Gentleness Quotes

The greatest strength a man can achieve is gentleness.

— Monty Roberts

Gentleness beautifies everything. Harshness disfigures.

— Dr Al-Arifi

Force is legitimate where gentleness avails not.

— Pierre Corneille

Let gentleness my strong enforcement be.

— William Shakespeare

There is nothing stronger than gentleness.

— John Wooden

Force I will meet with gentleness; impatience with patience.

— Walter Russell

There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness.

— Han Suyin

The great mind knows the power of gentleness.

— Robert Browning

“For the first time in my life, I felt a gentleness, a softness in the unfolding of each day.”

— Han Nolan

“Quiet reflection is often the mother of deep understanding. Maintain that peaceful nursery, enabling stillness to speak.”

— Tom Althouse

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

— Honore de Balzac

A profusion of pink roses being ragged in the rain speaks to me of all gentleness and its enduring.

— William Carlos Williams

But wealth is a great means of refinement; and it is a security for gentleness, since it removes disturbing anxieties.

— Donald G. Mitchell

Being aggressive, you can accomplish some things, but with gentleness, you can accomplish all things.

— Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche

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

— Isaac of Nineveh

Humility, in its turn, can be achieved only through faith, fear of God, gentleness and the shedding of all possessions.

— John Cassian

You must be kind to others. You must foster a caretaker personality of gentleness and perseverance, even in the midst of adversity.

— Frederick Lenz

Seek to mingle gentleness in all your rebukes; bear with the infirmities of others; make allowance for constitutional frailties; never say harsh…

— John Ross Macduff

If you're an advocate of gentleness, you're simplistic and naive. If you're an advocate of despair and hate, you're sophisticated.

— Leo Buscaglia

“I want to lose all harshness of jagged nerves, to be above all gentle. I feel we have achieved victory for that…

— Wade Davis

The tears of Christ are the pity of God. The gentleness of Jesus is the long-suffering of God. The tenderness of Jesus…

— Alexander MacLaren

When we have to reply to anyone who has insulted us, we should be careful to do it always with gentleness. A…

— Alphonsus Liguori

The beautiful souls of the world have an art of saintly alchemy, by which bitterness is converted into kindness, the gall of…

— Henri Frederic Amiel

“The nearer persons come to each other, the greater is the room and the more are the occasions for courtesy; but just…

— George MacDonald

There is no true and constant gentleness without humility. While we are so fond of ourselves, we are easily offended with others.…

— Francois Fenelon

A great swindle of our time is the assumption that science has made religion obsolete. All science has damaged is the story…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“It was a soft, quiet kiss, that much more startling for its gentleness from this big, rough man. No big clacking together…

— Anonymous

The painful thing is that when we buy into disapproval, we are practicing disapproval. When we buy into harshness, we are practicing…

— Pema Chodron

I'm making a list I'm making a list of things I must say For politeness, And goodness and kindness and gentleness Sweetness…

— Shel Silverstein

I think with great affection and deep gratitude of my venerable predecessor, Benedict XVI, who during these years of his pontificate has…

— Pope Francis

I hate and fear 'science' because of my conviction that, for long to come if not for ever, it will be the…

— George Gissing

This hard place in which you perhaps find yourself is the very place in which God is giving you opportunity to look…

— Elisabeth Elliot

“KINGDOM OF THE WOMB From her thighs, she gives you life And how you treat she who gives you life Shows how…

— Suzy Kassem

His constant fight is with the Nafs (self-interest), the root of all disharmony and the only enemy of man. By crushing this…

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

In our rough and rugged individualism, we think of gentleness as weakness, being soft and virtually spineless. Not so! Gentleness includes such…

— Charles R. Swindoll

Any form of corporal punishment or 'spanking' is a violent attack upon another human being's integrity. The effect remains with the victim…

— Ashley Montagu

You will find out that Charity is a heavy burden to carry, heavier than the kettle of soup and the full basket.…

— Anonymous

“Now, with regard to the people who have done things we call "terrorism," I'm confident they have been expressing their pain in…

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

“In this way God's grace, our universal mother, will give us gentleness, so that we begin to imitate Christ. This constitutes the…

— Saint Nikodimos

There is nothing in either savage or civilized history that is more utterly complete, more remorselessly sweeping than the Father of Mercy´s…

— Mark Twain