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Strength & Weakness |
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Quotations
 | The true measure of any society can be found in how it treats its most vulnerable members. — Mahatma Gandhi, 1869-1948, Indian leader of independence 28 likes |
 | Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. — Eric Hoffer, 1902-1983, American writer & philosopher 19 likes |
 | The weakest link in the chain is also the strongest. It can break the chain. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec, 1906-1966, Polish author of maxims 19 likes |
 | You never know how strong you are, until being strong is your only choice. — Bob Marley, 1945-1981, Jamaican singer 18 likes |
 | The development of technology will leave only one problem: the infirmity of human nature. — Karl Kraus, 1874-1936, Austrian writer 17 likes |
 | All cruelty springs from weakness. — Seneca, 5 AD-65 AD, Roman philosopher 14 likes |
 | Rudeness is the weak man’s imitation of strength. — Edmund Burke, 1729-1797, British statesman & philosopher 14 likes |
 | Nobody deserves to be praised for goodness unless he is strong enough to be bad, for any other goodness is usually merely inertia or lack of will-power. — La Rochefoucauld, 1613-1680, French writer 13 likes |
 | Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don't have the strength. — Theodore Roosevelt, 1858-1919, American President [1901-1909] 13 likes |
 | Justice is an issue only between equals, otherwise those in power do what they can and the weak forgive. — Thucydides, 460-394 BC, Ancient Greek historian 11 likes |
 | Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength. — Napoleon, 1769-1821, French Emperor 11 likes |
 | The stronger a man is, the more gentle he can afford to be. — Elbert Hubbard, 1856-1915, American writer 11 likes |
 | It is the rule in war, if ten times the enemy's strength, surround them; if five times, attack them; if double, be able to divide them; if equal, engage them; if fewer, defend against them; if weaker, be able to avoid them. — Sun Tzu, c. 5th cent. BC, Chinese general & military strategist 11 likes |
| Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak. — Sun Tzu, c. 5th cent. BC, Chinese general & military strategist 10 likes |
 | Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character. — Albert Einstein, 1879-1955, German-Jewish physicist 10 likes |
 | Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power. — William James, 1842-1910, American philosopher 10 likes |
 | Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers. — Dr. Thomas Fuller, 1654-1734, English physician and adage collector 9 likes |
 | Honesty in politics is the result of strength; hypocrisy is the result of weakness. — Vladimir Lenin, 1870-1924, Soviet revolutionary & leader 8 likes |
 | The malice of the wicked was reinforced by the weakness of the virtuous. — Winston Churchill, 1874-1965, British Prime Minister, Nobel 1953 8 likes |
 | Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others. — George Santayana, 1863-1952, Spanish-American philosopher 8 likes |
| Pretend inferiority and encourage the arrogance of your enemy. — Sun Tzu, c. 5th cent. BC, Chinese general & military strategist 8 likes |
 | If the state is strong, it crushes us. If it is weak, we perish. — Paul Valery, 1871-1945, French poet 7 likes |
| So in war, the way is to avoid what is strong, and strike at what is weak. — Sun Tzu, c. 5th cent. BC, Chinese general & military strategist 6 likes |
 | A man should never be appointed into a managerial position if his vision focuses on people's weaknesses rather than on their strengths. — Peter Drucker, 1909–2005, Austrian management guru 6 likes |
 | The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places. — Ernest Hemingway, 1899-1961, American writer, Nobel 1954 6 likes |
| A weak man has doubts before a decision; a strong man has them afterwards. — Karl Kraus, 1874-1936, Austrian writer 6 likes |
 | When man is content to be himself he is strong indeed; when he strives to be more than man he is weak indeed. — Jean Jacques Rousseau, 1712-1778, Swiss-French philosopher 6 likes |
 | The weak in courage is strong in cunning. — William Blake, 1757-1827, English poet & painter 6 likes |
 | The sick are the greatest danger for the healthy; it is not from the strongest that harm comes to the strong, but from the weakest. — Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844-1900, German philosopher 5 likes |
| If we conquer our passions, it is more from their weakness than from our strength. — La Rochefoucauld, 1613-1680, French writer 5 likes |
| The strongest is never strong enough always to be master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty. — Jean Jacques Rousseau, 1712-1778, Swiss-French philosopher 5 likes |
 | Leverage is everything; don't begin to pry till you have got the long arm on your side. — Oliver W. Holmes Sr., 1809-1894, American writer 5 likes |
 | What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others. — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, 1742-1799, German author of maxims 4 likes |
 | The chains of habit are generally too week to be felt, until they are too strong to be broken. — Samuel Johnson, 1709-1784, English writer 4 likes |
 | They won't let me ... I can't be ... good! — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 1821-1881, Russian writer 4 likes |
 | Something we were withholding made us weak, until we found it was ourselves. — Robert Frost, 1874-1963, American poet 4 likes |
 | Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg. — Dwight Eisenhower, 1890-1969, American general & President 4 likes |
| The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. — Mahatma Gandhi, 1869-1948, Indian leader of independence 4 likes |
 | The weak are more likely to make the strong weak than the strong are likely to make the weak strong. — Marlen Dietrich, 1901-1992, German-American actress 4 likes |
 | Agamemnon escaped with his life from land battles and sea storms, then fell to his wife. — Ovid, 43 BC-17 AD, Roman poet 4 likes |
 | My strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure. — Alfred Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet 4 likes |
 | Strong women only marry weak men. — Bette Davis, 1908-1989, American actress 3 likes |
| Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle. — Vladimir Lenin, 1870-1924, Soviet revolutionary & leader 3 likes |
 | Try to look at your weakness and convert it into your strength. That's success. — Zig Ziglar, 1926-2012, American self-help writer 3 likes |
 | Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength — Charles Caleb Colton, 1780-1832, English cleric & writer 3 likes |
 | To be loved is a strength. To love is a weakness. — Zsa Zsa Gabor, 1917-2016, Hungarian-American actress 3 likes |
 | Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong. — Calvin Coolidge, 1872-1933, American President [1923-1929] 3 likes |
 | Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength. — Theodore Adorno, 1903-1969, German philosopher 3 likes |
 | Life is for the strong, to be lived by the strong and if need be, taken by the strong. The weak were put on earth to give the strong pleasure. — Edgar Allan Poe, 1809-1849, American writer 3 likes |
 | The strongest things most especially and decidedly hurt man, whether in health or in disease. — Hippocrates, 460-370 BC, Ancient Greek physician, the “Father of Medicine” 2 likes |
 | Defenseless, adj. Unable to attack. — Ambrose Bierce, 1842–1914, American writer 2 likes |
 | I felt weak, perhaps I was. — Samuel Beckett, 1906-1989, Irish writer, Nobel 1969 2 likes |
 | The whole strength of England lies in the fact that the enormous majority of the English people are snobs. — George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950, Irish writer, Nobel 1925 2 likes |
 | To want is to have a weakness. — Margaret Atwood, 1939 -, Canadian writer 2 likes |
 | People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles. — Emily Dickinson, 1830-1886, American poet 1 likes |
 | But when the strong were too weak to hurt the weak, the weak had to be strong enough to leave. — Milan Kundera, 1929-2023, Czech writer 1 likes |
 | Your strength is just an accident owed to the weakness of others. — Joseph Conrad, 1857-1924, British-Polish writer 1 likes |
 | Look for strength in people, not weakness; for good, not evil. Most of us find what we search for. |
 | Stone, iron, steel will not endure. Man endures. |
 | Weakness that preserves is better than strength that destroys. |
 | If there is a faith which can move mountains, then it is a faith in one’s own strength. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, 1830-1916, German author of maxims |
 | I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible. |
 | Don’t take my demons away, because my angels may flee too. |
 | People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them. |
 | If we know anything, it is that weakness is provocative. |
 | 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? |
 | Young people, not having the strength, simulate cynicism, which seems to them a proof of strength. Mature men, having strength, simulate altruism, to conceal their strength. |
 | Women are the only group in history to be idealized into powerlessness. |
 | Enemies make you stronger, allies make you weaker. |
 | Instead of trying to correct the people who cause great injustices in society, it is necessary to correct the weakness of the people who endure them. |
| Never test another man by your own weakness. |
 | If defense is the stronger form of war, yet has a negative object, it follows that it should be used only so long as weakness compels, and be abandoned as soon as we are strong enough to pursue a positive object. — Carl von Clausewitz, 1780-1831, Prussian military theorist |
 | Choose rather to be strong in soul than in body. |
Bible Quotes
 | The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak. — Gospel of Mark ‐ 14:38 6 likes |
Ancient Greek
 | Laws are like spider’s webs: If some poor weak creature comes up against them, it is caught; but a big one can break through and get away. Τους δε νόμους τοις αραχνίοις ομοίους· και γαρ εκείνα, εάν μεν εμπέση τι κούφον και ασθενές, στέγειν· εάν δε μείζον, διακόψαν οίχεσθαι. — Solon, 630-560 BC, Ancient Greek lawmaker & philosopher 12 likes |
 | The things of those who are absent naturally go to those who are present, and the things of the careless go to the diligent and brave. Φύσει δ’ υπάρχει τοις παρούσι τα των απόντων, και τοις εθέλουσι πονείν και κινδυνεύειν τα των αμελούντων. — Demosthenes, 384-322 BC, Ancient Athenian & statesman orator 8 likes |
| That which is used, gets stronger. That which is not used wastes away. Ότι χρήσις κρατύνει, αργίη δε τήκει. — Hippocrates, 460-370 BC, Ancient Greek physician, the “Father of Medicine” 6 likes |
 | Being a woman, what can I do? How can I, alone, save myself without brother, without father, without friends? Γυνή τι δράσω; Πώς μόνη σωθήσομαι, ανάδελφος, απάτωρ, άφιλος; — Euripides, 480-406 BC, Ancient Greek tragedian ‐ Orestes 4 likes |
 | When bodies become effeminate, souls get much weaker as well. Των σωμάτων θηλυνομένων και αι ψυχαί πολύ ασθενέστεραι γίγνονται. — Socrates, 469-399 BC, Ancient Geek Philosopher 3 likes |
 | Physical strength with good sense is beneficial, but without it, it is more harmful for those who have it. Ρώμη δε μετά φρονήσεως ωφέλησεν, άνευ δε ταύτης πλείον τους έχοντας έβλαψεν. — Isokrates, 436-338 BC, Ancient Greek rhetorician 3 likes |
 | The power of the body gets old, but the strength of the soul remains young. Η μεν του σώματος ισχύς γηράσκει, η δε της ψυχής ρώμη αγήραστος εστίν. — Xenophon, 430-355 BC, Ancient Greek soldier & historian 3 likes |
Proverbs
 | The strong have will and the weak have hope. 8 likes |
 | A chain is only as strong as its weakest link. 4 likes |
