Weakness Quotes - page 2

Recipe for greatness To bear up under loss, to fight the bitterness of defeat and the weakness of grief, to be victor over anger, to smile when tears are close, to resist evil men and base instincts, to hate hate and to love love, to go on when it would seem good to die, to seek ever after the glory and the dream, to look up with unquenchable faith in something evermore about to be, that is what any man can do, and so be great. (Zane Grey)
Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one's rage; whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them. View quote
Georges Bataille
Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism. View quote
Hubert Humphrey
The beautiful seems right by force of beauty and the feeble wrong because of weakness. View quote
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also? View quote
Lois McMaster Bujold
To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind. View quote
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
God never makes us sensible of our weakness except to give us of His strength. View quote
François Fénelon
I love life thats my real weakness. I love it so much that I am incapable of imagining what is not life. View quote
Albert Camus
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. View quote
Michael Jordan
A man always mistakes a woman's clinging devotion for weakness, until he discovers that it requires the strength of Samson, the patience of Job, and the finesse of Solomon to untwine it. View quote
Helen Rowland
Morality is the weakness of the brain. (Arthur Rimbaud)
Tomorrow is a satire on today, And shows its weakness. View quote
Edward Young
As much as I value an union of all the states, I would not admit the southern states into the union, unless they agreed to the discontinuance of this disgraceful trade, because it would bring weakness and not strength to the union. View quote
George Mason
silence is not weakness and decency is not pride. View quote
Arthur Machen
Growth begins when we start to accept our own weakness. View quote
Jean Vanier
Power over others is weakness disguised as strength. View quote
Eckhart Tolle
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. View quote
Kin Hubbard
Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we're damned if we're going to show. View quote
Mignon McLaughlin
Do not expect that once taking advantage of Russia's weakness, you will receive dividends forever. Russian has always come for their money. And when they come - do not rely on an agreement signed by you, you are supposed to justify. They are not worth the paper it is written. Therefore, with the Russian is to play fair, or do not play. View quote
Otto von Bismarck
Weakness on both sides is, the motto of all quarrels. View quote
Voltaire
Solitude is strength; to depend on the presence of the crowd is weakness. The man who needs a mob to nerve him is much more alone than he imagines. (Paul Brunton)
You have summoned me in my weakness. You must sustain me by your strength. View quote
Franklin Pierce
Pain is the body's way of ridding itself of weakness. View quote
Dean Karnazes
I think that maybe that's my weakness, in that I don't know how to do it, so I just do what I do and try to do it as passionately and as well as I can. View quote
Aaron Eckhart
Like all my family and class, I considered it a sign of weakness to show affection; to have been caught kissing my mother would have been a disgrace, and to have shown affection for my father would have been a disaster. View quote
Agnes Smedley
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