Quotes
Quotes about Weakness
To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind.
Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence.
And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.
Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.
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.
All persons as they become less prosperous, are the more suspicious. They take everything as an affront; and from their conscious weakness, presume that they are neglected. [Lat., Omnes quibus res sunt minus secundae magis sunt, nescio quomodo, Suspiciosi; ad contumeliam omnia accipiunt magis; Propter suam impotentiam se credunt negligi.]
Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength not my weakness.
Oh! too convincing--dangerously dear-- In woman's eye the unanswerable tear! That weapon of her weakness she can wield, To save, subdue--at once her spear and shield.
Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolutions.
Think'st thou there is no tyranny but that Of blood and chains? The despotism of vice-- The weakness and the wickedness of luxury-- The negligence--the apathy--the evils Of sensual sloth--produces ten thousand tyrants, Whose delegated cruelty surpasses The worst acts of one energetic master, However harsh and hard in his own bearing.
Once you can laugh at your own weaknesses, you can move forward. Comedy breaks down walls. It opens up people. If you're good, you can fill up those openings with something positive. Maybe you can combat some of the ugliness in the world.
Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It's your combination sinnersâyour lecherous liars and your miserly drunkardsâwho dishonor the vices and bring them into bad repute.
Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.
Amiable weakness.
Amiable weakness of human nature.
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.
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.
Weakness to be wroth with weakness! woman's pleasure, woman's pain-- Nature made them blinder motions bounded in a shallower brain.
Man's biological weakness is the condition of human culture.
The acknowledgment of our weakness is the first step in repairing our loss.
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.
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?
We are more often treacherous, through weakness than through calculation.
Human love is often but the encounter of two weaknesses.
There are two kinds of weakness, that which breaks and that which bends.
