Weak Quotes

Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant.

I cannot avoid condemning all those who, from self-conceit have the pretension to imitate great artists of the past. If their powers of emotion be weak, their powers of expression will be likewise.

The strength of man sinks in the hour of trial; but there doth live a Power that to the battle girdeth the weak.

The most difficult thing about an easy match is to make a weak opponent play bad football.

The weak may be joked out of anything but their weakness.

The procrastinator is not only indolent and weak, but commonly, false, too; most of the weak are false.

Obstinacy is the strength of the weak. Firmness founded upon principle, upon the truth and right, order and law, duty and generosity, is the obstinacy of sages.

The obstinacy of the indolent and weak is less conquerable than that of the fiery and bold.

The mortal race is far too weak not to grow dizzy on unwonted brights.

The mortal race is far too weak not to grow dizzy on unwonted brights. [Ger., Das sterbliche Geschlecht ist viel zu schwach In ungewohnter Hohe nicht zu schwindeln.]

Power always sincerely, conscientiously, de très bon foi, believes itself right. Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views, beyond the comprehension of the weak.

If passion rules, how weak does reason prove!

Jealousy's a proof of love, But 'tis a weak and unavailing medicine; It puts out the disease and makes it show, But has no power to cure.

Repentance is the virtue of weak minds.

Sarcasm... the protest of those who are weak.

The ferocious inroads of the Normans scared many weak and timid persons into servitude.

Law can discover sin, but not remove, Save by those shadowy expiations weak.

. . . for beauty stands In the admiration only of weak minds Led captive. Cease to admire, and all her plumes Fall flat and shrink into a trivial toy, At every sudden slighting quite abash'd.

In all I wish, how happy should I be, Thou grand Deluder, were it not for thee? So weak thou art that fools thy power despise; And yet so strong, thou triumph'st o'er the wise.

There is nobody so weak of invention that cannot make some little stories to villify his enemy.

Guard thy heart on this weak side, where most our nature fails.

Weak people can be very stubborn.

It is but the weak and little mind that rejoices in revenge

I read that when cats are cuddling and kneading you, and you think it's cute, they're really just checking your vitals for weak spots.

A minute moving among the patterns of beauty and the dreams of love is greater and more precious than an age filled with splendor granted by the weak to the strong.

Evil feeds off a source of apathy, weak in the mind, and of course you have to be. Less than a man, more like a thing, no knowledge you're nothing, knowledge is king.

Whatever stress some may lay upon it, a death-bed repentance is but a weak and slender plank to trust our all on.

Liberty is so much latitude as the powerful choose to accord to the weak.

Law is a thing which is insensible, and inexorable, more beneficial and more profitious to the weak than to the strong; it admits of no mitigation nor pardon, once you have overstepped its limits.

But if I must be alone, I refuse to be alone as if it were something weak and distasteful, like convalescence.

Needing someone doesn't make you weak, it makes you feel. And feeling is how you know you're alive.

One is very weak when one is in love.

We are all very imperfect and weak things, and if we are to destroy all whose ways we do not like, there will be not a man left alive.

Cow protection means protection of the weak, the helpless, the dumb and the deaf.

My work will be finished if I succeed in carrying conviction to the human family that every man or woman, however weak in body, is the guardian of his or her self-respect and liberty.

It is necessary to correct the error that vegetarianism has made us weak in mind, or passive or inert in action. I do not regard flesh-food as necessary at any stage

It shows a weak mind not to bear prosperity as well as adversity with moderation.

Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

Sometimes I feel my arm is like a swan's neck - so weak.

The weak overcomes its/ menace, the strong over-/comes itself.

Germany has become the economic heart of Europe because our leaders are weak.

If you are strong and fighting the weak, then if you kill your opponent then you are a scoundrel... if you let him kill you, then you are an idiot.

Actors, movie stars, rock stars, I can meet them with no worries - but with footballers I go weak at the knees. All of them.

Alas! is even love too weak To unlock the heart, and let it speak?

Robert Benchley has a style that is weak and lies down frequently to rest.

Because that, more than any monster, was what Sam had feared: that he was weak and cowardly. He had a terrible fear of being afraid.

But sure there is need of other remedies than dreaming, a weak contention of art against nature.

Love is... what makes a weak man brave and a king step off his throne. Good times, bad times, easy times, tough times, it comes in an instant and lasts three days after forever. That's what love is.

I know exactly how strong he is... He is like a peacock, spreading his feathers and squawking loudly to distract you from the back that his body is but weak." -Jason to Mahiya

We shouldn't censor ourselves based on the weak idea of "looking cool." It's such a waste of potential awesomeness.