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I feel like myself, strong and weak at once - allowed, at least for a little while, to be both.
Sep 10, 2025
Without my attempts in natural science, I should never have learned to know mankind such as it is. In nothing else can we so closely approach pure contemplation and thought, so closely observe the errors of the senses and of the understanding, the weak and strong points of character.
Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot help small men by tearing down big men. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot lift the wage-earner by pulling down the wage-payer. You cannot help the poor man by destroying the rich. You cannot keep out of trouble by spending
Weak people revenge. Strong people forgive. Intelligent People Ignore.
Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.
Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.
A weak man has doubts before a decision; a strong man has them afterwards.
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
...no woman can love a weak man hard enough to make him strong.
The weak fall, but the strong will remain and never go under!
Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.
If you feel lost, disappointed, hesitant, or weak, return to yourself, to who you are, here and now and when you get there, you will discover yourself, like a lotus flower in full bloom, even in a muddy pond, beautiful and strong.
I like writing about women, weak and strong, pathetic and heroic. I like writing about men, ditto. And all the variants of men and women, beasts and demons.
A strong man can handle a strong woman. A weak man will say she has an attitude problem
Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.
The weak can never forgive.
You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacle s, discouragement s, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.
All that is gold does not glitter.
A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.
He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.
Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
As for the forces, electromagnetism and gravity we experience in everyday life. But the weak and strong forces are beyond our ordinary experience. So in physics, lots of the basic building blocks take 20th- or perhaps 21st-century equipment to explore.
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