Annie Besant Quotes

My greatest strength is to have a great capacity to confront myself no matter how unpleasant. My greatest weakness is that I don't. I know that's enigmatic, but that's sort of a general formula for anyone, actually.

Strong people have strong weaknesses.

When you know you're vulnerable, and you know... your strength and your weakness, you can see life with better perspective.

Sometimes, my weakness is where the strength really is, and it leads me to depend in the areas where I really should.

Some weak people are so sensible of their weakness as to be able to make a good use of it.

I've never found therapy to be a sign of weakness; I've found the opposite to be true. The willingness to have a mirror held up to you definitely requires strength.

There has to be a balance between power and vulnerability. That's something I feel I have in my own life, something I struggle with and - on a good day - like about myself.

I'm a human. Every human is flawed. I might be flawed in different ways than some people, or worse ways than some people, or better ways than some people.

I understand now that the vulnerability I've always felt is the greatest strength a person can have. You can't experience life without feeling life. What I've learned is that being vulnerable to somebody you love is not a weakness, it's a strength.

Stronger by weakness, wiser men become.

My strength and my weakness are twins in the same womb.

Although men are accused of not knowing their weakness, yet perhaps as few know their strength.

I am a man of many flaws and contradictions.

In the past, I have assumed the word 'vulnerability' equates with the word 'weakness' and 'This Is Us' shows us that it is in fact the opposite.

What I've had to learn is that I'm also fragile.

Know yourself and go in swinging, if it hurts when you hit, it might be real, too.

My strengths make me contemptuous. My weaknesses make me charitable.

Vulnerability is not a weakness but a faculty for understanding.

I don’t think it's weak to admit you made a mistake. That takes strength, if you ask me.

True strength is the courage to admit our weaknesses.

You know, it's okay to admit a little weakness now and then, Cammie. It won't kill you. In fact, I hear it makes you stronger.

Am I lonely? Yes. Am I upset? Yes. Am I confused? Yes. Do I have my days when I've thrown a little pity party for myself? Absolutely. But I'm also doing really well. I'd be a robot if I said I didn't feel moments of anger, of hurt, of embarrassment... [but] You joke and say, 'What doesn't kill you makes you stronger'.

Sometimes our strengths are also our weaknesses. Sometimes to be strong you have to first be weak. You have to share your burdens; you have to lean on other people while you face your problems and yourself.

It is a sign of weakness to avoid showing signs of weakness.

The difference between neurosis and wisdom is struggle.