Quotes about weakness

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“The obstacle became his alibi for weakness.”

“A weak man in a corner is more dangerous than a strong man. (Inspector Miller)”

“The valor that struggles is better than the weakness that endures.”

“The weak are dominated by their ego, the wise dominate their ego, and the intelligent are in a constant struggle against their ego”

“Don’t expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.”

“As gentle a man as he was, as tender as was his heart, there was nothing weak about Michael Hosea. He was the strongest-minded man Joseph had ever met. A Man like Noah. A Man like the Shepherd-king David. A man after God's own heart.”

“To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind.”

“But 'Thou mayest!'! Why, that makes a man great, that gives him stature with the gods, for in his weakness and his filth and his murder of his brother he has still the great choice. He can choose his course and fight it through and win”

“Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.”

“Often admitting our weakness and fear is the first step to finding rest in God. Our trust in Him isn't conveyed though superhuman confidence as much as it comes in the way of childlike reliance on Him.”

“Seth trotted over to Kendra. Bringing good luck as usual
It was a weak pass okay”

“Jealousy has always been my cross, the weakness and woundedness in me that has most often caused me to feel ugly and unlovable, like the Bad Seed.”

“The weak in courage is strong in cunning.”

“It is not true that women cannot keep secrets. Where they love, they can be trusted to death and beyond, against all sense and reason. It is their weakness, and their great strength.”

“Only the weak blame their past for the faults they find in their present; the strong acknowledge the effects of their past and then move on from it. We are all free to choose whether we will be weak or strong.”

“They always call depression the blues, but I would have been happy to waken to a periwinkle outlook. Depression to me is urine yellow, washed out, exhausted miles of weak piss.”

“Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. what a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.”

“The whole "weak in the knees" thing, which she always thought was just some idiotic expression back from the golden age of idiotic expressions, was real.
-Suite Scarlett”

“We fell into silence, both of us keeping our own secrets of what we'd suffered in the other's absence. I wondered if we were trying to protect each other or simply didn't want to admit to our own fears and weaknesses.”

“The malice of the wicked was reinforced by the weakness of the virtuous.”

“Everyone had a weakness. It was the law of nature that for each being there was a predator, or a disease, or a vulnerability built into their very core.”

“The power of women! I've never felt so full of mysterious power. Men are a joke.
We're so weak physically, so helpless with things. Still, even today. But we're stronger than they are. We can stand their cruelty. They can't stand ours.”

“What is Grand is necessarily obscure to Weak men. That which can be made Explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.”

“I find I am much prouder of the victory I obtain over myself, when, in the very ardor of dispute, I make myself submit to my adversary’s force of reason, than I am pleased with the victory I obtain over him through his weakness.”

“…as man under pressure tends to give in to physical and intellectual weakness, only great strength of will can lead to the objective.”

“That's weak! You don't know what caring is… Caring is love. And love fights! Love doesn't look for the path of least resistance. Hell's bells, Roderick, if love was that easy everyone would have it. You're a coward!”

“I suspect that I am the result of particularly weak conception on the part of my father. His sperm was probably emitted in a rather offhand manner.”

“Life before Death.
Strength before Weakness.
Journey before Destination.”

“Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness and dies by chance.”

“Only stupid men trying to seem smart need to be with dumb women. Only weak men trying to look strong are attracted to compliant women.”

“But when the strong were too weak to hurt the weak, the weak had to be strong enough to leave.”

“Oh, no!" Hazel wailed. "Popcorn! Our fatal weakness!”

“The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.”

“For the first time I could remember, I felt weak, woozy and stupid— like a human-being. Like a very small and helpless human-being.”

“I want you to be weak. As weak as I am.”

“She who showed weakness to teenagers would be picked on to death. True fact of life.”

“To rush into explanations is always a sign of weakness.”

“I guess I felt attached to my weakness. My pain and suffering too. Summer light, the smell of a breeze, the sound of cicadas - if I like these things, why should I apologize?”

“I've always had a weakness for lost causes once they're really lost.”

“I often cried when I got angry; I hated that. Crying just made you look weak, no matter what triggered it.”

“Who knows more about male weakness: you or me? Use my knowledge, Sage.”

“A strong man who has known power all his life may lose respect for that power. But a weak man knows the value of strength.”

“My bones are brittle, my heart weak and erratic, my esophagus and stomach riddled with ulcers, my reproductive system shot, my immune system useless… I'm not going to have a happy ending.”

“Everyone has their weak spot. The one thing that, despite your best efforts, will always bring you to your knees, regardless of how strong you are otherwise.”

“I used to think you were weak and just didn't fight back… but now, honestly, I think you're actually pretty tough. It takes a hell of a lot of strength to not complain and lash out.”

“I hear a guttural sound followed by a weak sigh and look back at the bodies.
"I'm going to kill the kid," Barrons says faintly.
Ryodan makes a burbling sound like a bloody laugh. I don't think he even has the parts left to laugh with. "Get in line.”

“I'm like everybody else: weak, full of mistakes, but basically good.”

“silence is not weakness and decency is not pride”

“Vulnerability is not winning or losing; it’s having the courage to show up and be seen when we have no control over the outcome. Vulnerability is not weakness; it’s our greatest measure of courage.”

“How can you blame a person for his fears and weaknesses unless you have felt the same and done differently?”

“Men are the weak ones, luv. Didn't you know? Oh, you make a lot of noise, but its the women who are strong. Where it counts. In 'ere”

“The wound you refuse to dress is one that will never heal. You gush lifeblood and never even know why. It will make you weak at a critical moment when you need to be strong.”

“Some people are weak in some ways, sir. Others in other ways.”

“To have not shot his friend in the face would have sent a message to the quail that America is weak.”

“The strong look for more strength, the weak for excuses.”

“The heart itself is beyond control. That is its power, and its weakness.”

“You are human and mortal; we are the sum of our weak moments and our strong.”

“There's one hole in every revolution, large or small. And it's one word long— PEOPLE. No matter how big the idea they all stand under, people are small and weak and cheap and frightened. It's people that kill every revolution.”

“He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.”

“All war presupposes human weakness and seeks to exploit it.”

“You forget who submits, Eva,” he said gruffly. “I’ve given up control for you. I’ve bent and adjusted for you. I’ll do anything to keep you and make you happy. But I can’t be tamed or topped. Don’t mistake indulgence for weakness.”

“Every man has a weakness!” he patiently explained. “I'll find theirs, I promise you.”
“Every man?”
“Yes,” he answered emphatically.
…
“What is your weakness, Brodick?” she asked.
“You.”

“molesting the vampire while he's too weak to fight back, iz? jace asked. i'm pretty sure that violates at least one of the accords.”

“when times are tough, the weak bail and the tough get creative.”

“… no woman can love a weak man hard enough to make him strong.”

“Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire brings a small amount of heat.”

“Ender didn't like fighting. He didn't like Peter's kind, the strong against the weak, and he didn't like his own kind either, the smart against the stupid.”

“In the minds of great managers, consistent poor performance is not primarily a matter of weakness, stupidity, disobedience, or disrespect. It is a matter of miscasting.”

“Don't wish to be normal. Wish to be yourself. To the hilt. Find out what you're best at, and develop it, and hopscotch your weaknesses. Wish to be great at whatever you are.”

“It's okay to accept things from people. It doesn't make you weak or helpless.”

“Maybe weakness is a strength of a kind.”

“Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.”

“Strength grows from building other strength, not from trampling on weakness.”

“I live lies because I cannot endure the weakness of anger, and I cannot admit the irrationality of love.”

“Pain is the body's way of ridding itself of weakness.”

“People with weaknesses get killed by the people who lack them. Notice I'm not dead.”

“It's the people who seem weak who are always suprisingly strong, and the ones who seem strong who are unexpectledly weak.”

“I lacked the courage to investigate the weaknesses of the wicked, because I discovered they are the same as the weaknesses of the saintly.”

“When my faith is getting weak
And I feel like giving in
You breathe into me again…”

“Always do what you're afraid to do.
…
I will prove myself strong when they think I am sick.
I will prove myself brave when they think I am weak.”

“A man's weaknesses may intrude on his faith but they do not diminish it.”

“Giants are not what we think they are. The same qualities that appear to give them strength are often the sources of great weakness.”

“stanchion, n.

I don't want to be the strong one, but I don't want to be the weak one either. Why does it feel like it's always one or the other? When we embrace, one of us is always holding the other a little tighter.”

“God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty.”

“It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.”

“Only a weak person needed someone else around all the time.”

“Most people don't believe something can happen until it already has. That's not stupidity or weakness, that's just human nature.”

“I have a weakness for tough guys who read.”

“That though he is weak, he can still burn.”

“Maybe they didn't want you to realize that every civilization has its weakness. There's always one thing we depend on. And if someone takes it away all that's left is some story in a history class.”

“Love is too weak a word for what I feel - I luuurve you, you know, I loave you, I luff you, two F's, yes.”

“Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.”

“In order for us to liberate the energy of our strength, our weakness must first have a chance to reveal itself.”

“When I was little there was a picture in one of our books, a dark place into which a single weak ray of light came slanting upon two faces lifted out of the shadow.”

“I don't forgive people because I'm weak, I forgive them because I am strong enough to know people make mistakes.”

“If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?”

“Liking someone doesn't make you weak.”

“Now climb, young grasshopper, so your Kung Fu won't be weak.”

“Great teams do not hold back with one another. They are unafraid to air their dirty laundry. They admit their mistakes, their weaknesses, and their concerns without fear of reprisal.”