Weak Quotes

"Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate."
-Henry David Thoreau

"I see her not dispirited, not weak, but well, remembering that she has seen dark times before, indeed with a kind of instinct that she sees a little better in a cloudy day."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Those who control their passions do so because their passions are weak enough to be controlled."
-William Blake

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

"Virtuous motives, trammeled by inertia and timidity, are no match for armed and resolute wickedness. A sincere love of peace is no excuse for muddling hundreds of millions of humble folk into total war. The cheers of the weak, well-meaning assemblies soon cease to count. Doom marches on."
-Sir Winston Churchill

"Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear."
-Thomas Jefferson

"The strong do what they have to do and the weak accept what they have to accept."
-Thucydides

"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."
-Mahatma Gandhi

"It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth."
-Seneca

"Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong."
-Calvin Coolidge

"There is no good or evil: only power and those too weak to seek it."
-J. K. Rowling

"When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, it is a proof that it should be rejected."
-Luc De Clapier De Vauvanargues

"Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will, like them, only entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the rich and powerful will easily break through them."
-Anacharsis

"Resentment is weak and lowers your self-esteem."
-Barbara Sher

"Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws."
-Baruch Spinoza

"Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory."
-General Douglas MacArthur

"Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength."
-Eric Hoffer

"It is destruction to the weak man to attempt to imitate the powerful."
-Phaedrus

"Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant with the weak and the wrong. Sometime in your life you will have been all of these."
-Dr. Robert H. Goddard

"As domestic markets are likely to remain weak through 2006, the company is targeting non-Japan Asian markets to support continued growth in log sales volumes."
-Mark Bishop

"Real income growth is deteriorating because of job losses, and income growth is going to remain weak until such time as it's reversed by a tax cut, which is months away at the earliest. Then there's a huge wealth loss [from the stock market] and no pent-up demand for goods."
-Lacy Hunt

"It is a pretty sharp bounce the market has been weak for some time."
-James Steel

"The Thai market was under pressure due to regional declines. The markets in Taiwan, South Korea and Singapore all fell today and sentiment was very weak."
-Rakpong Chaisuparakul

"I don't expect any problems because both firms have a much larger combined dominance in North America than in Europe where Reebok is weak."
-Christian Schindler

"We are very driven to have a great spring. We don't play any weak fields."
-Kelley Hester

"Non-violence is not inaction. It is not discussion. It is not for the timid or weak... Non-violence is hard work. It is the willingness to sacrifice. It is the patience to win."
-Cesar Chavez

"Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful."
-Samuel Johnson

"He wasn't ready. He just came in (Saturday) night and he told me he didn't think he could keep going. He felt (his arm) was too weak. If we had more (designated hitter) days we could keep him."
-Chip Hale