Weak Quotes

Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.

Religion is a means of exploitation employed by the strong against the weak; religion is a cloak of ambition, injustice and vice.

All the strength and force of man comes from his faith in things unseen. He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

It is indeed hard for the strong to be just to the weak, but acting justly always has its rewards.

In a very weak economy, when you say 'cut government spending,' what you mean is you're laying off school teachers and you're de-funding various programs that put money into the economy. This means you have more unemployed people that then draw unemployment benefits and don't pay taxes.

Technique! The very word is like a shriek of outraged Art. It is the idiot name given to effort by those who are too weak, too weary, or too dull to play the game. The mighty have no theory of technique.

Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.

I saw Ellen and my knees were weak. It was amazing. And it was very hard for me to get her out of my mind after that. Then when I saw her that night, we started talking, and that's that.

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary.

But in our age the appeal to authority is weak, and I am of my age.

We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.

That strong mother doesn't tell her cub, Son, stay weak so the wolves can get you. She says, Toughen up, this is reality we are living in.

Most men act so tough and strong on the outside because on the inside, we are scared, weak, and fragile. Men, not women, are the weaker sex.

Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerves give to wisdom.

By action and reaction do we become strong or weak, according to the character of our thoughts and mental states. Fear is the deadly nightshade of the mind.

Your weak point is the open, vulnerable place where you can always be hurt. Love, in all its aspects, opens the self so fully.

Football doesn't build character. It eliminates the weak ones.

If I'm the weak link or whatever, I guess that means I've got something to prove. I've always had something to prove.

Ridicule is a weak weapon when pointed at a strong mind; but common people are cowards and dread an empty laugh.

These happy endings all express the weak and sly promise that the world is not rotten and out of joint but meaningful and ultimately in excellent condition.

Better to be a strong man with a weak point, than to be a weak man without a strong point. A diamond with a flaw is more valuable that a brick without a flaw.

We aren't leveraging this great economic engine, the strongest economy in the world. And yet we have this totally weak response. We import $500 billion a year more in products than we export.

Seven days without laughter makes one weak.

Regulators are a backstop: they don't own banks. The governance at the top of our leading banks has been shown to be lamentably weak. No one at the top of Barclays will take responsibility for systemic abuse.

Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds.

Great comforts do, indeed, bear witness to the truth of thy grace, but not to the degree of it; the weak child is oftener in the lap than the strong one.

Those who were cowards never started, and those who were weak were lost on the way, but the brave find a home in every land.

We feel a lot of pressure about looking silly or appearing weak, whatever that means, or being a failure. You have to keep in your head: what's the worst that can happen?

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.