Psychological Weakness Quotes

Self-respect is nothing to hide behind. When you need it most it isn't there.

Hitler's success was not based on his extraordinary gifts alone. His genius was an intuitive sense of the mushiness, the character flaws, the weakness masquerading as morality that was in the hearts of the statesmen who stood in his path.

The finest people, as people go, cannot help but betray a fair portion of fear and insecurity, even full-blown panic.

Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.

Exaggerated sensitiveness is an expression of the feeling of inferiority.

The lust for power is not rooted in strength but in weakness.

Human beings are not very good at taking losses or admitting failure.

Pull yourself together' is seldom said to anyone who can.

Primitive superstition lies just below the surface of even the most tough-minded individuals, and it is precisely those who most fight against it who are the first to succumb to its suggestive effects.

We are usually undone by our lack of understanding of ourselves.

Never let it be said that Harry Dresden is afraid of a dried, dead bug. Creepy or not, I wasn't going to let it ruin my concentration. So I scooped it up with the corner of the phone book and popped it into the middle drawer of my desk. Out of sight, out of mind. So I have a problem with creepy, dead, poisonous things. So sue me.

I think everybody's got their insecurities and hang-ups. Everybody! Unless you're an idiot.

Because I could do things on the snooker table that no other player could do, I just had this sort of self-destruct button in me.

I don't need to beat Faber, because his ego will always beat him. He's got excuses for every loss he's ever had.

Remorse of conscience is like an old wound; a man is in no condition to fight under such circumstances. The pain abates his vigor and takes up too much of his attention.