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Quotes About Weakness

There is nothing more man needs than Divine Mercy - that love which is benevolent, which is compassionate, which raises man above his weakness to the infinite heights to the holiness of God.
~ Pope John Paul II
Men are in general so tricky, so envious, and so cruel that when we find one who is only weak, we are too happy.
~ Voltaire
Weakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,--like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is.
~ Christian Nestell Bovee
The strong man with the dagger is followed by the weak man with the sponge.
~ Lord Acton
Man's greatest weakness is his love for life.
~ Moliere
Something had gone amiss with men, and the weak ones were dangerous.
~ Thomas McGuane
It is praiseworthy to be brave and fearless, but sometimes it is better to be a coward. We often stand in the compound of a coward to point at the ruins where a brave man used to live.
~ Chinua Achebe
Strong men can always afford to be gentle. Only the weak are intent on giving as good as they get.
~ Elbert Hubbard
The man who wishes to understand himself thoroughly must with his unrest, uncertainty, and even his weakness and sinfulness, with his life and death, draw near to Christ.
~ Pope John Paul II
Mass Man, the universal psychopath, is born when the individual ego is weakened to the point at which it loses separate identity and is forced, for security, to merge with the mass.
~ Robert M. Lindner
Weakness' is weakness only in light of the aims man sets for himself, the instruments at his disposal and the laws he imposes.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
All men are frail; but thou shouldst reckon none so frail as thyself.
~ Thomas a Kempis
Are you or aren't you convinced that weakness is a man's condition? How can you raise yourself if you haven't fallen first?
~ Cesare Pavese
When a man is ill his very goodness is sickly.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
He (John Major) has the mulishness of a weak man with stupidity.
~ Norman Tebbit
Modern man's difficulties, dangerous beliefs and feelings of loneliness, spiritual emptiness,and personal weakness are caused by his illusions about, and separation from, the natural world.
~ Benjamin Hoff
Man is the weak being who, in spite of all his self-importance and pride of wealth and capital, is vanquished by the smallest microbe.
~ Muhammad Atta-ullah Faizani
The weakest spot in every man is where he thinks himself to be the wisest.
~ Nathanael Emmons
Woman's weakness, not man's merit, oftenest gains the suitor's victory.
~ Nicolas Chamfort
Cicero said loud-bawling orators were driven by their weakness to noise, as lame men to take horse.
~ Plutarch
Mountains of gold would not seduce some men, yet flattery would break them down.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Every man has his devilish minutes.
~ Johann Kaspar Lavater
It is weakness rather than wickedness which renders men unfit to be trusted with unlimited power.
~ John Adams
All men would be cowards if they could.
~ John Wilmot