Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
The weak can never forgive.
Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength.
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism.
People just take your kindness for weakness sometimes, and that's just the bottom line.
Be the living expression of God's kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.
I don't worry about people misinterpreting my kindness for weakness.
There is a fear of peace that I don't understand. Witness the old epithet "peaceniks," the association of peace with weakness. We mistake kindness for weakness in individuals, too. Gandhi found the essence of Christianity to be gentleness, the exaltation of means over ends. Using violence, against us or them, to achieve peace is like beating children to get them to be good. It only works in the short term. Believe in peace, think peace, live peace. Be a building-block of peace. Make it the center of your strength.
I can get my head turned by a good-looking guy as much as the next girl. But sexy doesn't impress me. Smart impresses me, strength of character impresses me. But most of all, I am impressed by kindness. Kindness, I think, comes from learning hard lessons well, from falling and picking yourself up. It comes from surviving failure and loss. It implies an understanding of the human condition, forgives its many flaws and quirks. When I see that in someone, it fills me with admiration.
But one thing I realized with my brother is that you can’t toss your pearls before the swine. I think that’s why my mother insisted you give anonymously. The instant anyone sees that you’re kind and giving, they immediately take advantage of it. They seem to mistake kindness for weakness and giving for stupidity. (Aiden)
Don't ever mistake my silence for ignorance, my calmness for acceptance or my kindness for weakness. Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength.
If someone mistakes your kindness for weakness, that's their fault - not yours. And it's OK to be a decent human being in this life.
Don't mistake kindness for weakness, baby.
I'm a very nice guy, but don't mistake my kindness for weakness.
There is an age-old proverb that really does hold true in every area of life - in relations between nations and right down to the most subtle and sophisticated or must unstable and unsophisticated relations between lovers - and it is this: they took "kindness" for "weakness."
We must not mistake kindness for weakness. Kindness isn't weak. Kindness is a certain type of strength.
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