Quotes About Kindness For Weakness

#1. I was wrong to insult you, and not only because you are my hosts. I am afraid that I mistook kindness for weakness. My apologies. I stand - only with your aid - profoundly corrected.

Beth Fantaskey

#2. Don't mistake kindness for weakness

Al Capone

#3. The worst kind of people are those who confuse kindness for weakness.

Werner Makowski

#4. Never divulge secrets to acquaintances.
Never betray old friends for new ones.
Never mistake flattery for praise.
Never rely on dishonorable people.
Never trust your enemy's friends.
Never mistake someone's kindness for weakness.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#5. 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."

Sylvester Stallone

#6. 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.

Dalai Lama

#7. Do not mistake my kindness for weakness, I am kid to everyone, but if you are unkind to my it will not be weakness that you will remember me for.

Al Capone

#8. I don't worry about people misinterpreting my kindness for weakness.

Jason Bateman

#9. My dad worked for Nestle for 26 years and ended up being the mayor of our hometown. One of the lessons I learned from him was to never mistake kindness for weakness.

Brad D. Smith

#10. 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.

Jeremy Piven

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

Ruben Studdard

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

Robert Herjavec

#13. We must not mistake kindness for weakness. Kindness isn't weak. Kindness is a certain type of strength.

Jim Rohn

#14. Don't mistake my kindness for weakness. I am kind to everyone, but when someone is unkind to me, weak is not what you are going to remember about me.

Al Capone

#15. I wish I was harder; I wish I didn't care so much about being the nice girl all the time because a lot of the time people can take kindness for weakness, so I wish I had a little bit more 'oomph' in me.

Tyra Banks

#16. Be more loving. Great teams are built by authentic leaders who are not afraid to speak truthfully and show kindness. This is not a sign of weakness, it is a sign of strength.

Robin S. Sharma

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

Hosea Ballou

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

Rita Zahara

#19. Kindness is my superpower. It is not my weakness.

PK Scott

#20. 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.

John Patrick Shanley

#21. It isn't a weakness to accept kindness. It isn't a weakness to allow yourself to be cared for.

Julie Anne Long

#22. Never let kindness be your weakness, never let your weaknesses be your downfal

V. Pain

#23. Kindness is never a sign of weakness but an attribute of strength and courage.

Debasish Mridha

#24. You must be careful with kindness. It's usually mistaken for weakness by stupid people.

Clive Barker

#25. My kindness is my weakness but my weakness is my biggest strength.

Behdad Sami

#26. Kindness is not weakness, Malcolm. Forgiveness isn't lack of backbone. Forgiveness is the thing that lets human beings not strangle each other after a half an hour's acquaintance. It's not something you in particular should shit on, you know?

Amy Lane

#27. Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.

Kahlil Gibran

#28. It is unfortunate that for some, kindness is an unwarranted expenditure, compassion an avoidable weakness, and love an unnecessary gamble.

Wayne Gerard Trotman

#29. Where was the line between compassion and foolishness, kindness and weakness? And that was from her position. From theirs, it might be a line between mercy and cruelty, consideration and callousness.

Rohinton Mistry

#30. My strength is my power of love, my weakness is my kindness for those who suffers.

Debasish Mridha

#31. Kindness is weakness. Your weakness will delay the trigger by a moment. This world doesn't treat kindness kindly. - Koko Hekmatyar

Takahashi Keitarou

#32. The motive behind criticism often determines its validity. Those who care criticize where necessary. Those who envy criticize the moment they think that they have found a weak spot.

Criss Jami

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

Ian McEwan

#34. Never be afraid to offer a smile; sure the risk is that a few foolish people may misinterpret your kindness as weakness, but the reward in their error be that at least they cannot blame you because you did show your teeth.

Johnnie Dent Jr.

#35. Kindness is love's response to weakness

Andy Stanley

#36. 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.

Behdad Sami

#37. Your kindness is your weakness, you appreciate their mistakes.

M.F. Moonzajer

#38. After more than two decades here, I know that kindness is not a value that's encouraged. It's often seen as a weakness. Instead, the culture encourages keeping your head down, minding your own business, and never letting yourself be vulnerable.

Dan Gediman

#39. It is an incapacitating emotion one feels upon hearing the whispered words "I still love you" after deeply hurting that soul.
Forgiveness isn't weakness.
It is power.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#40. 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.

Dean Koontz

#41. Tenderness of heart and kindness of the soul are not signs of weakness, but they are signs of inner strength.

Debasish Mridha

#42. If I learned one thing in life it's:
Some people think kindness is a weakness and will always try to take advantage of kind hearted people. Don't let them.

Timothy Pina

#43. Women are soft, loving, and kind. Do not mistake softness and kindness as weakness. Water is soft, but stone cannot break the water. However, water can break the stone.

Debasish Mridha

#44. A small kindness, a confluence of compassion, had saved his life. Was that strength, or a weakness?

Jacqueline Carey

#45. And kindness is a weakness. I can see that now. But it's a weakness I'm still not sure I'd want to give up entirely .

Kallypso Masters

#46. I've been treating you with courtesy and respect because that's the way I choose to treat everyone. But never, ever mistake kindness with weakness.

Louise Penny

#47. Don't mistake:
Kindness with weakness;
Assertiveness with arrogance;
Self-defense with hatred;
Self-care with vanity;
Faith with ignorance.

Charles F. Glassman

#48. Kindness - that is, the ability to bear the vulnerability of others, and therefore of oneself - has become a sign of weakness (except of course among saintly people, in whom it is a sign of their exceptionality).

Adam Phillips