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• Weakness:  the fact or state of not being strong or powerful.  Cambridge Dictionary
• Weakness:  lacking strength.  Merriam Webster
• Weakness: Lack of strength, firmness, vigor, or the like; feebleness.  Dictionary.com
• Weak: Not strong; liable to yield, break, or collapse under pressure or strain; fragile; frail.  Dictionary.com
• Weak:  Lacking power or influence.  Oxford Dictionary
• Grow your strengths, not your weaknesses, Strength,  Power,  Vice

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Get to know both your strengths and weaknesses …

• 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. Jonathan Swift
• Strength,  Self-knowledge

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… through introspection

• Introspection and giving yourself adequate time to get know yourself is also key to not taking things personally. You know your strengths and weaknesses, you know the things that you need to change and the things that you do well. When you know yourself better than anyone, you have clarity about whether the statements people make are honestly about you or are really, just about them. In the wisdom of introspection, you’ll find that what most people say reveal who they are, not who they think others are. Kovie Biakolo
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Awareness of your weaknesses can make you stronger

• Encourage yourself by remembering that any detection of negativity within you is a positive act, not a negative one. Awareness of your weakness and confusion makes you strong because conscious awareness is the bright light that destroys the darkness of negativity. Honest self- observation dissolves pains and pressures that formerly did their dreadful work in the darkness of unawareness. Vernon Howard
• Never be afraid to expose a weakness in yourself. Exposing a weakness is the beginning of strength. Robert Anthony
• We are not so easily gilded by our most prominent weaknesses, as by those of which we are least aware. Arthur Helps
• You cannot let go of anything if you cannot notice that you are holding it. Admit your ‘weaknesses’ and watch them morph into your greatest strengths. Neale Donald Walsch
• Within our perceived weaknesses and imperfections lies the key to realizing our true strength. Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
• Awareness,  Self-awareness

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Awareness of your weaknesses can open you to growth

• Growth begins when we begin to accept our own weakness. Jean Vanier
• When we are aware of our weaknesses or negative tendencies, we open the opportunity to work on them. Allan Lokos
• We often waste too much time comparing ourselves to others, and wishing to be something we’re not. Everybody has their own strengths and weaknesses, and it is only when we accept everything we are, and aren’t, that we are able to become who we are capable of being.  Marc and Angel Chernoff
• The acknowledgment of our weakness is the first step in repairing our loss. Thomas ã Kempis
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Dealing with your weaknesses and learning from them makes you strong

• The strength of a person is often weighed by how they deal with their weaknesses. Nathaniel Summers
• Strength is not just victory, but the ability to fail with integrity and take the lessons of losing and weakness as opportunities to learn. Karen Andes
• “We are weak,” Dan said. “We are weak for alcohol. Just like white people are weak for owning things.”  He turned to me.  “But those weaknesses are gifts, just like our strengths are gifts. Weaknesses make us strong, because they make us stand up to ourselves.”  Kent Nerburn
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Learn to accept your weaknesses for having weaknesses is a natural part of being human

• When I allow myself to be human and let go of my harsh judgements, I flower and bloom. My eyes are opened to my worth. Talents and gifts I never knew I had, begin to reveal themselves. Every part of me bathes in the warm glow of love and acceptance. Strengths, abilities, weaknesses and inadequacies. All things become new. No regret or shame. A life nourished from within. As the day accepts the sun and the night accepts the moon, so I accept myself. And so I become complete and whole. John Kehoe
• Humanity is not perfect in any fashion; no more in the case of evil than in that of good. The criminal has his virtues, just as the honest man has his weaknesses. Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
• Everything starts to be seen as a manifestation of spirit, including your humanness, with all of its strengths and weaknesses and all of its funny little quirks. You discover that your humanness is in no way separate from the divinity within you, which is what you actually are. Adyashanti
• You are human and mortal; we are the sum of our weak moments and our strong. Mercedes Lackey
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Self-compassion will help you to acknowledge your weaknesses

• People are often very hard on themselves when they notice something they want to change because they think they can shame themselves into action – the self-flagellation approach. However, this approach often backfires if you can’t face difficult truths about yourself because you are so afraid of hating yourself if you do.  Thus, weaknesses may remain unacknowledged in an unconscious attempt to avoid self-censure. In contrast, the care intrinsic to compassion provides a powerful motivating force for growth and change, while also providing the safety needed to see the self clearly without fear of self- condemnation. Dr. Kristin Neff
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Forgive your weaknesses and that of others

• With a little time, and a little more insight, we begin to see both ourselves and our enemies in humbler profiles. We are not really as innocent as we felt when we were first hurt. And we do not usually have a gigantic monster to forgive; we have a weak, needy, and somewhat stupid human being. When you see your enemy and yourself in the weakness and silliness of the humanity you share, you will make the miracle of forgiving a little easier. Lewis B. Smedes
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Highlight your strengths and put your weaknesses into perspective

• There are an inner critic and an inner protector inside each of us. For most people, that inner critic is continually yammering away, looking for something, anything, to find fault with. It magnifies small failings into big ones, punishes you over and over for things long past, ignores the larger context, and doesn’t credit you for your efforts to make amends. That’s why you need your inner protector to stick up for you: to put your weaknesses and misdeeds in perspective, to highlight your many good qualities surrounding your lapses, to encourage you to return to the high road even if you’ve gone down the low one, and—frankly—to tell that inner critic to Hush Up Now. Rick Hanson
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Some argue we should work to master our weaknesses

• Life is a competition not with others, but with ourselves. We should seek each day to live stronger, better, truer lives; each day to master some weakness of yesterday; each day to repair a mistake; each day to surpass ourselves. David B. Haight

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Some argue our strengths grow out of our weaknesses

• Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we’re damned if we’re going to show. Mignon McLaughlin
• Our strength grows out of our weaknesses. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn that perceived weakness into a strength. Michael Jordan

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Others argue weakness cannot be turned into strength

• If you think a weakness can be turned into a strength, I hate to tell you this, but that’s another weakness. Jack Handy

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They argue that a weakness is an activity that drains and weakens you …

• A weakness is an activity that makes you feel weak. Even if you’re good at it, if it drains you, that’s a weakness. Marcus Buckingham
• It’s not necessarily what you’re good at or what you’re capable of—it’s what feels amazing when you do it. Ergo, a weakness is the stuff you do that makes you feel weakened. Deceptively simple. Revolutionary. Danielle LaPorte

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… and if you focus on your weaknesses, you lose energy fast

• I often get tempted to work on my weaknesses. What happens when I do is drain my energy.  At best, I get mediocre results. When I play to my strengths, I keep a high level of energy. This energy builds momentum and it’s the key to how I get results.  D. Meier

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If we fixate on our weaknesses, our strengths lie dormant

• Unfortunately, most of us have little sense of our talents and strengths, much less the ability to build our lives around them. Instead, guided by our parents, by our teachers, by our managers, and by psychology’s fascination with pathology, we become experts in our weaknesses and spend our lives trying to repair these flaws, while our strengths lie dormant and neglected. Marcus Buckingham

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If we focus on our weaknesses, the most we’ll become is mediocre

• Correcting our weaknesses, the most we become is mediocre. If we hone our few super- strengths, insist on behavior that is authentic and true to our inner selves, and unreasonably demand more with less, the sky is the limit. Richard Koch
• You will excel only by maximizing your strengths, never by fixing your weaknesses. This is not the same as saying ‘ignore your weaknesses.’ Donald O. Clifton
• The choice is between multiplication of results using strengths or incremental improvement fixing weaknesses that will, at best, become mediocre. Timothy Ferriss
• I often get tempted to work on my weaknesses. What happens when I do is drain my energy.  At best, I get mediocre results. J.D. Meier
• The point here is not that you should always forgo this kind of weakness fixing. The point is that you should see it for what it is: damage control, not development. And as we mentioned earlier, damage control can prevent failure, but it will never elevate you to excellence. Donald O. Clifton
• Our definition of a weakness is anything that gets in the way of excellent performance. Donald O. Clifton
• I’ve known people who thought that reaching their potential would come from shoring up their weaknesses. But do you know what happens when you spend all your time working on your weaknesses and never developing your strengths? If you work really hard, you might claw your way all the way to mediocrity! But you’ll never get beyond it. John C. Maxwell

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Concentrate on growing your strengths, instead of fixing your weaknesses

• Concentrate on your strengths, instead of your weaknesses…on your powers, instead of your problems. Paul J. Meyer
• We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more. Madame Swetchine
• Those with a high level of confidence may have as many or more weaknesses than those with low self- esteem. The difference is this; instead of dwelling on their handicaps, they compensate for them by dwelling on their strengths. Alan Loy McGinnis
• Success is achieved by developing our strengths, not by eliminating our weaknesses. Marilyn vos Savant
• I do not believe that you should devote overly much effort to correcting your weaknesses. Rather, I believe that the highest success in living and the deepest emotional satisfaction comes from building and using your signature strengths. Martin Seligman
• Erase self-doubt by working to build your strengths instead of focusing on your weaknesses. Rodolfo Costa
• Enter every activity without giving mental recognition to the possibility of defeat. Concentrate on your strengths, instead of your weaknesses… on your powers, instead of your problems. Paul J. Meyer
• Our strength is that we don’t have any weaknesses; our weakness is that we don’t have any real strengths.  Frank Broyles
• The remedy for weakness is not brooding over weakness, but thinking of strength. Swami Vivekananda
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You grow fastest in an area of strength; not weakness

• You grow most in your areas of greatest strength. You will improve the most, be the most creative, be the most inquisitive, and bounce back the fastest in those areas where you have already shown some natural advantage over everyone else—your strengths. This doesn’t mean you should ignore your weaknesses. It just means you’ll grow most where you’re already strong. Marcus Buckingham

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Focus on your strengths and your weaknesses will take care of themselves

• Build upon strengths, and weaknesses will gradually take care of themselves. Joyce C Lock
• Live in terms of your strong points. Magnify them. Let your weaknesses shrivel up and die from lack of nourishment. William Young Elliott

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Let others do what you’re weak at

• Do an assessment of your weaknesses and find the right people to fill in those gaps. Lesley Spencer Pyle
• Stop trying to fix your weaknesses. You can’t be perfect. Focus on your strengths and let other people do what you’re bad at. Henri Junttila

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Compensate for weakness through co-operation and joint effort

• Men are beginning to realize that they are not individuals but persons in society, that man alone is weak and adrift, that he must seek strength in common action. Dorothy Day
• Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg. Dwight Eisenhower
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Compensate for weakness through synergy

• The essence of synergy is to value differences—to respect them, to build on strengths, to compensate for weaknesses. Once people have experienced real synergy, they are never quite the same again. They know the possibility of having other such mind- expanding adventures in the future. Stephen Covey
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Compensate for weakness through self-discipline

• Self-discipline is a form of freedom. Freedom from laziness and lethargy, freedom from the expectations and demands of others, freedom from weakness and fear-and doubt. Self-discipline allows a pitcher to feel his individuality, his inner strength, his talent. He is master of, rather than a slave to, his thoughts and emotions. A. Dorfman
• Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all. George Washington
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The ego searches for weakness in others while love watches for signs of strength

• The ego searches for short comings and weaknesses. Love watches for any sign of strength. It sees how far each one has come, and not how far he has to go.  How simple it is to love, and exhausting it is always to find fault, for every time we see a fault we think something needs to be done about it.  Love knows that nothing is ever needed but more love.  It is what we all do with our hearts that affects others most deeply.  It is not the movements of our body or the words within our minds that transmit love.  We love from heart to heart. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
• Transcending the ego,  Love

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Love makes allowance for human weakness

• 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. Ann Landers

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Accept the weaknesses and shortcomings of others

• Perhaps the greatest charity comes when we are kind to each other, when we don’t judge or categorize someone else, when we simply give each other the benefit of the doubt or remain quiet. Charity is accepting someone’s differences, weaknesses, and shortcomings; having patience with someone who has let us down; or resisting the impulse to become offended when someone doesn’t handle something the way we might have hoped. Charity is refusing to take advantage of another’s weakness and being willing to forgive someone who has hurt us. Charity is expecting the best of each other. Marvin J. Ashton

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Focus on the potential of others rather than their weaknesses

• If we would induce others to act virtuously, it will prove more effectual to show them their capacities than to expose their weakness–to attract them by a fairer ideal than to terrify them by pictures of misery and shame. E.H. Chapin
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Make allowance for the weakness of others and look beyond it

• Only a kind person is able to judge another justly and to make allowances for his weaknesses. A kind eye, while recognizing defects, sees beyond them. Lawrence G. Lovasik

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Look with forgiveness on the weakness of others

• Forgiveness eliminates fear and anxiety, weakness and vulnerability. Ari Kiev
• Look with great forgiveness upon the weakness of others. Jermey Taylor
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Be aware that a weakness you see in others is often a denied weakness in yourself

• When you struggle with your partner, you are struggling with yourself. Every fault you see in them touches a denied weakness in yourself. Deepak Chopra
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Don’t take advantage of the weakness of others

• We grow a little every time we do not take advantage of somebody’s weakness. Bern Williams

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Be courageous enough to share your weaknesses with others

• To share your weakness is to make yourself vulnerable; to make yourself vulnerable is to show your strength. Criss Jami
• I am struck by how sharing our weakness and difficulties is more nourishing to others than sharing our qualities and successes. Jean Vanier
• Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength. Theodor Adorno
• Great teams do not hold back with one another. They are unafraid to air their dirty laundry. They admit their mistakes, their weaknesses, and their concerns without fear of reprisal. Patrick Lencioni
• 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. Herman Melville

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A healthy relationship is a place where you can can safely let your weaknesses go

• Can the purpose of a relationship be to trigger our wounds?  In a way, yes, because that is how healing happens; darkness must be exposed before it can be transformed. The purpose of an intimate relationship is not that it be a place where we can hide from our weaknesses, but rather where we can safely let them go. It takes strength of character to truly delve into the mystery of an intimate relationship, because it takes the strength to endure a kind of psychic surgery, an emotional and psychological and even spiritual initiation into the higher Self. Only then can we know an enchantment that lasts.  Marianne Williamson
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Are your relationships making you stronger or weaker?

• Each relationship nurtures a strength or weakness within you. Mike Murdoch

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In marriage, be joined in your strength; not your weakness

• The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength, each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving. Simone de Beauvoir
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Find a partner who loves you even with your weaknesses

• When you find somebody you love, all the way through, and she loves you—even with your weaknesses, your flaws, everything starts to click into place. And if you can talk to her, and she listens, if she makes you laugh, and makes you think, makes you want, makes you see who you really are, and who you are is better, just better with her, you’d be crazy not to want to spend the rest of your life with her. Nora Roberts

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Self-pity breeds weakness

• Remember that self-pity breeds weakness. It steals your self-reliance. Every failure and every adversity you meet brings you a wonderful opportunity to test your own moral courage. You become a stronger person because of it. Napoleon Hill
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Fearing to appear weak breeds weakness

• The greatest weakness of all is the great fear of appearing weak. Jacques Benigne
• A fear of weakness only strengthens weakness. Criss Jami
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Limiting thoughts breed weaknesses

• If we understood the power of our thoughts, we would guard them more closely. If we understood the awesome power of our words, we would prefer silence to almost anything negative. In our thoughts and words we create our own weaknesses and our own strengths. Our limitations and joys begin in our hearts. We can always replace negative with positive. Bettie Eadie
• As the physically weak man can make himself strong by careful and patient training, so the man of weak thoughts can make them strong by exercising himself in right thinking. James Allen
• The inner speech, your thoughts, can cause you to be rich or poor, loved or unloved, happy or unhappy, attractive or unattractive, powerful or weak. Ralph Charell
• Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they’re yours. Richard Bach

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Despair breads weakness

• Despair puts the last touch not only to our misery but also to our weakness. Luc De Clapiers, Marquis De Vauvenargues
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Pessimism and negativity breeds weakness

• Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power. William James
• Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character. Albert Einstein
• Complaining is truly my strongest weakness. Evinda Lepins
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Fixating on our weaknesses breeds weakness

• When we think about our strengths, we are strong. When we think about our weaknesses, we are weak.  Pete Cohen

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Weak desire brings weak results

• The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat. If you find yourself lacking in persistence, this weakness may be removed by building a stronger fire under your desires. Napoleon Hill
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Leaving your mind open to negative influence makes you weak

• Without doubt, the most common weakness of all human beings is the habit of leaving their minds open to the negative influence of other people. Napoleon Hill
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Violence is weakness

• The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral; returning violence with violence only multiplies voilence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Martin Luther King, Jr.
• The force of arms only reveals man’s weakness. Rabindranath Tagore
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Hurting one another is weakness

• The law of evolution is that the strongest survives!’ ‘Yes, and the strongest, in the existence of any social species, are those who are most social. In human terms, most ethical…There is no strength to be gained from hurting one another. Only weakness. Ursula K. Le Guin

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Killing is weakness

• Let me tell you about weakness! Killing the strong to prove your strength is foolish weakness. Killing fools is easy weakness. Killing the weak is evil weakness. Accomplishing your ends without killing, mastering your mind when you want to kill–that is strength! Victoria Hanley

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Cruelty is weakness

• I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong. Leo Rosten
• All cruelty springs from weakness. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Power over others is weakness disguised as strength

• Power was my weakness and my temptation. K. Rowling
• It is weakness rather than wickedness which renders men unfit to be trusted with unlimited power. John Adams
• Power over others is weakness disguised as strength. True power if within, and it is available to you now. Eckhart Tolle

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Fear is weakness

• Fear is a weakness. It makes a person lose her nerve and her cool. It makes people jumpy and organizations nervous, and when that happens, there is always a chance to take advantage. Ally Carter, Uncommon Criminals
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To be caught in praise or criticism is weakness

• You can’t let praise or criticism get to you. It’s a weakness to get caught up in either one. John Wooden
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Ingratitude is weakness

• Ingratitude is always a kind of weakness. I have never known men of ability to be ungrateful. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Confession is weakness …

• Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence. Dorothy Dix

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Jealousy is weakness

• Jealousy has always been my cross, the weakness and woundedness in me that has most often caused me to feel ugly and unlovable, like the Bad Seed. Anne Lamott
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Anger is a weakness

• The moment a man or a woman becomes angry they show a great weakness. Wilford Woodruff
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Rudeness is weakness

• Rudeness is the weak man’s imitation of strength. Eric Hoffer
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Compromise is 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. Andrew Carnegie
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… or is it?

• Let no one think that flexibility and a predisposition to compromise is a sign of weakness or a sell- out. Paul Kagame

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Pride is weakness

• Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals. Fulton John Sheen
• It often occurs that pride and selfishness are muddled with strength and independence. They are neither equal nor similar; in fact, they are polar opposites. A coward may be so cowardly that he masks his weakness with some false personification of power. He is afraid to love and to be loved because love tends to strip bare all emotional barricades. Without love, strength and independence are prone to losing every bit of their worth; they become nothing more than a fearful, intimidated, empty tent lost somewhere in the desert of self. Criss Jami
• A man’s spirit is free, but his pride binds him with chains of suffocation in a prison of his own insecurities. Jeremy Aldana
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Arrogance is weakness

• Arrogant leadership is toxic to an organization. It looks like strength but is a debilitating weakness. Ira Chaleff
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Closed mindedness is weakness

• Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one’s mind. William Somerset Maugham
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Organising is excess can be weakness

• Organising often becomes an end rather than a means to a greater ends. Tremendous time can be spent organising rather than producing. Applied in excess, the strength of organising becomes a weakness. We can become over structured, nitpicking and inflexible. Stephen Covey

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Here are some more signs of weakness

• To be dexterous in danger is a virtue; but to court danger to show it, is weakness. William Penn
• The greatest weakness of most humans Is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they’re alive. O.A. Battista
• Suspicion is the courageous side of weakness. Thomas Kempis
• One of the weaknesses of our age is our apparent inability to distinguish our needs from our greeds.  Don Robinson
• Complaining is truly my strongest weakness. Evinda Lepins
• To rush into explanations is always a sign of weakness. Agatha Christie
• Failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done is a great weakness in any man. William Howard Taft
• A multitude of laws in a country is like a great number of physicians, a sign of weakness and malady. Voltaire
• Filth is always a sign of weakness – in the mouth of the user and in the mind of the writer. Sydney J. Harris
• It is a great weakness to want to bedeck oneself in qualities which are not his own. Magdeleine Sable
• To be too dissatisfied with ourselves is a weakness. To be too satisfied with ourselves is a stupidity. Magdeleine Sable
• Neutrality, as a lasting principle, is an evidence of weakness. Louis Kossuth
• A weak man has doubts before a decision; a strong man has them afterwards. Karl Kraus
• It is a strength of character to acknowledge our failings and our strong points, and it is a weakness of character not to remain in harmony with both the good and the bad that is within us. Magdeleine Sable

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Here are signs of a weak mind

• We often value the exterior and superficial aspect of things more than their inner reality. Bad manners taint everything – even justice and reason. The “how” of things matters most, and even the most disagreeable matters can be sweetened and gilded over with the proper appearance. Such is the bias and the weakness of the human mind. Magdeleine Sable
• When mental energy is allowed to follow the line of least resistance and to fall into easy channels, it is called weakness. James Allen
• A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones. Lord Chesterfield Stanhope
• Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds. Lord Chesterfield Stanhope

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The greatest weakness is weakness of character

• Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
• Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character. Albert Einstein
• We must have a weak spot or two in our character before we can love it much. Oliver Wendell Holmes
• Character is the foundation stone upon which one must build to win respect. Just as no worthy building can be erected on a weak foundation, so no lasting reputation worthy of respect can be built on a weak character. C. Samsel
• It is a strength of character to acknowledge our failings and our strong points, and it is a weakness of character not to remain in harmony with both the good and the bad that is within us. Magdeleine Sable

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Humility is not weakness

• Humility leads to strength and not to weakness. It is the highest form of self-respect to admit mistakes and to make amends for them.  John J. McCloy
• Humility is not weakness; it is the epitome of strength. Humility moves a person away from human, personal weakness and limitation into divine expression, strength, and expansion. Donald Curtis
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Being content not to stand out is not weakness

• If you are content with being nobody in particular, content not to stand out, you align yourself with the power of the universe. What looks like weakness to the ego is in fact the only true strength. This spiritual truth is diametrically opposed to the values of our contemporary culture and the way it conditions people to behave. Eckhart Tolle

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To admit you don’t know is not weakness

• It is a sign of strength, not of weakness, to admit that you don’t know all the answers. John P. Lougbrane

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To admit you’re wrong is not weakness

• Research teaches a man to admit he is wrong and to be proud of the fact that he does so, rather than try with all his energy to defend an unsound plan because he is afraid that admission of error is a confession of weakness when rather it is a sign of strength. H. E. Stocher

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True love is not weakness but true strength …

• It’s not that you should never love something so much that it can control you. It’s that you need to love something that much so you can never be controlled. It’s not a weakness. It’s your best strength. Patrick Ness
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… although some kinds of romantic love can weaken you

• One weakness is enough, and love is the deadliest. Bertolt Brecht
• They said love made you strong, but in Louise’s opinion it made you weak. It corkscrewed into your heart and you couldn’t get it out again, not without ripping your heart to pieces. Kate Atkinson, One Good Turn
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Tenderness and kindness is not weakness

• Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolutions. Kahlil Gibran
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Forgiveness is not weakness

• The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. Mahatma Gandhi
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Compassion is not weakness

• Compassion and happiness are not a sign of weakness but a sign of strength. The Dalai Lama
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Surrender is not weakness

• The word “surrender” is often interpreted as giving up, as weakness, as admitting defeat. Although this is one way to use the word, we will use it in a different way. Surrendering means letting go of your resistance to the total openness of who you are. It means giving up the tension of the little vortex you believe yourself to be and realizing the deep power of the ocean you truly are. It means to open with no boundaries, emotional or physical, so you ease wide beyond any limiting sense of self you might have. David Deida
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Pain is not weakness

• Pain is not a sign of weakness, but bearing it alone is a choice to grow weak. Lori Deschene
• Pain is weakness leaving the body. Tera Lynn Childs
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Tears are not weakness

• There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are messengers of overwhelming grief…and unspeakable love. Washington Irving
• Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart. José N. Harris
• Guys always think tears are a sign of weakness. They’re a sign of FRUSTRATION. She’s only crying so she won’t cut your throat in your sleep. So make nice and be grateful. Donna Barr
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Tranquility is not weakness

• Tranquility is not weakness; from tranquility emerges power and strength. JoyBell C.
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Confronting your feelings is not weakness

• 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. Fred Rogers
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Asking for help is not weakness

• Asking for help is not a sign of weakness. Robert and Jeanne Segal
• The clash of ideas is not weakness.Truth reaches its place when tussling with error. Richard Henry Pratt

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Being awake to love is not weakness

• Having an eye for beauty isn’t the same thing as a weakness. Suzanne Collins

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Open mindedness is not weakness

• The willingness to change one’s mind in the light of new evidence is a sign of rationality not weakness. Stuart Sutherland
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Sincerity is not weakness

• Insincerity is always weakness; sincerity even in error is strength. George Lewes
• So let us begin anew – remembering on both sides that civility is not a sign of weakness, and sincerity is always subject to proof. John Fitzgerald Kennedy

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Weakness gets in the way of excellence

• Our definition of a weakness is anything that gets in the way of excellent performance. Donald O. Clifton
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Weakness can corrupt

• It has often been 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 faults of weakness. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from their sense of inadequacy and impotence. We cannot win the weak by sharing our wealth with them. They feel our generosity as oppression. Eric Hoffer
• What is bad? All that proceeds from weakness. Friedrich Nietzsche

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Competition may call on us to hide our weaknesses

• The key to any game is to use your strengths and hide your weaknesses. Paul Westphal
• Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering the weaknesses of others. William Hazlitt
• People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them. Anatole France
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Every choice we make adds to our strength or weakness

• The good among the great understand that every choice we make adds to the strength or weakness of our spirits—ourselves, or to use an old-fashioned word for the same idea, our souls.
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Strong words indicate a weak argument

• He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak. Moliere
• Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause. Victor Marie Hugo

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Thoughts on weakness and suffering

• As one grows weaker one is less susceptible to suffering. There is less hurt because there is less to hurt. Jack London, The Star Rover
• Sorrow is a fruit: God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it. Victor Marie Hugo
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Thoughts on weakness versus wickedness

• The difference between weakness and wickedness is much less than people suppose; and the consequences are nearly always the same.  Lady Marguerite Blessington
• The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity. Arthur Schopenhauer
• Satirize wickedness if you must–but pity weakness. L.M. Montgomery
• I lacked the courage to investigate the weaknesses of the wicked, because I discovered they are the same as the weaknesses of the saintly. Umberto Eco
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The triumph of the strong over weakness

• It is the destiny of the weak to be devoured by the strong. Otto von Bismarck
• When you find your opponent’s weak spot, hammer it. John Heisman
• Weak dogs become bones for other, stronger dogs. Tad Williams
• This is the law of the Yukon, that only the strong shall thrive; That surely the weak shall perish, and only the fit survive. Robert W. Service
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Beware of the weak man

• Better make a weak man your enemy than your friend. Josh Billings
• The weak are the most treacherous of us all. They come to the strong and drain them. They are bottomless. They are insatiable. They are always parched and always bitter. They are everyone’s concern and like vampires they suck our life’s blood. Bette Davis

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Beware of the man without weakness

• I am willing to allow that smoking is a moral weakness, but on the other hand, we must beware of the man without weaknesses. He is not to be trusted. He is apt to be always sober and he cannot make a single mistake. His habits are likely to be regular, his existence more mechanical and his head always maintains its supremacy over his heart. Much as I like reasonable persons, I hate completely rational beings. Lin Yutang

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Even the weakest has a gift to give

• The weakest among us has a gift, however seemingly trivial, which is peculiar to him, and which worthily used, will be a gift to his race forever. John Ruskin

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Weakness and belief

• Weak people believe what is forced on them. Strong people what they wish to believe, forcing that to be real. Gene Wolfe, Shadow and Claw
• Of all the weaknesses little men rail against, there is none that they are more apt to ridicule than the tendency to believe. And of all the signs of a corrupt heart and a feeble head, the tendency of incredulity is the surest. Real philosophy seeks rather to solve than to deny. Edward Bulwer-Lytton
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Women, men and weakness

• A woman of mystique is fully aware of her flaws and weaknesses, yet she is strong enough to admit them and not be embarrassed by them. Jean Lush
• Woman’s fatal weakness is to desire sympathy and comprehension. Ouida
• The strength of women is the pretense of weakness, and the weakness of men is the pretense of strength. Kathleen Casey

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• A man is never so weak as when a woman is telling him how strong he is.
• Abstainer: A weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself pleasure.   Ambrose Bierce
• After 60 all of us belong to the weaker sex.  Woody Allen
• Contract: An agreement that is binding only on the weaker party.  Frederick Sawyer
• Don’t laugh at the coffee. Some day you, too, may be old and weak.
• Germs attack people where they’re weakest– which is why there are so many head colds.  Mark Twain
• I have an idea that the phrase ‘weaker sex’ was coined by some woman to disarm the man she was preparing to overwhelm. Ogden Nash
• If you think a weakness can be turned into a strength, I hate to tell you this but that’s another weakness.  Jack Handey
• If you think women are the weaker sex try pulling the blankets back to your side.  Stuart Turner
• My grandma told me her joints are getting weaker, so I told her to roll them tighter.
• Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we’re damned if we are going to show.  Mignon McLaughlin
• People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.  Anatole France
• The men in my family are strong because the women in my family kill and eat the weak ones. Robert Jordan
• When a love comes to an end, weaklings cry, efficient ones instantly find another love, and the wise already have one in reserve.  Oscar Wilde
• Why do people say “grow some balls”? Balls are weak and sensitive. If you wanna be tough, grow a vagina. Those things can take a pounding. Betty White
• Your password is too weak. It must contain stuff that will make you totally forget it by tomorrow.

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