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“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.”

Ifs Humans Human Beings Mistake Kindness Weakness Faults This Life Decent One Mistake Kindness For Weakness

Author:Jeremy Piven

“Ministers who threaten death and destruction employ weapons of weakness. Argument and kindness are alone effectual, flavored by the principles of Divine love.”

Principles Kindness Divine Weapons Weakness Argument Destruction Ministers Divine Love

Author:Hosea Ballou

“When a friend is carried to his grave, we at once find excuses for every weakness, and palliation of every fault. We recollect a thousand endearments, which before glided off our minds without impression, a thousand favors unrepaid, a thousand duties unperformed; and wish, vainly wish, for his return, not so much that we may receive as that we may bestow happiness, and recompense that kindness which before we never understood.”

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Book:The Wisdom of the Rambler, Adventurer, and Idler

Source: The Wisdom of the Rambler, Adventurer, and Idler

“Never take anyone for granted. Never take anyone's kindness for their weakness. What's once yours could easily turn into a memory.”

Life Turns Memories Kindness Weakness Granted

Author:Rita Zahara

“Don't mistake kindness for weakness, baby.”

Mistake Kindness Baby Weakness Kindness For Weakness

Author:Albert Collins

“I'm a very nice guy, but don't mistake my kindness for weakness.”

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Author:Robert Herjavec

“There are people who...tell you that the light in your heart is a weakness. Don't believe it! It's an old tactic of cruel people to kill kindness in the name of virtue.”

People Believe Heart Light Names Kindness Virtue Weakness Don't Believe Tactics

Author:John Patrick Shanley

“Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism.”

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Author:Hubert H. Humphrey

“Being kind doesn't mean being soft or a wuss. Kindness is not a sign of weakness. It is a sign of confidence. If you have developed a reputation for kindness and consideration, then even the most unpleasant decisions will go down easier because everyone will understand why you are doing what you are doing. They will realize that your decision must be necessary, and is not arbitrary or without empathy. As the old saying puts it, 'To the world, you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.'”

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Author:Colin Powell

“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."”

Doe Age Nations Kindness Lovers Weakness Areas Relation Subtle Sophisticated Unstable Old Proverb Kindness For Weakness

Author:Sylvester Stallone

“My kindness is my weakness but my weakness is my biggest strength.”

Kindness Weakness

Author:Behdad Sami

“I'ma forgive all the people that took my kindness as weakness. I'ma forgive anyone who never hit me back. I'ma forgive all ya'll. I won't forget.”

People Forget Kindness Weakness Forgiving

Author:Behdad Sami

“Growing up I couldn't always get involved with the activities with all the other kids because if I overworked my body it would trigger my pain. There were definitely times growing up, where other kids wanted to challenge me; they wanted to see if they could push my buttons and see if I could fight or what have you. Taking my kindness for weakness or taking my quietness and laid-back style for weakness. I've been dealing with that for basically all my life.”

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Author:Prodigy

“People just take your kindness for weakness sometimes, and that's just the bottom line.”

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Author:Ruben Studdard

“Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.”

“Perhaps the greatest charity comes when we are kind to each other, when we don’t judge or categorize someone else, when we simply give each other the benefit of the doubt or remain quiet. Charity is accepting someone’s differences, weaknesses, and shortcomings; having patience with someone who has let us down; or resisting the impulse to become offended when someone doesn’t handle something the way we might have hoped. Charity is refusing to take advantage of another’s weakness and being willing to forgive someone who has hurt us. Charity is expecting the best of each other”

“Goodness is weakness, pleasantness is poisonous, serenity is mediocrity and kindness is for losers. The best reason for committing loathsome and detestable acts – and let’s face it, I am considered something of an expert in this field – is purely for their own sake. Monetary gain is all very well, but it dilutes the taste of wickedness to a lower level that is obtainable by almost anyone with an overdeveloped sense of avarice. True and baseless evil is as rare as the purest good.”

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Author:Jasper Fforde

“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)”

Source: Upon The Midnight Clear

“I like to think that it isn't weakness or evasion, but a final act of kindness, a stand against oblivion and despair.”

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Author:Ian Mcewan

“When your little child tells a lie, do not rush at him as though the world were about to go into bankruptcy. Be honest with him. A tyrant father will have liars for his children; do you know that? A lie is born of tyranny upon the one hand and weakness upon the other, and when you rush at a poor little boy with a club in your hand, of course he lies.”

Source: Ingersoll: Fifty Great Selections, Lectures, Tributes, After Dinner Speeches and Essays, Carefully Selected from the Twelve Volume Dresden Edition of Colonel Ingersoll's Complete Works

“She might have been born this way, without an empathy gene and other essentials. In that case, she would interpret any kindness as weakness. Among predatory beasts, any display of weakness is an invitation to attack.”

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Book:The Complete Odd Thomas 8-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd, Saint Odd

Source: The Complete Odd Thomas 8-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd, Saint Odd