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I don't flatter myself with much dependence upon the present disposition of the Eastern Indians, who are many ways liable to be drawn into a rupture with us by the artifices of the French, their own weakness and the influence which the French Missionary Priests have over them.

I understand now that the vulnerability I've always felt is the greatest strength a person can have. You can't experience life without feeling life. What I've learned is that being vulnerable to somebody you love is not a weakness, it's a strength.

Humility is not cowardice. Meekness is not weakness. Humility and meekness are indeed spiritual powers.

Like all my family and class, I considered it a sign of weakness to show affection; to have been caught kissing my mother would have been a disgrace, and to have shown affection for my father would have been a disaster.

You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?

Now the thing is not to get into unnecessary quarrels by talking too much and not to indicate any weakness by talking too much; let our actions speak for themselves.

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

Strength alone knows conflict, weakness is born vanquished.

We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.

Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.

Failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done is a great weakness in any man.

As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.

We have not sought this conflict; we have sought too long to avoid it; our forbearance has been construed into weakness, our magnanimity into fear, until the vindication of our manhood, as well as the defence of our rights, is required at our hands.

Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.

My biggest weakness is my sensitivity. I am too sensitive a person.

Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength.

Growth begins when we begin to accept our own weakness.

We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.

Weakness on both sides is, as we know, the motto of all quarrels.

Stronger by weakness, wiser men become.