Weak
People confuse goodness with weakness. It is weak people, not good people (goodness demands strength), who are taken advantage of.
I, poor creature, worn out with scribbling for my bread and my liberty, low in spirits and weak in health, must leave others to wear the laurels which I have sown, others to eat the bread which I have earned. A common case.
Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.
Passion is what gets you through the hardest times that might otherwise make strong men weak, or make you give up.
Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.
Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.
We have enforced a Darwinian process on wolves, turning them into the shy and elusive animals they've become. They didn't have that fear of us 30,000 years ago. We didn't have gunpowder; we had rocks. Wolves would have seen us as lunch, and we were weak and slow and tasty.
Who needs the protection of the Bill of Rights most? The weak, the most vulnerable in society.
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.
The weak are more likely to make the strong weak than the strong are likely to make the weak strong.
You have a right to say no. Most of us have very weak and flaccid 'no' muscles. We feel guilty for saying no. We get ostracized and challenged for saying no, so we forget it's our choice. Your 'no' muscle has to be built up to get to a place where you can say, 'I don't care if that's what you want. I don't want that. No'.
Those who prefer their English sloppy have only themselves to thank if the advertisement writer uses his mastery of the vocabulary and syntax to mislead their weak minds.
Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.
History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.
We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.
Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary.
The strong do what they have to do and the weak accept what they have to accept.
Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.
You can't build a great building on a weak foundation. You must have a solid foundation if you're going to have a strong superstructure.
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