#weakness

There are two kinds of weakness, that which breaks and that which bends. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

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We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You're always helping people. ↗

— Jackie Chan

#arts #fight #get #helping #helping people

Growth begins when we begin to accept our own weakness. ↗

— Jean Vanier

#begin #begins #growth #our #own

I think that maybe that's my weakness, in that I don't know how to do it, so I just do what I do and try to do it as passionately and as well as I can. ↗

— Aaron Eckhart

#i #i can #i do #i think #just

People in very high places suddenly fall, and we are always surprised because we don't factor in the basic element that they're humans and, therefore, they are flawed and have weaknesses. ↗

— Carlisle Floyd

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Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness. ↗

— Leon Trotsky

#baseness #before #cannot #cynicism #easy

We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature. ↗

— Voltaire

#errors #first #first law #follies #full

Stronger by weakness, wiser men become. ↗

— Edmund Waller

#become #stronger #weakness #wiser

Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#i #really #requires #strength #tell

Religious beliefs evolved by group-selection, tribe competing against tribe, and the illogic of religions is not a weakness but their essential strength. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#beliefs #competing #essential #evolved #religions