Quotes About Weakness

When the weak want to give an impression of strength they hint menacingly at their capacity for evil. It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.

the soul is never as strong as it believes itself, nor ever as weak as it fears.

Too many strive for the unachievable, and this pursuit consumes them. They rush frantic and desperate and so reveal weakness in the face of sadness. More than weakness, in fact. It is in truth a kind of cowardice, that which espouses an evasive disposition as if it were a virtue.

In natural justice, Arathan, the weak cannot hide, unless we grant them the privilege. And understand, it is ever a privilege, for wich the weak should be eternally grateful. At any given moment, should the strong will it, they can swing a sword and end the life of the weak. And that will be today's lesson. Forbearance.

In natural justice, Arathan, the weak cannot hide, unless we grant them the privilege. And understand, it is ever a privilege, for which the weak should be eternally grateful.

He'd forgotten how irritating company could be. Uninvited, unwelcome, persistent reminder of his own weaknesses. And

A defense based on the weakness of nature belongs to untutored children and dogs that bite, Captain.

Weakness. Kneel before it, child. Make of it a thing to worship. There is no point in fighting - the world's sadness is far more powerful than you can ever hope to be, and that is what you must come to understand.

Not me, alas. Things get tough, and I'm liable to curl up and start whimpering

The legacy of the deed remained in the Edur's brutal enslavement of Tiste Andii spirits. Faith was proved a lie, and in ignorance was found weakness. The righteousness of the Edur stood on shifting sands.

We rejected civilization, but so too we rejected anarchy for its petty belligerence and the weakness of thought it announced. By these decisions, we made ourselves lost and bereft of purpose

to hide weakness behind bluster was to hide nothing at all.

People either had strength or they didn't. The weak ones left her disgusted, welling with dark contempt. If they chose at all it was ever the wrong choice. They let the world break them time and again, then wondered – dull-eyed as this ox – why it was so cruel. But it wasn't the world that was the problem, was it? It was stepping into the stampede's path over and over again.

the method is still the same: appeal to weakness, bolster myth, and massage fantasy.

Nobody in school is stronger than me. But when Sally Holmes kissed me, I never felt so weak in all my life.

No man is too weak for God to use, only too strong.

Predestination … and salvation are clean taken out of our hands, and put in the hands of God only … for we are so weak and so uncertain, that if it stood in us, there would of a truth be no man saved; the devil, no doubt, would deceive us.23

The law of successful operations is to avoid the enemy's strength and strike his weakness.

Lily, something is happening to me, to my mind. I feel weak and afraid. We are kin, you and Owen and I. You must not turn away from me.

He has an important part of play, and I can't help feeling he is somewhat of a weak link. He is no Daniel Cranton, who's the Shining One's vizier, but I'm afraid he's going to have to assume some of that persona!

Only the weak make of their weakness a virtue.

Love makes you weak and vulnerable. It's like a disease. I hate this feeling. It's making me something I'm not.

Too long has she lamented over her defeat, which her pride brought upon her. You are touched by her feelings, and do not know it, yet you are strong and can overcome the weakness.

The twins exchanged a secret glance, but it did not altogether exclude him. They were willing to play, he felt. He experienced a delirious sense of weakness, as if the performance was not his, but theirs. It was a strange and unfamiliar sensation, but not unpleasant.