O impotence of mind, in body strong! But what is strength without a double share Of wisdom, vast, unwieldy, burdensome, Proudly secure, yet liable to fall By weakest subtleties, not made to rule, But to subserve where wisdom bears command.
A fool can never be made to question his own wisdom. And George Groves is very foolish. He believes his own nonsense. He cannot stay with me for 12 rounds. He's not tough enough.
Idleness is more an infirmity of the mind than of the body.
I was blessed with a strong arm and a weak mind.
I am indeed amazed when I consider how weak my mind is and how prone to error.
A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last.
People don't want to think. And the deeper they get into trouble, the less they want to think. But by some sort of instinct, they feel that they ought to and it makes them feel guilty. So they'll bless and follow anyone who gives them a justification for not thinking. Anyone who makes a virtue - a highly intellectual virtue - out of what they know to be their sin, their weakness and their guilt.
If you are a bit weak in your head, maybe you can train your mind, but it will never be your strong point.
One who does not rouse themself when it is time to rise, who, though capable, is full of sloth, whose will and thought are weak, that lazy and idle person will never find their way to true knowledge.
Me Brock Lesnar. Here comes the pain. God built me strong. Forget to give me brain.
Optimism and self-pity are the positive and negative poles of modern cowardice.
There are moments when your mind is very vulnerable. You feel a lot of doubts.
Vagueness and procrastination are ever a comfort to the frail in spirit.
The wavering mind is but a base possession.
The trouble with you John, is that your spine does not reach your brain.
If you're mentally weak, it can destroy you. Some guys who look talented lose and never come back.
God will not damn a lunatic's soul. He knows that the powers of evil are too great for those of us with weak minds.
Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength. it does not enable us to escape evil. It makes us unfit to face evil when it comes. it is the interest you pay on trouble before it comes.
The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.
When mental energy is allowed to follow the line of least resistance and to fall into easy channels, it is called weakness.
The ultimate aim of psychoanalysis is to attribute art to mental weakness, and then to trace the weakness back to the point where, according to analytic dogma, it originated namely, the lavatory.
Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.
The sick mind can not bear anything harsh. [Lat., Mensque pati durum sustinet aegra nihil.]
A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.
But indefinite visions of ambition are weak against the ease of doing what is habitual or beguilingly agreeable; and we all know the difficulty of carrying out a resolve when we secretly long that it may turn out to be unnecessary. In such states of mind the most incredulous person has a private leaning towards miracle: impossible to conceive how our wish could be fulfilled, still - very wonderful things have happened!
