There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose.

— Kin Hubbard

We think we are so strong but it is only when others try to prey on our weaknesses that we realize how frail we truly are.”-Skyla (from Twiceborn).

— JP Robinson

Satan takes occasion of the frailty of the bodily temple and says, 'Now you know you cannot do that; you are so infirm, you cannot concentrate your mind,' etc. Never allow bodily infirmities to hinder you obeying the commands of Jesus.

— Oswald Chambers

Don't show emotion.' Kurt Löwe gave his son a rough shake, 'Don't you ever show emotion. Tears are weakness. And I won't have any son of mine being weak. You're going to stand here until you top crying.

— Ryan Graudin

Other people's weakness can destroy you just as much as their strength can. Weak people are not harmless. Their weakness can be their strength.

— Philip Roth

The fact that people in Hollywood are open to what I teach is not because they're more desperate than anyone else, but because they're more touched by it. That's not their weakness. It's their strength!

— Marianne Williamson

In a fit of anger he had said to her, 'You'll always be miserable,' to which she thoughtfully replied, 'Is that so? It's impossible to be miserable when you've known tragedy and hardship. Both strengthen and refine a person to the point where they may have moments of grief and sadness, but misery is known only to those who have a sense of entitlement...You know, people like you.

— Donna Lynn Hope

What! Would I be turned back from doing a thing that I had determined to do, and that I knew to be right, by the airs and interference of such a person, or any person I may say? No, I have no idea of being so easily persuaded. When I have made up my mind, I have made it.

— Jane Austen

Audiences will admire your character’s strength but connect with them through their weakness.

— Don Roff

But he was one of those weak creatures, void of pride, timorous, anemic, hateful souls, full of shifty cunning, who face neither God nor man, who face not even themselves.

— H.G. Wells