Always meet petulance with gentleness and perverseness with kindness. A gentle hand can lead even en elephant by a hair. Reply to… — Zoroaster Copy Share Image
Many of the phenomena of Winter are suggestive of an inexpressible tenderness and fragile delicacy. We are accustomed to hear this king… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“By speaking with courtesy and respect, you are offering a wonderful gift to yourself, a useful embarrassment to the unkind, and a… — Giannis Delimitsos Copy Share Image
I often don't go to sleep and work through the night. I can't seem to do my vocal takes if there's light… — Jamie Woon Copy Share Image
“How could I have never told anyone what He had done for me? Nothing else had worked. Nothing had been able to… — Nikki Rosen Copy Share Image
“You can’t substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship. Money is not… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
“I hope we can inaugurate a new humility in our use of religious language, which for me is the very proof that… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
So easy are men to be drawn to believe any thing, from such men as have gotten credit with them; and can… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
“For all that ye may ever keep is just what you give away, and that you give away is advice, counsel, manner… — Edgar Cayce Copy Share Image
Both gentleness and meekness are born of power, not weakness. There is a pseudo-gentlene ss that is effeminate, and there is a… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
Love should be the silver thread that runs through all your conduct. Kindness, gentleness, long suffering, forbearance, patience, sympathy, a willingness to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I believe the powers of observation in numbers of very young children to be quite wonderful for its closeness and accuracy. Indeed,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
You have filled my tea with lumps of sugar, and though I asked most distinctly for bread and butter, you have given… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Femininity is not just lipstick, stylish hairdos, and trendy clothes. It is the divine adornment of humanity. It finds expression in your… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
Men will imitate and admire his unmoved firmness, his inflexible conscience for the right; and yet his gentleness, as tender as a… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
True spirit of Judo is nothing but the gentle and diligent free spirit. Judo rests on flexible action of mind and body.… — Kyuzo Mifune Copy Share Image
“I won’t desecrate beauty with cynicism anymore. I won’t confuse critical thinking with a critical spirit, and I will practice, painfully, over… — Sarah Bessey Copy Share Image
I believe that order is better than chaos, creation better than destruction. I prefer gentleness to violence, forgiveness to vendetta. On the… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The sweetness and generosity and politeness and gentleness and humanity of the French had shown me how lovely life can be if… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
With regard to manner, be careful to speak in a soft, tender, kind and loving way. Even when you have occasion to… — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
Never, never is it possible to reach someone if you become angry or bitter only love and gentleness can do it. Maybe… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
If you would fall into any extreme, let it be on the side of gentleness. The human mind is so constructed that… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
Traces of nobility, gentleness, and courage persist in all people, do what we will to stamp out the trend. So, too, do… — Walt Kelly Copy Share Image
Yao Ming is the best thing to happen to the NBA in a long time. He is just a beautiful person inside… — Bill Walton Copy Share Image
A curse on him who begins in gentleness. He shall finish in insipidity and cowardice, and shall never step foot in the… — Andre Trocme Copy Share Image
Robespierre, crippled and blind, has yet to be healed to the knowledge that service - his desire - is a deed of… — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image
“He's a contradiction: taut magic coiled to strike, gentleness at war with severity, a tongue as sharp as a whip's edge, yet… — A.G. Howard Copy Share Image
I try to come at fitness and nutrition from a perspective of gentleness and what will make me feel good afterwards. I… — Taylor Schilling Copy Share Image
“I have often thought him since, like the steam hammer, that can crush a man or pat an eggshell, in his combination… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
If I'm feeling hurt, sad, lonely, depressed, and then I shame myself for feeling that, then that's a black hole for me.… — Bellamy Young Copy Share Image
Gentleness and peacefulness regulate our proceedings; theirs are dictated by fury. We employ reason, they accumulate faggots. They preach nothing but love,… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
You need to be prepared for firm decisions and action, without losing gentleness towards those who obstruct or abuse you. It's as… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Why do you need to know that? Because until you know that Jesus was prosperous, you won't be either. You may have… — John Avanzini Copy Share Image
Pride is the king of vices...it is the first of the pallbearers of the soul...other vices destroy only their opposite virtues, as… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
In after-life you may have friends--fond, dear friends; but never will you have again the inexpressible love and gentleness lavished upon you… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
The Land where humanity has attained its highest towards gentleness, towards generosity, towards purity, towards calmness - it is India. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I like cats… When I meet a cat, I say, "Poor Pussy!" and stoop down and tickle the side of its head;… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
I choose gentleness... Nothing is won by force. I choose to be gentle. If I raise my voice may it be only… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
We have not touched the stars, nor are we forgiven, which brings us back to the hero’s shoulders and the gentleness that… — Richard Siken Copy Share Image
Make good the good in you...and you will slowly steal into the Hawaiian heart, which is all of softness, and gentleness, and… — Jack London Copy Share Image
