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Quotes About Weakness

Let craft, ambition, spite, Be quenched in Reason's night, Till weakness turn to might, Till what is dark be light, Till what is wrong be right!
~ Lewis Carroll
You may charge me with murder - Or want of sense (We are all of us weak at times): But the slightest approach to a false pretence Was never among my crimes!
~ Lewis Carroll
Really? And what curse befalls the Adams of the world? Ann opens her mouth and, presumably thinking of nothing to say, closes it again. It is Felicity who answers, eyes steely. They are weak to temptation. And we are their temptresses.
~ Libba Bray
None but the weak crave to be better than. Strong men are satisfied with their own strength.
~ Lillian Smith
Nu avea niciun sens s? se simt? furios. Trebuie s? iei viaÈ›a aÈ™a cum e: stupid?, minunat?, inteligent?, rea, nebuneasc? È™i foarte, foarte pl?cut?. Trebuie s? accepÈ›i sl?biciunile oamenilor ca pe un dat, s? le iei în calcul È™i s? le foloseÈ™ti pentru cauza nobil?.
~ Lion Feuchtwanger
W]hat is considered weakness in one gender is often strength in the other.
~ Lisa Bevere
Bad people don't want to deal with the powerful. They prey on the weak.
~ Lisa Gardner
Terrorism and deception are weapons not of the strong, but of the weak.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
When our Lord says, we must be converted and become as little children, I suppose He means also, that we must be sensible of our weakness, comparatively speaking, as a little child.
~ George Whitefield
Insulting the electorate and accusing it of spiritual weakness and sinfulness are not the ways to get yourself the job of president.
~ John Podhoretz
My fear of the Lord is Satan´s weakness.
~ Alin Sav
Love's weaknesses are better than hate's strengths.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Difference of opinion is a clash, and to clash is a 'weakness'.
~ Dada Bhagwan
If we clash with anyone, then it is our own weakness only.
~ Dada Bhagwan
My biggest weakness is my sensitivity. I am too sensitive a person.
~ Mike Tyson
In this atmosphere of general discouragement, it is tempting to attack something that is sufficiently linked to the powers-that-be so as not to appear very sympathetic, but sufficiently weak to be a more-or-less accessible target (since the concentration of power and money are beyond reach). Science fulfills these conditions, and this partly explains the attacks against it.
~ Alan Sokal
Truth and goodness do not depend on me, Bell. I am too weak. I am as poor a thing as General Blessington. Prepare to despise both of us.
~ Alasdair Gray
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
~ Albert Einstein
The mystical trend of our time, which shows itself particularly in the rampant growth of the so-called Theosophy and Spiritualism, is for me no more than a symptom of weakness and confusion. Since our inner experiences consist of reproductions, and combinations of sensory impressions, the concept of a soul without a body seem to me to be empty and devoid of meaning. - Albert Einstein, letter of February 5, 1921
~ Albert Einstein
No, not synthetic starch and cotton-waste flour-substitute,' he has insisted. 'Even though it is more nourishing.' But when it came to pan-glandular biscuits and vitaminized beef-surrogate, he had not been able to resist the shopman's persuasion. Looking at the tins now, he bitterly reproached himself for his weakness.
~ Aldous Huxley
When the brain runs out of sugar, the undernourished ego grows weak, can't be bothered to undertake the necessary chores, and loses all interest in those spatial and temporal relationships which mean so much to an organism bent on getting on in the world.
~ Aldous Huxley
30. If Will stops and cries Why, invoking Because, then Will stops & does nought. 31. If Power asks why, then is Power weakness.
~ Aleister Crowley
Aveva quella bellezza di cui solo i vinti sono capaci. E la limpidezza delle cose deboli. E la solitudine, perfetta, di ciò che si è perduto.
~ Alessandro Baricco
E' terribilmente difficile restare aggrappati alla propria dignità quando il sole sorto è troppo luminoso per i suoi occhi deboli, ed era questo a cui pensavo mentre andavamo a caccia di cattivi per le rovine di una città inesistente.
~ Alessandro Baricco