Top 335 Gentleness Quotes & Sayings - Page 2
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Last updated on December 22, 2024.
The violence of war admits no distinction; the lance, that is lifted at guilt and power, will sometimes fall on innocence and gentleness.
Reproof, especially as it relates to children, administered in all gentleness, will render the culprit not afraid, but ashamed to repeat the offence.
But wealth is a great means of refinement; and it is a security for gentleness, since it removes disturbing anxieties.
Schisms do not originate in a love of truth, which is a source of courtesy and gentleness, but rather in an inordinate desire for supremacy.
There is not a person we employ who does not, like ourselves, desire recognition, praise, gentleness, forbearance, patience.
The etiquette is higher consciousness, sensitivity, gentleness, gracefulness, intensity, power, and knowledge.
How much better the world would be if we all gave gifts of understanding, and compassion, of service, and friendship, of kindness and gentleness.
The extraordinary gentleness of the adult male with his young dispels all the King Kong mythology.
The sweetness and generosity and politeness and gentleness and humanity of the French had shown me how lovely life can be if one takes time to be friendly.
That inner voice has both gentleness and clarity. So to get to authenticity, you really keep going down to the bone, to the honesty, and the inevitability of something.
When we have to reply to anyone who has insulted us, we should be careful to do it always with gentleness. A soft answer extinguishes the fire of wrath.
A profusion of pink roses being ragged in the rain speaks to me of all gentleness and its enduring.
Surely we ought to show them (animals) great kindness and gentleness for many reasons, but, above all, because they are of the same origin as ourselves.
I have seldom, if ever, seen money and gentleness go hand in hand.
Robespierre, crippled and blind, has yet to be healed to the knowledge that service - his desire - is a deed of savage-speaking gentleness, not soft-spoken savagery.
Humility, in its turn, can be achieved only through faith, fear of God, gentleness and the shedding of all possessions.
India will teach us the tolerance and gentleness of mature mind, understanding spirit and a unifying, pacifying love for all human beings.
We have not touched the stars, nor are we forgiven, which brings us back to the hero’s shoulders and the gentleness that comes, not from the absence of violence, but despite the abundance of it.
I want to make wines that harmonize with food - wines that almost hug your tongue with gentleness.
Gentleness in the gait is what simplicity is in the dress. Violent gestures or quick movements inspire involuntary disrespect.
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.
Yao Ming is the best thing to happen to the NBA in a long time. He is just a beautiful person inside and out. The vision, the creativity, the gentleness of spirit … he has it all.
Happiness is gentleness, peace, concentration, simplicity, forgiveness, humor, fearlessness, trust, and now.
Gentleness doesn't get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs.
I have always loved young women for their sensitive spiritual nature, gentleness, and special beauty.
The master tools of success are invitation, patience, time, gentleness, cooperation, and surrender.
My father's special gift? I think for one it was his gentleness. The way that he could offer a heart in any given situation.
Be kind to each other. It is better to commit faults with gentleness than to work miracles with unkindness.
Music imitates (represents) the passions or states of the soul, such as gentleness, anger, courage, temperance, and their opposites.
Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.
Use a sweet tongue, courtesy, and gentleness, and thou mayest manage to guide an elephant by a hair.
The Saviour reigned in all their hearts, and they successfully copied the pattern of meekness and gentleness, which he had left them.
A foreign observer is struck by our gentleness: by the orderly behaviour of the English crowds, the lack of pushing and quarrelling, the willingness to form queues.
I would love to think I'd inherited my father's patience. He's a man who achieves a great deal through gentleness.
Trust was accumulated quickly, due primarily to the brute strength of the man's gentleness, his thereness. (p.36)
He who can preserve gentleness amid pains, and peace amid worry multitude of affairs, is almost perfect.
If the wine drinker has a deep gentleness in him, he will show that when drunk. But if he has hidden anger and arrogance, those appear.
Spirit, Patience, Gentleness, All that can adorn and bless Art thou let deeds, not words, express Thine exceeding loveliness.
If, when stung by slander or ill-nature, we wax proud and swell with anger, it is a proof that our gentleness and humility are unreal, and mere artificial show.
Of all people who engage in controversy, we, who are called Calvinists, are most expressly bound by our own principles to the exercise of gentleness and moderation.
I started understanding that my strength is my gentleness. A leader isn't a dictator, a leader is a servant.
Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength.
When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
Our zeal is always guided by charity. Everything is done with strength and gentleness.
Try to exercise gentleness, kindness and humour, and you cannot go far wrong.
It is in deep solitude and silence that I find the gentleness with which I can truly love my brother and sister.
With that gentleness I can be bold; with that economy I can be liberal; shrinking from taking precedence of others, I can become a vessel of the highest honour.
Traces of nobility, gentleness, and courage persist in all people, do what we will to stamp out the trend. So, too, do those characteristics which are ugly.
But perhaps, after so much talk and fighting, unspoken words do create a silence in whose gentleness the survivors of good and bad can sleep easy.
The source of a true smile is an awakened mind. Smiling helps you approach the day with gentleness and understanding.
In meditation and in our daily lives there are three qualities that we can nurture, cultivate, and bring out. We already possess these, but they can be ripened: precision, gentleness, and the ability to let go.
Good directors can bring certain things out of you, with their intensity or gentleness or sensitivity or understanding. They can make an actor feel he can do no wrong.
Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. To these I commit my day.
Every human being has appetites difficult to control but far fewer have humility, gentleness, and an awareness of their weaknesses.
If you're an advocate of gentleness, you're simplistic and naive. If you're an advocate of despair and hate, you're sophisticated.
Harshness is conquered by gentleness, hatred by love, lethargy by zeal and darkness by light.
There's nothing more important on our spiritual path than developing gentleness to oneself.
Our greatest strength lies in the gentleness and tenderness of our heart.
The beginning of divine wisdom is clemency and gentleness, which arise from greatness of soul and the bearing of infirmities.
Is not birth, beauty, good shape, discourse, Manhood, learning, gentleness, virtue, youth, liberality, and such like, the spice and salt that season a man
