Quotes: Weakness

It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of their imaginations.

If the United States were to cut and run from Iraq, we would send a message of weakness that would embolden our terrorist enemies across the globe. A failed Iraq would destabilize the entire region and undermine U.S. national security for decades to come.

The weakness in the company is if we fail to execute.

The weakness of a soul is proportionate to the number of truths that must be kept from it.

Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.

There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.

I tremble for my country when I hear of confidence expressed in me. I know too well my weakness, that our only hope is in God.

The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.

People just take your kindness for weakness sometimes, and that’s just the bottom line.

I did not want to be depressed by the gap existing between my weakness and my ambition.