Weak Quotes - Page 17

• The practice of medicine will be very much as you make it - to one a worry, a care, a perpetual annoyance; to another, a daily job and a life of as much happiness and usefulness as can well fall to the lot of man, because it is a life of self-sacrifice and of countless opportunities to comfort and help the weak-hearted, and to raise up those that fall.

  William Osler

  Jobs, Fall, Sacrifice

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• A small country cannot contend with a great; the few cannot contend with the many; the weak cannot contend with the strong

  Mencius

  Country, Strong, Small Countries

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• It is through repentance that the Lord Jesus Christ can work his healing miracle, infusing us with strength when we are weak, health when we are sick, hope when we are downhearted, love when we feel empty, and understanding when we search for truth.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Jesus, Healing, Sick

  Spencer W. Kimball (1982). “The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, Twelfth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints”

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• A man is born gentle and weak. At death he is hard and stiff.

  Laozi

  Men, Born, Gentle

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• To be prejudiced is always to be weak

  Samuel Johnson

  Samuel Johnson (1775). “The Pamphlet, Entitled, "Taxation No Tyranny," Candidly Considered, and It's [sic] Arguments, and Pernicious Doctrines, Exposed and Refuted”, p.13

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• People always say, "You played such a strong character." I remember someone said that to me when I played a role in Shame, and she was a suicidal mess. I said, "She's not strong at all; she's incredibly weak." But "strong" to people means "real." It means you believe that's a person who exists, as opposed to some two-dimensional depiction of women.

  Carey Mulligan

  Strong, Real, Believe

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• Violence is the weapon of weak, non-violence that of the strong.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Strong, Weapons, Violence

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• The best time to give feedback to strong people is when they're feeling weak, and to weak people when they're feeling strong.

  Mardy Grothe

  Strong, People, Giving

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• A weak King must be what other Kings have been; a strong King is himself, and from then on the meaning of the name of King is changed.

  Orson Scott Card

  Strong, Kings, Names

  Orson Scott Card (2009). “Hart's Hope”, p.32, Macmillan

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• When we grieve over someone who has died in Christ, we are sorrowing not for them, but for ourselves. Our grief isn't a sign of weak faith, but of great love.

  Billy Graham

  Grief, Grieving, Great Love

  Billy Graham (2007). “The Journey: Living by Faith in an Uncertain World”, p.221, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Now, many Americans fear that China might grow too strong ... I'm more worried that America might be getting too weak. It's not bad for the United States if other nations have a strong economy. One fewer hungry-mouthed country wanting us to take care of it and its people is great news. If they have money, maybe they will buy the things we innovate and make.

  Mike Huckabee

  Country, Strong, America

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• The weak can never forgive.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Strength, Being Strong, Forgiveness

  Mahatma Gandhi (1980). “All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections”, p.155, A&C Black

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• A weak background is a deadly thing.

  Robert Henri

  Backgrounds

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• Anyone who is not totally dead to himself will soon find that he is tempted and overcome by piddling and frivolous things. Whoever is weak in spirit, given to the flesh and inclined to sensual things can, but only with great difficulty, drag himself away from his earthly desires. Therefore he is often gloomy and sad when he is trying to pull himself away from them, and easily gives way to anger should someone attempt to oppose him.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Giving, Sensual, Desire

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• There are no good saves, there are only weak shots.

  Ole Gunnar Solskjaer

  Shots

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• Remember: what you think you will become - good or bad, weak or strong, defeated or victorious.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Strong, Thinking, Remember

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2007). “The Tough-Minded Optimist”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• When God contemplates some great work, He begins it by the hand of some poor, weak, human creature, to whom He afterwards gives aid.

  Martin Luther

  Hands, Giving, Poor

  Martin Luther, Alexander Chalmers (1857). “The Table Talk of Martin Luther”, p.32

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• The friendless, the weak, the victims of prejudice and public excitement are entitled to the same quality of justice and fair play that the rich, the powerful, the well-connected, and the fellow with pull thinks he can get.

  Harry S. Truman

  Powerful, Thinking, Play

  United States. President (1945-1953 : Truman), Harry S. Truman (1961). “Harry S. Truman: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President, 1945-53”

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• Hate is the wrath of the weak.

  Alphonse Daudet

  Hate, Wrath

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• If the nails are weak, your house will collapse. If your verbs are weak and your syntax is rickety, your sentences will fall apart.

  William Zinsser

  Fall, House, Nails

  William Zinsser (2012). “On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction”, p.18, Harper Collins

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• Shake off all the fears and servile prejudices under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a god; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear... Your own reason is the only oracle given you by heaven, and you are answerable not for the rightness but uprightness of the decision.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Decision, Heaven, Mind

  Thomas Jefferson's letter to Peter Carr, founders.archives.gov. August 10, 1787.

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• Love can't make you strong 'till love has made you weak.

  Catie Curtis

  Strong, Made

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• The hardest thing about an easy match is making a weak opponent play poor. A poor player isn't poor because he tends to kick the ball in his own goal. It's because when you put intense pressure on him, he loses control. So you have to increase the tempo of the game and he'll automatically give the ball away.

  Johan Cruijff

  Player, Games, Giving

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• Contact lenses are for vain, weak-willed piglets who swan around showing off: 'Look everybody, I can see without spectacles. No one at first glance will ever assume I know how to surf the net.'

  Greg Proops

  Swans, Piglet, Lenses

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• Since the world never faults a man who refuses to yield...it is generally recognized that weak men live in obedience to the world's will, while the strong obey only their own.

  Giacomo Leopardi

  Strong, Men, Yield

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