Inspirational Quotes

Here is our collection of Weakness Quotes and sayings. This is Page 1.

1) The weakest among us has a gift, however seemingly trivial, which is peculiar to him, and which worthily used, will be a gift to his race forever
~John Ruskin

2) Remember, what may appear to be the source of one’s strength can often also be the source of one’s weakness.
~Chin Ning Chu

3) Ambition, old as mankind, the immemorial weakness of the strong.
~Vita Sackville West

4) You cannot run away from 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

5) A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.
~ Thomas Jefferson

6) It is weakness rather than wickedness which renders men unfit to be trusted with unlimited power.
~John Adams

7) If you think a weakness can be turned into a strength, I hate to tell you this, but that’s another weakness.
~ Jack Handy

8) It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.
~Edmund Burke

9) It is the coward who fawns upon those above him. It is the coward who is insolent whenever he dares be so.
~ Junius

10) The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out..
~Chinese Proverbs

11) They said love made you strong, but in Louise’s opinion it made you weak. It corkscrewed into your heart and you couldn’t get it out again, not without ripping your heart to pieces.
~ Kate Atkinson

12) Our strength grows out of our weaknesses
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

13) We must have a weak spot or two in our character before we can love it much.
~Oliver Wendell Holmes

14) A sneer is the weapon of the weak.
~ James Russell Lowell

15) The weakest and most timorous are the most revengeful and implacable.
~Thomas Fuller

16) Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.
~Edmund Burke

17) None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.
~ Marshal Ferdinand Foch

18) Wickedness is weakness.
~John Milton

19) All cruelty springs from weakness.
~Lucius Annaeus Seneca

20) 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 have a great collection of Weakness quotes, but I thought of explaining about weakness since it can mean more than one thing.

Weakness in people is usually of two kinds. The first is the medical variety, where poor health, illness, lack of nourishment, or adverse conditions can make a person physically weak. Some diseases such as muscular degeneration actually make the muscles weak. Other diseases act on other parts of the body, and the body weakens because of its inability to generate new cells and tissues. Sometimes, muscles are unable to act because of the disruption of nerve control.

The second type of weakness in a person is usually is moral or psychological. Contained within this type are what are called weaknesses in character, attitude, and will power. Most weakness quotations and weakness quotes on this page are about this second type of weakness.

Weakness may not only be limited to individuals. Even societies, civilizations, beliefs seem to have their weaknesses. Where there is strength, it is inevitable there will be some weakness. What constitutes weakness is not easy to describe. Hermann Hesse, the Swiss author, said that every culture and tradition had its own weaknesses and strengths. Most people who lived within the boundaries of their generation and culture accepted these weaknesses without complaining, but the problem arose only when another culture or tradition was superimposed on the first, leading to clash of ideas, and possibly, an awareness of weaknesses inherent in a particular system. And this is what gave rise to dissatisfaction in people.

A lot of people are of the view that weakness, and not wickedness, makes people untrustworthy, particularly in a position of power. Others believe a person’s weakness can be a strength, an asset. They just have to learn to perceive their weaknesses the right way.

This may seem like it is easier said than done, but we do need to learnt to be in complete control of our weaknesses.

We have a collection of Inspirational weakness quotes to help you learn to control and/or harness your weaknesses.

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These are the glowing embers’ collection Equality Quotes that are inspiring.

Idiots are always in favour of inequality of income , and the really great in favour of equality.
~ George Bernard Shaw

Equality of opportunity does not mean equality of responsibility.
~John F Kennedy

Equality consists in the same treatment of similar persons.
~Aristotle

All special charters of freedom must be abrogated where the universal law of freedom is to flourish.
~ Heinrich Heine

In the state of nature…all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law.
~ Charles de Montesquieu

Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.
~Kahlil Gibran

Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions – it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
~Irving Kristol

Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
~ Voltaire

Democracy arose from men thinking that if they are equal in any respect they are equal in all respects
~ Aristotle

There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism.
~Theodore Roosevelt

The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.
~Aristotle

Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.
~ Kahlil Gibran

All the citizens of a state cannot be equally powerful, but they may be equally free
~ Voltaire

All the people like us are We,
And everyone else is They.
~Rudyard Kipling

You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that.
~Arthur Ashe

Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.
~ Simone Weil

The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.
~ Andrew Jackson

Genuine equality between the sexes can only be realized in the process of the socialist transformation of society as a whole.
~Mao Tse-Tung

That all men are equal is a proposition which, at ordinary times, no sane individual has ever given his assent.
~Aldous Huxley

Men are born equal but they are also born different.
~Erich Fromm

It is better that some should be unhappy than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.
~ Samuel Johnson

Equal opportunity is good, but special privilege is better.
~Anna Chennault

All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.
~ Bob Dylan

To divide along the lines of section or caste or creed is un-American.
~Theodore Roosevelt

Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it.
~Frances Wright

The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.
~Lord Acton

I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy.
~Oliver Wendell Holmes

The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
~Henry Becque