Weakness Quotes
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Our worries always come from our weaknesses. (Quote by - Joseph Joubert)
In a just cause the weak will beat the strong. (Quote by - Sophocles)
When mental energy is allowed to follow the line of least resistance and to fall into easy channels, it is called weakness (Quote by - James Allen)
Sorrow is a fruit. God does not allow it to grow on a branch that is too weak to bear it. (Quote by - Victor Hugo)
The cord breaketh at last by the weakest pull. (Quote by - Francis Bacon)
Build up your weaknesses until they become your strong points. (Quote by - Knute Rockne)
The concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear. (Quote by - Edmund Burke)
Let our weakness be what it will, mankind will still be weaker; and whilst there is a world, 'tis woman that will govern it. (Quote by - Sir John Vanbrugh)
Neutrality, as a lasting principle, is an evidence of weakness. (Quote by - Lajos Kossuth)
No soul of high estate can take pleasure in slander. It betrays a weakness. (Quote by - Blaise Pascal)
Weaklings never forgive their enemies. (Quote by - Chinese Proverb)
All cruelty springs from weakness. (Quote by - Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
The weak may be joked out of anything but their weakness. (Quote by - Johann Georg von Zimmermann)
The feeble howl with the wolves, bray with the asses, and bleat with the sheep. (Quote by - Madame Jeanne Marie)
Guard thy heart on this weak side, where most our nature fails. (Quote by - Joseph Addison)
I am happy to say that I have a weakness for food, but I am health conscious and as the years tick by a little more body conscious. (Quote by - Ben Fogle)
The attractiveness that exists to man in the very helplessness of woman is scarcely realized. (Quote by - Alphonse de Lamartine)
The strongest among the weak is the one who doesn't forget his weaknesses. (Quote by - Danish Proverb)
The highest point to which a weak but experienced mind can rise is detecting the weakness of better men. (Quote by - Georg Chrietoph Lichtenberg)
How sometimes nature will betray its folly, Its tenderness, and make itself a pastime To harder bosoms! (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength. (Quote by - Billy Graham)
It is not because men's desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak. There is no natural connection between strong impulses and a weak conscience. (Quote by - John Stuart Mill)
In such a world as this, with such hearts as ours, weakness is wickedness in the long run. Whoever lets himself be shaped and guided by any thing lower than an inflexible will, fixed in obedience to God, will in the end be shaped into a deformity, and guided to wreck and ruin (Quote by - Alexander Maclaren)
Wickedness is weakness. (Quote by - John Milton)
Some weak people are so sensible of their weakness as to be able to make a good use of it. (Quote by - Francois De La Rochefoucauld)
Our strength grows out of our weakness. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
It is from a weakness and smallness of mind that men are opinionated; and we are very loath to believe what we are not able to comprehend. (Quote by - Francois de La Rochefoucauld)
We justly consider women to be weaker than ourselves, and yet we are governed by them. (Quote by - Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort)
Without justice, courage is weak. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
Though the desire of fame be the last weakness Wise men put off. (Quote by - Philip Massinger)
The weakness of an enemy forms part of our own strength. (Quote by - Traditional Proverb)
Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. (Quote by - Edmund Burke)
Weakness of conduct is but the consequence of weakness of conviction: for the strongest of all the prints of human action is human belief. (Quote by - Francois Pierre G. Guizot)
Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength. (Quote by - Edmund Burke)
Pride of origin, whether high or low, springs from the same principle in human nature; one is but the positive, the other the negative, pole of a single weakness. (Quote by - James Russell Lowell)
Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it. (Quote by - Boris Pasternak)
Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength (Quote by - Charles Lamb)
The weak-minded man is the slave of his vices and the dupe of his virtues. (Quote by - Jean-Antoine Petit-Senn)
Weaknesses, so called, are nothing more nor less than vice in disguise! (Quote by - Johann Kaspar Lavater)
It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak. (Quote by - Edmund Burke)
The weakest and most timorous are the most revengeful and implacable. (Quote by - Thomas Fuller)
A woman friend! He that believes that weakness, Steers in a stormy night without a compass. (Quote by - John Fletcher)
The strength of a person is often weighed by how they deal with their weaknesses. (Quote by - Nathaniel Summers)
His serve and his fitness have improved hugely, but his biggest strength is the fact he does not have a weakness in his game. (Quote by - Andrew Castle)
Weakness to be wroth with weakness! woman's pleasure, woman's pain Nature made them blinder motions bounded in a shallower brain. (Quote by - Lord Alfred Tennyson)
Men are in general so tricky, so envious, and so cruel that when we find one who is only weak, we are too happy. (Quote by - Voltaire)
Power over others is weakness disguised as strength. True power if within, and it is available to you now. (Quote by - Eckhart Tolle)
Remember, what may appear to be the source of one's strength can often also be the source of one's weakness. (Quote by - Chin-Ning Chu)
Weakness is born vanquished. (Quote by - Madame Anne Sophie Swetchine)
There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose. (Quote by - Kin Hubbard)
But every one has a besetting sin to which he returns. (Quote by - Jean de La Fontaine)
If there is a strong general, there will be no weak soldiers. (Quote by - Chinese Proverb)
Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism. (Quote by - Hubert H. Humphrey)
You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. (Quote by - Abraham Lincoln)
Weakness has its hidden resources, as well as strength. There is a degree of folly and meanness which we cannot calculate upon, and by which we are as much liable to be foiled as by the greatest ability or courage. (Quote by - William Hazlitt (1))
Even the weakest is thrust to the wall. (Quote by - John Scogin)
Football doesn't build character. It eliminates weak ones. (Quote by - Darrell Royal)
But the concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear. (Quote by - Edmund Burke)
The more weakness the more falsehood; strength goes straight; every cannon-ball that has in it hollows and holes goes crooked. Weaklings must lie. (Quote by - Jean Paul Friedrich Richter)
Amiability is very often a weakness, but the most unobjectionable one as a rule. (Quote by - Lady Morgan)
Human love is often but the encounter of two weaknesses. (Quote by - Francois Mauriac)
When I am weak, then am I strong. (Quote by - The Holy Bible)
A chain is as strong as its weakest link. (Quote by - Danish Proverb)
I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain. (Quote by - Arthur Rimbaud)
I love life - that's my real weakness. I love it so much that I am incapable of imagining what is not life. (Quote by - Albert Camus)
Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence. (Quote by - Dorothy Dix)
The weak are more likely to make the strong weak than the strong are likely to make the weak strong. (Quote by - Marlene Dietrich)
Things that are weak will break — as men do who think they are strong. (Quote by - Turkish Proverb)
Weak people cannot be sincere. (Quote by - Francois De La Rochefoucauld)
It is a sign of strength, not of weakness, to admit that you don't know all the answers. (Quote by - John P. Loughrane)
You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand? (Quote by - Robert Louis Stevenson)
He who does most to cure woman of her weakness, her frivolity, and her servility will likewise at the same stroke do most to cure man of his brutality, his selfishness and his sensuality. (Quote by - Frances P. Cobbe)
If weakness may excuse, What murderer, what traitor, parricide, Incestuous, sacrilegious, but may plead it? All wickedness is weakness; that plea, therefore, With God or man will gain thee no remission. (Quote by - John Milton)
Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong. (Quote by - Calvin Coolidge)
Weak souls always set to work at the wrong time. (Quote by - Cardinal De Rets)
We may not be weaklings because we have a strong enemy. (Quote by - Hugh Latimer)
It is a talent of the weak to persuade themselves that they suffer for something when they suffer from something; that they are showing the way when they are running away; that they see the light when they feel the heat; that they are chosen when they are shunned. (Quote by - Eric Hoffer)
We always weaken whatever we exaggerate. (Quote by - Jean Francois de la Harpe)
Tomorrow is a satire on today, And shows its weakness. (Quote by - Edward Young)
You do not fall because you are weak, you fall because you think you are strong. (Quote by - Yiddish Proverb)
It is a sign of weakness just to let things happen. (Quote by - Arabian Proverb)
If you think a weakness can be turned into a strength, I hate to tell you this, but that's another weakness. (Quote by - Jack Handy)
We must have a weak spot or two in our character before we can love it much. (Quote by - Oliver Wendell Holmes)
That deed which in our guilt we today call weakness, will appear tomorrow as an essential link in the complete chain of Man (Quote by - Kahlil Gibran)
Don't mistake niceness for weakness. (Quote by - Jennifer Granholm)
Life never forgives weaknesses. (Quote by - Adolf Hitler)
What is bad? All that proceeds from weakness. (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche)
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. (Quote by - Mahatma Gandhi)
Though it is weakness to love, oftentimes it is another weakness to cease to love. (Quote by - Du Coeur)
We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation. (Quote by - Francois De La Rochefoucauld)
The weakest spot in any person is where they think themselves to be the wisest. (Quote by - G. Emmons)
The weakest goes to the wall. (Quote by - David Tuvill)
A woman's strength is the irresistible might of weakness. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
More men are guilty of treason through weakness than any studied design to betray. (Quote by - Francois De La Rochefoucauld)
To be weak is miserable, doing or suffering. (Quote by - John Milton)
Flee an enemy who knows your weakness. (Quote by - Pierre Corneille)
Even a weak lion is not bitten by a dog. (Quote by - Namibian Proverb)
If you make yourself into a doormat, people will wipe their feet on you. (Quote by - American Proverb)
Weakness indicates dependence, and there is a degree of trust and tenderness also in it. (Quote by - Eugene Sue)
What played to what had been a relative weakness for us - this was exploding overseas as well, and we had to scramble to mount some reach and get into places and be competitive on the ground. (Quote by - Brit Hume)
A woman of mystique is fully aware of her flaws and weaknesses, yet she is strong enough to admit them and not be embarrassed by them. (Quote by - Jean Lush)
The yielding of the weak is the concession to fear. (Quote by - Edmund Burke)
Man's biological weakness is the condition of human culture. (Quote by - Erich Fromm)
Soft-heartedness, in times like these, Shows sof'ness in the upper story! (Quote by - Amy Lowell)
Many take pleasure in spreading abroad the weakness of an exalted character. (Quote by - Sir Richard Steele)
Fine by defect, and delicately weak. (Quote by - Alexander Pope)
Some of our weaknesses are born in us, others are the result of education; it is a question which of the two gives us most trouble. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe)
Growth begins when we begin to accept our own weakness. (Quote by - Jean Vanier)
The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)
Because he has helped abuse lab animals in speaking normally or ex cathedra millions of Catholics define themselves as ex cath. (Quote by - O Anna Niemus)
What's in Spam? nostrils brains?and eyes intestinal linings and uteri? anything swept from the slaughterhouse floor? except the blood already out the door Spam comes from offal Spam smells... awful from murdering pigs Hormel makes Spam from butchering pigs Hormel makes ham. (Quote by - O Anna Niemus)
How many weak shoulders have craved heavy burdens! (Quote by - Joseph Joubert)
As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)
People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them. (Quote by - Anatole France)
The greatest weakness of all is the great fear of appearing weak (Quote by - Jacques Benigne Bossuel)
Woman's weakness, not man's merit, oftenest gains the suitor's victory. (Quote by - Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort)
There are some weaknesses that are peculiar and distinctive to generous characters, as freckles are to a fair skin. (Quote by - Christian Nestell Bovee)
Weaklings must lie. (Quote by - Jean Paul Richter)
The inner speech, your thoughts, can cause you to be rich or poor, loved or unloved, happy or unhappy, attractive or unattractive, powerful or weak. (Quote by - Ralph Charell)
Heaven forming each on other to depend, A master, or a servant, or a friend, Bids each on other for assistance call, Till one man's weakness grows the strength of all. (Quote by - Alexander Pope)
I can tell you that my biggest weakness is my sensitivity. (Quote by - Mike Tyson)
Hatred is a tonic, it makes one live, it inspires vengeance; but pity kills, it makes our weakness weaker. (Quote by - Honore De Balzac)
The mortal race is far too weak not to grow dizzy on unwonted brights. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
It's weak and despicable to go on wanting things and not trying to get them. (Quote by - Joanna Field)
Better make a weak man your enemy than your friend. (Quote by - Josh Billings)
It is easier to influence strong than weak characters in life. (Quote by - Margot Asquith)
She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
If thou wouldn't conquer thy weakness thou must not gratify it. (Quote by - William Penn)
Never say sorry - it's a sign of weakness (Quote by - John Wayne)
To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you''re wrong, admit it; whenever you''re right, shut up. (Quote by - Ogden Nash)
If people see your weaknesses they will take advantage of them. (Quote by - Ivana Trump)
We are not so easily guided by our most prominent weaknesses as by those of which we are least aware. (Quote by - Sir Arthur Helps)
Women are never stronger than when they arm themselves with their weaknesses. (Quote by - Madame Marie Anne du Deffand)
Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we're damned if we're going to show. (Quote by - Mignon McLaughlin)
Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness. (Quote by - Amos Bronson Alcott)
History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid. (Quote by - Dwight David Eisenhower)
Weakness is the only fault that is incorrigible. (Quote by - Francois De La Rochefoucauld)
Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg. (Quote by - Dwight Eisenhower)
The acknowledgment of our weakness is the first step in repairing our loss. (Quote by - Thomas a Kempis)
And he has said to me, My grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness. Most gladly, therefore, I will rather boast about my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may dwell in me. (Quote by - Bible)
A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones. (Quote by - Lord Chesterfield)
My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn that perceived weakness into a strength. (Quote by - Michael Jordan)
Ambition, old as mankind, the immemorial weakness of the strong. (Quote by - Vita Sackville-West)
The weak have one weapon: the errors of those who think they are strong. (Quote by - George Bidault)
Only he who knows his own weaknesses can endure those of others. (Quote by - Japanese Proverb)
He was and still is my hero. There doesn't seem to be a weakness in his game. If I could get close to what he does on the pitch I'd be happy. (Quote by - Darius Vassell)
Strong words are required for weak principles. (Quote by - Doug Horton)
Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of. (Quote by - Jonathan Swift)
Some of our weakness is born in us, some of it comes through education; it is a big question as to which gives us the most trouble. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe)
Many think they have a kind heart who only have weak nerves. (Quote by - Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach)
Union of the weakest develops strength not wisdom. Can all men, together, avenge one of the leaves that have fallen in autumn? But the wise man avenges by building his city in snow. (Quote by - Wallace Stevens)
Delusion and weakness produce not one mischief the less, because they are universal. (Quote by - Edmund Burke)
It is weakness rather than wickedness which renders men unfit to be trusted with unlimited power (Quote by - John Adams)
Tyranny is always weakness (Quote by - James Russell Lowell)
The weaknesses of the many make the leader possible. (Quote by - Elbert Hubbard)
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
The strength of man sinks in the hour of trial; but there doth live a Power that to the battle girdeth the weak. (Quote by - Joanna Baillie)
Amiable weakness of human nature. (Quote by - Edward Gibbon)
Weakness is more opposed to virtue than is vice. (Quote by - Francois De La Rochefoucauld)
If the rope is weak, pull gently. (Quote by - Dutch Proverb)
The weakness of women has been given them to call forth the virtues of men. (Quote by - Madame Suzanne Curchod Necker)
Weakness is oftentimes so palpable as to be equivalent to wickedness. (Quote by - George Sand)
