Swami Vivekananda
Spiritual Leader, Philosopher
"Expansion is life, contraction is death. Love is life, hatred is death."
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Weakness
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Peter Drucker
Management Consultant, Author
"Cultivate a deep understanding of yourself - not only what your strengths and weaknesses are but also how you learn, how you work with others, what your values are, and where you can make the greatest contribution. Because only when you operate from strengths can you achieve true excellence."
Karl Marx
Philosopher, Economist
"Social reforms are never carried out by the weakness of the strong; but always by the strength of the weak."
B. F. Skinner
Psychologist, Behaviorist
"We are only just beginning to understand the power of love because we are just beginning to understand the weakness of force and aggression."
Elizabeth I
Queen
"Grief never ends, but it changes. It is a passage, not a place to stay. Grief is not a sign of weakness nor a lack of faith: it is the price of love."
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"The task of leadership is to create an alignment of strengths so strong that it makes the system's weaknesses irrelevant."
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"The World is not ruined by the wickedness of the wicked, but by the weakness of the good."
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"Politically, the weakness of the argument has always been that those who choose the lesser evil forget very quickly that they chose evil."
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"So let us begin anew -- remembering on both sides that civility is not a sign of weakness, and sincerity is always subject to proof. Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate. Let both sides explore what problems unite us instead of belaboring those problems which divide us."
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"It is not the evil itself which is horrifying about our times – it is the way we not only tolerate evil, but have made a cult of positively worshipping weakness, depravity, rottenness and evil itself."
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"The lust for power is not rooted in strength but in weakness."
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"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."
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"When you struggle with your partner, you are struggling with yourself. Every fault you see in them touches a denied weakness in yourself."
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"An arch consists of two weaknesses which, leaning one against the other, make a strength."
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"You have summoned me in my weakness. You must sustain me in your strength."
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"Every person should take a lesson from history. We should understand that wherever there have been internal fights and conflicts in the country, the country has been weakened. Due to this, the danger from outside increases. The country has to pay a big price due to this type of weakness."
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"Patience is the strength of the weak, impatience is the weakness of the strong."
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"We maintain the peace through our strength; weakness only invites aggression."
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"When reason ends, then anger begins. Therefore, anger is a sign of weakness."
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"Ingratitude is always a kind of weakness. I have never known men of ability to be ungrateful."
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"Civility is not a sign of weakness."
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"Weaknesses and deficiencies . . . play a most important part in all our lives. It is because of them that we need others and others need us. We are not all weak in the same spots, and so we supplement and complete one another, each one making up in himself for the lack in another."
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"When God is our strength, it is strength indeed; when our strength is our own, it is only weakness."
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"There is one weakness in people for which there is no remedy. It is the universal weakness of LACK OF AMBITION!"
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"Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg."
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