Weakness Quotes
2217 quotes by 1535 authors
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He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.
— Joseph Joubert
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Our policy is simple: We are not going to betray our friends, reward the enemies of freedom, or permit fear and retreat to become American…
— Ronald Reagan
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God has so ordered, that in pressing on in duty we shall find the truest, richest comfort for ourselves. Sitting down to brood over our…
— Lettie Cowman
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... always been a goal-oriented girl. it was both her strength and her weakness. She had a drive to completion that always gets things done,…
— Neal Shusterman
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Compassion for the other comes out of our ability to accept ourselves. Until we realize both our own weaknesses and our own privileges, we can…
— Joan D. Chittister
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Lest conservatives be too proud, it's worth recalling that conservatism's rise was decisively enabled by liberalism's weakness.
— William Kristol
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My sweet rose, my delicate flower, my lily of lilies, it is perhaps in prison that I am going to test the power of love.…
— Oscar Wilde
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In our rough and rugged individualism, we think of gentleness as weakness, being soft and virtually spineless. Not so! Gentleness includes such enviable qualities as…
— Charles R. Swindoll
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You need to be prepared for firm decisions and action, without losing gentleness towards those who obstruct or abuse you. It's as great a weakness…
— Marcus Aurelius
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That deed which in our guilt we today call weakness, will appear tomorrow as an essential link in the complete chain of Man.
— Khalil Gibran
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You saw his weakness, and he will never forgive you.
— Friedrich Schiller
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At times, our strengths propel us so far forward we can no longer endure our weaknesses and perish from them.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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What is good? All that enhances the feeling of power, the Will to Power, and the power itself in man. What is bad? All that…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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The force of arms only reveals man s weakness.
— Rabindranath Tagore
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The weak can be terrible because they try furiously to appear strong.
— Rabindranath Tagore
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But then peace, peace! I am so mistrustful of it: so much afraid that it means a sort of weakness and giving in.
— D. H. Lawrence
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In our corrupted state, common weaknesses and defects contribute more towards the reconciling us to one another than all the precepts of the philosophers and…
— E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
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It was not the violence of our enemies [in World War I] that would undo us, I thought, but our own spiritual weakness, the shallowness…
— Learned Hand
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A woman's strength is the unresistible might of weakness.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Love seizes us suddenly, without giving warning, and our disposition or our weakness favors the surprise; one look, one glance, from the fair fixes and…
— Jean de la Bruyere
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