weakness quotes

• It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of ;antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution. (Joseph Addison) [think/weakness/age/persecution]
• Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature. (Joseph Addison) [weakness/human/nature]
• In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds. ( Aristotle) [life/comfort/weakness/life]
• In the weakness of one kind of authority, and in the fluctuation of all, the officers of an army will remain for some time mutinous and full of faction, until some popular general, who understands the art of conciliating the soldiery, and who possesses the true spirit of command, shall draw the eyes of all men upon himself. Armies will obey him on his personal account. There is no other way of securing military obedience in this state of things. (Edmund Burke) [weakness/goodwill/willpower/time]
• For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences. (Miguel De Cervantes) [time/weakness/stomach]
• Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever. It implies a discovery of weakness, which we are more careful to conceal than a crime. Many a man will confess his crimes to a friend; but I never knew a man that would tell his silly weaknesses to his most intimate one. (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield) [contempt/pride/weakness/more]
• Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength (Charles Caleb Colton) [patience/support/weakness]
• 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. Self-conceit often regards it as a sign of weakness to admit that a belief to which we have once committed ourselves is wrong. We get so identified with an idea that it is literally a pet notion and we rise to its defense and stop our eyes and ears to anything different. (John Dewey) [path/beliefs/weakness/defense]
• Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence. (Dorothy Dix) [weakness/punishment/silence]
• There is a sort of subjection which is the peculiar heritage of largeness and of love; and strength is often only another name for willing bondage to irremediable weakness. (George Eliot) [love/weakness]
• Our strength grows out of our weakness. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [weakness]
• Some of our weakness is born in us, some of it comes through education; it is a big question as to which gives us the most trouble. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) [weakness/education/question]
• The valor that struggles is better than the weakness that endures. (Georg Hegel) [weakness]
• Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from the sense of their inadequacy and impotence. They hate not wickedness but weakness. When it is in their power to do so, the weak destroy weakness wherever they see it. (Eric Hoffer) [power/weakness/weakness/power]
• There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no insurmountable barrier except our own inherent weakness of purpose. () [defeat/weakness]
• There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love. (Washington Irving) [tears/weakness/power/speak]
• A little cooling down of animal excitability and instinct, a little loss of animal toughness, a little irritable weakness and descent of the pain-threshold, will bring the worm at the core of all our usual springs of delight into full view, and turn us into melancholy metaphysicians. (William James) [instinct/loss/weakness/willpower]
• Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever. (John Keats) [land/weakness/death]
• We dare not tempt them with weakness. For only when our arms are sufficient beyond doubt can we be certain beyond doubt that they will never be employed. (John F. Kennedy) [weakness/willpower]
• The ultimate aim of psychoanalysis is to attribute art to mental weakness, and then to trace the weakness back to the point where, according to analytic dogma, it originated -- namely, the lavatory. (Karl Kraus) [psychoanalysis/art/weakness/trace]
• Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended. (Francois De La Rochefoucauld) [weakness/character]
• If we resist our passions, it is more through their weakness than from our strength. (Francois De La Rochefoucauld) [more/weakness]
• We are more often treacherous, through weakness than through calculation. (Francois De La Rochefoucauld) [more/weakness]
• The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) [weakness/thing]
• There are two kinds of weakness, that which breaks and that which bends. (James Lowell) [weakness]
• Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance. (Jean-Paul Sartre) [thing/weakness/chance]
• The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity. (Arthur Schopenhauer) [weakness/mankind/lawyer/stupidity]
• All cruelty springs from weakness. ( Seneca) [weakness]
• When you fear a foe, fear crushes your strength; and this weakness gives strength to your opponents. (William Shakespeare) [fear/fear/weakness]
• You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand? (Robert Louis Stevenson) [weakness/time/fight]
• Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of. (Jonathan Swift) [men/weakness/men/gold]

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