Weak And Strong Quotes (page 2)

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• strong
• am
• listens

Hearken to my story. Listen but do not pity me. For pity is intended for the weak and I am still strong in my affliction. Khalil Gibran

• strong
• hard
• soft

The soft overcomes the hard; and the weak the strong. Lao Tzu

• peace
• strong
• war

In war, the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich makes slaves of the poor. Oscar Wilde

• strong
• white
• law

White Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong. Jack London

• respect
• strong
• fashion

When cowardice is made respectable, its followers are without number both from among the weak and the strong; it easily becomes a fashion. Eric Hoffer

• time
• strong
• goals

Strong Mercy: My desires are many and my cry is pitiful, but ever didst thou save me by hard refusals; and this strong mercy has been wrought into my life through and through. Day by day thou art making me worthy of the simple, great gifts that thou gavest to me unasked---this sky and the light, this body and the life and the mind---saving me from perils of overmuch desire. There are times when I languidly linger and times when I awaken and hurry in search of my goal; but cruelly thou hidest... Rabindranath Tagore

• strong
• enduring
• strongly

And how are the other weak ones to blame, because they could not endure what the strong have endured? Fyodor Dostoevsky

• strong
• words
• bitter

Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause. Victor Hugo

• mindfulness
• mind
• strong

Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides. David Hare

• rock
• words
• brilliant

When Christ at a symbolic moment was establishing His great society, He chose for its cornerstone neither the brilliant Paul nor the mystic John, but a shuffler, a snob, a coward? in a word, a man. And upon this rock He has built His Church, and the gates of Hell have not prevailed against it. All the empires and the kingdoms have failed, because of this inherent and continual weakness, that they were founded by strong men and upon strong men. But this one thing, the historic Christian... Gilbert K. Chesterton

• real
• kids
• strength

But if the strength ain't real, I recall thinking the very last thing that day, before I finally passed out, then the weakness sure enough is. Weakness is true and real. I used to accuse the kid of faking his weakness. But faking proves the weakness is real. Or you wouldn't be so weak as to fake it. No, you can't ever fake being weak. You can only fake being strong. . . Ken Kesey

• science
• mistake
• strong

Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic. Thomas Szasz

• wise
• friend
• world

This world . . . belongs to the strong, my friend! The ritual of our existence is based on the strong getting stronger by devouring the weak. We must face up to this. No more than right that it should be this way. We must learn to accept it as a law of the natural world. The rabbits accept their role in the ritual and recognize the wolf is the strong. In defense, the rabbit becomes sly and frightened and elusive and he digs holes and hides when the wolf is about. And he endures, he... Ken Kesey

• time
• strength
• character

I tend to like strong female characters. It just interests me dramatically. A strong male character isn't interesting because it has been done and it's so cliched. A weak male character is interesting: somebody else hasn't done it a hundred times. A strong female character is still interesting to me because it hasn't been done all that much, finding the balance of femininity and strength.[From a 1986 Fangoria interview] James Cameron

• doubt
• strong
• brave

of being strong and brave. The strong can not be brave. Only the weak can be brave; and yet again, in practice, only those who can be brave can be trusted, in time of doubt, to be strong. Gilbert K. Chesterton