Neutrality, as a lasting principle, is an evidence of weakness.
Lajos Kossuth

Never apologize, mister. It's a sign of weakness.
Frank S. Nugent

No man is so much a fool as not to have wit enough sometimes to be a knave; nor any so cunning a knave as not to have the weakness sometimes to play the fool.
George Savile

Now the thing is not to get into unnecessary quarrels by talking too much and not to indicate any weakness by talking too much; let our actions speak for themselves.
Henry L. Stimson

Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Our enemies, like the Grecian hero, have one vulnerable point. You have not touched it yet. What should have been their element of weakness has been suffered to remain an element of strength.
Jay Alan Sekulow

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
Thomas A. Edison

Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we're damned if we're going to show.
Mignon McLaughlin

Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength.
Charles Caleb Colton

People just take your kindness for weakness sometimes, and that's just the bottom line.
Ruben Studdard

Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.
William James

Powerful states can maintain themselves only by crime, little states are virtuous only by weakness.
Mikhail Bakunin

Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.
Mahatma Gandhi

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
Mahatma Gandhi

Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.
Fulton J. Sheen

Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs.
Robert Peel

Salazar's record is one of weakness; he hasn't been a good attorney general.
Bob Schaffer

Scientists tend to be skeptical, but the weakness of the community of science is that it tends to move into preformed establishment modes that say this is the only way of doing science, the only valid view.
Walter Gilbert

Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength.
Lao Tzu

Solitude is strength; to depend on the presence of the crowd is weakness. The man who needs a mob to nerve him is much more alone than he imagines.
Paul Brunton