Character Weakness Quotes

If you have assumed a character above your strength, you have both acted in this matter in an unbecoming way, and you have neglected that which you might have fulfilled.

Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.

Weak character will neutralize all of the other possible good qualities a person might possess.

People without firmness of character love to make up a fate for themselves; that relieves them of the necessity of having their own will and of taking responsibility for themselves.

Superman is a traditional archetype in our culture, this all-powerful but benign doer of good, protector and friend. If he could succumb to the frailties of mortal man, what's to become of the rest of us?

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

I was miserable in West Side Story. They really miscast me. I came from the Midwest; what they really needed was a guy that was street smart. The first time I saw the movie, I had to walk out. I looked like the biggest fruit that ever walked on to film. My character was so weak.

Our vices always lie in the direction of our virtues, and in their best estate are but plausible imitations of the latter.

Any excuse for non-performance, no matter how valid, weakens character.

Men fall in private long before they fall in public.

All great heroes have a flaw. It's one of the things that makes them heroes.

Our emphasis on science has resulted in an alarming rise in world populations, the demand and ever-increasing emphasis of science to improve their standards and maintain their vigor. I have been forced to the conclusion that an over-emphasis of science weakens character and upsets life's essential balance.

Have you not observed that faith is generally strongest in those whose character may be called the weakest?

He that avoideth not small faults, by little and little falleth into greater.

'The River Wild' was great, with Meryl Streep. That guy was really a bad dude who was ultimately sort of fundamentally impotent in a weird way. That was kind of interesting.

How come princesses always have some huge flaw that can cause their downfall?

This curious faith is predicated on the notion that we will soon develop unlimited new sources of energy: domestic oil fields, shale oil, gasified coal, nuclear power, solar energy, and so on. This is fantastical because the basic cause of the energy crisis is not scarcity: it is moral ignorance and weakness of character. We don't know how to use energy or what to use it for. And we cannot restrain ourselves. Our time is characterized as much by the abuse and waste of human energy as it is by the abuse and waste of fossil fuel energy.

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

For me, growing up, I felt like there was something fatally and tragically flawed in my nature and that it was my duty to try to avoid falling for that vice.