Perceived Strength Quotes

Sometimes our weakness is considered strength, and we take delight in borrowed greatness.

Your strength is just an accident owed to the weakness of others.

Swords appear strong, but they're actually quite weak. Jesus appears weak, but he's actually quite strong.

But if the strength ain't real, I recall thinking the very last thing that day, before I finally passed out, then the weakness sure enough is. Weakness is true and real. I used to accuse the kid of faking his weakness. But faking proves the weakness is real. Or you wouldn't be so weak as to fake it. No, you can't ever fake being weak. You can only fake being strong. . .

Men’s greatest weakness is their facade of strength, and women’s greatest strength is their facade of weakness.

People have an image of Italians. When I go somewhere in the world, I don't care where it is, when they look at me it's not about my intelligence. It's who can I beat up.

A lot of people refer to power as shooting a loaded gun. When you have to shoot the gun, you've lost the power. Other people's knowledge of your gun should be enough.

I think that when people look at me, and they look at my height and my voice and my coloring, they automatically think, 'Tough.'

Young people like to think they're invincible. They don't like to face any situation where they've gotten weaker instead of stronger.

The funny thing is, when a Harley-Davidson guy full of tattoos comes out with a Maltese, they're trying to soften themselves out. When a very soft, single lady with a tailored look comes out with a Rottweiler, she’s looking for protection, for strength. Society automatically views the guy as too strong so he brings a Maltese. It's just a natural way to balance your situation. It really depends.

Always remember the first rule of power tactics; power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

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

People would say you look weak if you're not cursing the opposition and driving around in a big black car while always wearing a tie. Above all, to be 'strong' you're always supposed to be giving orders.

Arrogance is an utterly appropriate weapon to use against a hostile world, a world in which arrogance is feared and respected, even if, like mine, it's only feigned.

Yes, women are stronger than us. They face more directly the problems that confront them, and for that reason they are much more spectacular to talk about. I don't know why I am more interested in women, because I don't go to any psychiatrists, and I don't want to know why.

We think of strangers as stronger and better than we are.

The irony is that what was supposed to be a great vulnerability of Hillary Clinton , which the Iraq war vote which she has acknowledged was a terrible mistake, has lent an aura of strength in a funny way.

Strength is one of those things you're supposed to have. You don't feel that you have it at the time you're going through it.

People will vote for someone who [they perceive] is strong and wrong before they will vote for someone who appears weak but is right.

I can be extremely vulnerable. People are tough on me because they think I can handle it.

Every man is actually weak, and apparently strong. To himself, he seems weak; to others, formidable.

The capacity of any conqueror is more likely than not to be an illusion produced by the incapacity of his adversary.

I grew up in a rough environment. You want to be strong and have your presence felt out there. That attitude reflects how people see you.

Somebody accumulates a lot of muscle and think himself to be a big man. But this big man is only big when all around him are smaller.

The measure of a man's estimate of your strength is the kind of weapons he feels that he must use in order to hold you fast in a prescribed place.