Top 1200 Power Of Kindness Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

Angels are endowed with the noblest created Attributes. They are endowed with wonderful Power. This perfection of Angels is forcibly indicated by the fact that the name Power, or Might, is in several places given to them in the Gospel. No stronger testimony of their high possession of this attribute can be conveyed by a single word; for it is a direct declaration that their nature is power itself.

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.

What are the relationships between power and knowledge? There are two bad, short answers: 1. Knowledge provides an instrument that those in power can wield for their own ends. 2. A new body of knowledge brings into being a new class of people or institutions that can exercise a new kind of power.

Do one act of kindness each day of the year and change 365 lives.

Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you're already in heaven now.

As we think of power in the 21st century, we want to get away from the idea that power’s always zero sum — my gain is your loss and vice versa. Power can also be positive sum, where your gain can be my gain.

What we all have in common is an appreciation of kindness and compassion; all the religions have this. We all lean towards love.

Relative to the power that movie stars have, and producers and directors, I would say that even the most respected screenwriters have very little power in Hollywood. I don't think it's in the nature of the writer's profession to go after that power. Writers spend their time alone, hallucinating, writing, making these things up, while these other people are out schmoozing, making connections, meeting each other. They are trotting the corridors of power and making sure they've put their own imprints in it. And they're promoting themselves and their images, as they should.

I don't need money, or, better, it's not money that I need; it's not even power; I need only what is obtained by power and simply cannot be obtained without power: the solitary and calm awareness of strength! That is the fullest definition of freedom, which the world so struggles over!

When the balance is broken then everything includes itself in power, power into will, will into appetite. So appetite, aided by will and power, becomes a universal wolf, at last eating up itself.

People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess.

The fact is that I have lived with the belief that power, any kind of power, was the one thing forbidden to poets. ... Power requires that the inner person never be unmasked. No, we poets have to go naked. And since this is so, it is better that we stay private people; a naked public person would be rather ridiculous, what?

I have left out what I don't remember or don't know. Temperament, fear, shyness, obedience, kindness.

Kindness to self will put you in the perfect attitude and position to be kind to others.

If life is a birthday cake let my face be smeared with its icing of cognac and kindness.

Remember that consciousness is power. Consciousness is education and knowledge. Consciousness is becoming aware. It is the perfect vehicle for students. Consciousness-raising is pertinent for power, and be sure that power will not be abusively used, but used for building trust and goodwill domestically and internationally. Tomorrow's world is yours to build.

No individual or private group or private organization has the legal power to initiate the use of physical force against other individuals or groups and to compel them to act against their own voluntary choice. Only a government holds that power. The nature of governmental action is: coercive action. The nature of political power is: the power to force obedience under threat of physical injury-the threat of property expropriation, imprisonment, or death.

To say that on a daily basis you can make a difference, well, you can. One act of kindness a day can do it.

Kindness is gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us.

During meditation, if we can concentrate all our attention on one point, and put all problems in front of it, then they can be solved immediately. Our power is great, but we never use it. If we do not use our power by concentrating on it, then it seems we do not have any power at all.

A little praise is good for a shy temper; it teaches it to rely on the kindness of others.

In our interactions with others, gentleness, kindness, respectare the source of harmony

Every day, try to help someone who can't reciprocate your kindness.

Remember that the biggest thing you could do today is a small act of kindness.

Maybe the past is supposed to fade-and that's actually a kindness of human memory.

It is necessary to bring our life in order, to examine each thing, and ask ourselves if it is bringing power into our life or if it is draining us. Ask yourself, is your life taking power from you or adding power to you?

All the big words -virtue, justice, truth, ...- are dwarfed by the greatness of kindness

To say that past managements of Citigroup were poor would be a kindness.

The lowest form of barbarism is smugly to berate someone for extending an act of kindness.

Learn how to treat your vegetables with the love and kindness that they deserve.

We are surrounded every day by countless acts of immeasurable kindness and goodwill.

Relations of power "are indissociable from a discourse of truth, and they can neither be established nor function unless a true discourse is produced, accumulated, put into circulation, and set to work. Power cannot be exercised unless a certain economy of discourses of truth functions in, on the basis of, and thanks to, that power."

Judas is neither a master of evil nor the figure of a demoniacal power of darkness but rather a sycophant who bows before the anonymous power of changing moods and current fashions. But it is precisely this anonymous power that crucified Jesus, for it was anonymous voices that cried 'away with him! Crucify him!'

Strawweight, they have one power. In flyweight, they have totally different power. You can be the best one in the strawweight, but here, it's a totally different field. This is not someone who has less power than you. This is someone who has more power than you. This is where I feel this is my field; this is my territory.

Sometimes it takes only one act of kindness and caring to change a person's life.

Jamie was more than just the woman I loved. In the year Jamie helped me become the man I am today. With her steady hand she showed how important it was to help others; with her patience and kindness she showed me what life really is all about. Her cheerfulness and optimism, even in times of sickness, was the most amazing thing I have ever witnessed . . . Jamie also thought me the value of forgiveness and the transforming power it offers . . . Jamie was not only the angel who saved Tom Thornton, she was the angel who saved us all.

I am on the power toothbrush train and I'm asking people to try to using an Oral B power toothbrush. I just started using one and I cannot believe that I waited this long to use a power toothbrush. It's so much easier than using a manual toothbrush.

My message is always the same: to cultivate and practice love, kindness, compassion and tolerance.

I would say that I have been consistent in my broad view of how American power should be deployed, and the view that we underestimate our power when we restrict it to just our military power. We shortchange our influence and our ability to shape events when that's the only tool we think we have in the toolbox.

Friendship is a living thing that lasts only as it is nourished with kindness, sympathy, and understanding.

Who cares? If he is good to you? None of us ever find enough kindness in the world, do we?

To me, the real marks of beauty in a woman are courage, character, kindness, and personality.

The greatest kindness would put a bullet in his bright eye.

My earnest request is that you practice love and kindness whether you believe in a religion or not

One man practicing kindness in the wilderness is worth all the temples this world pulls.

The corporate woman has been defined as the 'liberated woman' and I see that as the exact opposite. I think she now is more enslaved, maybe even more than the housewife was; because she's so out of her power, and imitating male power is not female power.

Today, your cell phone has more computer power than all of NASA back in 1969, when it placed two astronauts on the moon. Video games, which consume enormous amounts of computer power to simulate 3-D situations, use more computer power than mainframe computers of the previous decade. The Sony PlayStation of today, which costs $300, has the power of a military supercomputer of 1997, which cost millions of dollars.

To rankling poison hast thou turned in me the milk of human kindness.

Your health shouldn't rely on pleas for kindness from strangers. We can and will do better.

I believe that yoga should lead us to a place where kindness and compassion are instantaneous.

As a result of the prison study, I really became more aware of the central role of power in our lives. I became more aware of the power I have as a teacher. I started consciously doing things to minimize the negative use of power in the classroom. I encouraged students to challenge me.

As we think of power in the 21st century, we want to get away from the idea that power's always zero sum - my gain is your loss and vice versa. Power can also be positive sum, where your gain can be my gain.

As I have often written, power is the fundamental ingredient of the human experience. Every action in life, every thought, every choice we make-even down to what we wear and whether we are seating in first class or coach-represents a negotiation of power somewhere on the scale of power that constitutes life.

You can be rich in spirit, kindness, love and all those things that you can't put a dollar sign on.

The catch phrase for the day is 'Do an act of kindness. Help one person smile.'

I practice loving-kindness meditation, which cultivates compassion and equanimity.

An inherent kindness exists in the process of aging ... we are allowed to move along gradually.

The more you nurture a feeling of loving kindness, the happier and calmer you will be.

Without loving-kindness for ourselves, it is difficult, if not impossible, to genuinely feel it for others.