Top 121 Frailty Quotes & Sayings

It is a blessed thing to know that no power on earth, no temptation, no human frailty can dissolve what God holds together.

I will not quarrel with a slight mistake, Such as our nature's frailty may excuse.

The solution to our human frailty is not to try harder, but to turn Godward.

Sometimes we are devils to ourselves When we will tempt the frailty of our powers, Presuming on their changeful potency.

In a family it is normal to take charge of those who need help. Do not be afraid of frailty!

And wit's the noblest frailty of the mind.

To me, all human behavior is unpredictable and, considering man's frailty... and... the ramshackle universe he functions in, it's... all irrational.

Love's but a frailty of the mind, When 'tis not with ambition joined.

I don’t deny that there can be an element of escapism in mountaineering, but this should never overshadow its real essence, which is not escape but victory over your own human frailty.

Thou seest I have more flesh than another man, and therefore more frailty.

The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation.

It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.

The mountain is a mirror, where climbers look to find themselves. They discover their frailty, take heart from their strengths, drink deep of the insights.

'Contagion' should serve as a wake-up call not only about the germs, but perhaps more importantly about the frailty of governance, nationally and worldwide.

In uncertainty I am certain that underneath their topmost layers of frailty men want to be good and want to be loved.

The glimpses of human strength and frailty that a physician sees are with me still.

What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.

Necessity, that great refuge and excuse for human frailty, breaks through all law; and he is not to be accounted in fault whose crime is not the effect of choice, but force.

We are not masters of our own affections; our inclinations dailyalter: now we love pleasure, and anon we shall dote on business. Human frailty will have it so, and who can help it?

Blessed is he who has never been tempted; for he knows not the frailty of his rectitude.

Those who hope, by retiring from the world, to earn a holiday from human frailty, in themselves and others, are usually disappointed.

Con men look for human frailty to exploit. This is most often greed. Trump found a different vice: anger. The emotional are always the most susceptible to manipulation.

I can be fearlessly strong at times to protect an inner frailty.

All flesh doth frailty breed!

Alas, our frailty is the cause , not we! For, such as we are made of, such we be.

The trouble with him was that he was without imagination. He was quick and alert in the things of life, but only in the things, and not in the significances. Fifty degrees below zero meant eighty-odd degrees of frost. Such fact impressed him as being cold and uncomfortable, and that was all. It did not lead him to meditate upon his frailty as a creature of temperature, and upon man's frailty in general, able only to live within certain narrow limits of heat and cold; and from there on it did not lead him to the conjectural field of immortality and man's place in the universe.

The longer I live the more conscious I am of human frailty, and of the constant, overwhelming need we all have of God’s grace.

The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion.

We've been tested by every force of nature, disease, and human frailty.

Although I do wrong, I do not the wrongs that I am charged with doing; the wrong that I do is through the frailty of human nature, like other men. No man lives without fault.

Blessed are they who in this sea of frailty, climb aboard a piece of ass as it floats by.

Fill the seats of justice with good men, not so absolute in goodness as to forget what human frailty is.

Such is the frailty of man that even where he makes the truest and most forcible impression in the memory, in the heart of his beloved, there also he must perish.

Snow makes cities innocent again, reveals the frailty of the human gesture against the void.

I'm not a vindictive person. But I do want to shine a light on human frailty and heroism in equal measure.

I don't mind . . . the fun and games of being treated like a fragile flower. But as a physiologist working with the unromantic scientific facts of life, I find it hard to delude myself about feminine frailty.

Fishing is a constant reminder of the democracy of life, of humility, and of human frailty. The forces of nature discriminate for no man.

The forest did not tolerate frailty of body or mind. Show your weakness, and it would consume you without hesitation.

I must not permit the evil capabilities of human nature to sour my faith in the tremendous good that is possible despite the frailty of that nature.

Artists instinctively want to reflect humanity, their own and each other's, in all its intermittent virtue and vitality, frailty and fallibility.

Oh, fatherhood has a very humanising effect on a bloke like me in the military. As a dad, you become absolutely aware of your own human frailty and a need to be nurturing and compassionate and fatherly

Knowing who the actors were as you were designing them helped, with Catherine's beauty and Renee's frailty, they directed me visually just by who they were.

If you can slow the biological process of aging, even a minor slowdown in the rate at which we age yields improvements in virtually every condition of frailty and disability and mortality that we see at later ages.

Man with frailty is allied by birth.

Frailty, thy name is woman!

And love's the noblest frailty of the mind.

Never attribute to malice or other deliberate decision what can be explained by human frailty, imperfection, or ignorance.

Love's but the frailty of the mind, When 'tis not with ambition joined; A sickly flame, which if not fed expires; And feeding, wastes in self-consuming fires.

Never listen to accounts of the frailty of others; and if anyone should complain to you of another, humbly ask him not to speak about him at all.

You do not have to ladle on the impasto to make a point about human frailty or ambitions.

I do feel as if my own music as quite flawed, and it's that frailty or lack of technical proficiency that goes hand-in-hand with some sort of professionalism.

The deepest repentance and humility and our own frailty and weakness must be realized before we can know God's strength.

Pride is not the heritage of man; humility should dwell with frailty, and atone for ignorance, error, and imperfection.

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.

We aren't always comfortable witnessing real frailty or vulnerability in our heroines, but I like characters who struggle, and doubt, and who don't always do the wise thing.

I'm not sure. But that bless-his/her-heart kind of melancholic humor is among my favorite things in the world. I guess it exposes a kind of humanity - or that's the hope, at least - a kind of grudging respect for human frailty. Unless it's actually kicking human frailty while it's down - I'm not sure.

Suffering is a call to conversion: it reminds us of our frailty and vulnerability.

Secrets can remind us of the countless human dramas, of frailty and heroism playing out silently in the lives of people all around us.

Immortal Spenser, no frailty hath thy fame but the imputation of this idiot's friendship!

Authority and place demonstrate and try the tempers of men, by moving every passion and discovering every frailty.