Best kindness & enemy Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“What you lend is lost; when you ask for it back, you may find a friend made an enemy by your kindness. If you begin to press him further, you have the choice of two things - either to lose your loan or lose your friend.”

Ifs May Made Two Choices Asks Lost Loses Loss Enemy Kindness Presses Two Things Loan

Author:Plautus

“Always meet petulance with gentleness and perverseness with kindness. A gentle hand can lead even en elephant by a hair. Reply to thine enemy with gentleness.”

Hands Enemy Kindness Hair Gentle Elephants Gentleness Perverseness Petulance

Author:Zoroaster

“Attack anything that makes you feel unworthy, inadequate, hopeless, powerless and useless. That is the evidence of the enemy. All those things need to be attacked with joy, with peace, with love and grace, with mercy, with kindness and the goodness of God.”

Needs Feels Joy Enemy Kindness Grace Goodness Evidence Mercy Useless Hopeless Powerless Inadequate Unworthy Goodness Of God

Author:Graham Cooke

“The practicing of loving kindness toward one's enemy is the ultimate test of one's own spiritual attainment.”

Spiritual Enemy Kindness Tests Ultimate Attainment Loving Kindness

Author:Dalai Lama

“When a uniform exercise of kindness to prisoners on our part has been returned by as uniform severity on the part of our enemies,you must excuse me for saying it is high time, by other lessons, to teach respect to the dictates of humanity; in such a case, retaliation becomes an act of benevolence.”

Has Beens Humanity Enemy Teach Kindness Cases Exercise Lessons Excuse Prisoner Uniforms Benevolence Excuse Me Severity Retaliation

Book:Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution : Annotated Correspondence

Source: Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution : Annotated Correspondence

“More than anything else, kindness is a way of life. It is a way of living and walking through life. It is a way of dealing with all that is-our selves, our bodies, our dreams and goals, our neighbors, our competitors, our enemies, our air, our earth, our animals, our space, our time, and our very consciousness. Do we treat all creation with kindness? Isn't all creation holy and divine?”

Source: The Healing Power of Kindness

“If a man says that it is right to give every one his due, and therefore thinks within his own mind that injury is due from a just man to his enemies but kindness to his friends, he was not wise who said so, for he spoke not the truth, for in no case has it appeared to be just to injure any one.”

Ifs Thinking Men Giving Mind Said Enemy Kindness Cases Wise Dues Injury Spokes

Author:Plato

“We are women. We believe in love and goodness and the kindness of others above all things. We are hard-wired to blame ourselves for things that other people do, even the bad, evil ones. That's why we're so good at compassion. It's also why we're our own worst enemies sometimes.”

People Believe Sometimes Hard Evil Compassion Enemy Kindness Worst Goodness All Things Blame Worst Enemy Believe In Love

Author:Elle Casey

“Muhammad sets the model for being a good statesman. He also sets the model for being a good warrior, for chivalry, of nobility, of all the things which the Quran and Hadith [The recorded collections of the sayings and traditions of the Prophet] says of treating your enemy with dignity and kindness.”

Enemy Kindness Models Tradition Dignity Warrior Prophet Collections Nobility Muhammad Statesmen Quran Chivalry Hadith Good Warrior

Author:Seyyed Hossein Nasr

“May we not succumb to thoughts of violence and revenge today, but rather to thoughts of mercy and compassion. We are to love our enemies that they might be returned to their right minds.”

Mind May Might Today Compassion Enemy Kindness Violence Mercy Revenge Empowering Best Revenge Exacting Revenge Mercy And Compassion

Author:Marianne Williamson

“Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.”

Source: Gandhigrams

“But what if I should discover that the least amongst them all, the poorest of all beggars, the most impudent of all offenders, yea the very fiend himself— that these are within me, and that I myself stand in need of the alms of my own kindness, that I myself am the enemy who must be loved— what then?”

Ifs Needs Should My Own Enemy Kindness What If Beggar Poorest Offenders Alms

Author:Carl Jung

“Kindness is a rotten fruit that poisons anyone who partakes of it. Throw it in the face of your enemies and let it ruin them instead.”

Faces Enemy Kindness Fruit Ruins Poison Rotten

Book:The Guardian

Source: The Guardian

“Enemies will kill you with a knife in the back. Friends will kill you with kindness. Either way you're dead.”

Way Enemy Kindness Knives

Author:Richard Kadrey

“An enemy to whom you show kindness becomes your friend.”

Shows Compassion Enemy Kindness Lust Enmity

Book:Gulistan or Rose Garden

Source: Gulistan or Rose Garden

“Categorical condemnation is the hatred of the mob. It makes cowards brave. And there is nothing more fearful than a religious mob, a mob overflowing with righteousness – as at the crucifixion and before and since. This can happen only after we have made a categorical refusal to kindness: to heretics, foreigners, enemies or any other group different from ourselves.”

Made Different Happens Religious Enemy Kindness Groups Hatred Brave Righteousness Coward Fearful Refusal Foreigners Condemnation Heretic Crucifixion

Author:Wendell Berry

“Kindness can turn the bad man's heart, and fools convert to wise, Make poison into nectar-juice, and friends of enemies.”

Men Heart Turns Enemy Kindness Wise Fool Poison Juice Bad Man Nectar

Author:Bhartrhari

“Kind-hearted people might of course think there was some ingenious way to disarm or defeat an enemy without too much bloodshed, and might imagine this is the true goal of the art of war. Pleasant as it sounds; it is a fallacy that must be exposed: War is such a dangerous business that the mistakes which come from kindness are the very worst.”

People Thinking Way Kind Art War Might Courses Sound Goal Mistake Enemy Kindness Too Much Imagine Worst Dangerous Defeat Pleasant Exposed Art Of War Hearted Fallacy Ingenious Bloodshed Kind Hearted

Book:On War

Source: On War

“SATIRE, n. An obsolete kind of literary composition in which the vices and follies of the author's enemies were expounded with imperfect tenderness.”

Kind Enemy Kindness Vices Folly Satire Imperfection Imperfect Tenderness Composition Obsolete

Book:The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World

Source: The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World

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