Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Each relationship nurtures a strength or weakness within you.
- Mike Murdock
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
- Albert Einstein
Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline;
simulated fear postulates courage;
simulated weakness postulates strength.
- Lao Tzu
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.
The most certain way to succeed
is always to try just one more time.
- Thomas A. Edison
You can't let praise or criticism get to you.
It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.
- John Wooden
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.
- Henry David Thoreau
There is a sacredness in tears.
They are not the mark of weakness, but of power.
They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues.
They are messengers of overwhelming grief ...
and unspeakable love.
- Washington Irving
Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
It is daily admission of one's weakness.
It is better in prayer to have a heart without words
than words without a heart.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Oh, you weak, beautiful people
who give up with such grace.
What you need is someone to take hold of you -
gently, with love, and hand your life back to you.
- Tennessee Williams
The chains of habit are too weak to be felt
until they are too strong to be broken.
- Samuel Johnson
I'm having a bad day. I am not size six.
My legs are not skinny as sticks,
and dammit, someone's got to pay.
I'm afraid that I can't satisfy myself
and that my happiness depends on someone else.
I feel weak, so you're gonna take the fall.
You're so shallow.
- Jewel
The weak can never forgive.
Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak.
Strong convictions precede great actions.
- Louisa May Alcott
A weak man is just by accident.
A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Fate is for those too weak to determine their own destiny.
- Kamran Hamid
In the world there is nothing more
submissive and weak than water.
Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong,
nothing can surpass it.
- Lao Tzu
History does not long entrust the care of freedom
to the weak or the timid.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
How can any man be weak who dares to be at all?
- Henry David Thoreau
How far you go in life depends on you being
tender with the young,
compassionate with the aged,
sympathetic with the striving
and tolerant of the weak and the strong.
Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
- George Washington Carver
One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history
rests on something spiritual.
If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history.
If it is weak, it suffers world history.
- Albert Schweitzer
It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom.
It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest
might weaken and the wisest might err.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Life ... full of loneliness, and misery,
and suffering, and unhappiness,
and it's all over much too quickly.
- the Woody Allen movie Annie Hall
And you just gotta remember, Sparky -
no matter what they tell you - you can NEVER have too much sugar.
- the movie Michael (1996)
Frankly, I'm too scared to ask about the frog.
- the movie Tangled (2010)
Damn it boss, I like you too much not to say it.
You've got everything except one thing: madness!
- the movie Zorba The Greek
Serious illness doesn't bother me for long
because I am too inhospitable a host.
- Albert Schweitzer
One great thing about getting old is that
you can get out of all sorts of social obligations
just by saying you're too tired.
- George Carlin
Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend.
Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.
- Groucho Marx
Fear of death ... That's funny. I have that too.
My dog has it. It's very common with living creatures.
- the movie Anything Else (2003)
Too bad all the people who know how to run this country
are busy running taxicabs or cutting hair.
- George Burns
The time-traveling is just too dangerous.
Better that I devote myself to study
the other great mystery of the universe - women!
- the movie Back to the Future II
Too many people spend money they haven't earned,
to buy things they don't want,
to impress people they don't like.
- Will Rogers
I do not believe in using women in combat,
because females are too fierce.
- Margaret Mead
Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
- Oscar Wilde
The trouble with the world is not
that people know too little,
but that they know so many things that ain't so.
- Mark Twain
Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion
without the discomfort of thought.
- John F. Kennedy
I choose my friends for their good looks,
my acquaintances for their good characters,
and my enemies for their intellects.
A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde
The claim "I was only following orders" has been used
to justify too many tragedies in our history.
- Captain Picard of the television series
STAR TREK: The Next Generation
Rules are mostly made to be broken
and are too often for the lazy to hide behind.
- Douglas MacArthur
A man can't be too careful in the choice of enemies.
- Oscar Wilde
Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because
he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong
only because he has remained silent.
- Winston Churchill
It was impossible to get a conversation going,
everybody was talking too much.
- Yogi Berra
Money often costs too much.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
One should never know too precisely
whom one has married
- Friedrich Nietzsche
You are Never Too Old to Give or Get Gold Stars.
Show Your Honest Appreciation - Today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A conservative is a man who is
too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
- Elbert Hubbard
Too clever is dumb.
- Ogden Nash
Happiness is often the result of being too busy to be miserable.
- Anonymous
I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack
that life is extinct on other planets
because their scientists were more advanced than ours.
- John F. Kennedy
Do not take life too seriously.
You will never get out of it alive.
- Elbert Hubbard
God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
- Voltaire
It's never too late -
never too late to start over,
never too late to be happy.
- Jane Fonda
The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper
is that your guests are so pleased
to feel how very much better they are.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Life is far too important a thing
ever to talk seriously about.
- Oscar Wilde
Life is too important to be taken seriously.
- Oscar Wilde
Mind Chatter...
"I'm too fat; I'm too thin; and my hair is a fright;
And I'm never enough; and my world is not right;
I'm not smart; I'm not cute; I'm not strong; I'm a bust
I earn scorn; I earn hate; I'm no good; I disgust."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Friendship is born at that moment
when one person says to another,
"What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
- C. S. Lewis
You are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis
Laugh when you can,
apologize when you should,
and let go of what you can't change.
Life's too short to be anything... but happy.
- Anonymous
This too, shall pass.
- Bible
Genius always finds itself a century too early.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is a mistake to look too far ahead.
Only one link in the chain of destiny
can be handled at a time.
- Winston Churchill
Life is too short, time is too precious,
and the stakes are too high
to dwell on what might have been.
- Hilary Clinton
In the long history of humankind (and animal-kind, too)
those who learned to collaborate and
improvise most effectively have prevailed.
- Charles Darwin
A man too busy to take care of his health is like
a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools.
- Spanish Proverb
No matter what happens, someone will find a way
to take it too seriously.
- Dave Barry
The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.
- Alfred Adler
We are afraid to care too much, for fear
that the other person does not care at all.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
I used to believe in forever, but forever's too good to be true.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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