Gentleness Quotes
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Gentleness Quotes & Sayings
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How could I become wicked, when I had nothing but examples of gentleness before my eyes, and none around me but the best people in the world?
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The Land where humanity has attained its highest towards gentleness, towards generosity, towards purity, towards calmness - it is India.
— Swami Vivekananda
The Christ in you is very still. He knows where you are going, and He leads you there in gentleness and blessing all the way.
— Foundation For Inner Peace
You must be kind to others. You must foster a caretaker personality of gentleness and perseverance, even in the midst of adversity.
— Frederick Lenz
There is only one way to a man's heart. Through gentleness. Not by getting angry or jealous.
— Laura Bickle
Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.
— Mahatma Gandhi
With all women gentleness is the most persuasive and powerful argument.
— Theophile Gautier
Gentleness shown once is mercy, shown twice is folly.
— Naomi Novik
My parents split up when I was about 2. I realize more and more how much I'm like my father. My gentleness comes from my mother.
— Justin Townes Earle
What a gentle soul you are?
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Better make penitents by gentleness than hypocrites by severity.
— Saint Francis De Sales
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.
— Baruch Spinoza
Let gentleness my strong enforcement be.
— William Shakespeare
Maudlin makes it difficult to enter the realm of gentleness
— Robert James Waller
People think kindness is a soft, weak, submissive influence when in reality it is the most potent, persuasive force in existence.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
Kindness and gentleness never had a gender, and neither did empathy.
— Rebecca Solnit
I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.
— Leo Rosten
I hardly ever see your profile, but have I told you it's beautiful? - like the soft gentle lines of snow ...
— John Geddes
The women that I met were exceptional, extraordinary - tremendous purity, tremendous gentleness, self-giving and power.
— Frederick Lenz
It is wonderful how attractive a gentle, pleasant manner is, and how much it wins hearts.
— Francis De Sales
It'll be all right." Julia's gentleness makes it worse. "In the end, Jace."
"It doesn't feel very all right."
"That's because it's not the end. — David Mitchell
"It doesn't feel very all right."
"That's because it's not the end. — David Mitchell
We need to learn to dance more softly.
— Nikki Rosen
Sometimes its not the strength but gentleness that cracks the hardest shells.
— Richard Paul Evans
The work done, she lowered him back into place with what, in his final thought, seemed great gentleness. And then he was done.
— Nicholas Nicastro
Whatever you do, be gentle. People might have forgiven your harsh words but they may never forget how it stabbed their heart at that time!
— Mufti Ismail Menk
As the aperture of your heart opens to love you will receive more of the light of compassion, acceptance, gentleness, grace and understanding.
— Bryant McGill
A man never so beautifully shows his own strength as when he respects a woman's softness.
— Douglas William Jerrold
We must be gentle now we are gentlemen.
— William Shakespeare
One negative side of grief is that it focuses us inward upon ourselves, often leading to lapses of patience and gentleness with those around us.
— James R. White
Being aggressive, you can accomplish some things, but with gentleness, you can accomplish all things.
— Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche
Speak graciously to young men as you would to your brothers.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
All his gentleness, all his kindness, all the bright shining gorgeousness of his love, he had always given to someone else.
— Melissa De La Cruz
Winter, spring and summer did not accommodate themselves to one's mood as autumn did. They lacked its gentleness.
— Elizabeth Goudge
Force I will meet with gentleness; impatience with patience.
— Walter Russell
Her hand had a lot of strength gained through the process of gentleness.
— Richard Brautigan
I lack the Lord's own gentleness of heart, for I see deliberate malice where he sees ignorance and weakness.
— Anthony De Mello
There is a gentleness in Michigan that you just can't replicate.
— Jennifer Granholm
Winning her would be like coaxing a butterfly to land on his hand. Patience, gentleness, and perhaps a prayer or two would be required.
— Mary Jo Putney
An appearance of delicacy is inseparable from sweetness and gentleness of character.
— Lydia Sigourney
Spirit, Patience, Gentleness, All that can adorn and bless Art thou let deeds, not words, express Thine exceeding loveliness.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
The greatest strength a man can achieve is gentleness.
— Monty Roberts
I'm a man of stone - and my hands are not soft enough to brush away, each stray wisp of hair
— John Geddes
Let your enemies be disarmed by the gentleness of your manner, but at the same time let them feel, the steadiness of your resentment.
— Lord Chesterfield
Grace is neither gentleness nor fragility. Grace is treating yourself, others, and even inanimate objects with respect.
— Kamand Kojouri
His gentleness was uncompromising; because he would not compete for dominance, he was indomitable.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
The process of breaking down fear was always my greatest challenge and it was made easier by the careful work and gentle voices of my female workers.
— Muhammad Yunus
Gentleness is the outgrowth of benignity.
— Hannah More
They have taken the idea of nonharming, of gentleness toward the earth, to a very radical level. Even the weeds are not enemies.
— Andy Couturier
The human hand has an amazing quality that nothing else has: tremendous efficiency of strength and yet total gentleness.
— Francis A. Schaeffer
The Saviour reigned in all their hearts, and they successfully copied the pattern of meekness and gentleness, which he had left them.
— John Strachan
There's nothing more important on our spiritual path than developing gentleness to oneself.
— Pema Chodron
The extraordinary gentleness of the adult male with his young dispels all the King Kong mythology.
— Dian Fossey
The truth you speak doth lack some gentleness
And time to speak it in. You rub the sore
When you should bring the plaster. — William Shakespeare
And time to speak it in. You rub the sore
When you should bring the plaster. — William Shakespeare
With gentleness, you will calm every aggressive action.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Harshness is conquered by gentleness, hatred by love, lethargy by zeal and darkness by light.
— Mahatma Gandhi
I hope we can inaugurate a new humility in our use of religious language, which for me is the very proof that it is authentic.
— Richard Rohr
When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
— Saint Francis De Sales
Love is often gentle, desire always a rage.
— Mignon McLaughlin
Women and doors - did I not tell you, friend Porthos, that they are always to be managed by gentleness? - D'Artagnan
— Alexandre Dumas
I have always loved young women for their sensitive spiritual nature, gentleness, and special beauty.
— Margaret D. Nadauld
Autumn is the time when love matures in gentleness.
— Kristian Goldmund Aumann
Tender," she said again. "Tender is kind and gentle. It's also sore, like the skin around an injury.
— Brenna Yovanoff
The power of gentleness is irresistible.
— Henry Martyn
Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. To these I commit my day.
— Max Lucado
When lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the gentler gamester is the soonest winner
— William Shakespeare
In our interactions with others, gentleness, kindness, respectare the source of harmony
— Gautama Buddha
Gentleness and repose are paramount to everything else in woman.
— Michel De Montaigne
He is a unicorn. I want to gently capture him and bring him back to my lab for research.
— Amanda Mosher
Part of him wanted to weep ... but his purpose was rigid within him. He felt he could not bend to gentleness without breaking.
— Stephen R. Donaldson
Gentle in manners and voice, and yet in the courtroom that gentleness burned itself away and left behind something brutal and cold.
— Hanya Yanagihara
Tenderness rounds out true triumph, gentleness lubricates genuine liberation: emotions that are not diagnostic of glory or passion in dreams.
— Vladimir Nabokov
Be very very very gentle with yourself. The world is very very very hard on you
— Srividya Srinivasan
Love comforts, it is gentle, it is warm and you can feel it within your entire being.
— Ellen J. Barrier
I saw power, yet meekness, forcefulness, yet gentleness, discipline, yet compassion. I had never seen eyes like His.
— Chuck Black
The gentleness of a mother is harsh compared with the gentleness of God.
— Oswald Chambers
I contend that non-violent acts exert pressure far more effective than violent acts, for the pressure comes from goodwill and gentleness.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Who can wrestle against Sleep? - Yet is that giant very gentleness.
— Martin Farquhar Tupper
Only love can touch the heart.
— Lailah Gifty Akita