(1582 quotes found)
“You cannot run away from a 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
“What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.”
William Blake
“Men are passionate, men are weak, men are stupid, men are pitiful; to bring to bear on them anything so tremendous as the wrath of God seems strangely inept”
William Somerset Maugham
“Our strength is often composed of the weakness we're damned if we're going to show”
Mignon McLaughlin
“Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.”
Fulton J. Sheen
“Every age, every culture, every custom and tradition has its own character, its own weakness and its own strength, its beauties and cruelties; it accepts certain sufferings as matters of course, puts up patiently with certain evils. Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap.”
Hermann Hesse
“The 'morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.”
Andrew Carnegie
“For the American people are a very generous people and will forgive almost any weakness, with the possible exception of stupidity”
Will Rogers
“So let us begin anew - remembering on both sides that civility is not a sign of weakness, and sincerity is always subject to proof”
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
“Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.”
Amos Bronson Alcott
