Weakness Quotes

Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.

We grow a little every time we do not take advantage of somebody's weakness.

Those who gave thee a body, furnished it with weakness; but He who gave thee Soul, armed thee with resolution. Employ it, and thou art wise; be wise and thou art happy.

People confuse goodness with weakness. It is weak people, not good people (goodness demands strength), who are taken advantage of.

It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.

Our enemies, like the Grecian hero, have one vulnerable point. You have not touched it yet. What should have been their element of weakness has been suffered to remain an element of strength.

Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness.

Scientists tend to be skeptical, but the weakness of the community of science is that it tends to move into preformed establishment modes that say this is the only way of doing science, the only valid view.

But the weakness comes from these Westernised co-opted Muslim leaders who just want to look good in the eyes of the West and Western media.

I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.

They all in general had putrid gums, the spots and lassitude, with weakness of their knees.

As much as I value an union of all the states, I would not admit the southern states into the union, unless they agreed to the discontinuance of this disgraceful trade, because it would bring weakness and not strength to the union.

No man is so much a fool as not to have wit enough sometimes to be a knave; nor any so cunning a knave as not to have the weakness sometimes to play the fool.

You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?

I don't flatter myself with much dependence upon the present disposition of the Eastern Indians, who are many ways liable to be drawn into a rupture with us by the artifices of the French, their own weakness and the influence which the French Missionary Priests have over them.

It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of their imaginations.

The action we take and the decisions we make in this decade will have consequences far into this century. If America shows weakness and uncertainty, the world will drift toward tragedy. That will not happen on my watch.

This claustrophobia was the only weakness I had. It's not my fault. It's just in my mind.

It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong.

Each relationship nurtures a strength or weakness within you.

Like all my family and class, I considered it a sign of weakness to show affection; to have been caught kissing my mother would have been a disgrace, and to have shown affection for my father would have been a disaster.

When mental energy is allowed to follow the line of least resistance and to fall into easy channels, it is called weakness.

Usually I write about what I care about, which is a weakness but I think also a strength.

Insincerity is always weakness; sincerity even in error is strength.

The MC has to be just that, a master in control. They can show no signs of weakness.

A great number of the women are victims to falling of the womb and weakness in the spine; but these are necessary results of their laborious existence, and do not belong either to climate or constitution.

Campaigns often make standing on principle the highest of virtues - and listening to your opponents a sure sign of weakness. It's the virtual opposite of what it takes to succeed in office. Squaring the circle takes a powerful combination of skills. But presidents who can campaign and compromise are generally the most successful.

I believe in the power of weakness.

We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.

Death used to announce itself in the thick of life but now people drag on so long it sometimes seems that we are reaching the stage when we may have to announce ourselves to death. It is as though one needs a special strength to die, and not a final weakness.