Source: 1930s- 1950s, The Practice of Management (1954), p. 157
“More often than not, anger is actually an indication of weakness rather than of strength.”
“A man's strength is ultimately born of his knowledge of his own weakness …”
Source: Drenai series, Legend, Pt 1: Against the Horde, Ch. 7
“It is a weak man who blames his failures on the strength of others.”
Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Seventh Son (1987), Chapter 13.
The History of Freedom in Antiquity (1877)
Context: Increase of freedom in the state may sometimes promote mediocrity, and give vitality to prejudice; it may even retard useful legislation, diminish the capacity for war, and restrict the boundaries of Empire... A generous spirit prefers that his country should be poor, and weak, and of no account, but free, rather than powerful, prosperous, and enslaved. It is better to be the citizen of a humble commonwealth in the Alps, without a prospect of influence beyond the narrow frontier, than a subject of a superb autocracy that overshadows half of Asia and of Europe.
Chronicle "Interdit aux hommes" (Forbidden to men), by Doris Veillette-Hamel, Journal Le Nouvelliste, June 10, 1972, page 19.
Chronicle "Forbidden to men", 1972
“We should hide our strength rather than put it on display.”
Feng Shih-kuan (2016) cited in " Taiwan deploys jet fighters to monitor China's aircraft carrier http://focustaiwan.tw/news/aipl/201612270011.aspx" on Focus Taiwan, 27 December 2016
“Man is weak and when he makes strength his profession he is even weaker.”
El hombre es débil y cuando ejerce la profesíon de fuerte es más débil.
Voces (1943)
“God never makes us sensible of our weakness except to give us of His strength.”
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 283.
Source: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010), p. 94
As quoted in Guy Arnold (1976), The last bunker: a report on white South Africa today, p. 192.
