Quotes About Weakness

He had a weakness, though. All of us do, and those of us who think they do not are not being honest.

Humans are threatened by anything different, and their response is to fight. They're bullies, picking on the weak, cowering from the strong.

Una debilidad no reconocida puede resultar mortífera.

An unacknowledged weakness is deadly.

The pain, when it hit, had racked his weak body, starting in his abdomen and radiating outward until the tips of his fingers, his toes, the ends of every piece of hair on his head had screamed.

I would never say, to justify a lapse in principle, I am only human--as though that were some kind of justification for weakness, moral weakness. Flesh and blood is much, much stronger than fools believe.

His bondage had softened him. Irresponsibility had weakened him. He had forgotten how to shift for himself. The night yawned about him.

in his gambling, he had one besetting weakness -- faith in a system; and this made his damnation certain.

But this is not a world of free freights. One pays according to an iron schedule--for every strength the balanced weakness; for every high a corresponding low; for every fictitious god-like moment an equivalent time in reptilian slime. For every feat of telescoping long days and weeks of life into mad magnificent instants, one must pay with shortened life, and, oft-times, with savage usury added.

John Barleycorn makes his appeal to weakness and failure, to weariness and exhaustion. He is the easy way out. And he is lying all the time. He offers false strength to the body, false elevation to the spirit, making things seem what they are not and vastly fairer than what they are.

Beauty Smith was cruel in the way that cowards are cruel…he revenged himself, in turn, upon creatures weaker than he. All life likes power, and Beauty Smith was no exception. Denied the expression of power amongst his own kind, he fell back upon the lesser creatures and there vindicated the life that was in him.

Surely there can be little in this world more awful than the spectacle of a strong man in the moment when he is utterly weak and broken.

One reason the United States finds itself at the edge of a foreign policy disaster is its underinformed citizenry, a key weakness in democracy.

It was not the violence of our enemies [in World War I] that would undo us, I thought, but our own spiritual weakness, the shallowness of our convictions.

You can be sure of succeeding in your attacks if you only attack places which are undefended.You can ensure the safety of your defense if you only hold positions that cannot be attacked.

You can be sure of succeeding in your attacks if you only attack places which are undefended.

When the officers are too strong and the common soldiers too weak, the result is COLLAPSE.

Knowing the enemy enables you to take the offensive, knowing yourself enables you to stand on the defensive.

The weak against the strong Is always in the wrong.

I can't walk by chocolate without eating it.

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

A country is considered the more civilised the more the wisdom and efficiency of its laws hinder a weak man from becoming too weak and a powerful one too powerful.

The Child, the Lord Jesus Christ . . . Word in our flesh, Wisdom in infancy, Power in weakness, and in true Man, the Lord of Majesty.

Morality is the weakness of the mind.