Quotes About Weakness

Men know so little about us women. We've a weakness, it is true, for those who charm us, but we always come back to those who love us.

You know, [women] do not really condemn any weakness: rather, they try to humiliate or disarm our strengths. That is why women arethe reward, not of the warrior, but of the criminal.

Women are all so far Machiavellians that they are never either good or bad by halves; their passions are too strong, and their reason too weak, to do anything with moderation.

Man seems not so much wicked as frail, unable to face pain, trouble and growing old. A good woman knows that nature is her enemy. Look at what it does to her.

Women know no perfect love: Loving the strong, they can forsake the strong; Man clings because the being whom he loves Is weak and needs him.

Nature endows woman alternately with a particular strength which helps her to suffer and a weakness which counsels her to be resigned.

Sensitivity is equated with weakness. Feelings are for women. It's OK to express happiness or anger, but it's not OK to feel fear or sadness. This gets exaggerated in prison.

Most people are weak and frightened, and run from anything which could be upsetting. Most people, also, are takers and not givers.

A woman's strength is the unresistible might of weakness.

A lot of women feel ashamed to be weak.

Ah me, how weak a thing The heart of woman is!

A woman's strength is the irresistible might of weakness.

Fraily thy name is woman!

Anger is certainly a kind of baseness, as it appears well in the weakness of those subjects in whom it reigns: children, women, old folks, sick folks.

The brave with all of their weaknesses are better than the cowardly with all of their strengths.

Worry makes you weaker, regret makes you sadder, hate makes you angrier, but hope makes you stronger, and love makes you happier.

Woman's fatal weakness is to desire sympathy and comprehension.--"Wanda

If Strength comes through Suffering, why then I should be the strongest of all women, yet I am the weakest. God help me. Help me.

It was a weakness, but he could not bear to disappoint women, even if it was ultimately for their own good.

As I pass it, I feel as if I saw a dear old mother, sweet in her weakness, trembling at the approach of her dissolution, but not appealing to me against the inevitable, rather endeavouring to reassure me by her patience, and pointing to a hopeful future.

My weakness has always been to prefer the large intention of an unskillful artist to the trivial intention of an accomplished one: in other words, I am more interested in the high ideas of a feeble executant than in the high execution of a feeble thinker.

A strong woman who recklessly throws away her strength, she is worse than a weak woman who has never had any strength to throw away.

Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.

Bathsheba loved Troy in the way that only self-reliant women love when they abandon their self-reliance. When a strong woman recklessly throws away her strength she is worse than a weak woman who has never any strength to throw away. One source of her inadequacy is the novelty of the occasion. She has never had practice in making the best of such a condition. Weakness is doubly weak by being new.