#Weakness Quotes

“To fear the foe, since fear oppresseth strength, gives in your weakness strength unto your foe.”

“If he be so resolved, I can o'ersway him; for he loves to hear That unicorns may be betrayed with trees And bears with glasses, elephants with holes, Lions with toils, and men with flatterers”

“The weakest goes to the wall.”

“Milk-livered man,That bear'st a cheek for blows, a head for wrongs;Who hast not in thy brows an eye discerningThine honor from thy suffering; [that not know'stFools do those villains pity who are punishedEre they have done their mischief. Where's thy drum?France spreads his banners in our noiseless land,With plumed helm thy state begins to threat,Whilst thou, a moral fool, sits still and cries'Alack, why does he so?']”

“Thou seest I have more flesh than another man, and therefore more frailty.”

“The weakest kind of fruit drops earliest to the ground.”

“Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.”

“Conceit in weakest bodies works the strongest.”

“Women may fall when there's no strength in men.”

“Nothing routs us but the villainy of our fears.”

“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.”

“Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness.”

“Our strength grows out of our weakness.”

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

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

“Love hath made thee a tame snake”

“All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power.”

“The dictator, in all his pride, is held in the grip of his party machine. He can go forward; he cannot go back. He must blood his hounds and show them sport, or else, like Actaeon of old, be devoured by them. All-strong without, he is all-weak within.”

“Every man is actually weak, and apparently strong. To himself, he seems weak; to others, formidable.”

“The malice of the wicked was reinforced by the weakness of the virtuous.”

“A man must thank his defects, and stand in some terror of his talents. A transcendent talent draws so largely on his forces as tolame him; a defect pays him revenues on the other side.”

“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”

“Try to look at your weakness and convert it into your strength. That's success.”

“A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.”

“Strength is a facade for the proud, weakness is a mask for the lazy.”

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

“Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.”

“Weakness on both sides is, as we know, the motto of all quarrels.”

“Men are in general so tricky, so envious, and so cruel that when we find one who is only weak, we are too happy.”

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

“The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.”

“The coward is an object to be pitied.”

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

“Fatigue makes cowards of us all.”

“Weakness is constant strain and misery: weakness is death.”

“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.”

“If we live truly, we shall see truly. It is as easy for the strong man to be strong, as it is for the weak to be weak.”

“The key to the age may be this, or that, or the other, as the young orators describe; the key to all ages is - Imbecility; imbecility in the vast majority of men, at all times, and, even in heroes, in all but certain eminent moments; victims of gravity”

“This is a great fact: strength is life; weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal; weakness is constant strain and misery, weakness is death.”

“He who always thinks himself as weak will never become strong, but he who knows himself to be a lion, rushes out from the worlds meshes, as a lion from its cage.”

“The sign of death is weakness.”

“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.”

“I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.”

“Strength is life, Weakness is death.”

“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.”

“When a love comes to an end, weaklings cry, efficient ones instantly find another love, and the wise already have one in reserve.”

“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.”

“There are hundreds of thousands of microbes surrounding us, but they cannot harm us unless we become weak, until the body is ready and predisposed to receive them.”

“We do not look at our own faults; the eyes do not see themselves, they see the eyes of everybody else. We human beings are very slow to recognise our own weakness, our own faults, so long as we can lay the blame upon somebody else.”

“She is very clever, too clever for a woman. She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness.”