(1582 quotes found)
“That deed which in our guilt we today call weakness, will appear tomorrow as an essential link in the complete chain of Man”
Kahlil Gibran
“We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions. We are haunted, not by reality, but by those images we have put in their place.”
Daniel J. Boorstin
“In this weak piping time of peace.”
William Shakespeare
“Wolves which batten upon lambs, lambs consumed by wolves, the strong who immolate the weak, the weak victims of the strong: there you have Nature, there you have her intentions, there you have her scheme: a perpetual action and reaction, a host of vices, a host of virtues, in one word, a perfect equilibrium resulting from the equality of good and evil on earth.”
Marquis De Sade
“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.”
Lord Chesterfield
“Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong”
Calvin Coolidge
“When mental energy is allowed to follow the line of least resistance and to fall into easy channels, it is called weakness”
James Allen
“The weaknesses of the many make the leader possible”
Elbert Hubbard
“The strong do what they have to do and the weak accept what they have to accept.”
Thucydides
“Since others have to tolerate my weaknesses, it is only fair that I should tolerate theirs.”
William Allen White
