Weak Quotes - Page 31

• Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.

  Samuel Lover

  Wise, Hard Times, Glitter

  Samuel Lover (1839). “Rory O'More. Revised”, p.151

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• Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave.

  James Russell Lowell

  Bravery, Literature, Staff

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• Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Thank You, Strong, Children

  Douglas MacArthur, Edward T. Imparato (2001). “General MacArthur: Wisdom and Visions”, p.158, Turner Publishing Company

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• You've had an extremely weak euro on the foreign exchange markets, you've had a very dubious policy being followed.

  John Major

  Dubious, Foreign Exchange, Policy

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• No man can be ideally successful until he has found his place. Like a locomotive he is strong on the track, but weak anywhere else.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Strong, Successful, Men

  Orison Swett Marden (2015). “An Iron Will, He Can Who Thinks He Can & Pushing To The Front (Wisdom & Empowerment Series): How to Achieve Self-Reliance Which Leads to Vigorous Self-Faith, Personal Growth & Success”, p.255, e-artnow

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• The struggles waged by nations are weak only when they lack support in the hearts of their women.

  Jose Marti

  Struggle, Heart, Support

  "Martí : Thoughts/Pensamientos" edited by Carlos Ripoll, 1994.

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• Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Stress, Men, Weak Man

  Of Human Bondage ch. 39 (1915)

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• I tell the truth, and I expose myself as a weak, misguided, misdirected, dysfunctional human being I used to be.

  Russell Means

  Telling The Truth, Used, Misguided

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• Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, - for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it - not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation.

  Herman Melville

  Strength, Literature, Way

  Herman Melville, Lynn Horth (1993). “Correspondence”, p.196, Northwestern University Press

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• Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings.

  Alice Miller

  Warrior, Feelings, Defense

  Alice Miller (1997). “The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self”, p.74, Basic Books

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• A novelist needs to know his own strong points and weak points.

  David Mitchell

  Strong, Novelists, Needs

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• Men who think that a woman's past love affairs lessen her love for them are usually stupid and weak.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Love, Stupid, Past

  Marilyn Monroe (2006). “My Story”, p.127, Taylor Trade Publishing

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• A strong man doesn't have to be dominant toward a woman. He doesn't match his strength against a woman weak with love for him. He matches it against the world.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Love, Strong, Men

  Marilyn Monroe, Ben Hecht (2006). “My Story”, p.93, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.

  George Orwell

  Running, Fear, Animal

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.22, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The God we serve does not seek out the perfect, but instead uses our imperfections and our shortcomings for his greater good. I am humbled by my own limitations. But where I am weak, He is strong.

  Rick Perry

  Strong, Perfect, Doe

  "Perry to GOP Convention: Not Riding Into Sunset" by Morgan Smith, www.texastribune.org. June 7, 2012.

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• A movie about a weak, vulnerable woman can be feminist if it shows a real person that we can empathize with.

  Natalie Portman

  Real, Feminist, Vulnerable

  "Natalie Portman: Science's unlikely heroine?" by Sheena McKenzie, www.cnn.com. November 01, 2013.

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• People confuse goodness with weakness. It is weak people, not good people (goodness demands strength), who are taken advantage of.

  Dennis Prager

  Taken, People, Weakness

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• In the beginning, people think vulnerability will make you weak, but it does the opposite. It shows you're strong enough to care.

  Victoria Pratt

  Strong, Thinking, Opposites

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• A common danger tends to concord. Communism is the exploitation of the strong by the weak. In Communism, inequality comes from placing mediocrity on a level with excellence.

  Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

  Strong, Equality, Excellence

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• Julia progresses from cradle to grave, showing how government makes every good thing in her life possible. The weak economy, high unemployment, falling wages, rising gas prices, the national debt, the insolvency of entitlements - all these are fictionally assumed away in a cartoon that is produced by a president who wants us to forget about them.

  Mitt Romney

  Fall, Government, Progress

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• I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.

  Leo Rosten

  Love, Life, Relationship

  Leo Calvin Rosten (1964). “The Many Worlds of L*e*o R*o*s*t*e*n: Stories, Humor, Social Commentary, Travelogues, Satire, Memoirs, Profiles, and Sundry Entertainments Never Before Published; with a Special Introd., Background Notes, Revelations and Confessions, All Hand-written and Themselves Worth the Price of Admission”

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• We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Birthday, Education, Men

  Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “Emile”, p.17, eKitap Projesi

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• What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.

  Salman Rushdie

  Art, Imagination, Firsts

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• Sometimes people don't trust the force of kindness. They think love or compassion or kindness will make you weak and kind of stupid and people will take advantage of you; you won't stand up for other people.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Kindness, Stupid, Thinking

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• An evil fate has deprived me of the full use of my right hand, so that I am not able to play my compositions as I feel them. The trouble with my hand is that certain fingers have become so weak, probably through writing and playing too much at one time, that I can hardly use them.

  Robert Schumann

  Writing, Fate, Hands

  Robert Schumann (1907). “The Letters of Robert Schumann”

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