All cruelty springs from weakness.

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

When we practice loving kindness and compassion we are the first ones to profit.

If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh unless, since their chief purpose is to make us bear with patience the injustice of our fellows.

Every heart that has beat strong and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.

I've learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind.

It makes one feel rather good deciding not to be a bitch. . . .It’s sort of what we have instead of God.

Let’s rise above this animalistic behavior and be kind to one another.

It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.

I hope you live a life you're proud of. If you find that you are not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.

Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.

It cannot be your duty to do anything that is beyond your reach or your strength at the moment. It cannot be your duty to do anything that sacrifices your own integrity or your own spiritual development.

What though strength fails? Boldness is certain to win praise. In mighty enterprises, it is enough to have had the determination.

Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.

Who works with all the strength he can Shall never die in debt to man.

Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.