Gentleness Quotes

Gentleness towards self and others makes life a little lighter.

The best combination of parents consists of a father who is gentle beneath his firmness, and a mother who is firm beneath her gentleness.

In the end we are always rewarded for our good will, our patience, fair-mindedness, and gentleness with what is strange.

Music imitates (represents) the passions or states of the soul, such as gentleness, anger, courage, temperance, and their opposites.

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.

Nature's stern discipline enjoins mutual help at least as often as warfare. The fittest may also be the gentlest.

This is not a day for asking questions, not a day on any calendar. This day is conscious of itself. This day is a lover, bread, and gentleness, more manifest than saying can say.

India will teach us the tolerance and gentleness of mature mind, understanding spirit and a unifying, pacifying love for all human beings.

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

Gentleness succeeds better than violence.

Gentleness in the gait is what simplicity is in the dress. Violent gestures or quick movements inspire involuntary disrespect.

Gentleness! more powerful than Hercules.

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.

Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself.

Now, what is Jesus Christ? The fruit of the spirit is a good example. Jesus is total love, total joy, total peace, total patient, gentleness, goodness, faithfulness, meekness, and self-control.

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

Is not birth, beauty, good shape, discourse, Manhood, learning, gentleness, virtue, youth, liberality, and such like, the spice and salt that season a man

Gentleness corrects whatever is offensive in our manner.

From serenity comes gentleness, comes lasting strength.

You overrate my capacity of love. I don't posess half the warmth of nature you believe me to have. An unprotected childhood in a cold world has beaten gentleness out of me.

When gratitude replaces judgment, peace spreads throughout your body, gentleness embraces your soul, & wisdom fills your mind.

God only pours out his light into the mind after having subdued the rebellion of the will by an altogether heavenly gentleness which charms and wins it.

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

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

We must truly serve those whom we appear to command; we must bear with their imperfections, correct them with gentleness and patience, and lead them in the way to heaven.

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

Seek to mingle gentleness in all your rebukes; bear with the infirmities of others; make allowance for constitutional frailties; never say harsh things, if kind things will do as well.

Severity is allowable where gentleness has no effect.

Force is legitimate where gentleness avails not.

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.

If you are leaving that sorrowful place with hate and anger against men, you are worthy of compassion; if you leave it with good will, gentleness and peace, you are better than any of us.

So easy are men to be drawn to believe any thing, from such men as have gotten credit with them; and can with gentleness and dexterity take hold of their fear and ignorance.

Gentleness is the outgrowth of benignity.

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

Our problems are not solved by physical force, by hatred, by warOur problems are solved by loving kindness by gentleness, by joy

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

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

The etiquette is higher consciousness, sensitivity, gentleness, gracefulness, intensity, power, and knowledge.

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

There is nothing stronger than gentleness.

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

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.

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

The beginning of divine wisdom is clemency and gentleness, which arise from greatness of soul and the bearing of infirmities.

There is not a person we employ who does not, like ourselves, desire recognition, praise, gentleness, forbearance, patience.

I have seldom, if ever, seen money and gentleness go hand in hand.

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

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

We all owe to others much of the gentleness and wisdom that we have made our own; and we may well ask ourselves what will others owe to us

The swallow is not ensnared by men because of its gentle nature. [Lat., At caret insidiis hominum, quia mitis, hirundo.]