Weak Quotes - Page 25

• My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Tongue, Rich

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens, Isaac Reed, William Hazlitt (1852). “The Works of William Shakspeare”, p.488

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• In the period after the Second World War, there were still leaders in Europe who represented weak countries, but possessed a sense of global foreign policy. Nowadays, on the other hand, there are politicians who represent pretty powerful countries, but whose citizens are not prepared to sacrifice themselves for the state.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Country, Powerful, War

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• This president [Barack Obama] has had weak leadership, which has led to bad choices. We have got to stop worrying about being loved and start worrying about being respected. And that's exactly how I'll lead our country.

  Chris Christie

  Country, Worry, Choices

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• My toughest fight was myself. For me to disclose and let things out was not easy because we don't want to seem weak or like we are different, but I learned that it's okay.

  Sugar Ray Leonard

  Fighting, Different, Want

  "Sugar Ray Leonard Interview Real Steel". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 6, 2011.

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• In the birthing process, you come out just realizing how stupid and weak men are! I mean, I might as well not have been in there, we're useless!

  Heath Ledger

  Stupid, Mean, Men

  "Remembering Heath Ledger" by Prairie Miller, newsblaze.com. January 23, 2008.

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• If you are strong you can take a punch and not flinch, but if you have a sore spot, a nudge on that sore spot will make you scream. Muslims committed the huge blunder of revealing their vulnerability. Now the world knows what hurts them. When you find your opponent's weak spot, it is exactly where you want to hit him.

  Ali Sina

  Hurt, Strong, Want

  Source: myislam.dk

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• I think what life experience has brought to my poems is compassion. When you work hard to make a living, raise a child up into the world, fail at marriage and try again, teach and fail, travel and fall, become ill, well again, weak but grateful, you learn patience, forbearance.

  Dorianne Laux

  Children, Fall, Grateful

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• My Swaraj takes note of bhangis, dheds, dublas and the weakest of the weak, and except the spinning wheel I know no other thing which befriends all these.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Spinning, Wheels, Notes

  Mahatma Gandhi (1966). “Socialism of My Conception”

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• The British are weak in numbers, we are weak in spite of our numbers.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Numbers, Language, British

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.142, A&C Black

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• My implicit faith in nonviolence does mean yielding to minorities when they are really weak.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Faith, Mean, Doe

  Mahatma Gandhi (1984). “The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words”

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• All the religions of the world describe God pre-eminently as the Friend of the friendless, Help of the helpless, and Protector of the weak.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, World, Helping

  Mahatma Gandhi, Judith M. Brown (2008). “The Essential Writings”, p.227, Oxford University Press

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• Man is oftentimes weak-minded enough to be caught in the snare of greed and honeyed words.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Greed, Enough

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• We are all very imperfect and weak things, and if we are to destroy all whose ways we do not like, there will be not a man left alive.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Alive, Way

  Mahatma Gandhi, Anand T. Hingorani, Ganga Anand Hingorani (1985). “The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts”

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• Cow protection means protection of the weak, the helpless, the dumb and the deaf.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mean, Dumb, Cows

  Mahatma Gandhi, U. R. Rao (1963). “The Way to Communal Harmony”, Ahmedabad, [India] : Navajivan Publishing House

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• The ways of God are entirely different from our ways. To us it seems necessary to employ powerful means in order to produce great effects. This is not God's method; quite the contrary. He likes to choose the weakest instruments that He may confound the strong: "God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong - Infirma mundi elegit ut confundat fortia".

  Columba Marmion

  Strong, Powerful, Mean

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• I know something about that war, and I never want to see that history repeated. But, my fellow Americans, it certainly can be repeated if the peace-loving democratic nations again fearfully practice a policy of standing idly by while big aggressors use armed force to conquer the small and weak.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  War, Practice, Use

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• Russians understand strength, and if they feel that their opponents are weak, they will take advantage of it.

  Leon Panetta

  Opponents, Advantage, Feels

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Struggle is gruesome only for the weak.

  Adolf Hitler

  Struggle

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• Death is a big theme in the book, illness. What is that? It's a fact that human beings - no matter who they are, no matter how healthy or strong or beautiful they are - are going to age and become weak and ugly by a certain standard, and die. And I think that's a terrifying idea for people to get their minds around.

  Mary Gaitskill

  Beautiful, Strong, Book

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. February 1, 2009.

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• You easily close yourself off to certain things because you want to seem like you know it all, or you're not weak - emotion is often confused as weakness - so when emotions are undeniably physically affecting you, I think it's a gift.

  Kristen Stewart

  Confused, Thinking, Weakness

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• There's nothing weak about being subject to something.

  Kristen Stewart

  Subjects

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• From the weak nations' point of view, it is better if there are many powerful countries then if there are just a few. The more concentrated is power, the fewer opportunities there are to move. Space for change, space for freedom to implement change is then very narrow; very small.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Country, Powerful, Moving

  Source: apracticalpolicy.org

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• To me, strategy means trying to overcome your limitations and your weak points. To do that, I try to enhance and leverage my strong points.

  Stan Shih

  Strong, Mean, Trying

  "The 'Fast-Food' Computer Company". Interview with Joel Kurtzman, www.strategy-business.com. October 1, 1996.

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• He who always thinks himself as weak will never become strong, but he who knows himself to be a lion, rushes out from the worlds meshes, as a lion from its cage.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, Strong, Thinking

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2832, Manonmani Publishers

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• Do not say we are weak; we can do anything and everything. What can we not do? Everything can be done by us; we all have the same glorious soul, let us believe in it.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, Believe, Soul

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Lectures from Colombo to Almora”, p.170, editionNEXT.com

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