"It is a weakness that I lead from my heart, and not my head?"
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"If a man wants love he should correct his weaknesses, or his flaws, and he may deserve it. But he cannot expect the unearned, either in love or in money; either in matter or in spirit."
"I can't expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself."
"It is far better to know our own weaknesses and failures than to point out those of others."
"Our foibles are really what make us lovable."
"The obstacle became his alibi for weakness."
"Lord, may the pain be ours, And the weakness that it brings, But at least give us the strength, Of not showing it to anyone!"
"There are two kinds of weakness, that which breaks and that which bends."
"Sometimes you have to resist working on your strengths in favour of your weaknesses. The decathlon requires a wide range of skills."
"I traded cowardice for cruelty; I traded weakness for ferocity."
"The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion."
"Men are in general so tricky, so envious, and so cruel that when we find one who is only weak, we are too happy."
"Learn to feel yourself in other bodies, to know that we are all one. Throw all other nonsense to the winds. Spit out your actions, good or bad, and never think of them again. What is done is done. Throw off superstition. Have no weakness even in the face of death. Be free."
"There is an age-old proverb that really does hold true in every area of life - in relations between nations and right down to the most subtle and sophisticated or must unstable and unsophisticated relations between lovers - and it is this: they took "kindness" for "weakness.""
"The weak shows his strength and hides his weaknesses; the magnificent exhibits his weaknesses like ornaments."
"Focus on your strengths, not your weaknesses."
"None deserve praise for being good who have not the spirit to be bad: goodness, for the most part, is nothing but indolence or weakness of will."
"Our worries always come from our weaknesses."
"Sin is disease, deformity, and weakness."
"Out of the cross comes the resurrection. Out of weakness comes real strength."