Weakness

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• All cruelty springs from weakness.
  • Seneca the Younger

• Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.
  • Jonathan Swift

• As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.
  • Henry David Thoreau

• Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.
  • Charles Lamb

• Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.
  • Oscar Wilde

• Get it into your head once and for all, my simple and very fainthearted fellow, that what fools call humanness is nothing but a weakness born of fear and egoism; that this chimerical virtue, enslaving only weak men, is unknown to those whose character is formed by stoicism, courage, and philosophy.
  • Marquis De Sade

• I believe the most solemn duty of the American president is to protect the American people. If America shows uncertainty and weakness in this decade, the world will drift toward tragedy. This will not happen on my watch.
  • George W. Bush

• If thou wouldn't conquer thy weakness thou must not gratify it.
  • William Penn

• If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.
  • François de La Rochefoucauld

• Insincerity is always weakness; sincerity even in error is strength.
  • George Lewes

• It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.
  • Joseph Addison

• It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of their imaginations.
  • Walter Bagehot

• Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.
  • John Keats

• Let no one charge me with ever having abused or encouraged weakness or surrendered on matters of principle. But I have said, as I say again, that every trifle must not be dignified into a principle.
  • Mohandas Gandhi

• Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.
  • Leon Trotsky

• Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.
  • Boris Pasternak

• Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.
  • Joseph Addison

• My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn that perceived weakness into a strength.
  • Michael Jordan

• My biggest weakness is my sensitivity. I am too sensitive a person.
  • Mike Tyson

• Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.
  • Dwight D. Einsenhower

• Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
  • Thomas Edison

• Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.
  • Mohandas Gandhi

• Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness... It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
  • Mohandas Gandhi

• Scientists tend to be skeptical, but the weakness of the community of science is that it tends to move into preformed establishment modes that say this is the only way of doing science, the only valid view.
  • Walter Gilbert

• Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.
  • Amos Bronson Alcott

• Sure, for all our blindness; secure, for all our helplessness; strong, for all our weakness; gaily in love, for all the pressures on our hearts.
  • Thomas Aquinas

• Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength.
  • Billy Graham

• The action we take and the decisions we make in this decade will have consequences far into this century. If America shows weakness and uncertainty, the world will drift toward tragedy. That will not happen on my watch.
  • George W. Bush

• The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.
  • Virginia Woolf

• The greatest weakness of all weaknesses is to fear too much to appear weak.
  • Jacques Bénigne Bossuet

• The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're alive.
  • Orlando A. Battista

• The 'morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.
  • Andrew Carnegie

• The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

• The very strength of a nation eventually proves to be its weakness.
  • Paul Harris

• There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.
  • Washington Irving

• There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose.
  • Kin Hubbard

• 'To give style' to one's character - a great and rare art! He exercises it who surveys all that his nature presents in strength and weakness and then moulds it to an artistic plan until everything appears as art and reason, and even the weaknesses delight the eye.
  • Friedrich Nietzsche

• To put away aimlessness and weakness, and to begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment; who make all conditions serve them, and who think strongly, attempt fearlessly, and accomplish masterfully.
  • James Allen

• We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.
  • Voltaire

• We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
  • François de La Rochefoucauld

• Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
  • Albert Einstein

• Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.
  • François de La Rochefoucauld

• Weakness on both sides is, as we know, the motto of all quarrels.
  • Voltaire

• You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
  • Robert Louis Stevenson

• You would be amazed how many important outs you can get by working the count down to where the hitter is sure you're going to throw to his weakness, and then throw to his power instead.
  • Whitey Ford