Graciousness Quotes
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Graciousness Quotes & Sayings
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He loved his family, his friends, his writing, his painting; he knew their flaws, but they neither surprised nor embittered him.
— Philip Zaleski
Thank you to Giulia Fani, Joan Spence and my sister for the rooms and desks they loaned me.
— Moez Surani
My fake Japanese was smooth enough to earn me the title of 'The Emperor of Pleasing Graciousness' in that country.
— Wolfman Jack
He was a generous but subtly demanding boss.
— H.W. Brands
Dinner is a cacophonous exercise of holy sanctification.
— Jen Pollock Michel
A thousand little civilities create tenderness in time.
— E. M. Forster
Cynicism is intelectual dandyism, but graciousness in speech is an aphrodisiac. (Andy Spade)
— Kate Spade
Truthfulness takes you a mile. Graciousness takes you around the world.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Our girls have need of such an example of graciousness, elegance, refinement, and spirituality.
— Maria Young Dougall
I've learned that in many cases, change is not a function of life's cruelty but instead a function of God's graciousness.
— Shauna Niequist
He did something he rarely did. He decided not to see things from the other guy's point of view.
— H.W. Brands
Graciousness in serving and being served marks the lives of leaders who have made the largest impact on my life.
— Sue Mallory
I'm annoyed by those who love mankind but are discourteous to people.
— John Howard Griffin
The joyful heart sees and reads the world with a sense of freedom and graciousness.
— John O'Donohue
Men raised in a culture of blood revenge do not change in a day.
— Geraldine Brooks
Graciousness is the fruit of someone who knows how badly they themselves need grace.
— Tullian Tchividjian
Humility is the earmark of God's genuine servant.
— Beth Moore
I've been fortunate to live a very full professional life. Most of it has happened through God's graciousness and not from something I've imagined.
— Oleta Adams
God's graciousness is not totally removed from any individual during this lifetime. In hell, it is.
— R.C. Sproul
Christ's vast benevolence must, from the very nature of things, have afforded Him the deepest possible delight, for benevolence is joy.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Graciousness is the luxury of the wise,
— Patrick Rothfuss
She was never satisfied with anything less than perfection, but she was no grind. She was too interested in people.
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
He was a product of a culture where it was generally counterproductive to hold grudges.
— H.W. Brands
She grew more and more vexed with his dignified behavior. By a cruel irony, she was drawing out what was best in his disposition.
— E. M. Forster
No low-trust society will ever produce sustained innovation.
— Thomas L. Friedman
If he could be hard on kings and cabinets, he was invariably kind to his colleagues.
— John Taliaferro
A love for his child was so profound, it spilled over to all humanity.
— John Howard Griffin
The nonchalance irritated her more because it was not assumed.
— Margaret Landon
In America religion is the road to knowledge, and the observance of the divine laws leads man to civil freedom.
— Alexis De Tocqueville
My wife has been my greatest earthly inspiration. She excels in eloquence, the poetry of words, empathy and graciousness.
— George W. Romney
We have less reason to be surprised or offended when we find others differ from us in opinions because we very often differ from ourselves.
— Samuel Johnson
He showed me the lowest. I had to surmise the highest.
— John Howard Griffin
To bear defeat with dignity, to accept criticism with poise, to receive honors with humility - these are marks of maturity and graciousness.
— William Arthur Ward
We are not to look to what men in themselves deserve but to attend to the image of God which exists in all and to which we owe all honor and love.
— John Calvin
Custom is a mutable thing; yet we readily recognize the permanence of certain social values. Graciousness and courtesy are never old-fashioned.
— Emily Post
If you think the most courageous and difficult thing you can do is stubbornly stand your ground, try graciously giving in.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
Vagueness spurred him into knight errantry.
— E. M. Forster
One must place one's principles in big things. For the small, graciousness will suffice.
— Albert Camus
He may have confused honor with with with ruthlessness.
— T. J. Stiles
He is as full of valor as of kindness. Princely in both.
— William Shakespeare
If our counseling is truly Christ-centered, then the topic of forgiveness will inevitably come up in the journey toward growth and change.
— James MacDonald
When strangers meet, great allowances should be made for differences in custom and training.
— Frank Herbert
My prophetic task would be twofold: to stand up to him, and to stand by him. To awaken his conscience, and to salve the pain this would cause him.
— Erik Larson
Whenever relationships can't be restored, it's because someone is not willing to move forward in the promises of God.
— Matt Chandler
Here in France, you must practice the art of accomplishing much while appearing to accomplish little. (in the John Adams miniseries on HBO)
— Benjamin Franklin
Art itself is female - it is full of graciousness, cadence, color, rhythm. It's full of love and grace.
— Juan Gabriel
Deliberate with caution, but act with decision and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.
— Charles Caleb Colton
We are enjoined whenever we behold the gifts of God in others so to reverence and respect the gifts as also to honor those in whom they reside.
— John Calvin
As a dinner guest I gratefully eat just about anything that's set before me, because graciousness among friends is dearer to me than any other agenda.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Soft power is quiet persistence.
— Susan Cain
The truth must dazzle gradually or every man be blind. Emily Dickinson
— Eugene H. Peterson