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Former President of the United States

I can't claim to know the words of all the national anthems in the world, but I don't know of any other that ends with a question and a challenge as ours does: Does that flag still wave o'er the land of the free and the home of the brave? That is what we must all ask.

Bravery - Challenge - End

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Mark Twain

Writer, Humorist, Entrepreneur, Publisher, Lecturer

History teaches us that whenever a weak and ignorant people possess a thing which a strong and enlightened people want, it must be yielded up peaceably.

Enlightenment - Ignorance - Strength - Teaching - Wants - Weakness

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Eric Hoffer

Historian, Writer, Philosopher

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.

Power - Rude - Weakness - Work

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Dalai Lama, XIV

Leader of the Gelug School of Tibetan Buddhism, Exiled Leader of Tibet

When reason ends, then anger begins. Therefore, anger is a sign of weakness.

End - Reason - Weakness

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Charles Babbage

Mathematician, Philosopher, Inventor

Precedents are treated by powerful minds as fetters with which to bind down the weak, as reasons with which to mistify the moderately informed, and as reeds which they themselves fearlessly break through whenever new combinations and difficult emergencies demand their highest efforts.

Demanding - Difficulty - Emergency - Mindset - Weakness

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Franz Kafka

Novelist, Writer

He thought back on his family with deep emotion and love. His conviction that he would have to disappear was, if possible, even firmer than his sister's. He remained in this state of empty and peaceful reflection until the tower clock struck three in the morning. He still saw that outside the window everything was beginning to grow light. Then, without his consent, his head sank down to the floor, and from his nostrils streamed his last weak breath.

Emotions - Emptiness - Growing - Mornings - State - Weakness

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Thomas Carlyle

Philosopher, Writer, Translator, Historian, Mathematician

The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

Bravery - Laughing

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Nelson Mandela

Revolutionary, Former President of South Africa

Sport has the power to change the world... Sport can awaken hope where there was previously only despair.

Sport

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Alain de Botton

Philosopher, Author

Sweetness is the opposite of machismo, which is everywhere-and I really don't get on with machismo. I'm interested in sensitivity, and weakness, and fear, and anxiety, because I think that, at the end of the day, behind our masks, that's what we are.

Anxiety - End - Sensitivity - Sweet - Thinking - Weakness

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Augustine of Hippo

Theologian, Philosopher

What then, is correctness of speech but the maintenance of the practice of others, as established by the authority of ancient speakers? But the weaker men are, the more they are troubled by such matters. Their weakness stems from a desire to appear learned, not with a knowledge of things, by which we are edified, but with a knowledge of signs, by which it is difficult not to be puffed up in some way; even a knowledge of things often makes people boastful, unless their necks are held down by the Lord's yoke.

Authority - Difficulty - Maintenance - Man - People - Practice - Speaking - Weakness

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Nelson Mandela

Revolutionary, Former President of South Africa

Sports have the power to change the world. It has the power to inspire, the power to unite people in a way that little else does. It speaks to youth in a language they understand. Sports can create hope, where there was once only despair. It is more powerful than governments in breaking down racial barriers. It laughs in the face of all types of discrimination. Sports is the game of lovers.

Inspiration - Linguistics - Speaking - Sport

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Thomas Jefferson

Former President of the United States

Victory and defeat are each of the same price.

Sport

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Aristotle

Philosopher

A brave man is clear in his discourse, and keeps close to truth.

Bravery - Man

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Niccolo Machiavelli

Politician, Historian, Philosopher, Writer

A multitude is strong while it holds together, but so soon as each of those who compose it begins ro think of his own private danger, it becomes weak and contemptible.

Strength - Weakness

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Samuel Johnson

Writer, Poet, Lexicographer

No weakness of the human mind has more frequently incurred animadversion, than the negligence with which men overlook their own faults, however flagrant, and the easiness with which they pardon them, however frequently repeated.

Fault - Human - Man - Mindset - Neglect - Weakness

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Maya Angelou

Poet, Singer, Writer, Civil Rights Activist

The needs of a society determine its ethics, and in the Black American ghettos the hero is that man who is offered only the crumbs from his country's table but by ingenuity and courage is able to take for himself a Lucullan feast. Hence the janitor who lives in one room but sports a robin's-egg-blue Cadillac is not laughed at but admired, and the domestic who buys forty-dollar shoes is not criticized but is appreciated. We know that they have put to use their full mental and physical powers. Each single gain feeds into the gains of the body collective.

Ability - Countries - Heroism - Laughing - Man - Sport

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William Shakespeare

Poet, Playwright, Actor

There is a history in all men's lives, Figuring the nature of the times deceased, The which observed, a man may prophesy, With a near aim, of the main chance of things As yet not come to life, which in their seeds And weak beginnings lie intreasured.

Aiming - Lie - Man - Weakness

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Soren Kierkegaard

Philosopher, Theologian, Poet, Social Critic

Sin is: before God, or with the conception of God, in despair not to will to be oneself, or in despair to will to be oneself. Thus sin is intensified weakness or intensified defiance: sin is the intensification of despair. The emphasis is on before God, or with a conception of God; it is the conception of God that makes sin dialectically, ethically, and religiously what lawyers call 'aggravated' despair.

Defiance - Despair - Lawyer - Oneself - Sin - Weakness

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Pema Chodron

Designer, Clergyman, Nun

Usually we think that brave people have no fear. The truth is that they are intimate with fear.

Bravery - Intimacy - People - Thinking

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Blaise Pascal

Mathematician, Physicist, Inventor, Theologian

Nothing is surer than that the people will be weak.

Weakness

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