Weak Points Quotes

No matter how big a nation is, it is no stronger than its weakest people…

So in war, the way is to avoid what is strong, and strike at what is weak.

An army may be likened to water, for just as flowing water avoids the heights and hastens to the lowlands, so an army avoids strength and strikes weakness.

Enemies strike at weak points.

Of course, speculation will always make a crisis worse. If there is a weak point, it will expose it.

There's definitely going to be things that I'm not very good at, things I can improve.

Always see a fellows weak point in his wife.

Should the enemy strengthen his van, he will weaken his rear; should he strengthen his rear, he will weaken his van; should he strengthen his left, he will weaken his right; should he strengthen his right, he will weaken his left. If he sends reinforcements everywhere, he will everywhere be weak.

It should be the aim of grand strategy to discover and pierce the Achilles' heel of the opposing government's power to make war. Strategy, in turn, should seek to penetrate a joint in the harness of the opposing forces. To apply one's strength where the opponent is strong weakens oneself disproportionately to the effect attained. To strike with strong effect, one must strike at weakness.

When you're facing an opponent over a broad front, you don't aim for the opponent's strong points, important though they may be. Pick a little outpost that you can capture and win. And then you find another place that you can capture and win it, and then you move slowly toward the big places.

There's weaknesses in every fighter.

An enemy should be struck at his weak point.

That which is usually called dotage is not the weak point of all old men, but only of such as are distinguished by their levity.

Roughly speaking, any man with energy and enthusiasm ought to be able to bring at least a dozen others round to his opinion in the course of a year no matter how absurd that opinion might be. We see every day in politics, in business, in social life, large masses of people brought to embrace the most revolutionary ideas, sometimes within a few days. It is all a question of getting hold of them in the right way and working on their weak points.

A good general always makes you search for his weaknesses.

Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points.

The best aphorisms are.... portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feeling. They furnish the largest amount of intellectual stimulus and nutriment in the smallest compass. About every weak point in human nature, or vicious spot in human life, there is deposited a crystallization of warning and protective proverbs.

The wrists, the Achilles' tendons, and the neck are some of the weakest points of the human body, so a lot of people have phobias about those things. I can't deal with the undersides of wrists.

The wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interest than it is theirs to find his weak point.

After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.

The devil is no longer looking for an open door in your life. He will take any crack you give him.

We all have weaknesses.

You have a strong active nature. And this in you is a point of strength. If you can mould it rightly this will become a very great strength. On the other hand, this too is your weak point - a hindrance in sadhana.

I am an attacking batsman, but I've learned a lot about patience. There are clever bowlers who can pick your weak points, so I have to be a bit patient, play out a spell or two.