Know your strengths, weaknesses, and needs.
What were once felt to be defects-isolation, institutional simplicity, primitiveness of manners, multiplicity of religions, weaknesses in the authority of the state-could now be seen as virtues, not only by Americans themselves but by enlightened spokesmen of reform, renewal and hope wherever they may be-in London coffeehouses, in Parisian salons, in the courts of German princes.
Your compassion is a weakness your enemies will not share.
In most cases, strengths and weaknesses are two sides of the same coin. A strength in one situation is a weakness in another, yet often the person can't switch gears. It's a very subtle thing to talk about strengths and weaknesses because almost always they're the same thing.
The willingness to change one’s mind in the light of new evidence is a sign of rationality not weakness.
Anything that brings spiritual, mental, or physical weakness, touch it not with the toes of your feet.
Wherever you find real love, you will also find humility. Remember something: humility is not a weak and timid quality. Too often we feel that humility is a sign of weakness. This is not so. It is the sign of strength and security.
Life never forgives weaknesses.
There is now doubt in our minds that Nasser, whether he likes it or not, is now effectively in Russian hands, just as Mussolini was in Hitler's. It would be as ineffective to show weakness to Nasser now in order to placate him as it was to show weakness to Mussolini.
Your sensitivity is power. Don't let people transform your qualities into weaknesses.
Lack of fairness to an opponent is essentially a sign of weakness.
What a joy to remember that she is our Mother! Since she loves us and knows our weakness, what have we to fear?
Surrender is not a weakness, or state of inaction, but rather a powerful state of pure energy; the energy of becoming your true purpose.
Our strength is seen in the things we stand for; our weakness is seen in the things we fall for.
I don't follow any of what the pop world is doing. Sometimes I feel like that's a weakness, actually, that I'm too in my own bubble. But I'm really just interested in the inner journey. And pop is all about the exterior world, the material.
I discovered an astonishing truth: God is attracted to weakness. He cannot resist those who humbly and honestly admit how desperately they need him.
There is a price for popularity. Critics look for your weaknesses, your flaws, anything that makes the work seem like a fluke and not seem worthy of all the attention it's getting.
I have to manage and protect my brand. For the details I can always hire people who can knuckle down much better. For that I need people who are different to myself. People who compensate for my weaknesses.
The Beginning of Philosophy is a Consciousness of your own Weakness and inability in necessary things.
A 'weakness,' I now realize, is nothing but a strength not properly developed.