Top 1200 Power Of Kindness Quotes & Sayings - Page 13

Kindness is a much more crushing force than anger.

Kindness is a universal language regardless of age, nationality or religion.

The power of transgression is the archetypal, foundational story of the Bible. We want to break our own codes - sometimes of morality, sometimes of ethics, sometimes of the power structure, sometimes of the institution of marriage - because there is freedom and power in transgression.

Education teaches us compassion and kindness, connection to others.

Whether one has a favorable or unfavorable opinion of unions, their demise is also the demise of countervailing power. A system in which there is no countervailing power is a tyranny in which power is unconstrained and unaccountable.

King is a title which translated into several languages, signifies a magistrate with as many different degrees of power as there are kingdoms in the world, and he can have no power but what is given him by law; yea, even the supreme or legislative power is bound by the rules of equity, to govern by laws enacted, and published in due form; for what is not legal is arbitrary.

A kindness spontaneously offered to him who needs it, is doubly gratifying.

Yantras are specific designs that have a great deal of power in them, as do mantras, which are words of power. Yantras are designs of power that tap into other levels of attention. They remind us of things in other worlds.

We are all interconnected in a web of kindness from which it is impossible to separate ourself.

To a haughty belly, kindness is hard to swallow and harder to digest.

Kindness eases everything almost as much as money does.

Now the power of the imagination is a unifying power, hence the force of metaphor; and the poet is the supreme manipulator of metaphor... the world needs the unifying power of the imagination. The two things that give it best are poetry and religion.

Kindness is not a bad religion, no matter what name you use for God.

There is no harsher means of punishment, than to answer malice with kindness.

I'm a big believer in acts of kindness, no matter how small.

You get the same order of criminality from any State to which you give power to exercise it; and whatever power you give the State to do things for you carries with it the equivalent power to do things to you.

An enemy to whom you show kindness becomes your friend.

We none of us find as much kindness in this world as we should.

It is curious how inseparable eating and kindness are with some people.

There are many different kinds of power. True power comes from serving and helping others. Such behavior makes people respect you. They are willing to listen to your views and advice, and they support you. The energy of many people is thus channeled through one person. This kind of power is positive and authentic.

Savor kindness because cruelty is always possible later.

Time itself is created through deeds of true kindness.

Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.

Power corrupts. If the Church is given too much power, it will become corrupted. So to keep the Church in line with the teachings of Christ, we must make sure that it can never have temporal power. Religion has its place and politics has its own. These two should not be mixed together or the result would be catastrophic.

As a kid, I always liked reading stories where I had a power-projection fantasy. I wanted to be inside of a story where I had power and influence, was going to rise to power, was going to somehow influence my society.

It's not about supplication, it's about power. It's not about asking, it's about demanding. It's not about convincing those who are currently in power, it's about changing the very face of power itself.

Always treat others with kindness, for it may be their last memory of you.

I'm fully and completely convinced that the 'Hour of Power' is a step in leading people to a fuller understanding of who Jesus is. I can't tell you how many people have watched the 'Hour of Power' and say, 'Now I feel confident to be able to go to a church'... That's what the 'Hour of Power' does.

The role of the intellectual, so it is said, is to speak truth to power. Noam Chomsky has dismissed this pious tag on two grounds. For one thing, power knows the truth already; it is just busy trying to conceal it. For another, it is not those in power who need the truth, but those they oppress.

Kindness and generosity ... form the true morality of human actions.

Where the observer is at first a real goodness realized, later it is a sophisticated power holder. The observer is given power and control that belongs to oneness. When oneness has that power and that control, there is love.

Kindness is wisdom. There is none in life But needs it and may learn.

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

Celebrate within yourself that wonderful treasure . . . true kindness.

Imagine treating yourself with the kindness that you show people you love.

Intelligence starts to get pretty dull if it's not coupled with kindness.

In choosing a course of action, it's best to take the tack of kindness.

Kindness always starts with noticing the needs and hurts of others.

Kindness in ourselves is the honey that blunts the sting of unkindness in another.

The more kindness shown to an envious man, the worse he becomes.

The first thing a kindness deserves is acceptance, the second, transmission.

The sadness which reigned everywhere was but an excuse for unfailing kindness.

I think true success is intrinsic... It's love. It's kindness. It's community.

Nothing discloses real character like the use of power. It is easy for the weak to be gentle. Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power. This is the supreme test. It is the glory of Lincoln that, having almost absolute power, he never abused it, except upon the side of mercy.

The President can exercise no power which cannot be fairly and reasonably traced to some specific grant of power in the Federal Constitution or in an act of Congress passed in pursuance thereof. There is no undefined residuum of power which he can exercise because it seems to him to be in the public interest.

Slave power crushes freedom of speech and of opinion. Slave power degrades labor. Slave power is arrogant, is jealous and intrusive, is cruel, is despotic, not only over the slave but over the community, the state.

God answers all true prayer, either in kind or in kindness.

Don't ever underestimate the importance of treating others with respect and kindness.

I am vulnerable, starved for kindness. And when I receive it, I lose my mind.

From the viewpoint of political power, culture is absolutely vital. So vital, indeed, that power cannot operate without it. It is culture, in the sense of the everyday habits and beliefs of a people, which beds power down, makes it appear natural and inevitable, turns it into spontaneous reflex and response.

It is not without a purpose when a rich man greets a poor one with kindness.

In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.

It is kindness that makes one strong and brave; and so we are kind to our prisoners.

How do we change the world? One random act of kindness at a time.

Saints are the great teachers of the loving-kindness and fascination with God.

I keep what I know about Sarah Lynn and Lawrence to myself. I also remind myself that even if Sarah Lynn does have a scary strict father, that doesn't release her from the responsibility of treating others with respect. Abuse of power is wrong, no matter the context, no matter the history. What is "power" anyway? Power is an ego trip. Power is a way to rise yourself up by lowering others, and I want nothing of it.

The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the will to power must increase with each fulfillment, making the fulfillment only a step to a further one. The vaster the power gained the vaster the appetite for more.

Even a little gift may be vast with loving kindness.

I believe that in the end that it is kindness and accommodation that are all the catalysts for real change.

He who aspires to paradise should learn to deal with people with kindness.