#weak

The 'morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised. ↗

— Andrew Carnegie

#compromise #compromised #contradictory #defeat #men

Sometimes, because of my success, I am afraid that I was not a good father. With the first two I was too strong, and with the other three I was too weak. ↗

— Roberto Cavalli

#am #because #father #first #good

We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You're always helping people. ↗

— Jackie Chan

#arts #fight #get #helping #helping people

My sense of proprietorship has been so weak that actually I didn't pay attention and I lost the copyrights on a lot of the songs. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#attention #been #i #lost #lot

Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#every #excess #however #itself #minds

It is indeed hard for the strong to be just to the weak, but acting justly always has its rewards. ↗

— Eamon de Valera

#always #hard #indeed #just #justly

The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#deprive #grave #life #may #most

Growth begins when we begin to accept our own weakness. ↗

— Jean Vanier

#begin #begins #growth #our #own

Strong women only marry weak men. ↗

— Bette Davis

#men #only #strong #strong women #weak

Men are beginning to realize that they are not individuals but persons in society, that man alone is weak and adrift, that he must seek strength in common action. ↗

— Dorothy Day

#adrift #alone #beginning #common #individuals