These weak quotes will inspire you. Weak, lacking strength of body, mind, or spirit or lacking the power to perform physically demanding tasks; lacking physical strength and energy.
Below you will find a collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging weak quotes, weak sayings, and weak proverbs.
Best Weak Quotes
- “Don’t expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.” ~ Calvin Coolidge
- “History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.” ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
- “Don’t wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.” ~ Orison Swett Marden
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“Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.” ~ Leo Buscaglia
- “Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.” ~ George Washington
- “Ethical teaching is weakened if it is tied up with dogmas that will not bear examination.” ~ Margaret E. Knight
- “The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.” ~ Thomas Carlyle , Strong & weak quotes
- “If you let people believe that you are weak, sooner or later you’re going to have to kill them.” ~ Don Winslow
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“Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.” ~ Victor Hugo
- “Cowards live for the sake of living, but for heroes, life is a weapon, a thing to be spent, a gift to be given to the weak and the lost and the weary, even to the foolish and the cowardly.” ~ N.D. Wilson
- “Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.” ~ Orison Swett Marden
- “People cry, not because they’re weak. It’s because they’ve been strong for too long.” ~ Johnny Depp
- “Try to look at your weakness and convert it into your strength. That’s success.” ~ Zig Ziglar
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“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
- “He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.” ~ Louisa May Alcott
- “The concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear.” ~ Edmund Burke
- “My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn that perceived weakness into a strength.” ~ Michael Jordan
- “Ordinary people, even weak people, can do extraordinary things through temporary courage generated by a situation. But the person of character does not need the situation to generate his courage. It is a part of his being and a standard approach to all life’s challenges.” ~ Michael Josephson
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“Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary.” ~ Edgar Allan Poe
- “Grief is not a disorder, a disease, or sign of weakness. It is an emotional, physical, and spiritual necessity, the price you pay for love. The only cure for grief is to grieve.” ~ Earl A Grollman
- “A weak currency is the sign of a weak economy, and a weak economy leads to a weak nation.” ~ Ross Perot
- “The power of faith will often shine forth the most when the character is naturally weak.” ~ Augustus Hare
- “Strong men can always afford to be gentle. Only the weak are intent on giving as good as they get.” ~ Elbert Hubbard
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“Oh you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you” ~ Tennessee Williams
- “Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
- “Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.” ~ Thomas Carlyle
- “I am indeed amazed when I consider how weak my mind is and how prone to error.” ~ Rene Descartes , Weak quotes minded
- “The weak are more likely to make the strong weak than the strong are likely to make the weak strong.” ~ Marlene Dietrich
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“I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too.” ~ Elizabeth I
- “A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
- “Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.” ~ Victor Hugo
- “Every woman needs one man in her life who is strong and responsible. Given this security, she can proceed to do what she really wants to do fall in love with men who are weak and irresponsible.” ~ Richard J. Needham
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“In the world, there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.” ~ Laozi
- “Remember that poise and power are inseparably associated. The calm and balanced mind is the strong and great mind; the hurried and agitated mind is the weak one.” ~ Wallace D. Wattles
- “When you find your opponent’s weak spot, hammer it.” ~ John Heisman
- “Never think there is anything impossible for the soul. It is the greatest heresy to think so. If there is sin, this is the only sin; to say that you are weak, or others are weak.” ~ Swami Vivekananda
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“He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.” ~ Michel de Montaigne
- “When one person makes an accusation, check to be sure he himself is not the guilty one. Sometimes it is those whose case is weak who make the most clamor.” ~ Piers Anthony
- “Communism is inequality, but not as property is. Property is exploitation of the weak by the strong. Communism is exploitation of the strong by the weak.” ~ Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
- “Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive.” ~ Charlotte Bronte
- “God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise, and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty.” ~ Madeleine L’Engle
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“Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people” ~ Jesse Ventura
- “It is against the law to permit weak people to steal your strength. Never permit it.” ~ Vernon Howard
- “The strong live and the weak die. There is some bloodshed, and out of it emerges a much leaner industry, which tends to survive.” ~ Ratan Tata
- “We are not here in this world to find elegant solutions, pregnant with initiative, or to serve the ways and modes of profitable progress. No, we are here to provide for all those who are weaker and hungrier, more battered and crippled than ourselves. That is our only certain good and great purpose on earth, and if you ask me about those insoluble economic problems that may arise if the top is deprived of their initiative, I would answer ‘To hell with them.’ The top is greedy and mean and will always find a way to take care of themselves. They always do.” ~ Michael Foot
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“Between a high, solid wall and an egg that breaks against it, I will always stand on the side of the egg.” ~ Haruki Murakami
- “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.” ~ George Washington Carver
- “You can’t expect to draw people into your life who are kind, confident, and generous if you’re thinking and acting in cruel, weak, and selfish ways. You must be what it is that you’re seeking- that is, you need to put forth what you want to attract.” ~ Wayne Dyer
- “Most of the poverty and misery in the world is due to bad government, lack of democracy, weak states, internal strife, and so on.” ~ George Soros
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“Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerve give to wisdom.” ~ Mark Twain
- “Let us not be surprised when we have to face difficulties. When the wind blows hard on a tree, the roots stretch and grow the stronger, Let it be so with us. Let us not be weaklings, yielding to every wind that blows, but strong in spirit to resist.” ~ Amy Carmichael
- “As long as we’re caught up in always looking for certainty and happiness, rather than honoring the taste and smell and quality of exactly what is happening, as long as we’re always running from discomfort, we’re going to be caught in a cycle of unhappiness and discomfort, and we will feel weaker and weaker. This way of seeing helps us develop inner strength. And what’s especially encouraging is the view that inner strength is available to us at just the moment when we think that we’ve hit the bottom, when things are at their worst.” ~ Pema Chodron , Feeling weak quotes
- “To be free one needs constant and unrelenting vigilance over one’s weaknesses. A vigilance which requires a moral energy most of us are incapable of manufacturing. We relax back into the molds of habit. They are secure, they bind us and keep us contained at the expense of freedom. To break the molds, to be heedless of the seductions of security is an impossible struggle, but one of the few that count. To be free is to learn, to test yourself constantly, to gamble.” ~ Robyn Davidson
- “The moment we believe that success is determined by an ingrained level of ability as opposed to resilience and hard work, we will be brittle in the face of adversity.” ~ Joshua Waitzkin
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“You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.” ~ Marcus Aurelius
- “Remember: even the smallest drop of God’s strength is more than enough to cover our frailties, our shortcomings, and the places where we deem ourselves weak.” ~ Lysa TerKeurst
- “Anger is too pathetic. Anger is as weak as fear.” ~ Anne Rice
- “His breath in my ear, he ran his tongue along the curved edge, sucking the fleshy lobe and my small diamond stud into his mouth, and my eyes drifted closed while I babbled a weak sound of longing.” ~ Tammara Webber
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“Now I know the full power of evil. It makes ugliness seem beautiful and goodness seem ugly and weak.” ~ August Strindberg
- “Let no one think of me that I am humble or weak or passive; let them understand I am of a different kind: dangerous to my enemies, loyal to my friends. To such a life glory belongs.” ~ Euripides , Im weak quotes
- “The future has many names: For the weak, it means the unattainable. For the fearful, it means the unknown. For the courageous, it means opportunity.” ~ Victor Hugo
- “And always we had wars, and more wars, and still other wars – all over Europe, all over the world. “Sometimes in the private interest of royal families,” Satan said, “sometimes to crush a weak nation; but never a war started by the aggressor for any clean purpose – there is no such war in the history of the race.”” ~ Mark Twain
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“You can’t make a weak man strong by making a strong man weak” ~ Abraham Lincoln
- “I cannot avoid condemning all those who, from self-conceit have the pretension to imitate great artists of the past. If their powers of emotion be weak, their powers of expression will be likewise.” ~ Jean-Georges Noverre
- “I used to think you were weak and just didn’t fight back … but now, honestly, I think you’re actually pretty tough. It takes a hell of a lot of strength to not complain and lash out.” ~ Richelle Mead
