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

„Rudeness is the weak man’s imitation of strength.“

—  Edmund Burke Anglo-Irish statesman 1729 - 1797

„It is a weak man who blames his failures on the strength of others.“

—  Orson Scott Card American science fiction novelist 1951

Fuente: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Seventh Son (1987), Chapter 13.

„A man's strength is ultimately born of his knowledge of his own weakness …“

—  David Gemmell, libro Legend

Fuente: Drenai series, Legend, Pt 1: Against the Horde, Ch. 7

„The weakness of men is the facade of strength; the strength of women is the facade of weakness.“

—  Warren Farrell, libro The Myth of Male Power

Fuente: The Myth of Male Power (1993), Part 1: The Myth of Male Power, p. 13.

„This is a great fact: strength is life; weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal; weakness is constant strain and misery, weakness is death.“

—  Swami Vivekananda Indian Hindu monk and phylosopher 1863 - 1902

„The remedy for weakness is not brooding over weakness, but thinking of strength. Teach men of strength that is already within them.“

—  Swami Vivekananda Indian Hindu monk and phylosopher 1863 - 1902

Call to the Nation

„But borrowing strength builds weakness.“

—  Stephen R. Covey, libro The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People

Fuente: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

„Strength is Life, Weakness is death.“

—  Swami Vivekananda Indian Hindu monk and phylosopher 1863 - 1902

Pearls of Wisdom

„Wisdom is the strength of the weak.“

—  Joseph Joubert French moralist and essayist 1754 - 1824

„Maybe weakness is a strength of a kind.“

—  Melissa de la Cruz, libro The Van Alen Legacy

Fuente: The Van Alen Legacy

„The race of man, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity.“

—  Carl Van Doren American biographer 1885 - 1950

As quoted in Building A Speech (1990) by Sheldon Metcalfe

„To say that man is a compound of strength and weakness, light and darkness, smallness and greatness, is not to indict him, it is to define him.“

—  Denis Diderot French Enlightenment philosopher and encyclopædist 1713 - 1784

As quoted in The Anchor Book of French Quotations with English Translations (1963) by Norbert Gutermam
Pensées Philosophiques (1746)

„Man is weak and when he makes strength his profession he is even weaker.“

—  Antonio Porchia Italian Argentinian poet 1885 - 1968

El hombre es débil y cuando ejerce la profesíon de fuerte es más débil.
Voces (1943)

„A man should never be appointed into a managerial position if his vision focuses on people's weaknesses rather than on their strengths.“

—  Peter F. Drucker American business consultant 1909 - 2005

Fuente: 1930s- 1950s, The Practice of Management (1954), p. 157

„…as man under pressure tends to give in to physical and intellectual weakness, only great strength of will can lead to the objective.“

—  Carl von Clausewitz, libro On War

On War (1832), Book 3

„The tragedy of old age, when a man’s too weak to hit his own child.“

—  Edward St. Aubyn British writer 1960

Bad News, Chapter 12

„Strength grows from building other strength, not from trampling on weakness.“

—  Eric Flint American author 1947

„Compliment people. Magnify their strengths, not their weaknesses.“

—  Ralph Smart

„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.“

—  Jeffrey Archer English author and former politician 1940