most competitors.
Like I always say, whatever is my weakness, I try to work on it and I try to get better at it.
It is up to God to take revenge. Only God can judge. I don’t have to worry about getting even with anybody or taking out any kind of aggression on anybody. Doing that is a weakness, anyway.
I believe in the power of weakness.
I think that everyone has something about themselves that they feel is their weakness… their ‘disability.’ And I’m certain we all have one, because I think of a disability as being anything which undermines our belief and confidence in our own abilities.
Yes, forget your weakness, whatever that weakness may be. It is egotism, it is selfishness after. all, for it is a dwelling on self. Forget your weakness; and remember your strength.
If you’re growing up in a chaotic world without reason, your instinct is to become a performer and control the circumstances around you. You lead from weakness into strength; you have an undefended back.
My biggest weakness as a endurance athlete has been in not drinking enough water after training, thereby racing sometimes while dehydrated.
It would surprise you how many government and business leaders with dyslexia. Some people view it as a weakness, and maybe it is. What dyslexia forces you to do, you don’t go A, B, C, D, E… to Z. I can go A, B… Z with speed.
