Weak Quotes

Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

The victors called the revolution a triumph of liberty; but now and then liberty in the slogans of the strong means freedom from restraint in the exploitation of the weak.

The overall strength of Chinese culture and its international influence is not commensurate with China's international status. The international culture of the West is strong while we are weak.

Mysterious beings we seek from birth; what does that mean to me? Something we seek, and as we age it becomes more elusive, yet our spirit remains willing, but our flesh grows weak.

The strong live off the weak and the clever live off the strong.

Social movements are at once the symptoms and the instruments of progress. Ignore them and statesmanship is irrelevant; fail to use them and it is weak.

I don't think human beings are bad. They're weak. And that's what makes 'em bad.

A generous spirit prefers that his country should be poor, and weak, and of no account, but free, rather than powerful, prosperous, and enslaved.

December drops no weak, relenting tear, By our fond summer sympathies ensnared; Nor from the perfect circle of the year Can even winter's crystal gems be spared.

Strong people stick to their morals, no matter what the trials and tribulations, Weak people, many a times, do not even realize how low they have sunk.

The lemonade is weak, like your soul.

Goodness is a perpetual quantity, all penetrating, all searching, impartial, noble, a comfort in distress, a refuge to the weak, a tower and a defense to all who wish to be right and to do right.

He (John Major) has the mulishness of a weak man with stupidity.

The foolish think the Eagle weak, and easy to bring to heel. The Eagle's wings are silken, but its claws are made of steel.

Sensuality often makes love grow too quickly, so that the root remains weak and is easy to pull out.

If you are too weak to give yourselves your own law, then a tyrant shall lay his yoke upon you and say: "Obey! Clench your teeth and obey!" And all good and evil shall be drowned in obedience to him.

Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds.

The global network of DNA-based life emits ultra-weak radio waves, which are currently at the limit of measurement, but which we can nonetheless perceive...in hallucinations and dreams.

Some of you been trying to write rhymes for years, But weak ideas irritate my ears. Is this the best that you can make? Cause if not, and you got more...I'll wait.

I think that's a weak excuse, to say because a rapper's getting older that he ain't got it no more. Nah. Don't go by that philosophy. Let's just recognize that talent is within.

This World will always continue to be a mixture of Good and Evil. Our duty is to sympathize with the weak and to Love even the wrongdoer.

Stubbornness is the strength of the weak.

I would rather have a big burden and a strong back, than a weak back and a caddy to carry life's luggage.

Nobody knows through how many thousands of years fighting men have made a place for themselves while the weak and peaceable have gone to the wall.

Weep like the waterwheel, that green herbs may spring up from the courtyard of your soul. If you wish for tears, have mercy on one who sheds tears; if you wish mercy, show mercy to the weak.

The weakest of all weak things is a virtue that has not been tested in the fire.

A wasteful defense is a weak defense.

We cannot win the weak by sharing our wealth with them. They feel our generosity as oppression.

Did I follow Truth wherever she led, And stand against the whole world for a cause, And uphold the weak against the strong? If I did I would be remembered among men.

When cowardice is made respectable, its followers are without number both from among the weak and the strong; it easily becomes a fashion.

I felt so insufficiently equipped, so unprepared, so weak, and at the same time it seemed to me that my reflections on art were correct. I quarreled with all the world and with myself.

When you just don't think you can, keep going! Getting through those weak moments is how you become stronger.

Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.

Power always has a direction. It is always downward, towards the weak but power is often confused with what is right

Cultural America is under siege. And as the Soviet experience illustrates, ideology is a weak glue to hold together people otherwise lacking racial, ethnic, and cultural sources of community.

Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

Beauty stands In the admiration only of weak minds Led captive.

Oh you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you

giving up doesn't always mean your weak sometimes your just strong enough to let go

Why is it that countries which we call strong are so powerful in creating wars but are so weak in bringing peace? Why is it that giving guns is so easy but giving books is so hard?

Peace is not weak. Standing up to a tank is harder than dropping a suicide bomb

There is no record in the Bible of a weak man falling.

The love of violence is an aspect of our humanity. Even the weak wish to be strong primarily so they can wield the whip.

Praise has different effects, according to the mind it meets with; it makes a wise man modest, but a fool more arrogant, turning his weak brain giddy.

And I honor the man who is willing to sink half his present repute for the freedom to think, and, when he has thought, be his cause strong or weak, Will risk t' other half for the freedom to speak.

Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave.

I don't work out too much. I just do some pushups when I feel the right hook is getting a lil weak.

The weak-minded man is the slave of his vices and the dupe of his virtues.

The strong and the weak cannot keep company.

Not going to God because your faith is weak is like not going to the doctor because you feel sick.