Quotes with weaknesses

  • One of the weaknesses in the cooperative is that it has never been sufficiently leavened by the imagination. This is a quick-silver faculty, and likely to be a cause of worry to any collective settlement.
  • The confession of our failings is a thankless office. It savors less of sincerity or modesty than of ostentation. It seems as if we thought our weaknesses as good as other people's virtues.

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  • Friedrich Nietzsche ''To give style'' to one's character - a great and rare art! He exercises it who surveys all that his nature presents in strength and weakness and then moulds it to an artistic plan until everything appears as art and reason, and even the weaknesses delight the eye.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Knute Rockne Build up your weaknesses until they become your strong points.
    Knute Rockne
    Norwegian-American football player and coach (1888 - 1931)
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  • William Hazlitt Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering the weaknesses of others.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Stephen R. Covey Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it - immediately.
    Stephen R. Covey
    American educator, author and businessman (1932 - 2012)
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  • Sidonie Gabrielle Colette A pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men.
    Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
    French writer (1873 - 1954)
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  • Bokeem Woodbine Acting is an opportunity for me to try to explore and examine and expose humanity's weaknesses that are intrinsic to our nature as humans and learn from them; thereby, it's like a sociological expose.
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  • Arthur Hays Sulzberger All nations are more tolerant of their own mistakes and weaknesses than of the mistakes and weaknesses of others.
    Arthur Hays Sulzberger
    American newspaper publisher (1891 - 1968)
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  • William Hazlitt Comedy naturally wears itself out - destroys the very food on which it lives; and by constantly and successfully exposing the follies and weaknesses of mankind to ridicule, in the end leaves itself nothing worth laughing at.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Paul J. Meyer 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
    American businessman and business consultant (1928 - )
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  • Henry Ward Beecher God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Robert Conklin If human beings are perceived as potentials rather than problems, as possessing strengths instead of weaknesses, as unlimited rather that dull and unresponsive, then they thrive and grow to their capabilities.
    Robert Conklin
    American teacher, writer
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  • Joseph Conrad It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. The comic, when it is human, soon takes upon itself a face of pain; and some of our grieves... have their source in weaknesses which must be recognized with smiling compassion as the common inheritance of us all.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Herman Melville 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
    American author (1819 - 1891)
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  • Ann Landers 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
    American columnist (1918 - 2002)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Al Pacino My weaknesses... I wish I could come up with something. I'd probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they're the same thing.
    Al Pacino
    American actor and filmmaker (1940 - )
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  • Thornton Wilder Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It's your combination sinners - your lecherous liars and your miserly drunkards - who dishonor the vices and bring them into bad repute.
    Thornton Wilder
    American writer and playwright (1897 - 1975)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Edward Dahlberg One of the weaknesses in the cooperative is that it has never been sufficiently leavened by the imagination. This is a quick-silver faculty, and likely to be a cause of worry to any collective settlement.
    Edward Dahlberg
    American novelist, essayist and autobiographer (1900 - 1977)
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  • Paul Valery Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows.
    Paul Valery
    French poet (1871 - 1945)
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