Oriana Fallaci Quotes

My mum is a lovely woman, so strong but so kind and compassionate. She brought us up to be proud, loving and forgiving.

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.

Love and compassion don't at all have to make us weak, or lead us to losing discernment and vision. We just have to learn how to find them. And see, in truth, what they bring us.

Who among us has the strength to oppose petty egoism, those petty good feelings, pity and remorse?

I got blessed from my mom. She's the personality; she's the one who smiled, so I took on part of her, and who also wanted to help and save the world. Then I took on part of my dad, who is tough.

You don't leave people who can't defend themselves.

Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength.

I value humor, kindness, and the ability to tell a good story far more than money, status, or the kind of car someone drives.

My strength is my humility. When you are humble, people like you.

As a society, we're failing to recognize something my dad knew to be true - that kindness is the greatest show of strength. Too often, we are led to believe that strength is best demonstrated by exerting dominance or superiority over others, while kindness is portrayed as the opposite - a sign of weakness.

It takes strength to be kind; it's not a weakness.

My parents were fairly laid-back, but there were certain things about which they were very strict. My brother and I were told never to turn away a person in need. And it didn't matter what we thought of their motives, whether they were truly in need or not.

Not everyone is able to show courage, but human decency must be demanded of every person.

Australia is a nation of compassion. Courage and compassion. And the third of these great values: resilience.

Developing our sympathetic compassion is not only possible but the only reason for us to be here on earth.

I don't mind if my future is long or short, as long as I'm doing the right thing. And as long as I behave for other people.

I always say, 'People first, then money, then things.'

I don't worry about people misinterpreting my kindness for weakness.

About all that is needed to put the world on its feet are the right qualities of mind and heart on the part of all men.

It requires more strength to be gentle, so it's the everyday encounters of life that I think we've prepared children for and prepared them to be good to other people and to consider other people.

Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.

I didn't want readers to think I was asking to be praised for taking care of my wife while she was ill. Lots of people are heroic, more heroic than I was, when faced with the suffering of someone they love.

Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve.

I was walking down fifth avenue today and I found a wallet, and I was gonna keep it, rather than return it, but I thought: well, if I lost a hundred and fifty dollars, how would I feel? And I realized I would want to be taught a lesson.

It is necessary to help others, not only in our prayers, but in our daily lives. If we find we cannot help others, the least we can do is to desist from harming them.