quotations about weakness
Anything cracked will shatter at a touch.
OVID
The Poems of Exile: Tristia and the Black Sea Letters
No Achilles' heel ever toughened by itself. It just gets more and more vulnerable.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
letter to "Scottina" Fitzgerald, June 12, 1940
Our weakness is the precondition for God's grace.
N. GRAHAM STANDISH
Paradoxes for Living: Cultivating Faith in Confusing Times
Every strength is a weakness, and every weakness is a strength. And when the Strong start smashing each other's strength ... the Weak may turn out to be, instead, the Wise.
G. C. EDMONDSON
Blessed Are the Meek
The enemy of the moment is not as important as our own inner weakness. If this is not mended we are already defeated, though no foreign conqueror stands within our walls.
ROGER ZELAZNY
The Hand of Oberon
People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
ANATOLE FRANCE
The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard