Weaken Quotes

#1. Bran was the only person I knew who could use words like "blackguard" and make them sound like swear words-but then he could have said "bunny rabbit" in that tone of voice and weaken my spine with the same shiver of fear.

Patricia Briggs

#2. Puny legs weaken the soul.

John Arnold

#3. Nothing we can do outrages Nature directly. Our acts of destruction give her new vigour and feed her energy, but none of our wreckings can weaken her power.

Marquis De Sade

#4. Angry obsessive thoughts about another weaken your state of mind and well being. If you must have revenge, then take it by choosing to be happy and let them go forever.

Gary Hopkins

#5. We don't read people's wishes. The wishes are suppose to be direct communication to the Universe. Your interception will weaken the power of the wish.

Yoko Ono

#6. Secrets are strange wild things that fight against their very existence. Try to contain them and they will strain the seams, weaken the ropes, wear down their jailer until they are revealed.

Suzanne Selfors

#7. Do not bring me your successes; they weaken me. Bring me your problems; they strengthen me.

Charles Kettering

#8. If the study to which you apply yourself has a tendency to weaken your affections and to destroy your taste for those simple pleasures in which no alloy can possibly mix, then that study is certainly unlawful, that is to say, not befitting the human mind.

Mary Shelley

#9. The U.S.-led forces have the money, weapons and huge numbers, but these things are not going to weaken our will because God is with us.

Muqtada Al Sadr

#10. It's a tough life if you don't weaken.

Stephen King

#11. Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu

#12. Compassion doesn't weaken leadership, it makes it stronger.

Rudy Giuliani

#13. I don't believe that same-sex marriages would weaken heterosexual marriage. Marriage is not a scarce resource. I thought that conservatives worried about too few people choosing marriage, not too many.

Amy Davidson

#14. ISIS have to be defeated. They have to be defeated militarily. How are we going to do that if we continue to weaken our military?

Marco Rubio

#15. Love the Lord your God, and love one another. Love one another as He loves. Love with strength and purpose and passion and no matter what comes against you. Don't weaken. Stand against the darkness, and love. That's the way back into Eden. That's the way back to life.

Francine Rivers

#16. Lord God of heaven and earth, I beg You to give me the confidence of Joshua. Instill in me Your purpose. Do not let me weaken. You are God and there is no other! "Prepare

Francine Rivers

#17. Pink is supposed to weaken your enemies, make them go soft on you, which must be why it's used for baby girls. It's a wonder the military hasn't got on to this.

Margaret Atwood

#18. Three enemies that will weaken your ministry over time: Self-indulgence, bitterness, and carelessness. Strong people discipline their desires, restrain their reactions, and keep their commitments.

Rick Warren

#19. No amount of time will weaken our allegiance to avenging those lost in the horrible attacks. America has a sharp memory, a firm resolve, and a commitment to her own.

John Doolittle

#20. I don't want to weaken the Patriot Act. I want to repeal it.

Jon Tester

#21. If we take away any of the attributes of God, we do not weaken God but we weaken our concept of God.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#22. Love was forever, love was not lost when a life was; love did not fall away or weaken a person. Love was strong and people were stronger because of it; love continued, in all forms, in every way, until the end of time and even after that.

Lindy Zart

#23. Love lost, is still love ... You can't see their smile or bring them food or tousle their hair or move them around a dance floor. But when those senses weaken, another heightens. Memory.

Mitch Albom

#24. When you distort the truth, you weaken your credibility.

Frank Sonnenberg

#25. I pray the Lord to weaken today and remove tomorrow all that obstructs the soul's contemplation.

Guigo II The Carthusian

#26. What is a strong woman? One whose very embrace can weaken the knees and soften the heart of the one she embraces, not by force, but by love which is the strongest force of all.

Toni Sorenson

#27. Women should not weaken their cause by impracticable demands. Make no claim which could not be won in a reasonable time. Take onestep at a time, get a good foothold in it and advance carefully.

Jane Swisshelm

#28. People who carry in their hearts a strong conviction concerning the living reality of the Almighty and their accountability to Him for what they do with their lives are far less likely to become enmeshed in problems that inevitably weaken society.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#29. There is a danger in exposing yourself to too much vapid art. It can weaken your judgment and erode your sensibilities, until the time comes when you see things that are merely passable, and somehow think that they're good.

David Farland

#30. The priesthood of God has become the eminent power for good in the world. We are no longer a handful of people on the fringes of society. This great power for good has been entrusted to us, and we must not weaken it by failing in our responsibilities.

James E. Faust

#31. All that has been done to weaken the foundation of an implicit faith in the Bible, as a whole, has been at the expense of the sense of religious obligation, and at the cost of human happiness.

J.G. Holland

#32. ...[T]he sublimity and intrinsic dignity of the command in duty are so much the more evident, the less the subjective impulses favor it and the more they oppose it, without being able in the slightest degree to weaken the obligation of the law or to diminish its validity.

Immanuel Kant

#33. Negative thoughts crashed the spirit, weaken the soul and make the body sick.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#34. The results of recent research on the impacts of climate change dramatically weaken the case for expensive, near-term abatement programs.

Robert O. Mendelsohn

#35. The reason of the unreasonableness which against my reason is wrought, doth so weaken my reason, as with all reason I do justly complain on your beauty.

Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

#36. Satan will try to use our troubles to worry and weaken us. But God uses them to strengthen us.

Johnny Hunt

#37. I am something of a crank about sleep, for if I get seven and a quarter hours instead of eight I feel afflicted and drag myself around, although there's nothing really wrong with me. It's just another idea. That's how it is with my ideas; they seem to get strong while I weaken.

Saul Bellow

#38. Don't allow the fear to weaken you. You must conquer fear with faith.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#39. I tell you if there's anything worse than dealing with a staunch woman... S-T-A-U-N-C-H. There's nothing worse, I'm telling you. They don't weaken, no matter what.

Edith Bouvier Beale

#40. It's a hard life if you don't weaken.

Stephen King

#41. States would be wise to weaken sovereignty in order to protect themselves ...

Richard N. Haass

#42. We could be the biggest pantyhose seller in America, but we don't want to weaken the link in shoppers' minds between Home Depot and do-it-yourself projects.

Bernard Marcus

#43. Every system of power in the world has a vested interest in weakening the individuality of its subjects and tries to weaken or it possible completely extinguish it.

Christa Wolf

#44. The worst sin in the world is when the poor try to rob the poor. the enemy is fairly obvious, why weaken our ranks?

Charles Bukowski

#45. To introduce unconverted persons to the church, is to weaken and degrade it; and therefore an apparent gain may be a real loss.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#46. Research suggests that large divisions of income and wealth weaken demand and generate economic imbalances that create instability and undermine growth.

Victor Ponta

#47. Casual obedience and lukewarm commitment weaken faith.

Kevin W. Pearson

#48. The failure of national economic policy is costing us more than jobs; it has begun to weaken that uniquely American spirit of risk-taking, large ambition, and optimism about the future. We must rally them now to bold departures that rebuild our national morale as well as our material prosperity.

Mitch Daniels

#49. Enemies strengthen you. Allies weaken.

Frank Herbert

#50. Some persons are exaggerators by temperament. They do not mean untruth, but their feelings are strong, and their imaginations vivid, so that their statements are largely discounted by those of calm judgment and cooler temperament. They do not realize that we always weaken what we exaggerate.

Tryon Edwards

#51. Let hunger sharpen your awareness. Abstain liquor and frivolous recreation, which dull the mind and weaken the body.

Laura Joh Rowland

#52. I always tell my clients to be tough, to be strong. Never weaken yourself. I believe God favors only strong persons.

Mario Teguh

#53. What is the point of "labor saving" if by making work effortless we make it poor, and if by doing poor work we weaken our bodies and lose conviviality and health? (Health is Membership, pg. 93)

Wendell Berry

#54. Nations will weaken but will still exist in 2100. They will still be needed to pass laws and fix local problems. However, their power and influence will be vastly decreased as the engines of economic growth become regional, then global.

Anonymous

#55. I think one of the great historical contributions of science is to weaken the hold of religion. That's a good thing.

Steven Weinberg

#56. Experiments show that just as the brain can build new or stronger circuits through physical or mental practice, those circuits can weaken or dissolve with neglect.

Nicholas Carr

#57. We no longer admit any other truth than that which is expedient; for there is no worse error than the truth that may weaken the arm that is fighting.

Andre Gide

#58. Small rooms or dwellings discipline the mind, large ones weaken it.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#59. It's a hard life sometimes and the biggest temptation is to let how hard it is be an excuse to weaken

Walter Dean Myers

#60. Life has its share of joys and laughter - but we also know life's road is often very rough. Temptations assail us; people disappoint us; illness and age weaken us; tragedies and sorrows ambush us; evil and injustice overpower us. Life is hard - but God is good, and heaven is real!

Billy Graham

#61. What we must remember above all in the education of our children is that their love of life should never weaken.

Natalia Ginzburg

#62. In the area of national security, I urge the swift passage of an anti-terrorism law that will protect rather than subvert, enhance rather than weaken, the rights and liberties that terrorism precisely threatens with extinction.

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

#63. when he was officiating in a depressed state of mind he felt that the influence produced on him by the service would endure. And it did in fact weaken till only the habit remained.

Leo Tolstoy

#64. Following an extended boom in housing, the demand for homes began to weaken in mid-2005. By the middle of 2006, sales of both new and existing homes had fallen about 15 percent below their peak levels. Homebuilders responded to the fall in demand by sharply curtailing construction.

Ben Bernanke

#65. Painful feelings are, by their very nature, temporary. They will weaken over time as long as we don't prolong or amplify them through resistance or avoidance. The only way to eventually free ourselves from debilitating pain, therefore, is to be with it as it is. The only way out is through.

Kristin Neff

#66. Stop costly new regulations that would increase unemployment, raise consumer prices, and weaken the nation's global competitiveness with virtually no impact on global temperatures.

Newt Gingrich

#67. It was unworthy of our military sources that they were the first to weaken.

Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

#68. We always weaken whatever we exaggerate.

Jean-Francois De La Harpe

#69. A respect for the rights of other peoples to determine their forms of government and their economy will not weaken our democracy. It will inevitably strengthen it.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#70. Bad thoughts can be dangerous if left to simmer and weaken the heart slowly and invisibly. Like termites that destroy the beams of a house, secretly, in the dark until it's too late and everything collapses.

Massimo Marino

#71. The stress and worry weaken our immune system,

Joel Osteen

#72. One of the primary purposes of suffering is not to weaken the heart of the feeble, but to strengthen the spirit of the brave.

Sebastian De Assis

#73. Weaken a bad habit by avoiding everything that occasioned it or stimulated it, without concentrating upon it in your zeal to avoid it. Then divert your mind to some good habit and steadily cultivate it until it becomes a dependable part of you.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#74. The love of independence is a sentiment that surely none would wish to see erased from the breast of man, though the parish law of England, it must be confessed, is a system of all others the most calculated gradually to weaken this sentiment, and in the end may eradicate it completely.

Thomas Malthus

#75. A two-speed Europe will not be a strong Europe. The idea of making decisions and policies in a narrow circle, disregarding smaller EU members, will make it hard to engage them to commit to a common policy, which will weaken the union.

Georgi Parvanov

#76. Guilt was a fascinating thing: it seemed not to weaken over time. If anything it grew stronger as the circumstances faded from memory, as the fear and the necessity became abstract. And only her own actions stood out with crystal clarity.

Michael Grant

#77. To say that an artist sells out means that an artist is making a conscious choice to compromise his music, to to weaken his music for the sake of commercial gain.

Ken Burns

#78. Do today's duty, fight today's temptation; do not weaken and distract yourself by looking forward to things you cannot see, and could not understand if you saw them.

Charles Kingsley

#79. Respect towards humanity may get weaken when it comes about Stomach, Shelter and Sleep

Samar Sudha

#80. Back on September 11, terrorists attacked our metropolitan cores, two of America's great cities. They did that because they knew that was where they could do the most damage and weaken us the most.

Martin O'Malley

#81. If in making a picture you introduce two ideas, you weaken it by half-if three, it weakens by compound ratio-if four, the picture will be really too weak to consider at all and the human interest would be entirely lost.

Howard Pyle

#82. We shall not fail or falter; we shall not weaken or tire. Neither the sudden shock of battle, nor the long-drawn trials of vigilance and exertion will wear us down. Give us the tools and we will finish the job.

Winston Churchill

#83. You fall in love with someone not because he's nice to you or can read your mind but because, when he kisses you, your knees weaken, or because you can't stop looking at his skin or at the way his legs, inside his jeans, shape the fabric.

Charles Baxter

#84. In education if you strengthen a strength you weaken a weakness.

Thomas Davis

#85. Colors blind the eye
Sounds deafen the ear.
Flavors numb the taste.
Thoughts weaken the mind.
Desires wither the heart.

Lao-Tzu

#86. If Satan can weaken or destroy the loving relationships among members of families, he can cause more misery and more unhappiness for more people than he could in any other way.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#87. All the tears in the world can't bring back the dead or wash away your fears and grief. I want you to put up your chin and tell yourself you are strong. And if you begin to weaken, hold on to me. That's what I am here for.

Cynthia Wright

#88. The end of the republic is to enervate and to weaken all other bodies so as to increase its own body.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#89. The best way to weaken one's enemy was to get him to believe that you were on his side.

Paulo Coelho

#90. He who immerses himself in sexual intercourse will be assailed by premature aging, his strength will wane, his eyes will weaken, and a bad odour will emit from his mouth and his armpits, his teeth will fall out and many other maladies will afflict him.

Maimonides

#91. I want to fall in love in such a way that the mere sight of a man, even a block away from me, will shake and pierce me, will weaken me, and make me tremble and soften and melt.

Anais Nin

#92. It can be dangerous to weaken the strong in our attempts to strengthen the weak.

Jim Rohn

#93. Here (Jerusalem), tears do not weaken the eyes, they only polish and shine the hardness of faces like stone.

Yehuda Amichai

#94. What better way to weaken a powerful enemy than to get it fighting itself?

Charles Stross

#95. False teaching - anything that would weaken the believer's ties to his Lord - must be confronted wherever it appears, even if that confrontation requires painful correction.

Max Anders

#96. That, which others compress - will widen up and open. That, which others weaken - will strengthen. That, which others destroy - will blossom. Whoever wished to take something from the other, will inevitably loose his own.

Laozi

#97. A weakened sense of responsibility does not weaken the fact of responsibility.

William Bennett

#98. A tragedy is a tragedy, no matter what, but I've learned that it doesn't define who we are and it doesn't weaken us. It makes us stronger.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#99. Finding a way to move on from him would be hard. I might never accomplish it. I wouldn't chase him, but I would mourn him. As if he were dead, my heart would weaken, and I'd embrace the pain and sadness. Until Gannon, I'd never been truly happy. No one had made me feel complete or like I belonged.

Abbi Glines

#100. Every time you work out you strengthen your body. Every time you don't you weaken it.

Toni Sorenson