Pastoral Resources

Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism.

You can be stern and forthright, and that's my management style, but when you lose it totally, that's a sign of weakness.

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 the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.

Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.

My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn that perceived weakness into a strength.

Let no one think that flexibility and a predisposition to compromise is a sign of weakness or a sell-out.

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

In the garment trades, on the other hand, the presence of a body of the disfranchised, of the weak and young, undoubtedly contributes to the economic weakness of these trades.

A great number of the women are victims to falling of the womb and weakness in the spine; but these are necessary results of their laborious existence, and do not belong either to climate or constitution.

The acknowledgment of our weakness is the first step in repairing our loss.

Neutrality, as a lasting principle, is an evidence of weakness.

I was serving good but was returning especially well, which was a weakness in my game. So not only was I serving well, but I was also breaking these other guys, and they felt the pressure.

Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.

How will decent people in the region ever believe in peace if Arab terrorists interpret every gesture of peace as a display of weakness and then act accordingly?

I tremble for my country when I hear of confidence expressed in me. I know too well my weakness, that our only hope is in God.

Insincerity is always weakness; sincerity even in error is strength.

Yes, forget your weakness, whatever that weakness may be. It is egotism, it is selfishness after. all, for it is a dwelling on self. Forget your weakness; and remember your strength.

They all in general had putrid gums, the spots and lassitude, with weakness of their knees.

The Green Lantern is a unique superhero because it's not that he's super that is his focus; it's that he's a man. He's very human. That's his greatest strength and his greatest weakness.

The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.