Infirmity Quotes

• Another sort of false prayers are our regrets. Discontent is the way of self-reliance: it is infirmity of will. Regret calamities, if you can thereby help the sufferer; if not, attend your own work, and already the evil begins to be repaired.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Prayer, Regret, Self

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1993). “Self-reliance, and Other Essays”, p.33, Courier Corporation

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• Ambition it is the last infirmity of noble minds.

  James M. Barrie

  Work, Ambition, Mind

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• Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal.

  C. S. Lewis

  Forgiveness, Religious, Forgiving

  "The Problem of Pain". Book by C. S. Lewis, 1940.

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• A friend should bear his friend's infirmities.

  William Shakespeare

  Friendship, Real, Bears

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 4, sc. 3, l. 85

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• Bear with my weakness. My old brain is troubled.
  Be not disturbed with my infirmity.

  William Shakespeare

  Brain, Age, Weakness

  William Shakespeare (1998). “The Tempest”, p.129, Penguin

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• When the pangs shoot through our body, and ghastly death appears in view, people see the patience of the dying Christian. Our infirmities become the black velvet on which the diamond of God's love glitters all the more brightly. Thank God I can suffer ! Thank God I can be made the object of shame and contempt, for in this way God shall be glorified.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Views, People

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1988). “Spurgeon at His Best: Over 2200 Striking Quotations from the World's Most Exhaustive and Widely-read Sermon Series”, Baker Publishing Group

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• There is no true and constant gentleness without humility. While we are so fond of ourselves, we are easily offended with others. Let us be persuaded that nothing is due to us, and then nothing will disturb us. Let us often think of our own infirmities, and we will become indulgent towards those of others.

  Francois Fenelon

  Humility, Thinking, Easily Offended

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• It is the infirmity of our nature always to believe ourselves much more unhappy than those who groan by our sides!

  Alexandre Dumas

  Believe, Unhappy, Sides

  Alexandre Dumas (2010). “The Count of Monte Cristo Volume 6âle Comte de Monte-Cristo Tome 6: English-French Parallel Text Edition in Six Volumes”, p.296, Lulu.com

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• We are masters of our actions from the beginning up to the very end. But, in the case of our habits, we are only masters of their commencement - each particular little increase being as imperceptible as in the case of bodily infirmities. But yet our habits are voluntary, in that it was once in our power to adopt or not to adopt such or such a course of conduct.

  Aristotle

  Littles, Our Actions, Habit

  Aristotle (1869). “The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle”, p.80

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• It is only an error of judgment to make a mistake, but it argues an infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Mistake, Character, Errors

  "Intuitions and Summaries of Thought".

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• Our wickedness shall not overpower the unspeakable goodness and mercy of God; our dullness shall not overpower God's wisdom, nor our infirmity God's omnipotence.

  John of Kronstadt

  Forgiveness, Christian, Mercy Of God

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• We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed! What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired?

  Seneca the Elder

  Inspirational, Motivational, Passion

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• (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears And slits the thin-spun life.

  John Milton

  Life, Thinking, Mind

  'Lycidas' (1638) l. 64

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• Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Good Morning, Passion, Shadow

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• Discontent is want of self-reliance; it is infirmity of will.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Character, Self, Want

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• And though age and infirmity overtake me, and I come not within sight of the castle of my dreams, teach me still to be thankful for life, and for time's olden memories that are good and sweet; and may the evening's twilight find me gentle still.

  Max Ehrmann

  Dream, Sweet, Memories

  Max Ehrmann, “'A Prayer'”

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• The present times require the vigor and the activity of the prime of life; but I feel the increasing infirmities of age to such a degree, that I am conscious I cannot serve you to advantage.

  Christopher Gadsden

  Age, Degrees, Vigor

  Christopher Gadsden (1966). “The Writings of Christopher Gadsden, 1746-1805”, Columbia : University of South Carolina Press

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• Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise

  John Milton

  Spurs, Spirit, Fame

  "Lycidas" l. 70 (1638). A 1619 play thought to be written by John Fletcher, Sir John van Olden Barnavelt act 1, sc. 1, refers to "the desire of glory (That last infirmity of noble minds)." That play was lost and not rediscovered until 1883, so Milton's parallel words were coincidental.

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• God's willingness to answer our prayers exceeds our willingness to give good and necessary things to our children, just as far as God's ability, goodness and perfection exceed our infirmities and evil.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Children, Evil

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.104, CCEL

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• They may well fear fate who have any infirmity of habit or aim: but they who rest on what is have a destiny beyond destiny, and can make mouths of fortune.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Fate, Destiny, May

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• It is the highest form of self-respect to admit our errors and mistakes and make amends for them.

  Dale E. Turner

  Mistake, Self Esteem, Errors

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• The desire of glory is the last infirmity cast off even by the wise.

  Tacitus

  Wise, Desire, Lasts

  Cornelius Tacitus (1873). “The History of Tacitus”, p.143, London : Macmillan

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• Anger is a noble infirmity; the generous failing of the just; the one degree that riseth above zeal, asserting the prerogative of virtue.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Failure, Generosity, Degrees

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1855). “Proverbial Philosophy: A Book of Thoughts and Arguments, Originally Treated : First and Second Series, Complete in One Volume”, p.53

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• There is perhaps no surer mark of folly, than to attempt to correct natural infirmities of those we love.

  Henry Fielding

  Love, Natural, Mark

  Henry Fielding (2015). “History of Tom Jones: the History Focus”, p.72, 谷月社

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• Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Confidence, Self Esteem, Acceptance

  Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, Book III, Ch. 13, 1595.

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