It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little. —Sydney Smith More about this quote Tags: power impotence weakness change Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If a historian were to relate truthfully all the crimes, weaknesses, and disorders of mankind, his readers would take his work for satire rather than for history. —Pierre Bayle More about this quote Tags: history weakness fiction Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them. —Anatole France More about this quote Tags: power weakness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is the virtue and the pathos of man that he aspires endlessly toward a better world; it is his weakness and his tragedy that he does nothing to bring such a world even one step nearer. —Ludwig Lewisohn More about this quote Tags: virtue weakness world tragedy pathos Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength. —Theodor W. Adorno More about this quote Tags: love strength weakness vulnerability Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Frailty, thy name is woman! —William Shakespeare More about this quote Tags: weakness Frailty Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometime fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand? —Robert Louis Stevenson More about this quote Tags: weakness fight Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In order to be a good doctor a man must also have a good character; that is to say, whatever weaknesses and foibles he may have, he must love his fellow human beings in the concrete and desire their good before his own. —W. H. Auden More about this quote Tags: love character weakness good desire medicine doctor well-wishing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I guess I just realized how everything we do affects not only our lives, but people around us, too. It sucks that one weak moment could change the entire course of someone's life. —Cindi Madsen in All the Broken Pieces More about this quote Tags: life relationships people weakness change Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be gentle, firm, thoughtful, and restrained. It can afford to extend a helping hand to others. It's a weak nation, like a weak person, that must behave with bluster and boasting and rashness and other signs of insecurity. —Jimmy Carter More about this quote Tags: strength weakness USA boasting insecurity restraint Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email