Weak Quotes

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  Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Strength, Peace, Strong

  Calvin Coolidge (1924). “Calvin Coolidge, His Ideals of Citizenship as Revealed Through His Speeches and Writings”

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• Let our hearts admit, “I am poor and weak. Satan is too subtle, too cunning, too powerful; he watches constantly for advantages over my soul. The world presses in upon me with all sorts of pressures, pleas, and pretences. My own corruption is violent, tumultuous, enticing, and entangling. As it conceives sin, it wars within me and against me. Occasions and opportunities for temptation are innumerable. No wonder I do not know how deeply involved I have been with sin. Therefore, on God alone will I rely for my keeping. I will continually look to Him.

  John Owen

  Powerful, War, Heart

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• As your faith is, such your hope will be. Hope is never ill when faith is well, nor strong if faith be weak.

  John Bunyan

  Strong, Ill, Wells

  John Bunyan (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of John Bunyan (Illustrated)”, p.1764, Delphi Classics

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• Astrology and all these mystical things are generally signs of a weak mind

  Swami Vivekananda

  Astrology, Mind, Mystical

  Swami Vivekananda, Vivekananda Kendra (2009). “Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation”, p.152, Vivekananda Kendra

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• History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Veterans Day, Freedom, Military

  1953 Inaugural address, 20 Jan.

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  Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Inspirational, Strength, Strong

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• Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Inspirational, Life, Strength

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• Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.

  George Washington

  Military, War, 4th Of July

  George Washington, Stephen Lucas (1999). “The Quotable George Washington: The Wisdom of an American Patriot”, p.24, Rowman & Littlefield

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• The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Inspirational, Courage, Strong

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Nathan Haskell Dole, George Henry Lewes, Thomas Carlyle, John Storer Cobb (1902*). “The Works of Goethe”

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• Ethical teaching is weakened if it is tied up with dogmas that will not bear examination.

  Margaret E. Knight

  Teaching, Atheism, Examination

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• Cowards live for the sake of living, but for heroes, life is a weapon, a thing to be spent, a gift to be given to the weak and the lost and the weary, even to the foolish and the cowardly.

  N.D. Wilson

  Hero, Coward, Weapons

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• If you let people believe that you are weak, sooner or later you’re going to have to kill them.

  Don Winslow

  Believe, People, Sooner Or Later

  Don Winslow (2012). “Savages: A Novel”, p.97, Simon and Schuster

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• Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.

  Victor Hugo

  Strong, Intellectual, Bitter Words

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• Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Strength, Strong, Men

  Orison Swett Marden (2013). “The Wisdom of Orison Swett Marden”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• Try to look at your weakness and convert it into your strength. That's success.

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspirational, Strength, Success

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Life, Strength

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.166, A&C Black

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• People cry, not because they're weak. It's because they've been strong for too long.

  Johnny Depp

  Inspirational, Sad, Depressing

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• He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Inspirational, Strength, Being Strong

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• Never think there is anything impossible for the soul. It is the greatest heresy to think so. If there is sin, this is the only sin; to say that you are weak, or others are weak.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Thinking

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Practical Vedanta Philosophy”, p.14, editionNEXT.com

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• He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Anger, Noise, Arguing

  Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, 1595.

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• We are not here in this world to find elegant solutions, pregnant with initiative, or to serve the ways and modes of profitable progress. No, we are here to provide for all those who are weaker and hungrier, more battered and crippled than ourselves. That is our only certain good and great purpose on earth, and if you ask me about those insoluble economic problems that may arise if the top is deprived of their initiative, I would answer 'To hell with them.' The top is greedy and mean and will always find a way to take care of themselves. They always do.

  Michael Foot

  Mean, Helping Others, Common Purpose

  Michael Foot (1984). “Another heart and other pulses: the alternative to the Thatcher society”, HarperCollins

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  You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

  Marcus Aurelius (2015). “Meditations”, p.116, Lulu.com

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• How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.

  George Washington Carver

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• Between a high, solid wall and an egg that breaks against it, I will always stand on the side of the egg.

  Haruki Murakami

  Strength, Wall, Two Sides

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Nov 27, 2012

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• Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Inspirational, Philosophical, Eye

  Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (1900). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle: Critical and miscellaneous essays”

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