Dalai Lama Quotes About Weakness

• 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

  Kindness, Mistake, Ignorance

• When reason ends, then anger begins. Therefore, anger is a sign of weakness.

  Dalai Lama

  Weakness, Reason, Ends

• Many people think that patience is a sign of weakness.
  I think this is a mistake. It is anger that is a sign of
  weakness, whereas patience is a sign of strength

  Dalai Lama

  Patience, Mistake, Thinking

  Dalai Lama (2009). “For the Benefit of All Beings: A Commentary on the Way of the Bodhisattva”, p.58, Shambhala Publications

• Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspiring, Spiritual, Compassion

  "Words Of Wisdom: Selected Quotes by His Holiness the Dalai Lama" edited by Margaret Gee, (p. 71), 2001.

• I consider non-violence to be compassion in action. It doesn’t mean weakness, cowering in fear, or simply doing nothing. It is to act without violence, motivated by compassion, recognising the rights of others.

  Dalai Lama

  Mean, Compassion, Rights

• Tolerance and patience should not be read as signs of weakness.
  They are signs of strength.

  Dalai Lama

  Tolerance, Weakness, Should

  Dalai Lama XIV (2009). “Worlds in Harmony: Compassionate Action for a Better World: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.64, ReadHowYouWant.com

• If there are sound reasons or bases for the points you demand, then there is no need for violence. On the other hand, when there is no sound reason that concessions should be made to you but mainly your own desire, then reason cannot work and you have to rely on force. Thus using force is not a sign of strength but rather a sign of weakness.

  Dalai Lama

  Hands, Desire, Violence

  "The Dalai Lama: A Policy of Kindness". Book edited by Sidney Piburn. "The Nobel Evening Address" p. 115, 1990.

• The egotistical ambition to always want to earn more money harms both the company and the individual himself. That is the biggest weakness of many managers - the financial crisis has proven this.

  Dalai Lama

  Ambition, Weakness, Want

• More often than not, anger is actually an indication of weakness rather than of strength.

  Dalai Lama

  Weakness, Indication

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