Top 335 Gentleness Quotes & Sayings

Gentleness corrects whatever is offensive in our manner.

There is generosity in giving, but gentleness in receiving.

Patience and gentleness is power.

The great mind knows the power of gentleness.

From serenity comes gentleness, comes lasting strength.

Gentleness brings victory to him who attacks, and safety to him who defends. Those whom Heaven would save, it fences round with gentleness.

Don't underestimate kindess, gentleness and patience in a man.

Let gentleness my strong enforcement be.

Perhaps this is in the end what most marriages are - gentleness, memory, and habit.

Better make penitents by gentleness than hypocrites by severity.

Sometimes its not the strength but gentleness that cracks the hardest shells.

Gentleness is the antidote for cruelty.

Force I will meet with gentleness; impatience with patience.

In our interactions with others, gentleness, kindness, respectare the source of harmony

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

There is nothing stronger than gentleness.

An appearance of delicacy is inseparable from sweetness and gentleness of character.

With all women gentleness is the most persuasive and powerful argument.

Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.

The power of gentleness is irresistible.

There is nothing in the world stronger than gentleness.

Above all, it is not decency or goodness of gentleness that impresses the Middle East, but strength.

In our rough and rugged individualism, we think of gentleness as weakness, being soft and virtually spineless. Not so! Gentleness includes such enviable qualities as having strength under control, being calm and peaceful when surrounded by a heated atmosphere, emitting a soothing effect on those who may be angry or otherwise beside themselves, and possessing tact and gracious courtesy that causes others to retain their self-esteem and dignity. Instead of losing, the gentle gain. Instead of being ripped off and taken advantage of, they come out ahead!

Both gentleness and meekness are born of power, not weakness. There is a pseudo-gentlene ss that is effeminate, and there is a pseudo-meekness that is cowardly. But a Christian is to be gentle and meek because those are Godlike virtues... We should never be afraid, therefore, that the gentleness of the Spirit means weakness of character. It takes strength, God's strength, to be truly gentle.

For woman's chief want is to feel that she is wanted. Therefore it is that with women, cruelty is more easily borne than coldness. Indeed, It is astonishing how much downright cruelty a woman will stand from the man she loves or has loved. What women admire is a subtle combination of forcefulness and gentleness. If a woman has to choose between forcefulness and gentleness, always she will sacrifice the latter.

Always meet petulance with gentleness and perverseness with kindness. A gentle hand can lead even en elephant by a hair. Reply to thine enemy with gentleness.

Learning softeneth the heart and breedeth gentleness and charity.

Force is legitimate where gentleness avails not.

Severity is allowable where gentleness has no effect.

Kindness and gentleness never had a gender, and neither did empathy.

Nothing is stronger than gentleness.

What keeps faith cheerful is the extreme persistence of gentleness and humor. Gentleness is everywhere in daily life, a sign that faith rules through ordinary things: through cooking and small talk, through storytelling, making love, fishing, tending animals and sweet corn and flowers, through sports, music, and books, raising kids-all the places where the gravy soaks in and grace shines through. Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people. Lacking any other purpose in life, it would be good enough to live for their sake.

A woman's strength is most potent when robed in gentleness.

Gentleness succeeds better than violence.

Gentleness! more powerful than Hercules.

It has been women who have breathed gentleness and care into the hard progress of humankind.

Who can wrestle against Sleep? - Yet is that giant very gentleness.

Gentleness is the great point to be obtained in the study of manners.

Gentleness is strength under control. It is the ability to stay calm, no matter what happens.

Gentleness and repose are paramount to everything else in woman.

Oh! that gentleness! how far more potent is it than force!

Gentleness towards self and others makes life a little lighter.

The human heart becomes softened by hearing of instances of gentleness and consideration.

Your gentleness shall force More than your force move us to gentleness.

Gentleness is a divine trait: nothing is so divine as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as real strength.

I think that these are the kinds of things that we can debate vigorously. We don't have to ultimately divide over them and I think when we debate, we should do so in a collegial fashion, with a great deal of gentleness and humbleness, recognizing that we can learn from one another. Again, even with people who have moved over from the Kingdom of Christ to the kingdom of the cults, we need to treat them with love and with gentleness and with a heart to restore them to proper life and doctrine.

The greatest strength a man can achieve is gentleness.

Love is strong in its passion; affection is powerful in its gentleness.

You can't substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship

Gentleness is the outgrowth of benignity.

Gentleness and kindness will make our homes a paradise upon earth.

More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness.

There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness.

Who said to kill does not require gentleness?

I have become so great as I am because I have won men's hearts by gentleness and kindliness.

Civility does not ...mean the mere outward gentleness of speech cultivated for the occasion, but an inborn gentleness and desire to do the opponent good.

Nothing is so strong as gentleness.

The product of a true, growing, gospel-centered nature is often gentleness.

There is a gentleness in Michigan that you just can't replicate.

O for the gentleness of old Romance, the simple planning of a minstrel's song!