Weak Quotes
2605 quotes by 1640 authors
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It is because of the hasty and superficial conversation with God that the sense of sin is so weak and that no motives have power…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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Submission does not mean being weak or passive. It leads to neither fatalism nor capitulation. Just the opposite. True power resides in submission. A power…
— Elif Safak
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If she [woman] is weak in striking, she is strong in suffering.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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My work will be finished if I succeed in carrying conviction to the human family that every man or woman, however weak in body, is…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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It is a talent of the weak to persuade themselves that they suffer for something when they suffer from something; that they are showing the…
— Eric Hoffer
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We cannot win the weak by sharing our wealth with them. They feel our generosity as oppression.
— Eric Hoffer
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Faith is not a weak form of belief or knowledge; it is not faith in this or that; faith is the conviction about the not…
— Erich Fromm
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It is the weak and confused who worship the pseudosimplicities of brutal directness.
— Marshall McLuhan
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Lately... Americans have begun to understand that trouble does not start somewhere on the other side of town. It seems to originate inside the absolute…
— June Jordan
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The fact that there are so many weak, poor and boring stories and novels written and published in America has been ascribed by our rebels…
— Saul Bellow
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A rigid America is also weak and vulnerable, because it sacrifices its unique strength: the energy of people who think they can always make something…
— James Fallows
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Stubbornness is the strength of the weak.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
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The best aphorisms are.... portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feeling. They furnish the largest amount of intellectual stimulus and nutriment in the…
— William Rounseville Alger
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China has always maintained that all countries, big or small, rich or poor, strong or weak, are equal members of the international community and they…
— Li Peng
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History proves that dictatorships do not grow out of strong and successful governments, but out of weak and helpless ones. If by democratic methods people…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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So long as some are strong and some are weak, the weak will be driven to the wall.
— W. Somerset Maugham
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Liberalism -- it is well to recall this today -- is the supreme form of generosity; it is the right which the majority concedes to…
— Jose Ortega y Gasset
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If there is anybody I detest, it is weak-minded sentimentalists-all those melancholy people who, out of an excess of sympathy for others, miss the thrill…
— John Cheever
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To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has never…
— Margot Asquith
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Always see a fellows weak point in his wife.
— James Joyce
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