Quotes About Weakness

Rather than erupting in fury, he had experienced a moment of weakness, as though he were about to burst into tears. Without hating Yoshimine (whom he considered a reliable friend even now), he had felt his own arms and legs shrinking before a reality that he could do absolutely nothing about. This feeling, he understood in retrospect, arose from the fact that Yoshimine was a landlord while he himself was an insignificant pauper.

I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Now it seems obvious, of course, that even a strong person has weak spots and that I had hit Cassie's full force, with all the precision of a jeweler fragmenting a stone along a flaw. She must have thought, sometimes, of her namesake, the votary branded with her god's most inventive and sadistic curse: to tell the truth, and never to be believed.

What-if-maybe crap is for weak people. It belongs to the ones who don't have the strength to make actual situations go their way, so they have to hide away in daydreams where they can play at controlling what comes next. And that makes them even weaker.

He read disappointment at his response and wondered if she realized that she expected a certain amount of effusive sympathy from the people she told. Rejecting that sympathy made her feel strong, compensating for what she perceived as her weakness. He suspected that the disease was the first time she hadn't been able to make everything come out all right through the sheer determination that it would be.

Sudhamoy consoled himself with the thought that it was not about Hindus and Muslims but about the strong torturing the weak whenever possible. Women are weak and so strong men torment them.

Gloria once told me that your best quality is also your worst.

La loro distaccata crudeltà, la loro istintiva capacità di individuare il punto debole nell'armatura emotiva di una vittima, il modo in cui la loro stessa amicizia veniva rafforzata dal sadismo: riconobbe questi come esempi di un comportamento umano, non divino.

The gospel enables you and your children to face the worst in yourselves—your sin, your badness, and your weakness—and still find hope, because grace is powerful.

I am afraid he has one of those terribly weak natures that are susceptible to influence.

Destiny is the invention of the cowardly and the resigned.

Terrorism is the preferred weapon of weak and evil men.

It is not great men who change the world, but weak men in the hands of a great God.

The greatest weakness in the church today is that the servants of God keep looking over their shoulder for the approval of men.

Ingratitude is always a kind of weakness. I have never known men of ability to be ungrateful.

So easily do weak men put in high positions turn villains.

The weakest man is the one who is able to correct his moral defects, but doesn't take action.

It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking.

Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgement, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is PRIDE, the never-failing vice of fools.

It is not because men's desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.

Still, instead of trusting what their own minds tell them, men have as a rule a weakness for trusting others who pretend to supernatural sources of knowledge.

Think about it: what weakens us is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of our fellow men. Our self-importance requires that we spend most of our lives offended by someone.

It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of their imaginations.

Occasions do not make a man either strong or weak but they show what he is.