Weakness Quotes

There is one weakness in people for which there is no remedy. It is the universal weakness of lack of ambition!

There is no good and evil, there is only power, and those too weak to seek it.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

The scholar’s greatest weakness: calling hesitation research.

The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation.[translation by John Willis Clark]The bow cannot be always bent, nor can weak human nature exist without some lawful amusement.[translation by John Ormsby][El arco armado, ni la condición ni flaqueza humana se pueda sustentar sin alguna lícita recreación.]

She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness. It is the feet of clay that makes the gold of the image precious.

One of the weaknesses of human nature is curiosity to learn things which it would not like to know.[La foiblesse humaine est d’avoir Des curiosités d’apprendre Ce qu’on ne voudroit pas sçavoir.]

Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armor yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.

Man’s biological weakness is the condition of human culture.

It takes a weak man to prove his strength by striking a woman.

Ingratitude is always a kind of weakness. I have never known men of ability to be ungrateful.

In order for us to liberate the energy of our strength, our weakness must first have a chance to reveal itself.[Para que pudéssemos liberar a energia do forte, é preciso que o fraco tenha possibilidade de se manifestar. ]