"My weakness is dark chocolate. I carry little tins of it in my purse."
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"The role of the leader is to foster mutual respect and build a complementary team where each strength is made productive and each weakness irrelevant."
"No cowardice, no sin, no crime, no weakness - the rest will come of itself. . ."
"What makes a man stand up and work? Strength. Strength is goodness, weakness is sin."
"Weakness is constant strain and misery: weakness is death."
"Praise leads to weakness. Getting it causes fear, losing it causes fear."
"Often we are firm from weakness, and audacious from timidity."
"Passions often produce their contraries: avarice sometimes leads to prodigality, and prodigality to avarice; we are often obstinate through weakness and daring through timidity."
"Whilst weakness and timidity keep us to our duty, virtue has often all the honor."
"I must show no fear, no weakness, no doubt."
"You saw his weakness, and he will never forgive you."
"It is not a character fault or weakness or seeking attention. It is somebody who is ill."
"We all have our moments of weakness, just as well that we are still capable of weeping, tears are often our salvation, there are times when we would die if we did not weep - Blindness"
"I know what I would do if I were coach. I'd determine our strengths and weaknesses and utilize them. And it's pretty clear what our strength is."
"The most regular and most perfect soul in the world has but too much to do to keep itself upright from being overthrown by its own weakness."
"The weakness of modern tragedy[is that] transgression against the social code is made to bring destruction, as though the social code worked our irrevocable fate."
"More often than not, anger is actually an indication of weakness rather than of strength."
"I haven't any language weak enough to depict the weakness of my spiritual life. If I weakened it enough it would cease to be language at all. As when you try to turn the gas-ring a little lower still, and it merely goes out."
"Just because Iran and Syria may recognize Assad's weaknesses doesn't necessarily mean that Assad recognizes his weaknesses."
"Resistance is weakness and fear masquerading as strength. What the ego sees as weakness is your Being in its purity, innocence, and power. What it sees as strength is weakness."