Quotes About Weakness

A weak man in a corner is more dangerous than a strong man.

The weak man becomes strong when he has nothing, for then only can he feel the wild, mad thrill of despair.

It is commonly a weak man who marries for love.

Levity of behavior, always a weakness, is far more unbecoming in a woman than a man.

It just takes a pebble to bring down a good man.

We hold that man is never so near grace as when he begins to feel he can do nothing at all.

There are two sins of men that are bred in the bone and that continually come out in the flesh. One is self-dependence and the other is self-exultation.

This is the man who called the fire department when the toilet backed up, and I'm asking him for help. What was I thinking? Why am I attracted to weak men?

Somewhere in the world is the most invincible man. Just as somewhere is the most vulnerable.

An artist is only an ordinary man with a greater potentiality--same stuff, same make up, only more force. And the strong driving force usually finds his weak spot, and he goes cranked, or goes under.

Each man has a breaking point, no matter how strong his spirit. Somewhere, deep inside him, there is a flaw that only the fickle cruelty of fate can find.

Strip away the usual hot air, and bin Laden's audiotape is the sign of a seriously weakened man.

It is a sad weakness in us, after all, that the thought of a man's death hallows him anew to us; as if life were not sacred too.

Men dissimulate their dearest, most constant, and most virtuous inclination from weakness and a fear of being condemned.

A man of feeble character resembles a reed that bends with every gust of wind.

What a sad thing men are. Can't do nothing good without being so weak we have to mess it up. Can't build something up without tearing it down.

Though the desire of fame be the last weakness Wise men put off.

Man is the broken giant, and in all his weakness both his body and his mind are invigorated by habits of conversation with nature.

No man may be completely invulnerable.

Not two strong men the enormous weight could raise,- Such men as live in these degenerate days.

Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity. [Fr., Les hommes rougissent moins de leur crimes que de leurs faiblesses et de leur vanite.]

A weak currency is the sign of a weak economy, and a weak economy leads to a weak nation.

It's the giving that makes one stronger, but sometimes the taking can make one weaker, if even vulnerable or blinding.

Resolve was never stronger than in the morning, after the night, when it was never weaker