Weak Quotes

Why harass with eternal purposes a mind to weak to grasp them?
Horace

Mind, Why, Eternal

Being strong can be also feminine. I don't think feminine equals being weak. Being strong is very sexy.
Sanaa Lathan

Strong, Sexy, Feminine

To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires.
W. E. B. Du Bois

Play, Minds, Mighty

I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too.
Elizabeth I

Heart, Woman, Body

It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can bring out the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them. The weak always have to decide between alternatives that are not their own.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Nature, Strong, Opinion

The power of faith will often shine forth the most when the character is naturally weak.
Augustus Hare

Faith, Power, Character

Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. Silently and imperceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or weak; and at last some crisis shows what we have become.
Brooke Foss Westcott

Great, Men, Crisis

Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave.
James Russell Lowell

Brave, Fortune, Staff

Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.
Jane Austen

Working, Head, Vanity

Better to be a strong man with a weak point, than to be a weak man without a strong point. A diamond with a flaw is more valuable that a brick without a flaw.
William J. H. Boetcker

Strong, Point, Valuable

Football doesn't build character. It eliminates the weak ones.
Darrell Royal

Character, Football, Build

Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.
W. Somerset Maugham

Men, Mind, Stress

Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you - gently, with love, and hand your life back to you.
Tennessee Williams

Life, Love, Beautiful

Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, - for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it - not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation.
Herman Melville

Strength, Speak, Show

It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.
Eric Hoffer

Power, Evil, Sense

Strong people make as many mistakes as weak people. Difference is that strong people admit their mistakes, laugh at them, learn from them. That is how they become strong.
Richard J. Needham

Strong, Mistakes, Laugh

What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.
Salman Rushdie

Great, Artist, Second

It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if that is all we ever were, we would millenniums ago have disappeared from the face of the earth.
John Steinbeck

True, Sick, Ugly

Many people think they want things, but they don't really have the strength, the discipline. They are weak. I believe that you get what you want if you want it badly enough.
Sophia Loren

Strength, Enough, Discipline

In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.
Sophocles

Strong, Cause, Beat

When cowardice is made respectable, its followers are without number both from among the weak and the strong; it easily becomes a fashion.
Eric Hoffer

Strong, Made, Fashion

What greater reassurance can the weak have than that they are like anyone else?
Eric Hoffer

Else, Anyone, Greater

The strong do what they have to do and the weak accept what they have to accept.
Thucydides

People often speak of God being even-handed. God is not even-handed. God is biased, in favor of the weak, of the despised.
Desmond Tutu

God, Speak, Often

In the beginning, people think vulnerability will make you weak, but it does the opposite. It shows you're strong enough to care.
Victoria Pratt

Strong, Care, Enough

Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Minds, Necessary, However

The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure pure reasoning, and inhibit clarity. With a little practice, writing can be an intimidating and impenetrable fog!
Bill Watterson

Writing, Purpose, Ideas

He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.
Louisa May Alcott

Great, Strong, Actions

The first time I kissed Brad my knees went weak - I literally lost my breath!
Jennifer Aniston

Time, Lost, Breath

In a very weak economy, when you say 'cut government spending,' what you mean is you're laying off school teachers and you're de-funding various programs that put money into the economy. This means you have more unemployed people that then draw unemployment benefits and don't pay taxes.
Fareed Zakaria

Money, Government, School

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