Quoty: quotes tagged with 'weakness' Quoty search results for tag: weakness http://www.quoty.org/tag/weakness When we borrow our strength from the label on o...When we borrow our strength from the label on our shirt, sweater, shoes or dress; from our association with a club, an "in" group; from our position of influence, power, and prestige; from our car, beautiful house, or other status symbols and trappings; or from our good looks, stylish clothing, fashionable appearance, clever tongue, or degrees and credentials, we do so in order to compensate from being impoverished and hollow inside. But by doing so, we reinforce our dependency on these symbols, on living by appearances, on extrinsic values, and we build weakness within.


Author: Stephen R. Covey , Source: "Spiritual Roots of Human Relations", Deseret Book 1970 - 8th printing, pp. 82-83
Saved by mlsscaress in strength position weakness dependency association borrow compensate inside symbols appearances extrinsic intrinsic ]]>http://www.quoty.org/quote/3816We must be aware of the dangers of comparing. "...We must be aware of the dangers of comparing.


"Tom, there is simply no reason for you to bring home a report card like this. If only you'd apply yourself like your brother, you could get good grades too!" This may be true, but if our children's (or our own) sense of worth and personal security comes from being compared with others, how insecure and anxious they will be - feeling superior one minute and inferior the next. Opinions, customs, fashions are fickle, always changing. There is no anchorage or security in changing things. Internal security simply does not come externally. Borrowing strength from any source that does not build and internally strengthen the borrower will internally weaken him.


Author: Stephen R. Covey, Source: "Spiritual Roots of Human Relations", Deseret Book 1970 - 8th printing, pp. 14
Saved by mlsscaress in worth weakness build internal opions customs fashions insecure anxious comparing personalsecurity ]]>http://www.quoty.org/quote/3784Our greatest strengths can become our greatest ...
You may be skilled and well prepared in some areas of your life, but that can also become a great weakness if you rely solely on these abilities. If you are not careful, the skills you have gained can be very self-serving when not properly balanced, and they may become very limiting.

For instance, if you cannot get along with other people, you will fail. You must now apply the knowledge you have gained to strengthen the Church, your family, your work, the community, and your friendships.

Our greatest strengths can become weaknesses to us whenever we forget that our gifts, talents, and intellect are given to us by God—whenever we rely on the “natural man” (Mosiah 3:19) and forget that God is the giver of all the gifts of life. If we would keep our strength from turning to weakness, we must “confess … his hand in all things, and obey … his commandments” (D&C 59:21).
Author: Elder Robert D. Hales , Source: “Ten Axioms to Guide Your Life,” Liahona, Feb 2007, 34–39: ht...
Saved by mlsscaress in success ability remember obedience work humility weakness family balance community friendships skilled selfserving apply ]]>http://www.quoty.org/quote/2849It is not possible to make real change all by o...
When our best efforts are not quite enough, it is through His grace that we receive the strength to keep trying. The Lord says: "If men come unto me I will show unto them their weakness. I give unto men weakness that they may be humble; and my grace is sufficient for all men that humble themselves before me; for if they humble themselves before me, and have faith in me, then will I make weak things become strong unto them."

When we seek the Lord's help to change us, then we have this promise: "He who has repented of his sins, the same is forgiven, and I, the Lord, remember them no more."The Lord does not give up on us. He says, "Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest." The joy and peace we receive when we know we have been forgiven is a divine blessing. That peace comes in the Lord's time and in His way, but it does come.
Author: Julie B. Beck, Source: Remembering, Repenting, and Changing, General Young Women Meeting, March 24, 2007
Saved by mlsscaress in change weakness effort savior time sacrament grace humble willpower intentions perserverance ]]>http://www.quoty.org/quote/1960Our leaders urge us to be active in politics—an...
Brigham Young encouraged the people to dance, even while proclaiming, "Dancing [is] no part of our worship."43

He says, "I labor for my own dear self," and in the same breath adds that men have no right to work for themselves.44

We practice shrewd economics even while being told to take no thought of what we shall eat or wear.

We should constantly be storing our minds with knowledge, yet take no thought of what we are to say when we teach the gospel.

We are told to be provident and thrifty—but to ask and trust our heavenly Father for our daily bread.

We are told to be industrious and independent, yet "if the laborer in Zion labor for money, he shall perish" (cf. 2 Nephi 26:31).

We are told to go to with our might—and consider the lilies of the field who toil not neither do they spin.

We are told to hold the Sabbath most sacred as a day of rest, yet it is the day on which many of us work hardest.

We are told to acquire worldly learning and told that worldly learning is nothing.

Joseph Smith said he would have nothing to do with politics and ran for president!

The Savior, speaking with the woman at the well, was thirsty and asked for a drink, and even as he was drinking she asked him for a drink, because he told her that he could give her water of which whoever drank would never thirst again.

We could go on and on, but what is wrong here? Nothing. If we were to examine each of the above apparent paradoxes we would find them all falling into the pattern of Moses' declarations, both uttered on the same occasion and as it were in the same breath. First he said, "Now, for this cause I know that man is nothing, which thing I never had supposed" (Moses 1:10). And then he adds: "But now mine own eyes have beheld God; . . . his glory was upon me; and I beheld his face, for I was transfigured before him. . . . I am a son of God, in the similitude of his Only Begotten" (Moses 1:11, 13). Which is it? Is man nothing or everything? It all depends on which existence we behold him in, temporal or eternal.

Author: Hugh Nibley, Source: Brother Brigham Challenges the Saints In the Party, but Not of the Party pp. 105–37
Saved by Doc in politics religion potential faith strength work knowledge industry humility learning weakness testimony sabbath temporal thrift eternal childofgod paradox dancing ]]>http://www.quoty.org/quote/1932If thou wouldst conquer thy weakness thou must ...Author: William Penn, Source: Unknown
Saved by cboyack in weakness gratification naturalman ]]>http://www.quoty.org/quote/739The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the ...Author: Mahatma Gandhi, Source: Unknown
Saved by cboyack in strength character weakness forgiveness ]]>http://www.quoty.org/quote/598Who can calculate the wounds inflicted, their d...Author: Gordon B. Hinckley, Source: “Our Solemn Responsibilities,” Ensign, Nov. 1991, 49
Saved by cboyack in control discipline anger weakness ]]>http://www.quoty.org/quote/455Weakness on both sides is the motto of all quar...Author: Voltaire, Source: Unknown
Saved by cboyack in war contention weakness ]]>http://www.quoty.org/quote/392