Soft things are terrifying. They're the real signals of death. Images of strength can never be that terrifying. It's the images of weakness that are a real apocalypse.
The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.
You have summoned me in my weakness. You must sustain me in your strength.
Your sensitivity is power. Don't let people transform your qualities into weaknesses.
I have not come into this world to make men better, but to make use of their weaknesses.
I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.
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.
One of the things that's beautiful about New Orleans is how culturally rich we are and how well we have worked together. People call us a gumbo. It's really important that we get focused on the very simple notion that diversity is a strength, it's not a weakness.
If you have a weakness, everyone sees it all over the country and the other team is going to exploit it.
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.
The obstacle became his alibi for weakness.
Arbitrary rule has its basis, not in the strength of the state or the chief, but in the moral weakness of the individual, who submits almost without resistance to the domineering power.
Now the thing is not to get into unnecessary quarrels by talking too much and not to indicate any weakness by talking too much; let our actions speak for themselves.
Every human being has appetites difficult to control but far fewer have humility, gentleness, and an awareness of their weaknesses.
In ways and thoughts of weakness and of wrong, Threads turn to cords, and cords to cables strong.
Let weakness learn meekness.
Act in such a way that your humility may not be weakness, nor your authority be severity. Justice must be accompanied by humility, that humility may render justice lovable.
Who is apt, on occasion, to assign a multitude of reasons when one will do? This is a sure sign of weakness in argument.
It is a noble and great thing to cover the blemishes and excuse the failings of a friend; to draw a curtain before his weaknesses and to display his perfections; to bury his shortcomings in silence but to proclaim his virtues on the housetop.
Strong words are required for weak principles.