My mother begged doctors to end her life. She was beyond the physical ability to swallow enough of the weak morphine pills she had around her. When she knew she was dying I promised to make sure she could go at a time of her choosing, but it was impossible. I couldn't help.
Polly Toynbee

Never think there is anything impossible for the soul. It is the greatest heresy to think so. If there is sin, this is the only sin; to say that you are weak, or others are weak.
Swami Vivekananda

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

Nobody knows through how many thousands of years fighting men have made a place for themselves while the weak and peaceable have gone to the wall.
Elihu Root

Nobody's strong enough to stand up under a flood of weak material.
Alan Ladd

Occasions do not make a man either strong or weak but they show what he is.
Thomas Kempis

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

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

Oil wealth has been a curse on us, made us weak and docile.
Abu Bakar Bashir

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary.
Edgar Allan Poe

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

Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.
Leo Buscaglia

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

Partly I resented being perceived as weak because I was a girl.
Alison Bechdel

Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacle s, discouragement s, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.
Thomas Carlyle

Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerves give to wisdom.
Bernard De Voto

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.
John Adams

President Jimmy Carter was a citizen soldier. Ironically, he was considered weak because he didn't kill anybody and he didn't get anyone killed.
Andrew Young

Religion is a means of exploitation employed by the strong against the weak; religion is a cloak of ambition, injustice and vice.
Georges Bizet

Resentment is weak and lowers your self-esteem.
Barbara Sher