Quotes About Weakness

Vanity is the natural weakness of an ambitious man, which exposes him to the secret scorn and derision of those he converses with, and ruins the character he is so industrious to advance by it.

Man doth not yield him to the angels, nor unto death utterly, save only through the weakness of his feeble will.

That deed which in our guilt we today call weakness, will appear tomorrow as an essential link in the complete chain of Man.

Far off, men swell, bully, and threaten; bring them hand to hand, and they are feeble folk.

Man is both strong and weak, both free and bound, both blind and far-seeing. He stands at the juncture of nature and spirit; and is involved in both freedom and necessity.

It is a very melancholy reflection that men are usually so weak that it is absolutely necessary for them to know sorrow and pain to be in their right senses.

Man with frailty is allied by birth.

When a broken tank is filled with water, It certainly will leak on every side. Weak men who grow rich Seldom leave an inheritance.

He might be a man without character, but she was a woman without courage. Of the two, which was worse?

Passionate expression and vehement assertion are no arguments, unless it be of the weakness of the cause that is defended by them, or of the man that defends it.

We all are men, in our own natures frail, and capable of our flesh; few are angels.

I was the Commander in Chief with men and women in combat. And the idea of trying to agonize in public or show weakness would have demoralized them.

I am a weak and sinful man, but God put His hands on me, that is all.

The prevailin' weakness of most public men is to Slop Over!.... G. Washington never slopt over.

What a marshmallow. You should hold out for someone with a stronger stomach. Someone who laughs at the gore that makes weaker men vomit.

There is an old poor man,. . . . Oppress'd with two weak evils, age and hunger.

The real victim of bigotry is the white man who hides his weakness under his myth of superiority.

We are all men, feeble, frail, and apt to faint.

To say that man is a compound of strength and weakness, light and darkness, smallness and greatness, is not to indict him, it is to define him.

Alone-- it is wonderful how little a man can do alone! To rob a little, to hurt a little, and there is the end.

Lots of men are like that, their artistic leanings never go beyond a weakness for shapely thighs.

Man is oftentimes weak-minded enough to be caught in the snare of greed and honeyed words.

Are men truly such idiots that they cannot resist two orbs of flesh?

The power men possess to annoy me I give them by a weak curiosity