Inspirational Quotes

This is the Page 2 of our collection of Inspirational Weakness Quotes.

1) In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds..
~ Aristotle

2) We are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of Nature has placed in our power.. the battle, sir, is not to the strong alone it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave..
~ Patrick Henry

3) Having recovered from an inexplicable moment of weakness Claire was on the defensive, ready to bite. I had the impression that she was now looking for a chance to demonstrate her strength, or her hard heartedness.
~ Jean De Berg

4) Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg
~Dwight Eisenhower

5) But borrowing strength builds weakness.
~ Stephen R. Covey

6) To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice.
~ Confucius

7) But the weakness comes from these Westernised co opted Muslim leaders who just want to look good in the eyes of the West and Western media.
~Abu Bakar Bashir

Rudeness is the weak man’s imitation of strength.
~Edmund Burke

9) As states subsist in part by keeping their weaknesses from being known, so is it the quiet of families to have their chancery and their parliament within doors, and to compose and determine all emergent differences there..
~John Donne

10) Covetousness like jealousy, when it has taken root, never leaves a person, but with their life. Cowardice is the dread of what will happen.
~ Epictetus

11) The human experience of weakness is God’s blueprint for calling attention to the supremacy of his Son. When miserably failing people continue to belong to, believe in, and worship Jesus, God is happy.
~ Michael Spencer

12) We always weaken whatever we exaggerate.
~Jean Francois de la Harpe

13) Don’t mistake niceness for weakness.
~Jennifer Granholm

14) There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non conformist.
~ Ayn Rand

15) Failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done is a great weakness in any man.
~William Howard Taft

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

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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