Leadership means firmness, not harshness or bullying; understanding, not weakness; justice, not irresponsible freedom; humaneness, not intolerance; generosity, not selfishness; pride, not egotism.
Caution is the instinct of the weaker animal.
I say, 'I will not be your weakness, Sean Kendrick. ' Now he looks at me. He says, very softly, 'It's late for that, Puck.
I knuckle down with my demons, and with my weaknesses.
Life before Death. Strength before Weakness. Journey before Destination.
Know your strengths, weaknesses, and needs.
My strength and my weakness is that I see normally impersonal events vividly and personally.
I have never quite understood the relationship between beauty and weakness, womanly sweetness and womanly silliness; to my mind, indeed, that woman being the most beautiful who is the most capable, while weakness and silliness can never by any chance be other than unlovely.
Lots of men are like that, their artistic leanings never go beyond a weakness for shapely thighs.
Communicating with musicians is really interesting because everyone has their quirks and their strengths and their weaknesses.
Joy is a strength; intoxication, a weakness.
The man who discovers a woman's weakness is like the huntsman in the heat of the day who finds a cool spring. He wallows in it.
The Church therefore has one inescapable task: To lift up Christ. When she seeks to lift herself up she becomes weak, but when she acknowledges her own weakness and proclaims her Lord, she is strong.
Confident and courageous leaders have no problems pointing out their own weaknesses and ignorance.
How can you blame a person for his fears and weaknesses unless you have felt the same and done differently?
We have very substantial weaknesses, including all vital infrastructures.
Maybe they didn't want you to realize that every civilization has its weakness. There's always one thing we depend on. And if someone takes it away all that's left is some story in a history class.
Presumably, as a Martial artist, I do not fight for gain or loss, am not concerned with strength or weakness, and neither advance a step nor retreat a step. The enemy does not see me. I do not see the enemy. Penetrating to a place where heaven and earth have not yet divided, where yin and yang have not yet arrived, I quickly and necessarily gain effect.
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character; it becomes lack of power to act with courage proportionate to danger. All this must lead to the destruction of our intellectual life unless the danger summons up strong personalities able to fill the lukewarm and discouraged with new strength and resolution.
The great lesson of history for us is that strength and resolve bring peace and order, and weakness and vacillation invite chaos and conflict.