Weak Character Quotes

• It is only persons of firmness that can have real gentleness. Those who appear gentle are, in general, only a weak character, which easily changes into asperity.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Determination, Real, Character

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• Blaming society makes it awfully easy for a person of weak character to shrug off his own responsibility for his actions.

  Stanley Schmidt

  Character, Responsibility, Action

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• Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Attitude, Character

  Albert Einstein's speech made in honor of Thomas Mann, when Mann was given the Einstein Prize given by the Jewish Forum (January 1939), as quoted in Abraham Pais "Einstein Lived Here" (p. 214), 1994.

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• People with really weak characters cause an immense amount of suffering in the world. They destroy whole civilisations.

  Bessie Head

  Character, People, Suffering

  Bessie Head, Randolph Vigne (1991). “A gesture of belonging: letters from Bessie Head, 1965-1979”, Heinemann

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• Football doesn't build character. It eliminates the weak ones.

  Darrell Royal

  Leadership, Sports, Football

  "Ex-Texas coach Royal dies at age 88", www.sfgate.com. November 7, 2012.

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• As we grow older, we should learn that these are two quite different things. Character is something you forge for yourself; temperament is something you are born with and can only slightly modify. Some people have easy temperaments and weak characters; others have difficult temperaments and strong characters. We are all prone to confuse the two in assessing people we associate with. Those with easy temperaments and weak characters are more likable than admirable; those with difficult temperaments and strong characters are more admirable than likable.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Strong, Character, Two

  Sydney J. Harris (1986). “Clearing the ground”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It is easier to influence strong than weak characters in life.

  Margot Asquith

  Strong, Character, Influence

  Margot Asquith (1934). “More Or Less about Myself”

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• Fortunately I've got a weak character, so I never did decide to dedicate myself to only one of my professions. And I'm very glad. After all, if I'd rejected chess or music then my life wouldn't have been two times, but a hundred times less interesting.

  Mark Taimanov

  Success, Character, Two

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• We are born with a potential for good character - and for the dispositions and habits that make up bad or weak character. Because we are born in ignorance of moral ideals, however, we must be instructed or trained if we are to achieve a good second nature.

  Edwin J Delattre

  Character, Ignorance, Moral

  Edwin J. Delattre (2011). “Character and Cops: Ethics in Policing”, p.7, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Voting in particular is an embarrassment, being a public display of weak character and low intelligence. Let us face the truth: Democracy, like spitting in public or the Roman games, is the proper activity of the lower intellectual and moral classes. It amounts to collusion in one's own suckering.

  Fred Reed

  Character, Games, Class

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