Weak Character Quotes

In soft regions are born soft men.

I have the backbone of an eel.

The weak are not a noble breed. Their sublime deeds of faith, daring, and self-sacrifice usually spring from questionable motives. The weak hate not wickedness but weakness; and one instance of their hatred of weakness is hatred of self. All the passionate pursuits of the weak are in some degree a striving to escape, blur, or disguise an unwanted self. It is a striving shot through with malice, envy, self-deception, and a host of petty impulses; yet it often culminates in superb achievements.

If the president of the college had asked me what I thought about Dewey McLean, I'd say he's a weak sister. I thought he'd been knocked out of the ball game and had just disappeared, because nobody invites him to conferences anymore.

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

To know what is right and choose to ignore it is the act of a coward.

Deceit is the game of petty spirits, and that is by nature a woman's quality.

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

Wickedness is weakness.

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.

The commonest weakness of our race is our ability to rationalize our most selfish purposes.

When a broken tank is filled with water, It certainly will leak on every side. Weak men who grow rich Seldom leave an inheritance.

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

I have taken advantage of other people's weaknesses in order to cover my own.

Nothing is rarer than true good nature; they who are reputed to have it are generally only pliant or weak.

… a small caliber man.

Under the regime of neoliberalism, individual responsibility becomes the only politics that matters, and serves to blame those who are susceptible to larger systemic forces. Even though such problems are not of their own making, neoliberalism's discourse insists that the fate of the vulnerable is a product of personal issues ranging from weak character to bad choices or simply moral deficiencies. This makes it easier for its advocates to argue that poverty is a deserved condition.

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

Conscience, the organ of feeling which dominates us and of the opinions which rule us, is presumptuous in the strong, timid in the weak and unfortunate, uneasy in the undecided.

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

The procrastinator is not only indolent and weak, but commonly, false, too; most of the weak are false.

The tendency to whining and complaining may be taken as the surest sign symptom of little souls and inferior intellects.

Know that all sins and all evils can be summed up in that one word, weakness. It is weakness that is the motive power in all evil doing; it is weakness that makes men injure others; it is weakness that makes them manifest what they are not in reality. Let them know what they really are.

I hate liberality - nine times out of ten it is cowardice, and the tenth time lack of principle.

Davis was weak and vascillating, timid, petulant, peevish, obstinate, but not firm.