Weak Quotes

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

Faith, Power, Character

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

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

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

Working, Head, Vanity

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

Brave, Fortune, Staff

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

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

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

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

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

Power, Evil, Sense

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, Fashion, Both

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

Else, Anyone, Greater

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Minds, Necessary, However

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

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

Ridicule is a weak weapon when pointed at a strong mind; but common people are cowards and dread an empty laugh.
Martin Farquhar Tupper

Strong, Mind, Laugh

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

Time, Lost, Breath

Fundamental preparation is always effective. Work on those parts of your game that are fundamentally weak.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Work, Game, Effective

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