“I resolved that whenever I might have any doubts or moments of weakness— and I knew that they would come — I would tell myself: Elizabeth, you have everything back now! But you remember all those hard times, right? And because you remember all those hard times, you can remember the depth of your gra…”— Elizabeth A. Smart, amazon.com
“I wish I was harder; I wish I didn't care so much about being the nice girl all the time because a lot of the time people can take kindness for weakness, so I wish I had a little bit more 'oomph' in me.”— Tyra Banks, abcnews.go.com
“if you were born with the weakness to fall you were born with the strength to rise”— Rupi Kaur, amazon.com
“Everyone has their weak spot. The one thing that despite your best efforts, will always bring you to your knees, regardless of how strong you are otherwise. For some people, it's love.”— Sarah Dessen, amazon.com
“She is very clever, too clever for a woman. She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness.”— Oscar Wilde, amazon.com
“My father’s notion of being a man was also flexible. As I grew from a child of the 70s to an adult of the 90s, it grew with me. I learned that sometimes a man should back down from a fight; that real men are also feminists; and that not being seen as a ‘sissy’ is meaningless, while not being homopho…”— Matthew Ryder, theguardian.com
“Being a man was not the opposite of being feminine or emotional. It was the opposite of being childish and immature. It meant having the courage to face your fears and responsibilities, but also not being afraid of your emotions or weaknesses.”— Matthew Ryder, theguardian.com
“Some people make the mistake of confusing ‘submission’ with ‘weakness,’ whereas it is anything but. Submission is a form of peaceful acceptance of the terms of the universe, including the things we are currently unable to change or comprehend.”— Elif Shafak, amazon.com
“There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.”— Washington Irving, thoughtcatalog.com
“I know people will call me stupid for this. But Love, I can still see the truth in your lonely eyes. I can see the long lost stars in the corner of your eyes – you know that the stars are my weakness. I see the boundless hopes of wanting me back into your life and that’s why I’m coming back to you.”— Martin Manuel, thoughtcatalog.com
“Deep depression is due to a problem with brain chemistry, not a problem with inner weakness.”— Karen Salmansohn, notsalmon.com
“Another call, another bed I shouldn't crawl out of At 7AM with shoes in my hand Said I wouldn't do it, but I did it again And I know I'll be back tomorrow night, oh”— Miranda Lambert, youtube.com
“'When did you become so weak?’ I don’t know. I don’t know where that strength went, I don’t remember losing it. I think that over time it got chipped away, bit by bit, by life, by the living of it.”— Paula Hawkins, amazon.com
“An essential part of actualization is recognizing your spine, its exact longitudes and latitudes, its corresponding weaknesses where the algae grows.”— Claire Bowman, narrativemagazine.com
“Think you are weak, think you lack what it takes, think you will lose, think you are second class - think this way and you are doomed to mediocrity.”— David J. Schwartz, amazon.com
“But you are the average of the five people you associate with most, so do not underestimate the effects of your pessimistic, unambitious, or disorganized friends. If someone isn't making you stronger, they're making you weaker.”— Timothy Ferriss, amazon.com
“It's people like you, the good people, they always die. And the bad people do too. But the weak people, the people like me, we have inherited the earth.”— Rich Jepson, amazon.com
“When you struggle with your partner, you are struggling with yourself. Every fault you see in them touches a denied weakness in yourself.”— Deepak Chopra, amazon.com