Weakness Perception Quotes

You must be careful with kindness. It's usually mistaken for weakness by stupid people.

Of all evil I deem you capable: Therefore I want good from you. Verily, I have often laughed at the weaklings who thought themselves good because they had no claws.

Thinking that being a good, decent, respectable person will mean that others will see you as weak, vulnerable, and easy to manipulate.

I would be surprised to see the White House scaling back on anything. That would be an admission they are operating from a position of weakness.

Sadness is weak; I don't believe in weakness.

A 'sign of weakness' for a male celebrity is being found to be unfaithful, or unkind to an employee, or having crashed their car while stoned out of their tiny minds. A 'sign of weakness' for a woman, on the other hand, can be a single, unflattering picture.

To be loved is a strength. To love is a weakness.

This stigma associated with drug use--the belief that bad kids use, good kids don't, and those with full-blown addiction are weak, dissolute, and pathetic--has contributed to the escalation of use and has hampered treatment more than any single other factor.

There is a rank due to the United States among nations which will be withheld, if not absolutely lost, by the reputation of weakness.

No one is ever quite as strong or as weak as you'd think.

I was afraid to admit feeling ill because even when I was 4 or 5, I knew that my father viewed sickness as a sign of weakness, of sin, of disobedience.

Being a woman in a male-dominated industry, you are so afraid of people thinking you are weak.

I often cried when I got angry; I hated that. Crying just made you look weak, no matter what triggered it.

You don't want to let on how hurt you are because some people will see that as a sign of weakness, they might use it against you.

I'm such a baby if I even get a flu.

I think all of us should seek help, and not help is in a - you know, help shouldn't be seen as a frightening thing. Help shouldn't be seen as a weak thing.

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.

If you think love is weak, that's a personal problem because real love is the strongest thing in the universe.

It's a pretty humiliating thing when you get picked last every day in gym class and then at lunchtime all the kids play sports and you get picked last. At the time I just thought, "This is awful," because it defines you as a weak person. It defines you with girls and if you're bad at sports, you get into this funny cycle where the ball never gets to you because now you're in the worst position, you're in deep right field, so you can never prove that you got better, so the cycle lasts forever.

In a king, modesty would be a sign of weakness.

Don't limp in front of the lame.

A man may be accused of cowardice for fleeing away from all manner of physical dangers but when things supernatural, insubstantial and inexplicable threaten not only his safety and well-being but his sanity, his innermost soul, then retreat is not a sign of weakness but the most prudent course.