Weakness Quotes - page 3

There would not be enough talent that's educated, developed and ready to take on the next leadership challenge, and it would cap our growth. Now we've put programs in place not to have that happen, but that could be a weakness. (Kevin B. Rollins)
The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're alive. View quote
Orlando Aloysius Battista
We have not sought this conflict; we have sought too long to avoid it; our forbearance has been construed into weakness, our magnanimity into fear, until the vindication of our manhood, as well as the defence of our rights, is required at our hands. View quote
Robert Toombs
No man loses his freedom except through his own weakness. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness. View quote
Mary Wollstonecraft
It would be an endless task to trace the variety of meannesses, cares, and sorrows, into which women are plunged by the prevailing opinion that they were created rather to feel than reason, and that all the power they obtain, must be obtained by their charms and weakness. View quote
Mary Wollstonecraft
I am a strange compound of weakness and resolution! However, if I must suffer, I will endeavour to suffer in silence. There is certainly a great defect in my mind - my wayward heart creates its own misery - Why I am made thus I cannot tell; and, till I can form some idea of the whole of my existence, I must be content to weep and dance like a child - long for a toy, and be tired of it as soon as I get it. View quote
Mary Wollstonecraft
Stronger by weakness, wiser men become. View quote
Edmund Waller
The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made; Stronger by weakness, wiser, men become As they draw near to their eternal home. Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new. View quote
Edmund Waller
When men do wrong, it is out of hardness; when women do wrong, it is out of weakness. View quote
Anne Louise Germaine de Staël
Madam, the commonest weakness of our race is our ability to rationalize our most selfish purposes. (Robert A. Heinlein)
I am not a complete idiot, but whether from weakness or laziness have no talent for thinking. I know only how to reflect: I am a mirror ... Logic does not exist for me. I float on the waves of art and life and never really know how to distinguish what belongs to the one or the other or what is common to both. Life unfolds for me like a theatre presenting a sequence of somewhat unreal sentiments; while the things of art are real to me and go straight to my heart. View quote
Sviatoslav Richter
Insincerity is always weakness; sincerity even in error is strength. View quote
George Henry Lewes
In order for us to liberate the energy of our strength, our weakness must first have a chance to reveal itself. View quote
Paulo Coelho
There is now doubt in our minds that Nasser, whether he likes it or not, is now effectively in Russian hands, just as Mussolini was in Hitler's. It would be as ineffective to show weakness to Nasser now in order to placate him as it was to show weakness to Mussolini. View quote
Anthony Eden
Nature is as well adapted to our weakness as to our strength. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
I ignore polling as a method of government. I think that shows a certain weakness of mind - an inability to chart a course whichever way the wind blows, whichever way the media encourages the people to go, you follow. If you can't force or are unwilling to force your people to follow you, with or without threats, you are not a leader. View quote
Lee Kuan Yew
. . . it was the last weakness he meant to indulge in and a man never lies with more delicious languor under the influence of a passion than when he has persuaded himself that he shall subdue it to-morrow. View quote
George Eliot
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? View quote
Robert Louis Stevenson
Enjoy the blessing of strength while you have it and do not bewail it when it is gone, unless, forsooth, you believe that youth must lament the loss of infancy, or early manhood the passing of youth. Life's race-course is fixed; Nature has only a single path and that path is run but once, and to each stage of existence has been allotted its own appropriate quality; so that the weakness of childhood, the impetuosity of youth, the seriousness of middle life, the maturity of old age.. each bears some of Nature's fruit, which must be garnered in its own season. View quote
Cicero
The essential characteristic of the first half of the twentieth century is the growing weakness, and almost the disappearance, of the idea of value. (Simone Weil)
There is always a certain glamour about the idea of a nation rising up to crush an evil simply because it is wrong. Unfortunately, this can seldom be realized in real life; for the very existence of the evil usually argues a moral weakness in the very place where extraordinary moral strength is called for. View quote
W. E. B. Du Bois
In relations with other nations, there is neither right nor wrong; there is only strength and weakness. View quote
Roman Dmowski
The power of perpetuating our property in our families is one of the most valuable and interesting circumstances belonging to it, and that which tends most to the perpetuation of society itself. It makes our weakness subservient to our virtue; it grafts benevolence even upon avarice. The possession of family wealth and of the distinction which attends hereditary possessions (as most concerned in it,) are the natural securities for this transmission. View quote
Edmund Burke
The world is full of vulgar Purists, who bring discredit on all selection by the silliness of their choice; and this the more, because the very becoming a Purist is commonly indicative of some slight degree of weakness, readiness to be offended, or narrowness of understanding of the ends of things. View quote
John Ruskin