Quotes About Weakness

Every man--I know this--turns weak, pliant, ridiculous as soon as he's in love.

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

If we know that the enemy is open to attack, but are unaware that our own men are not in a condition to attack, we have gone only halfway towards victory.

Nothing shows our weakness more than to be so sharp-sighted at spying other men's faults, and so purblind about our own.

Man's biological weakness is the condition of human culture.

More men are guilty of treason through weakness than any studied design to betray.

Man seems merely dust postponed: the sublime as an encounter - pleasurable, intoxicating, even - with human weakness in the face of strength, age and size of the universe.

Men are good in but one way, but bad in many.

The weaker the man in authority... the stronger his insistence that all his privileges be acknowledged.

As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.

Weak men are easily put out of humor. Oil freezes quicker than water.

Is it courage in a dying man to go, in weakness and in agony, to affront an almighty and eternal God?

A man with an obsession is a man who has very little sales resistance.

The average woman sees only the weak points in a strong man, and the good points in a weak one.

The highest point to which a weak but experienced mind can rise is detecting the weakness of better men.

A man may be variously accomplished, and yet be a feeble poet.

Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you -- gently, with love, and hand your life back to you.

we are weakness itself, and unless He guards the city, in vain shall we labor to defend it.

For the devil does not allow a single bad habit to disappear and the very weakness of our mortal nature destroys the virtues in us.

And He has said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness.

In professional groups which, as they say, carry on intellectual work, but are at the same time employed, dependent or economically weak, the jargon in a professional illness

Condescension, and thinking oneself no better, are the same. To adapt to the weakness of the oppressed is to affirm in it the pre-condition of power, and to develop in oneself the coarseness, insensibility and violence needed to exert domination.

One is reminded of Lenin, who denied himself the pleasures of listening to Beethoven because it so reconciled him to the world that he wanted afterward to pat children on the head: a terrible weakness in a man who wanted to hit hard, who believed in the liberating powers of violence.

Life is made for the strong. There is no mercy in it for the weak– none...Such is the tragedy of desire.