Weakness Quotes

I just like the company of beautiful women. I have a weakness in that department. And I suppose because I am fairly well off and a famous musician, I'm up for grabs. And that makes me an eligible bachelor in the press.
Eric Clapton

Women, Famous, Beautiful

Tolerance it a tremendous virtue, but the immediate neighbors of tolerance are apathy and weakness.
James Goldsmith

Tolerance, Apathy, Virtue

I believe in discipline, so I'm not the right person to cry about weakness and things like this, but maybe I'm not human.
John Galliano

Human, Person, Cry

If I have a weakness, it's probably ice cream. That's where I get lax, sloppy. I'll sneak into the refrigerator at night and take two or three bites and put it back. Butter pecan. Only two or three bites, but it shows.
Jack Nicklaus

Night, Two, Put

The acknowledgment of our weakness is the first step in repairing our loss.
Thomas a Kempis

Step, Loss, Repairing

Everybody has a weakness. Mine is food.
Salma Hayek

Food, Everybody, Mine

The beautiful seems right by force of beauty and the feeble wrong because of weakness.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Beauty, Beautiful, Wrong

This is Romney's biggest political weakness. His policy flip-flops and the general sense that he's not comfortable in his own skin leads voters, including many supporters, wondering about his core values.
Ron Fournier

Political, Sense, Values

Failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done is a great weakness in any man.
William Howard Taft

Great, Failure, May

It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong.
Wendell Willkie

Power, Government, Strong

Don't mistake niceness for weakness.
Jennifer Granholm

When our Lord says, we must be converted and become as little children, I suppose he means also, that we must be sensible of our weakness, comparatively speaking, as a little child.
George Whitefield

Children, Become, Child

Insecurity, commonly regarded as a weakness in normal people, is the basic tool of the actor's trade.
Miranda Richardson

Insecurity, Actor, Normal

I try to avoid barbecue potato chips. They're my weakness.
Gwyneth Paltrow

Try, Avoid, Potato

Tomorrow is a satire on today, And shows its weakness.
Edward Young

Today, Tomorrow, Shows

It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of their imaginations.
Walter Bagehot

Men, Said, Often

Criminals usually prey on weakness. They can smell it.
Steven Seagal

Smell, Criminals, Prey

We have not sought this conflict; we have sought too long to avoid it; our forbearance has been construed into weakness, our magnanimity into fear, until the vindication of our manhood, as well as the defence of our rights, is required at our hands.
Robert Toombs

Fear, Long, Until

I have a theory and I really believe it. I think your worst weakness can become your greatest single strength.
Barbara Corcoran

Strength, Greatest, Single

Now the thing is not to get into unnecessary quarrels by talking too much and not to indicate any weakness by talking too much; let our actions speak for themselves.
Henry L. Stimson

Speak, Themselves, Talking

Neutrality, as a lasting principle, is an evidence of weakness.
Lajos Kossuth

Principle, Evidence, Neutrality

Science has yet to isolate the Godiva Chocolate or Prada gene, but that doesn't mean your weakness for pricey swag isn't woven into your DNA. According to a new study of identical twins, it's less TV ads or Labor Day sales that make you buy the things you do than the tastes and temperaments that are already part of you at birth.
Jeffrey Kluger

Science, Mean, Study

Books are my weakness.
Dan Stevens

We all can relate to people's weaknesses. We might put up a facade that everything is perfect but none of us are. When we see that weakness in somebody else, we understand or give ourselves a little bit of leeway.
Joel Kinnaman

Give, Understand, Perfect

To have any doubt in your body is the biggest weakness an athlete can have. There are times when I physically can't get myself to go for a skill because I'm thinking, 'My knee hurts really bad.'
Shawn Johnson

Bad, Thinking, Doubt

Growth begins when we begin to accept our own weakness.
Jean Vanier

Accept, Growth, Begin

We grow a little every time we do not take advantage of somebody's weakness.
Bernard Williams

Time, Somebody, Grow

I didn't want to be on the losing side. I was fed up with Jewish weakness, timidity and fear. I didn't want any more Jewish sentimentality and Jewish suffering. I was sickened by our sad songs.
Lionel Blue

Fear, Sad, Suffering

Dark chocolate, and salt and vinegar chips are my weakness - but not together.
Gail Simmons

Together, Dark, Chocolate

Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs.
Robert Peel

Feeling, Wrong, Opinion

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