871 Quotes About Weakness

what is strength after all? the concrete wall or the instrument that breaks it? Is will the only real strength? Or the power we have to break it through? It seems to me that nowadays, to reveal our weakness is the most courageous demonstration of humanity, strength and intellect men could ever reach.

Weakness is degrading, so is courage without responsibility.

Be strong, but don't let that strength blind you to such an extent that you become ignorant of other people's weaknesses.

I know I won’t pretend to be any less powerful than I really am. Because now I know for sure: the worst part of me isn’t the strongest part of me. And the strongest part of me is so, so much stronger than I ever realized.

Truth stings; it takes the strong to face the truth.

It has been often said that power corrupts. But it is perhaps equally important to realize that weakness, too, corrupts. Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. Hatred, malice, rudeness, intolerance, and suspicion are the fruits of weakness. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from the sense of their inadequacy and impotence.

I believe in you my friend, so much so, that if any of my ideas make you feel belittled in any manner, I want you to rise against me and throw my work into the fire. Any notion, any book, any institution that weakens the self instead of strengthening it, must be discarded at ones.

Lord, may the pain be ours, And the weakness that it brings, But at least give us the strength, Of not showing it to anyone!

There is a Quichua riddle: El que me nombra, me rompe. Whatever names me, breaks me. The solution, your course, is "silence." But the truth is, anyone who knows your name can break you in two.