Weaknesses Quotes

“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

“Dr. Watson's summary list of Sherlock Holmes's strengths and weaknesses:

"1. Knowledge of Literature: Nil.
2. Knowledge of Philosophy: Nil.
3. Knowledge of Astronomy: Nil.
4. Knowledge of Politics: Feeble.
5. Knowledge of Botany: Variable. Well up in belladonna, opium, and poisons generally. Knows nothing of practical gardening.
6. Knowledge of Geology: Practical but limited. Tells at a glance different soils from each other. After walks has shown me splashes upon his trousers, and told me by their colour and consistence in what part of London he had received them.
7. Knowledge of Chemistry: Profound.
8. Knowledge of Anatomy: Accurate but unsystematic.
9. Knowledge of Sensational Literature: Immense. He appears to know every detail of every horror perpetrated in the century.
10. Plays the violin well.
11. Is an expert singlestick player, boxer, and swordsman.
12. Has a good practical knowledge of British law.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet

“A genius in the wrong position could look like a fool.”
― Idowu Koyenikan, Wealth for All: Living a Life of Success at the Edge of Your Ability

“Accept yourself, your strengths, your weaknesses, your truths, and know what tools you have to fulfill your purpose.”
― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

“What a relief it is when we have the power to detach ourselves from ourselves, laugh at our pathetic weaknesses, and get the knack of sweeping away the certainties that are not essential in our lives. ( "Steaming ahead")”
― Erik Pevernagie

“Never test another man by your own weakness.”
― Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim

“A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.”
― Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, The Waste Books

“Everyone has their weak spot. The one thing that despite your best efforts, will always bring you to your knees, regardless of how strong you are otherwise. For some people, it's love. Others, money or alcohol. Mine was even worse: calculus.”
― Sarah Dessen, Lock and Key

“It is not great men who change the world, but weak men in the hands of a great God.”
― Brother Yun, The Heavenly Man: The Remarkable True Story of Chinese Christian Brother Yun

“I see that I've become a really bad correspondent. It's not that I don't think of you. You come into my thoughts often. But when you do it appears to me that I owe you a particularly grand letter. And so you end in the "warehouse of good intentions": "Can't do it now." "Then put it on hold." This is one's strategy for coping with old age, and with death--because one can't die with so many obligations in storage. Our clever species, so fertile and resourceful in denying its weaknesses.”
― Saul Bellow

“Maybe the truly handicapped people are the ones that don't need God as much.”
― Joni Eareckson Tada, The God I Love: A Lifetime of Walking with Jesus

“I'm strong because I know my weaknesses. I'm wise because I've been foolish. I laugh because I've known sadness.”
― Ziad K. Abdelnour, Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics

“The tests we face in life's journey are not to reveal our weaknesses but to help us discover our inner strengths. We can only know how strong we are when we strive and thrive beyond the challenges we face.”
― Kemi Sogunle

“At the beginning of all love there is a private treaty each of the lovers makes with himself or herself, an agreement to set aside what is wrong with the other for the sake of what is right. Love is spring after winter. It comes to heal life's wounds, inflicted by the unloving cold. When that warmth is born in the heart the imperfections of the beloved are as nothing, less than nothing, and the secret treaty with oneself is easy to sign. The voice of doubt is stilled. Later, when love fades, the secret treaty looks like folly, but if so, it's a necessary folly, born of lovers' belief in beauty, which is to say, in the possibility of the impossible thing, true love.”
― Salman Rushdie, Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights

“In my experience, there are two things that no one will admit to: having no sense of humor and being susceptible to flattery.”
― Margaret George, The Memoirs of Cleopatra

“She emptied herself of Fabio and of herself, of all the useless efforts she had made to get where she was and find nothing there. With detached curiosity she observed the rebirth of her weaknesses, her obsessions. This time she would let them decide, since she hadn't been able to do anything anyway. Against certain parts of yourself you remain powerless, she said to herself, as she regressed pleasurably to the time when she was a girl.”
― Paolo Giordano, The Solitude of Prime Numbers

“Ljudi vole sve svoje, pa i svoje slabosti. I svoju ranjavost, i svoju zlu sreću, i svoje prokletstvo: i u tome leži jedan dio nas. I to naš najprisniji, naš najkrvaviji dio. Kako bismo ga dakle ne mogli voljeti?”
― Vladan Desnica, Proljeća Ivana Galeba

“For years I was deathly afraid of my own weaknesses, but when I closed my eyes and let myself be vulnerable to them it allowed miracles to take place. Miracles that were only alive when I accessed my BLIND faith.”
― Bethany Brookbank, Write like no one is reading

“If there're weaknesses you don't know about but others do- your blind spots, it's embarrassing. Plus, people use them to mock you and take advantage over you and your circumstances.”
― Assegid Habtewold, The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For continued success in leadership

“You do not become outstanding by working on your weaknesses You become outstanding by focusing on your strenghts.”
― Gordana Biernat

“My greatest strengths are my weaknesses, for it is through acknowledging them that I learn how to grow.”
― Iain Cameron Williams

“Even one unhandled misconfiguration can dwindle the whole organization's security level.”
― Stephane Nappo

“Everything act of wickedness leads to weakness.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“That's a hole in the dike, isn't it?”
― James Lee Burke, Last Car to Elysian Fields

“Your path, strength and weaknesses are different from others, yet others guide you through their path, strengths and weaknesses.”
― Marion Bekoe, I WILL BE A BILLIONAIRE: The right mindset is the first step towards the journey.

“As you delineate the contours of your ambition, remain vigilant to the strengths and weaknesses of those who surround you. Friends and foes alike can be woven into your tapestry, either as allies to be cultivated or as obstacles to be overcome. Like a skilled chess player, anticipate the moves of your opponents, and prepare to outmaneuver them with foresight and guile.”
― Kevin L. Michel, Machiavellian Dreams: A Manual

“What he can't bear is when he has to act as nursemaid, for Ernesto mistrusts children instinctively. He thinks they're cunning, clever, wiser in many things than their scrubbed little faces reveal. Those eyes, so penetrating and so new, have an unerring way of exposing the more shameful secrets and stupid weaknesses of the grown-ups. Ernesto feels a strange uneasiness at being thus observed and subjected to scrutiny.”
― Rosario Castellanos, Balún Canán

“Remember the deer.” There were deer in the park, but not too many. They were not good near the cars. In fact, they were strangely susceptible, oddly vulnerable, especially at night. There were few cars in the park, but with their bright lights, blinding moving moonlights, they were visible a million miles away, and so easy to avoid. The deer, though, they were drawn to the lights, and caught by the lights, and killed by the lights. Every few months, we would find a deer in the road, struck dead, and it would baffle us. Why did they get so close when the lights and the sounds and the smells of the cars were so obvious? “We all have weaknesses,” Freya noted… “We all have something that blinds us to threats.”
― Dave Eggers

“We can forgive others everything but our own weaknesses.”
― Theodore Roethke, Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke

“The most important reason why a path seems very difficult is that as soon as you see it, you demotivate yourself by thinking that the path is very difficult and you destroy your own determination with your own fears! Remember, it is not the difficulty of the paths that blocks your way, but your weakness!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan