Wealth is power. Poverty is weakness. We nurtured weakness. And she turned to us with her scary side.
Oh speak and spare not, whatever thou believest may conduce, either to the amending my faults, the strengthening my weakness, the building me up in love, or the making me more fit, in any kind, for the Master’s use!
—John Wesley
In any case, frequent punishments are a sign of weakness or slackness in the government. There is no man so bad that he cannot be made good for something. No man should be put to death, even as an example, if he can be left to live without danger to society.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“I say therefore, this morning, in the name of the Lord Jesus, to all of you who love him, Look well to the weak ones of the church.”
“Is it not a glorious thing, that God’s strength should be perfect in our weakness?”
– Charles Spurgeon
So in war, the way is to avoid what is strong, and strike at what is weak.
—Sun Tzu
Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.
—Socrates
There are occasions when a woman, no matter how weak and impotent in character she may be in comparison with a man, will yet suddenly become not only harder than any man, but even harder than anything and everything in the world.
—Nikolai Gogol
Disorder came from order, fear came from courage, weakness came from strength.
—Sun Tzu
And yet I have had the weakness, and have still the weakness, to wish you to know with what a sudden mastery you kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into fire.
—Charles Dickens
To be weak is miserable, doing or suffering.
—John Milton
So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.
—Charles Dickens
As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.
—Henry David Thoreau
All cruelty springs from weakness.
—Seneca
Order or disorder depends on organisation; courage or cowardice on circumstances; strength or weakness on dispositions.
—Sun Tzu
The valor that struggles is better than the weakness that endures.
—Georg Hegel
Since we all know how weak people are whose lives are easy it’s clear how essential trials are, yet we complain when we have to endure them.
—Leo Tolstoy
Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
—Jean-Paul Sartre
Perception is strong and sight weak. In strategy it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to take a distanced view of close things.
—Miyamoto Musashi
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
—Thomas Edison
Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.
—George Washington
What is good?
All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself.
What is bad?
All that is born of weakness.
What is happiness?
The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome.
—Friedrich Nietzsche
What is good?
All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself.
What is bad?
All that is born of weakness.
What is happiness?
The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome.
—Friedrich Nietzsche
The weak are always anxious for justice and equality. The strong pay no heed to either.
—Aristotle
I am indeed amazed when I consider how weak my mind is and how prone to error.
Be deeply sensible of your own weaknesses, follies, and imperfections; as well as of the sin remaining in your heart, and cleaving to all your words and actions. And let this spirit appear in all you speak or do: Be clothed with humility.
—John Wesley
Oh speak and spare not, whatever thou believest may conduce, either to the amending my faults, the strengthening my weakness, the building me up in love, or the making me more fit, in any kind, for the Master’s use!
—John Wesley
O strengthen my weakness. Bear with my infirmities, draw me and I will run after thee.
—William Wilberforce
Enjoyed some sweetness in things divine, in the midst of my pain and weakness. O that I could praise the Lord!
—David Brainerd
We may be very weak in ourselves, but see what a mighty God we have.
—D. L. Moody