Che Guevara Quotes

Only the gentle are ever really strong.

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

The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.

There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness.

I am tough but I have a soft side.

Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength.

We must not mistake kindness for weakness. Kindness isn't weak. Kindness is a certain type of strength.

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.

Human nature is complex. Even if we do have inclinations toward violence, we also have inclination to empathy, to cooperation, to self-control.

I'm tough, but I have a heart.

All cruelty springs from weakness.

I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.

Be soft, even if you stand to get squashed.

Keep a cool head and a warm heart.

And as I've gotten older, I've had more of a tendency to look for people who live by kindness, tolerance, compassion, a gentler way of looking at things.

Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.

He refused to let hate make him hate.

Strength and compassion are not mutually exclusive.

We are all strong enough to bear other men's misfortunes.

In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit.

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

If I wasn't hard, I wouldn't be alive. If I couldn't ever be gentle, I wouldn't deserve to be alive.

It takes strength to be gentle and kind.

Don't ever think compassion is weak. Compassion is about strength.

If you would fall into any extreme, let it be on the side of gentleness. The human mind is so constructed that it resists rigor, and yields to softness.