
“The greatest weakness of all weaknesses is to fear too much to appear weak.”
Politics Drawn from the Very Words of Holy Scripture (1709)
The quote "My greatest strength is the love for my people, my greatest weakness is that I love them …" is famous quote attributed to Sheikh Mujibur Rahman (1920–1975), Bengali revolutionary, founder ("father") of Bangladesh.
Interview with Sir David Frost on the BBC, 1972.
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“The greatest weakness of all weaknesses is to fear too much to appear weak.”
Politics Drawn from the Very Words of Holy Scripture (1709)
Addressing fans at Three Rivers Stadium on Roberto Clemente Day, as quoted in "Bear-ly Speaking: World's Greatest Fans Thanked by Clemente" http://www.newspapers.com/newspage/15703260/ by Sam 'Bear' Bechtel, in The Indiana Gazette (July 25, 1970)
Other, <big><big>1970s</big></big>, <big>1970</big>
Source: The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934
“I want to be the greatest. But in what? In loving people and loving God!”
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Source: Saint Maximilian Kolbe - Knight of the Immaculate, The Society of the Holy Rosary.
1963 interview, used in The Century of the Self (2002)
Context: My argument with so much of psychoanalysis, is the preconception that suffering is a mistake, or a sign of weakness, or a sign even of illness, when in fact, possibly the greatest truths we know have come out of people's suffering; that the problem is not to undo suffering or to wipe it off the face of the earth but to make it inform our lives, instead of trying to cure ourselves of it constantly and avoid it, and avoid anything but that lobotomized sense of what they call "happiness." There's too much of an attempt, it seems to me, to think in terms of controlling man, rather than freeing him. Of defining him rather than letting him go. It's part of the whole ideology of this age, which is power-mad.
Source: Response to questions from Russia's ITAR-TASS news agency (13 October 2011) http://naenara.com.kp/en/news/news_view.php?22+1477
Matilda (1819)
Context: My greatest pleasure was the enjoyment of a serene sky amidst these verdant woods: yet I loved all the changes of Nature; and rain, and storm, and the beautiful clouds of heaven brought their delights with them. When rocked by the waves of the lake my spirits rose in triumph as a horseman feels with pride the motions of his high fed steed.
But my pleasures arose from the contemplation of nature alone, I had no companion: my warm affections finding no return from any other human heart were forced to run waste on inanimate objects.