Quotes About Weakness

Revenge is always the weak pleasure of a little and narrow mind.

Misfortune finds the weak spot.

Gehörte zur Unmenschlichkeit immer auch das Wissen um die wunden Punkte der Menschlichkeit?

The Fall of Rome, the biggest and greatest of all Empires, was due to the Faith of people the Romans deemed weak and inconsequential. The more they tried to squash them, the stronger their faith grew until Rome, with all its might and cruelty, became the very weak and inconsequential people they looked down upon.

No man is invincible.

It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.

If we resist our passions, it is more through their weakness than from our strength

Fervor is the weapon of choice for the impotent.

Your country is a constant reproach. It is rich to their poor, strong to their weak, vigorous to their idle, enterprising to their reactionaries, ingenious to their bewildered, can-do to their sit-and-wait, thrusting to their timid.

He that is a slave to Lilliputian comforts will find a giant behind the curtains of his deathbed, who is not unlikely to strangle him in the weakness of that hour of retribution.

It seems to be easier for us today to imagine the thoroughgoing deterioration of the earth and of nature than the breakdown of late capitalism; perhaps that is due to some weakness in our imagination.

The strongest have their moments of fatigue.

When a man is ill his very goodness is sickly.

For every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.

Toute erreur doctrinale s'accompagne d'une erreur psychologique à l'égard de ceux qui en sont indemnes : l'athéisme par exemple se prend volontiers pour un héroïsme moral; il ne peut concevoir de théisme libre de toute faiblesse, de tout désir sentimental. Suspicion injuste, car on peut tout admettre par sentimentalité, l'inexistence de Dieu aussi bien que le contraire.

Dieu permet parfois des faiblesses afin de pouvoir susciter ensuite — moyennant le contraste entre ces infirmités accidentelles et l'être essentiel — des vertus d'autant plus profondes. Les qualités qui ont poussé dans l'engrais de quelque misère sont comme douées de conscience : elles connaissent toute la vanité de l'erreur d'une manière concrète.

In modern history has one central tenet, it is that the masses will embrace anything if it's cheap and easy. This is our fundamental weakness and will almost certainly lure the entire human race to its doom. Thermonuclear Armageddon would require far too much cerebral effort – our collective fate is a bear trap baited with a cheeseburger.

Our weakness doesn't make us weak. Our weakness makes us strong. For we had to carry it all these years.

Let them see my weakness, and let them see me overcome it.

Weakness can imitate strength if bound properly, just as cowardice can imitate heroism if given nowhere to flee.

Life before death, strength before weakness, journey before pancakes -Lopen

Strength before weakness. He was coming to understand that part of his first oath. He had discovered weakness in himself, but that wasn't something to be ashamed of. Because of that weakness, he could help in ways nobody could.

He doesn't know as much as he thinks," Preservation whispered. "That is his weakness. The . . . weakness . . . of all clever men

Our weakness doesn't make us weak. Our weakness makes us strong, for we've had to carry it all these years.