Quotes About Weakness

Good intentions are only lies the weak tell themselves.

Weak men are the worse for the good sense they read in books because it furnisheth them only with more matter to mistake.

My belief is, from all that I have seen of the French people and their Government, that they are much more likely to presume upon our weakness than to take offence at our strength.

In every government on earth is some trace of human weakness, some germ of corruption and degeneracy, which cunning will discover, and wickedness insensibly open, cultivate and improve.

Must a government of necessity be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

I make my weaknesses my strengths and my stengths stronger.

In Tsurani culture, forgiveness was simply a less shameful form of weakness than capitulation.

The weak fear happiness itself. They can harm themselves on cotton wool. Sometimes they are wounded even by happiness

Affliction strengthens the vigor of our soul, whereas happiness weakens it.

Only a true weakling is capable of true courage.

The weak fear happiness itself.

Why is it that people who cannot show feeling presume that that is a strength and not a weakness?

Strength is happiness. Strength is itself victory. In weakness and cowardice there is no happiness

You cannot run away from a weakness. You must sometimes fight it out or perish and if that be so why not now and where you stand?

Friendship is also about liking a person for their failings, their weakness. It's also about mutual help, not about exploitation.

Now, have I ever been tempted to break into a Krispy Kreme doughnut store in the middle of the night? Oh, yeah. God help us if I had a mini-bar stocked with cheesecake and chicken-fried steak.

O charitable philosopher, I beg you to help me. My mind is weak but my soul is strong. Kindle that soul, and the sacred fire shall never be extinguished.

People build defenses around a weakness, not around strength. Where self-esteem is strong, a defense is unnecessary.

The old myth is true. We see our environment as a mirror to our self-image. If we think we are weak, everybody will appear like a threat. If we think we are strong, we will try to help everyone.

The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion.

Maybe they didn't want you to realize that every civilization has its weakness. There's always one thing we depend on. And if someone takes it away all that's left is some story in a history class.

Whilst weakness and timidity keep us to our duty, virtue has often all the honor.

I am weaker and more sinful than I ever before believed, but through Jesus Christ I'm more loved and accepted than I ever dared hope.

Freedom can never be reached by the weak. Throw away all weakness. Tell your body that it is strong, tell your mind that it is strong, and have unbounded faith and hope in yourself.