Kindness is weak when you use it in a self-serving manner. Self-serving kindness is thin - people can see right through it when a kind leader has an agenda.
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I think the associations people have with kindness are often things like meekness and sweetness and maybe sickly sweetness; whereas I do think of kindness as a force, as a power.
One of the toughest things for leaders to master is kindness. Kindness shares credit and offers enthusiastic praise for others' work. It's a balancing act between being genuinely kind and not looking weak.
Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.
People just take your kindness for weakness sometimes, and that's just the bottom line.
Sometimes people don't trust the force of kindness. They think love or compassion or kindness will make you weak and kind of stupid and people will take advantage of you; you won't stand up for other people.
Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.
Kindness is a passport that opens doors and fashions friends. It softens hearts and molds relationships that can last lifetimes.
Kindness makes a fellow feel good whether it's being done to him or by him.
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
Kindness is an everyday byproduct of all the great virtues.
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