Gentle Quotes

Culture makes all men gentle.

— Menander

“Gentle reminder, Smile please.”

— Vikrmn

“Live a humble and gentle life.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Gentle time will heal our sorrows.

— Sophocles

Love has a hundred gentle ends.

— Leonora Speyer

“Be seasonal, ethical and gentle.”

— Fennel Hudson

“Do not go gentle”

— Ally Condie

Gentle dullness ever loves a joke.

— Alexander Pope

“Have you ever felt a quiet pull you couldn't explain?”

— Lidia Sophia

We must be kind and gentle gardeners with people and nature.

— Anonymous

There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

— George Herbert

Do not go gentle into that good night.

— Dylan Thomas

It takes strength to be gentle and kind.

— Steven Morrissey

Hell yes! Gentle birth’s got to be good for something!

— Donald McCaig

Be Strong, Gentle and Beautiful, in Mind, Body and Spirit.

— Keiko Fukuda

Admite the world. Relish the love of a gentle woman. Trust in the lord.

— John Cheever

There is a gentle thought that often springs to life in me, because it speaks of you.

— Dante Alighieri

Pigeons are gentle and smart and have complex social relationships. Their hearing and vision are both excellent.

— Ingrid Newkirk

Women can be the most vicious creatures of this world and yet they are the most gentle angels in life.

— Anonymous

Later in life, I learnt that in order to deal with people, one has to be gentle and give them respect. That…

— Soni Razdan

“The corpse is too gentle, With a touch, so parental, I dare not refuse, With a lot to lose, I miss the…

— Rahim Haider

There's no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war. Except its ending.

— Anonymous

Put all our pride away, always find a gentle word to say, you know we shouldn't be full of ourselves when we…

— Dawud Wharnsby Ali

“Animals are pure and gentle. They’re sweet and never want more than you can give. “People,”

— Amanda M. Lee

Gentle, soft dream, nestling in my arms now, you will fly, too, as your sisters have all fled before you: but kiss…

— Charlotte Bronte

Certainly, if more people were smoking instead of drinking, people don’t get mean on weed, don’t beat up their wives on weed,…

— Susan Sarandon

They call me 'sweet,' and 'gentle'; and some of the men go the length of calling me 'endearing,' and I laugh in…

— Jane Welsh Carlyle

What I've come to learn is that the world is never saved in grand messianic gestures, but in the simple accumulation of…

— Chris Abani

THIS dust was once the Man, / Gentle, plain, just and resolute—under whose cautious hand, / Against the foulest crime in history…

— Walt Whitman

Dad was a very gentle, sweet man. Mum was the matriarch and the patriarch of the family. She ran the roost with…

— Tony Scott

Be persecuted, rather than be a persecutor. Be crucified, rather than be a crucifier. Be treated unjustly, rather than treat anyone unjustly.…

— Isaac of Nineveh

A great wind swept over the ghetto, carrying away shame, invisibility and four centuries of humiliation. But when the wind dropped people…

— Jean Genet

A man dies and goes to heaven. He is being shown around by an angel. Everything is just so sweet and gentle,…

— Anne Lamott

The shower of answers to your prayers will continue to your dying hour. Nor will it cease then. When you pass out…

— Ole Hallesby

These are the few ways we can practice humility: To speak as little as possible of one's self. To mind one's own…

— Mother Teresa

Some meat eaters defend meat eating by pointing out that it is natural: in the wild, animals eat one another. The animals…

— Sharon Gannon

The world is hard and cruel. We are here none knows why, and we go none knows whither. We must be very…

— W. Somerset Maugham

I fear I have not one good word to say this fair morning, though the sun shines so encouragingly on the distant…

— Margaret Fuller

Water is patient; it can stagnate and let itself be coated with scum if need be. It is as gentle as the…

— Huston Smith

You are okay just the way you are... and so is everybody else. Sometimes we want the kind of acceptance that we…

— Neale Donald Walsch