Quotes about Weakness

"The greatest weakness of all is the great fear of appearing weak."
-Jacques Benigne Bossuel

"Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character."
-Albert Einstein

"Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism."
-Hubert H. Humphrey

"The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness."
-Eric Sevareid

"What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power in man, the will to power, power itself. What is bad? All that is born of weakness. What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome."
-Friedrich Nietzsche

"She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness."
-Oscar Wilde

"No man is so much a fool as not to have wit enough sometimes to be a knave; nor any so cunning a knave as not to have the weakness sometimes to play the fool."
-Sir George Savile

"My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn that perceived weakness into a strength."
-Michael Jordan

"If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?"
-Lois McMaster Bujold

"You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?"
-Robert Louis Stevenson

"Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness."
-Amos Bronson Alcott

"If America shows weakness and uncertainty, the world will drift toward tragedy. That will not happen on my watch. "
-George W. Bush

"We have learned that terrorist attacks are not caused by the use of strength; they are invited by the perception of weakness. And the surest way to avoid attacks on our own people is to engage the enemy where he lives and plans. We are fighting that enemy in Iraq and Afghanistan today so that we do not meet him again on our own streets, in our own cities."
-George W. Bush

"Strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others."
-Joseph Conrad

"When we got to a certain point of weakness there were buyers and that's been one of the characteristics of the market recently ? the re-emergence of the 'buy on dips' crowd. It's a more disciplined crowd but they are certainly nibbling at excessive weakness and that's a good undertone."
-Charles Payne

"You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one."
-John Wooden

"I don't think anyone has seen this happen so quickly. I don't think Alan Greenspan has seen it happen so quickly. So he's taking out an insurance policy for himself. My best guess is that they (The Fed) are running scared. At this point we've seen such pronounced weakness across all areas of the economy that I think they're fearful this downturn is going to be very different than any in the past."
-Wayne Ayers

"We would buy in this current weakness."
-Thomas Kraemer

"There was a lot of weakness in some of the banks in particular, ... There was a bit of reaction by foreigners to the Nippon Credit Bank liquidation or whatever it was at the weekend."
-Jason James

"If the dollar goes down, perhaps there are external reasons for weakness in the dollar, and gold is just going up on its own."
-John Kosar

"Gold continues to rally on continued U.S. dollar weakness, a trend I expect to continue over the next week."
-Matthew Parry

"America's greatest strength, and its greatest weakness, is our belief in second chances, our belief that we can always start over, that things can be made better."
-Anthony Walton

"If you're afraid to let someone else see your weakness, take heart: Nobody's perfect. Besides, your attempts to hide your flaws don't work as well as you think they do."
-Julie Morgenstern

"Never once have Democrats benefited from attempts at reasonableness and compromise and accommodation. To the contrary, Bush and his team seem to view political compromise as weakness, and they punish it rather than reward or reciprocate it."
-Jim Jordan

"Only silence is great; all else is weakness."
-Alfred Victor Vigny

"I'd say I play like Kevin Garnett, ... I'm playing in the post because I'm 6-10, not because I'm a post player. Not having a position is my biggest strength and biggest weakness. You can throw me out at any position, but I haven't mastered any position."
-Ronald Allen

"The weakness from Friday carried forward to the international markets and we could get a horrific open here today. The concerns stem from the rising rates structure and what we got on Friday was something of a good news, bad news syndrome."
-Larry Wachtel

"Given the positive sentiment...it would hardly be surprising if the market does take heart from any dollar weakness even though it ignored the move higher."
-Alan Williamson