Weakness Quotes

Our nonviolence vis-а-vis the British Government has been the nonviolence of the weak.

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

My only sanction is the love and affection in which you hold me. But it has its weaknesses, as it has its strengths.

Many a time comes when we want to interpret our weakness and cowardice as forgiveness and renunciation.

To stake all one's life on a single moment, to risk everything on one throw, whether the stake be power or pleasure, I care not - there is no weakness in that.

The real weakness of England lies, not in incomplete armaments or unfortified coasts, not in the poverty that creeps through sunless lanes, or the drunkenness that brawls in loathsome courts, but simply in the fact that her ideals are emotional and not intellectual.

Weakness is the only fault that is incorrigible.

You cannot always run from a weakness. You must sometime fight it out or perish.

Beat your opponent where he is strongest, and you demoralize him.

Violence is the weapon of weak, non-violence that of the strong.

You take a weakness and start making it stronger.. You don't have to build your strengths - that you already possess... It is your weakness that needs the exercise

Holding on to the weak is called strength.

In any situation you can think of, impatience is a source of weakness and fear, while patience represents substance and strength.

Some of our weaknesses are born in us, others are the result of education; it is a question which of the two gives us most trouble.

The golden fleece of self-sufficiency guards against cudgel- blows but not against pin-pricks.

Among other causes of misfortune which your not being armed brings upon you, it makes you despised.

There is nothing in the world more pitiable than an irresolute man, oscillating between two feelings, who would willingly unite the two and who does not perceive that nothing can unite them

Do not be deceived! The busiest people harbor the greatest weariness, their restlessness is weakness--they no longer have the capacity for waiting and idleness.

Feminine traits are called weaknesses. People joke about them; fools ridicule them; but reasonable persons see very well that those traits are just the tools for the management of men, and for the use of men for female designs.

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.

I have no way and therefore want no eyes I stumbled when I saw. Full oft 'tis seen our means secure us, and our mere defects prove our commodities.

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.

The criminal type is the type of the strong human being under unfavorable circumstances: a strong human being made sick.

Conceit in weakest bodies works the strongest.

The terrors of the child are quite reasonable, and add to his loveliness; for his utter ignorance and weakness, and his enchanting indignation on such a small basis of capital compel every bystander to take his part.

Consciously or unconsciously, health can be transmitted. A very strong man, living with a weak man, will make him a little stronger, whether he knows it or not.

Treachery is more often the effect of weakness than of a formed design.

The nonviolence I teach is active nonviolence of the strongest. But the weakest can partake in it without becoming weaker.

More men are guilty of treason through weakness than any studied design to betray.

All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

The weakest goes to the wall.

Everything that can weaken us as a race we have had for the last thousand years. It seems as if during that period the national life had this one end in view, viz how to make us weaker and weaker, till we have become real earthworms, crawling at the feet of every one who dares to put his foot on us. Therefore my friends, as one of your blood, as one that lives and dies with you, let me tell you that we want strength, strength, and every time strength.

A woman's strength is the unresistible might of weakness.

Weakness is strength.

If there are sound reasons or bases for the points you demand, then there is no need for violence. On the other hand, when there is no sound reason that concessions should be made to you but mainly your own desire, then reason cannot work and you have to rely on force. Thus using force is not a sign of strength but rather a sign of weakness.

There is one weakness in people for which there is no remedy. It is the universal weakness of LACK OF AMBITION!

Nothing is rarer than true good nature; they who are reputed to have it are generally only pliant or weak.

Where do your greatest dangers lie?--In pity.

The poison by which the weaker nature is destroyed is strengthening to the strong individual and he does not call it poison.

The weak and the botched shall perish: first principle of our charity.

There is a rank due to the United States among nations which will be withheld, if not absolutely lost, by the reputation of weakness.

If you are too weak to give yourselves your own law, then a tyrant shall lay his yoke upon you and say: "Obey! Clench your teeth and obey!" And all good and evil shall be drowned in obedience to him.

The weaknesses of the many make the leader possible.

Nonviolence is not an easy thing to understand, still less to practice, weak as we are.

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.

Bear in mind, my children, that only cowards and those who are weak commit sin and tell lies. The brave are always moral. Try to be moral, try to be brave, try to be sympathising.

Love hath made thee a tame snake

It is the weak man who urges compromise - never the strong man.

Vagueness and procrastination are ever a comfort to the frail in spirit.

A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.

For a fallen India to aspire to move the world and protect the weaker races is seemingly an impertinence.

A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident.

Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

Only strong natures can really be sweet ones; those that seem sweet are in general only weak, and may easily turn sour.

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

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.

Violence is a concession to human weakness, satyagraha is an obligation.

I can't imagine how anyone can say: "I'm weak," and then remain so. After all, if you know it, why not fight against it, why not try to train your character? The answer was: "Because it's so much easier not to!

Whatever I fight weakens me. Whatever I cooperate with strengthens me.

Oft have I heard that grief softens the mindAnd makes it fearful and degenerate.