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Quotes About Weakness

When our head feels too weak to answer the objections of our opponent our heart answers by casting suspicion on the motives behind his objections.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
The poison from which the weaker nature perishes strengthens the strong man - and he does not call it poison.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
I teach the No to all that makes weak—that exhausts. I teach the Yes to all that strengthens, that stores up strength, that pride.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Woman! One-half of mankind is weak, typically sick, changeable, inconstant... she needs a religion of weakness that glorifies being weak, loving, and being humble as divine: or better, she makes the strong weak--she rules when she succeeds in overcoming the strong... Woman has always conspired with the types of decadence, the priests, against the 'powerful', the 'strong', the men.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Qué es lo malo? Todo lo que proviene de la debilidad.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
The poison by which the weaker nature is destroyed is strengthening to the strong individual-and he does not call it poison.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Where the strong are weak, and the noble all too mild—there it builds its disgusting nest: the parasite lives where the great have small wounded recesses.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Sensuality often forces the growth of love too much, so that its root remains weak, and is easily torn up.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
This man was my equal—no, I admitted grudgingly, my superior—and I hated him for it. I hated him because I knew that in his dream of power no one must suffer. I hated him because, once, I had been weak enough to share his feelings.
~ Fritz Leiber
He often chooses weak instruments in order that His power might be manifested; otherwise it would seem that the good was done by the clay, rather than by the Spirit.
~ Fulton J. Sheen
I have been in my bed for five weeks, oppressed with weakness and other infirmities from which my age, seventy four years, permits me not to hope release. Added to this (proh dolor! [O misery!]) the sight of my right eye — that eye whose labors (dare I say it) have had such glorious results — is for ever lost. That of the left, which was and is imperfect, is rendered null by continual weeping.
~ Galileo Galilei
We always knew that name-recognition wise, that was really my one weakness.
~ Erin O'Toole
Stronger by weakness, wiser men become.
~ Edmund Waller
Empathy seems to be seen as a weakness. We condition people to withdraw it to succeed. But really, it needs to be re-seen as a strength again if there is to be any kind of hope in the world.
~ Matt Bellamy
America is a great power possessed of tremendous military might and a wide-ranging economy, but all this is built on an unstable foundation which can be targeted, with special attention to its obvious weak spots. If America is hit in one hundredth of these weak spots, God willing, it will stumble, wither away and relinquish world leadership.
~ Osama bin Laden
But the West is trying to weaken Islam from outside and inside. They attack our people and invade our countries from outside, and they weaken us from within with ideas like secularism, liberalism and democracy. This is all designed to contaminate our pure Islam.
~ Abu Bakar Bashir
You cannot be a hero without being a coward.
~ George Bernard Shaw
My strength and my weakness are twins in the same womb.
~ Marge Piercy
Women's strong qualities have become despised because of their weakness. The obvious remedy is to create a feminine character with all the strength of Superman plus all the allure of a good and beautiful woman.
~ William Moulton Marston
I've grieved enough for his life cut short and for mine for running on for so long with so little in it. It's weakness now, but I suppose I am crying out of a general sense of loss. Maybe I am mourning for the human condition.
~ Rosie Thomas
I knew I was free; that I had always been free; held back only by my own weakness, lacking impulse and the imagination to break away from an existence that had become habitual for years.
~ Ruskin Bond
The hero we sympathize with because he is in love or cherishes some personal ambition, they condemn as weak because he has allowed these feelings to come between him and his gimu or his giri.
~ Ruth Benedict
Those who protect and defend evil are either weak and or evil themselves, either way it go's it's a tragic injustice.
~ Ryan Pack
Purpose without power is mere weakness and deception; and power without purpose is mere fatuity.
~ Saadi Shirazi