Best weak & character Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Blaming society makes it awfully easy for a person of weak character to shrug off his own responsibility for his actions.”

Persons Character Action Easy Responsibility Weak Blame Weak Character

Author:Stanley Schmidt

“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”

Life Inspirational Character Spirituality Strong Peace Healing Strength Politician Forgiveness Weakness Weak Forgiving Positivity Moving On Attributes Apology Forgiven Stay Strong Being Strong Forgive Me Strength And Weakness Strong Will Strength Of Will Forgive And Forget Never Forgive Strong People Asking For Forgiveness I Forgive You What Is Forgiveness Weak Man Love And Forgiveness Strong Inspirational Inspirational Forgiveness Power Of Forgiveness Power And Strength Self Forgiveness Faith In Humanity How To Forgive Anger And Forgiveness Inspirational Strength Weak People Strength Weakness Learn To Forgive Forgiveness Love Human Strength Strong Personality Forgive And Move On No Forgiveness Forgive Forget Can't Forgive Forgive Your Enemies Weak And Strong Forgiveness And Peace Inspirational Stay Strong Strong Life Forgiving Love Christian Forgiveness Being Strong In Life Weak Faith Weak Will Becoming Stronger

Book:All Men Are Brothers

Source: All Men Are Brothers

“Love of peace is common among weak, short-sighted, timid, and lazy persons; and on the other hand courage is found among many men of evil temper and bad character. Neither quality shall by itself avail. Justice among the nations of mankind, and the uplifting of humanity, can be brought about only by those strong and daring men who with wisdom love peace, but who love righteousness more than peace.”

Men Love Persons Character Hands Age Humanity Evil Found Strong Nations Justice Common Quality Mankind Weak Uplifting Lazy Righteousness Temper Daring Peace Love Short Sighted Bad Character Love Wisdom

Book:Bully!

Source: Bully!

“Truthfulness is a cornerstone in character, and if it be not firmly laid in youth, there will ever after be a weak spot in the foundation.”

Ifs Character Youth Weak Foundation Spots Truthfulness Ever After Cornerstones Weak Spots

Author:Jefferson Davis

“It was observed of Elizabeth that she was weak herself, but chose wise counsellors; to which it was replied, that to choose wise counsellors was, in a prince, the highest wisdom.”

Character Wise Highest Weak Counsellors

Book:Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

“There is a certain period of the soul-culture when it begins to interfere with some of characters of typical beauty belonging to the bodily frame, the stirring of the intellect wearing down the flesh, and the moral enthusiasm burning its way out to heaven, through the emaciation of the earthen vessel; and there is, in this indication of subduing the mortal by the immortal part, an ideal glory of perhaps a purer and higher range than that of the more perfect material form. We conceive, I think, more nobly of the weak presence of Paul than of, the fair and ruddy countenance of David.”

“People with really weak characters cause an immense amount of suffering in the world. They destroy whole civilisations.”

People World Whole Character Suffering Causes Amount Weakness Weak Immense Civilisation Weak Character

Book:A gesture of belonging: letters from Bessie Head, 1965-1979

Source: A gesture of belonging: letters from Bessie Head, 1965-1979

“What was it that obliged Jerome to write his book, Concerning Illustrious Men? It was the common reproach of old cast upon Christians, 'That they were all poor, weak, unlearned men.' The sort of men sometime called 'Puritans' in the English nation have been reproached with the same character. . . But when truth shall have liberty to speak, it will be known that Christianity never was more expressed unto the life than in the lives of the persons that have been thus reproached.”

Men Writing Persons Has Beens Book Character Christian Speak Nations Poor Common Known Liberty Christianity Weak Casts Obliged Reproach Puritan

Author:Cotton Mather

“Without my attempts in natural science, I should never have learned to know mankind such as it is. In nothing else can we so closely approach pure contemplation and thought, so closely observe the errors of the senses and of the understanding, the weak and strong points of character.”

Knows Should Character Strong Understanding Natural Mankind Pure Approach Weak Errors Senses Contemplation Natural Science Weak And Strong

Book:Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann

Source: Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann

“As we grow older, we should learn that these are two quite different things. Character is something you forge for yourself; temperament is something you are born with and can only slightly modify. Some people have easy temperaments and weak characters; others have difficult temperaments and strong characters. We are all prone to confuse the two in assessing people we associate with. Those with easy temperaments and weak characters are more likable than admirable; those with difficult temperaments and strong characters are more admirable than likable.”

People Should Two Different Character Strong Grows Easy Difficult Born Weak Different Things Associates Temperament Admirable Strong Character Assessing Weak Character

Book:Clearing the ground

Source: Clearing the ground

“The power of faith will often shine forth the most when the character is naturally weak.”

Character Faith Weak Shining Glitter

Author:Augustus Hare

“We are born with a potential for good character - and for the dispositions and habits that make up bad or weak character. Because we are born in ignorance of moral ideals, however, we must be instructed or trained if we are to achieve a good second nature.”

Ifs Character Born Moral Achieve Ignorance Habit Ideals Weak Disposition Good Character Weak Character

Book:Character and Cops: Ethics in Policing

Source: Character and Cops: Ethics in Policing

“Women have a faith in themselves that is unpragmatic and in each other that's just emotional and f - ing strong. Both of those characters are criticized for being weak, for being subject to a man, but I think that that's a really bold and natural thing that we all want.”

Thinking Men Want Character Strong Natural Subjects Emotional Weak Natural Things

Author:Kristen Stewart

“Censure and criticism never hurt anybody. If false, they can't hurt you unless you are wanting in manly character; and if true, they show a man his weak points, and forewarn him against failure and trouble.”

Ifs Men Character Shows Hurt Trouble Criticism Weak Manly Censure Weak Points

Author:William E. Gladstone

“I have a very healthy appetite for good writing and good characters. Having weak writing is my biggest fear.”

Writing Character Healthy Weak Appetite Good Writing Good Character Biggest Fear

Author:Michael K. Williams

“I believe the only way a writer can keep himself up to the mark is by examining each story quite coldly before he starts writing it and asking himself if it is all right as a story. I mean, once you go saying to yourself, 'This is a pretty weak plot as it stands, but I'm such a hell of a writer that my magic touch will make it okay,' you're sunk. If they aren't in interesting situations, characters can't be major characters, not even if you have the rest of the troop talk their heads off about them.”

Ifs Way Writing Believe Mean Character Stories I Believe Interesting Situation Hell Magic Majors Weak Okay Mark Asking Plot Examining Interesting Situations

Author:P. G. Wodehouse

“Nothing discloses real character like the use of power. It is easy for the weak to be gentle. Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power. This is the supreme test. It is the glory of Lincoln that, having almost absolute power, he never abused it, except upon the side of mercy.”

People Ifs Knows Men Giving Real Character Use Wish Easy Sides Bears Glory Weak Tests Mercy Absolutes Adversity Supreme Gentle Absolute Power Real Character Use Of Power

Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“People always say, "You played such a strong character." I remember someone said that to me when I played a role in Shame, and she was a suicidal mess. I said, "She's not strong at all; she's incredibly weak." But "strong" to people means "real." It means you believe that's a person who exists, as opposed to some two-dimensional depiction of women.”

People Believe Mean Persons Said Two Real Character Remember Strong Roles Weak Shame Mess Suicidal Depiction Not Strong Strong Character

Author:Carey Mulligan

“There is no obligation for the author of a film to believe in, or to sympathise with, the moral behaviour of his characters. Nor is he necessarily to be accredited with the same opinions as his characters. Nor is it necessary or obligatory for him to believe in the tenet of his construction - all of which is a disclaimer to the notion that the author of Drowning by Numbers believes that all men are weak, enfeebled, loutish, boorish and generally inadequate and incompetent as partners for women. But it's a thought.”

Men Believe Character Film Numbers Moral Opinion Weak Notion Partners Obligation Construction Behaviour Drowning Inadequate Incompetent Disclaimers

Author:Peter Greenaway

“In all tests of character, when two viewpoints are pitted against one another, in the final analysis the thing that will strike you the most, is not who was right or wrong, strong or weak, wise or foolish.... but who would go to the greatest lengths in considering the other's perspective.”

Two Character Strong Wise Perspective Weak Tests Finals Strikes Foolish Analysis Length Considering Viewpoints Test Of Character

Author:Mike Dooley

“I know I'm not normal in this, but [ Severus ] Snape is absolutely my favorite character in the Harry Potter books. He is completely mortal - good, bad, strong, weak, motivated by hatred, motivated by love. A gorgeous, compelling, complex character who definitely earns a spot at my table.”

Knows Book Character Strong Normal Weak Hatred Tables Complexes My Favorite Spots Mortals Motivated Compelling Harry Potter Gorgeous Potters Snape Complex Characters Favorite Characters

Author:Megan Chance

“What I'd like to see developing is an American radicalism, libertarian in character, which relies, however weak, faint, and even mythic these traditions may be, on the American libertarian tradition. I don't mean right-wing libertarianism obviously.”

May Mean Character Tradition Weak Wings Libertarian Developing Rely Libertarianism Right Wing Radicalism

Author:Murray Bookchin

“'The Sopranos' gets praised as novelistic, but it follows the most banal of life patterns, showing the sheer tedium of being a mobster. It has dead spots, boring plotlines, weak episodes. Characters develop slowly, or don't. Like viewers, a gangster might get bored, fade out of the action, then come back to find none of his debts forgotten.”

Character Might Action Weak Forgotten Patterns Boring Debt Spots Bored Fades Episodes Sheer Viewers Gangsters Sopranos Tedium Mobster

Author:Rob Sheffield

“If the egotist is weak, his egotism is worthless. If the egotist is strong, acute, full of distinctive character, his egotism is precious, and remains a possession of the race.”

Ifs Character Strong Race Weak Remains Possession Worthless Egotism Glitter Distinctive

Book:Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country

Source: Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country

“We should strive to welcome change and challenges, because they are what help us grow. With out them we grow weak like the Eloi in comfort and security. We need to constantly be challenging ourselves in order to strengthen our character and increase our intelligence.”

Needs Should Character Helping Order Grows Challenges Security Comfort Weak Increase Strive Welcome

Author:H. G. Wells

“Conflict is the microscope of a book. When it's trained on a character, you see what's underneath the narratives of physical description. You see whether someone is strong or weak, principled or apathetic, heroic or villainous." (J.R. on writing the BDB series)”

Writing Book Character Strong Conflict Weak Series Narrative Description Heroic Microscopes Apathetic Principled

Author:J.R. Ward

“I can't imagine how anyone can say: "I'm weak," and then remain so. After all, if you know it, why not fight against it, why not try to train your character? The answer was: "Because it's so much easier not to!”

Ifs Knows Trying I Can Character Fighting Answers Imagine Easier Weak Train Why Not

Book:The diary of a young girl

Source: The diary of a young girl

“There are occasions when a woman, no matter how weak and impotent in character she may be in comparison with a man, will yet suddenly become not only harder than any man, but even harder than anything and everything in the world.”

Men World May Matter Character Weak Harder Occasions Comparison Anything And Everything

Author:Nikolai Gogol

“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]”

Has Beens Stills Done Character Strong Interest Interesting Balance Findings Hundred Female Weak Males Interviews Femininity Female Characters Strong Female Characters Strong Female

Author:James Cameron

“Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes. Silently and imperceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or we grow weak, and at last some crisis shows us what we have become.”

Inspirational Character Shows Eye Lasts Strong Grows Leadership Sleep Courage Human Nature Hero Weak Crisis Occasions Coward Life And Love

Author:Brooke Westcott

“It is only persons of firmness that can have real gentleness. Those who appear gentle are, in general, only a weak character, which easily changes into asperity.”

Persons Real Character Determination Weak Gentle Gentleness Firmness Weak Character

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Football doesn't build character. It eliminates the weak ones.”

Character Sports Leadership Football Weak Motivational Sports Royal Inspiring Football Texas Football Weak Character

Author:Darrell Royal

“...people think non-violence is really weak and non-militant. These are misconceptions that people have because they don't understand what non-violence means. Non-violence takes more guts, if I can put it bluntly, than violence. Most violent acts are accomplished by getting the opponent off guard, and it doesn't take that much character, I think, if one wants to do it.”

People Ifs Thinking Want Mean I Can Character Violence Weak Violent Opponents Accomplished Guts Misconception Non Violence Militant Violent Acts

Author:Cesar Chavez

“It is easier to influence strong than weak characters in life.”

Character Strong Easy Influence Easier Weak Weak Character

Book:More Or Less about Myself

Source: More Or Less about Myself

“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.”

People Inspirational Needs Persons Doe Character Can Do Challenges Situation Approach Standards Ordinary Weak Extraordinary Temporary Ordinary People Extraordinary Things Weak People

Author:Michael Josephson

“They are slaves who fear to speak, for the fallen and the weak.”

Character Speak Fear Weak Slave Fallen Scoffing

Book:The poetical works of James Russell Lowell

Source: The poetical works of James Russell Lowell

“Get it into your head once and for all, my simple and very fainthearted fellow, that what fools call humanness is nothing but a weakness born of fear and egoism; that this chimerical virtue, enslaving only weak men, is unknown to those whose character is formed by stoicism, courage, and philosophy.”

Men Philosophy Character Born Simple Virtue Fool Weakness Weak Fellows Stoicism Egoism Humanness Weak Man Humanness Is

Author:Marquis de Sade

“Voting in particular is an embarrassment, being a public display of weak character and low intelligence. Let us face the truth: Democracy, like spitting in public or the Roman games, is the proper activity of the lower intellectual and moral classes. It amounts to collusion in one's own suckering.”

Character Faces Games Moral Class Democracy Particular Amount Activity Intellectual Lows Weak Voting Display Embarrassment Facing The Truth Collusion Weak Character

Author:Fred Reed

“For the Humanist, . . . head and heart . . . must function together. . . . The constitution of the Phillips Exeter Academy reads: 'Though goodness without knowledge . . . is weak and feeble, yet knowledge without goodness is dangerous. . . . Both united form the noblest character and lay the surest foundation of usefulness to mankind.'”

Heart Character Together Form United Mankind Dangerous Goodness Weak Function Constitution Foundation Lays Humanist Academy Usefulness Head And Heart Exeter

Author:Corliss Lamont

“I think books with weak or translucent plots can survive if the character being drawn along the path is rich, interesting and multi-faceted. The opposite is not true.”

Ifs Thinking Book Character Interesting Path Rich Weak Opposites Plot

Author:Michael Connelly

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