Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotations on Weakness

A woman’s strength is the irresistible might of weakness.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher

She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness.
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish Poet, Playwright

Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.
Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890–1969) American Head of State, Military Leader

A wise person should never divulge the loss of his wealth, distress in his mind, malpractices at his home or that he has been cheated or insulted.
The Hitopadesha Indian Collection of Fables

Human love is often but the encounter of two weaknesses.
Francois Mauriac (1885–1970) French Novelist

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born Physicist

The weak soul, within itself unblest, leans for all pleasure on another’s breast.
Oliver Goldsmith (1730–74) Irish Novelist, Playwright, Poet

There are two kinds of weakness, that which breaks and that which bends.
James Russell Lowell (1819–91) American Poet, Critic

Union of the weakest develops strength not wisdom. Can all men, together, avenge one of the leaves that have fallen in autumn?. But the wise man avenges by building his city in snow.
Wallace Stevens (1879–1955) American Poet

The more weakness, the more falsehood; strength goes straight; every cannon-ball that has in it hollows and holes goes crooked. Weaklings must lie.
Jean Paul (1763–1825) German Novelist, Humorist

Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence.
Dorothy Dix (1861–1951) American Journalist, Columnist

Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism.
Hubert Humphrey (1911–78) American Head of State, Politician

You cannot run away from a weakness. You must sometimes fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–94) Scottish Novelist

Our strength grows out of our weaknesses.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher

Some of our weaknesses are born in us, others are the result of education; it is a question which of the two gives us most trouble.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) German Poet

The concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear.
Edmund Burke (1729–97) British Philosopher, Statesman

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 (1749–1832) German Poet

A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones.
Earl of Chesterfield (1694–1773) English Statesman, Man of Letters

All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca the Younger (Lucius Annaeus Seneca) (c.4 BCE–65 CE) Roman Stoic Philosopher, Statesman, Tragedian

The greatest weakness of all is the great fear of appearing weak.
Jacques-Benigne Bossuet (1627–1704) French Churchman, Pulpit Orator

To excel means to reach beyond the best you have ever given because doing so matters to you personally, for its own sake. It means to run your own race—as an individual, team, or organization. To excel is to know your greatest strengths and passions, and to emphasize them while honestly admitting and managing your weaknesses.
Robert Cooper (b.1947) British Diplomat

Delusion and weakness produce not one mischief the less, because they are universal.
Edmund Burke (1729–97) British Philosopher, Statesman

Never mind what a man’s virtues are; waste no time in learning them. Fasten at once on his infirmities.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton (1803–73) British Novelist, Poet, Politician

Success is achieved by development of our strengths, not by elimination of our weakness.
Marilyn vos Savant (b.1946) American Columnist, Author, Lecture, Playwright

Weaknesses, so called, are nothing more nor less than vice in disguise!
Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741–1801) Swiss Theologian, Poet

The weak may be joked out of anything but their weakness.
Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann (1728–1795) Swiss Philosophical Writer, Naturalist, Physician

The yielding of the weak is the concession to fear.
Edmund Burke (1729–97) British Philosopher, Statesman

We are more often treacherous, through weakness than through calculation.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613–80) French Writer

The wise man does not deny and affirm, he does not exalt himself and he does not despair, he does not believe either in the existence of God or in his existence. The wise man has no certainty, he only has more or less probable hypotheses.
Luciano De Crescenzo (b.1928) Italian Writer, Film Actor, Director, Engineer

Few men have done more harm than those who have been thought to be able to do the least; and there cannot be a greater error than to believe a man whom we see qualified with too mean parts to do good, to be, therefore, incapable of doing hurt. There is a supply of malice, of pride, of industry, and even of folly, in the weakest, when he sets his heart upon it, that makes a strange progress in wickedness.
Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon (1609–74) English Statesman, Historian

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