Weakness Quotes

There is a rank due to the United States among nations which will be withheld, if not absolutely lost, by the reputation of weakness.

We need an adequate defense, but every arms dollar we spend above adequacy has a long-term weakening effect upon the nation and its security.

Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.

The World is not ruined by the wickedness of the wicked, but by the weakness of the good.

True character stands the test of emergencies. Do not be mistaken, it is weakness from which the awakening is rude.

Democracy has disappeared in several other great nations - disappeared not because the people of those nations disliked democracy, but because they had grown tired of unemployment and insecurity, of seeing their children hungry while they sat helpless in the face of government confusion, government weakness - weakness through lack of leadership in government.

The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it.

Man is more than a producing animal guided by economic forces; he is a being of spirit, crowned with glory and honor, endowed with the gift of freedom. The ultimate weakness of Communism is that it robs man of that quality which makes him man.

In the final analysis the weakness of Black Power is its failure to see that the black man needs the white man and the white man needs the black man.

Weakness is not treason, though it may be equally disastrous.

Virtuous motives, trammelled by inertia and timidity, are no match for armed and resolute wickedness. A sincere love of peace is no excuse for muddling hundreds of millions of humble folk into total war. The cheers of weak, well-meaning assemblies soon cease to echo, and their votes soon cease to count. Doom marches on.

There is nothing they [Russian leaders] admire so much as strength, and there is nothing for which they have less respect than for weakness, especially military weakness.

It is my purpose, as one who lived and acted in these days, first to show how easily the tragedy of the Second World War could have been prevented; how the malice of the wicked was reinforced by the weakness of the virtuous.

When danger is far off we may think of our weakness; when it is near we must not forget our strength.

I really think the bottom line is, men are very weak. I think it's just so easy for them to lose it.

Conceit is not necessarily a disease. It's more of a weakness.

I just like the company of beautiful women. I have a weakness in that department. And I suppose because I am fairly well off and a famous musician, I'm up for grabs. And that makes me an eligible bachelor in the press.

You will always be criticized and teased and bullied for things that make you different, but usually those things will be what set you apart. The things that set you apart from the pack, the things that you once thought were your weaknesses will someday become your strengths.

I knuckle down with my demons, and with my weaknesses.

It's not so much that he can't fall in love, but he has not the weakness necessary.