Weakness Quotes

2217 Weakness quotes by 1464 unique authors

You saw his weakness, and he will never forgive you. — Friedrich Schiller
At times, our strengths propel us so far forward we can no longer endure our weaknesses and perish from them. — Friedrich Nietzsche
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
The force of arms only reveals man s weakness. — Rabindranath Tagore
The weak can be terrible because they try furiously to appear strong. — Rabindranath Tagore
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
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
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
A woman's strength is the unresistible might of weakness. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
The weakness of so many modern Christians is that they feel to much at home in the world. In their effort to achieve restful 'adjustment'… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Failure to get a right viewpoint in the beginning of our Christian lives may result in weakness and sterility for the rest of our days! — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Often we are firm from weakness, and audacious from timidity. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
There is a mercy which is weakness, and even treason against the common good. — George Eliot
Just as in habiliments it is a sign of weakness to wish to make oneself noticeable by some peculiar and unaccustomed fashion, so, in language,… — Michel de Montaigne
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
We cannot win the weak by sharing our wealth with them. They feel our generosity as oppression. — Eric Hoffer
I never could keep a promise. I do not blame myself for this weakness, because the fault must lie in my physical organization. It is… — Mark Twain
The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation of old beliefs.… — John Dewey
For inside all the weakness of old age, the spirit, God knows, is as mercurial as it ever was. — May Sarton
Children tend to be rather better observers of adults' characters than adults are of children's, because children are so dependent on adults that it is… — Allan Bloom
I'm learning to use others' weaknesses. I don't hammer a man's soft spot constantly, because he may strengthen it. I just save it as a… — Arthur Ashe
The confession of our failings is a thankless office. It savors less of sincerity or modesty than of ostentation. It seems as if we thought… — William Hazlitt
Snobbery is not merely a silly human weakness but something basic in the mentality of modern man-a symptom which reflects the general sickness, the dislocation… — Arthur Koestler
One of the most ordinary weaknesses of the human intellect is to seek to reconcile contrary principles, and to purchase peace at the expense of… — Alexis de Tocqueville

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