Weak Quotes

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
Samuel Johnson

Knowledge, Integrity, Dangerous

The little people must be sacred to the big ones, and it is from the rights of the weak that the duty of the strong is comprised.
Victor Hugo

Strong, Big, Rights

Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
Ambrose Bierce

Person, Himself, Temptation

The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.
Thomas Carlyle

Strong, Obstacle, Pathway

Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
Thomas Carlyle

Eyes, Fondest, Glittering

What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.
William Blake

Men, Care, Made

It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make a decision about them. The weak are always forced to decide between alternatives they have not chosen themselves.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Strong, Decision, Between

Those who restrain their desires, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.
William Blake

Enough, Desires, Restrain

The weak in courage is strong in cunning.
William Blake

Courage, Strong, Cunning

No man can be ideally successful until he has found his place. Like a locomotive he is strong on the track, but weak anywhere else.
Orison Swett Marden

Successful, Strong, Place

One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history.
Albert Schweitzer

History, Truth, Strong

Office politics are bloody-minded, but weak on content.
Mason Cooley

Politics, Office, Content

Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
Edmund Burke

End, Minds, Aim

Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Cause, Orators, Vehement

Though the sex to which I belong is considered weak you will nevertheless find me a rock that bends to no wind.
Elizabeth I

Rock, Sex, Find

A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones.
Lord Chesterfield

Great, Mind, Cannot

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.
Samuel Johnson

Strong, Broken, Until

We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Education, Strength, Reason

He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
Michel de Montaigne

Reason, Shows, Argument

A weak currency is the sign of a weak economy, and a weak economy leads to a weak nation.
Ross Perot

Nation, Economy, Sign

Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.
Theodor Adorno

Love, Strength, Yourself

I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.
Leo Rosten

Strong, Learned, Cruel

A common danger tends to concord. Communism is the exploitation of the strong by the weak. In Communism, inequality comes from placing mediocrity on a level with excellence.
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

Strong, Mediocrity, Common

Strong women only marry weak men.
Bette Davis

Women, Men, Strong

The God we serve does not seek out the perfect, but instead uses our imperfections and our shortcomings for his greater good. I am humbled by my own limitations. But where I am weak, He is strong.
Rick Perry

Good, God, Strong

There is no greater calling than to serve your fellow men. There is no greater contribution than to help the weak. There is no greater satisfaction than to have done it well.
Walter Reuther

Men, Help, Done

The superior man is the providence of the inferior. He is eyes for the blind, strength for the weak, and a shield for the defenseless. He stands erect by bending above the fallen. He rises by lifting others.
Robert Green Ingersoll

Strength, Eyes, Others

I am indeed amazed when I consider how weak my mind is and how prone to error.
Rene Descartes

Mind, Consider, Indeed

If we have built on the fragile cornerstones of human wisdom, pride, and conditional love, things may look good for a while, but a weak foundation causes collapse when storms hit.
Charles Stanley

Love, Good, Wisdom

Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.
Thomas Szasz

Religion, Men, Science

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