But when the strong were too weak to hurt the weak, the weak had to be strong enough to leave.
We can all be weak, but we all have to make a conscious decision to be strong.
When my faith is getting weak And I feel like giving in You breathe into me again.
Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
It's okay to accept things from people. It doesn't make you weak or helpless.
Seven days without laughter makes one weak.
It is the weak and confused who worship the pseudosimplicities of brutal directness.
Life is made for the strong. There is no mercy in it for the weak– none. . . Such is the tragedy of desire.
This is a place where the strong often victimize the weak.
The exclusion of the weak and insignificant, the seemingly useless people, from a Christian community may actually mean the exclusion of Christ; in the poor brother Christ is knocking at the door.
I'm really a very weak musicologist. Wish it weren't so, but there's only so much you can dig deeply into in one lifetime, as if you hadn't noticed.
Remember: even the smallest drop of God's strength is more than enough to cover our frailties, our shortcomings, and the places where we deem ourselves weak.
The educated ones leave, the ones with the potential to right the wrongs. They leave the weak behind. The tyrants continue to reign because the weak cannot resist. Do you not see that it is a cycle? Who will break that cycle?
Weak is that throne, and in itself unsound, Which takes not solid virtue for its ground.
Whereas, according to the declaration of that true man of the world Talleyrand, the use of language is to conceal the thoughts; this is to declare in the present instance, when I say I am not able to bear much talking, it means really, and without any mistake, or equivocation, or oblique meaning, or implication, or subterfuge, or omission, that I am not able; being at present rather weak in the head, and able to work no more.
I mistake the American people if they favor the odious doctrine that there is no such thing as international morality; that there is one law for a strong nation and another for a weak one.
The influence of Sun Tzu on other North Vietnamese military strategists is harder to answer. Certainly many of the key leaders in Hanoi were aware of Sun Tzu and made use of his ideas - Vo Nguyen Giap applied many of these ideas in seeking out weak elements in the enemy's defenses, as did Truong Chinh, whose famous treatise, The Resistance Will Win (1947), cited the ideas of Mao Zedong as a model for the North Vietnamese to follow.
A strong man who has known power all his life may lose respect for that power. But a weak man knows the value of strength.
Sometimes people don't trust the force of kindness. They think love or compassion or kindness will make you weak and kind of stupid and people will take advantage of you; you won't stand up for other people.
If you wish mercy, show mercy to the weak.