Gentleness Quotes · Page 8

Gentleness doesn't get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs.

— Coco Chanel

Nothing is so strong as gentleness and nothing is so gentle as real strength.

— Ralph W Sockman

“Love yourself enough through the hard times, good times, and weird times.”

— Dhayana Alejandrina

With gentleness overcome anger. With generosity overcome meanness. With truth overcome deceit.

— Gautama Buddha

Gentleness and repose are paramount to everything else in woman.

— Michel de Montaigne

“What would you have? Your gentleness shall force More than your force move us to gentleness.”

— William Shakespeare

With all women gentleness is the most persuasive and powerful argument.

— Theophile Gautier

Kindness and gentleness never had a gender, and neither did empathy.

— Rebecca Solnit

Everything in Irenaeus is bathed in a warm and radiant joy, a wise and majestic gentleness. His words of struggle are hard…

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

If zeal had been appropriate for putting humanity right, why did God the Word clothe himself in the body, using gentleness and…

— Isaac of Nineveh

How much better the world would be if we all gave gifts of understanding, and compassion, of service, and friendship, of kindness…

— Thomas S. Monson

A foreign observer is struck by our gentleness: by the orderly behaviour of the English crowds, the lack of pushing and quarrelling,…

— George Mikes

Drunkeness, she told us in a rare moment of confidence, is a sin against the fruit, the tree, the wine itself. Wine,…

— Joanne Harris

We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery, we need humanity; more than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness.…

— Charlie Chaplin

But when the Holy Spirit controls our lives, he will produce this kind of fruit in us: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness,…

— Nicholas Sparks

Jesus never mistreated anyone just because they mistreated Him. He confronted them in a spirit of gentleness and then continued to love…

— Joyce Meyer

There is in all visible things an invisible fecundity, a dimmed light, a meek namelessness, a hidden wholeness. This mysterious unity and…

— Thomas Merton

Love should be the silver thread that runs through all your conduct. Kindness, gentleness, long suffering, forbearance, patience, sympathy, a willingness to…

— Anonymous

I believe the powers of observation in numbers of very young children to be quite wonderful for its closeness and accuracy. Indeed,…

— Charles Dickens

You have filled my tea with lumps of sugar, and though I asked most distinctly for bread and butter, you have given…

— Oscar Wilde

“For all that ye may ever keep is just what you give away, and that you give away is advice, counsel, manner…

— Edgar Cayce

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

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

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

Better make penitents by gentleness than hypocrites by severity.

— Saint Francis de Sales

“While most activists could use a good dose of gentleness, I think most believers could use a good dose of holy anger.”

— Shane Claiborne

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

— Jennifer Granholm

I want to make wines that harmonize with food - wines that almost hug your tongue with gentleness.

— Robert Mondavi

“It is the weak who are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.”

— Leo Roskin

“Real men don’t kiss with the gentleness of a butterfly’s wing.”

— Mari Mancusi

In mine opinion, love is fitter than fear, gentleness better than beating, to bring up a child rightly in learning.

— Roger Ascham

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

— Henry Ward Beecher

Your greatest strength is from the gentleness and tenderness of your heart.

— Regina Malabago

The product of a true, growing, gospel-centered nature is often gentleness.

— Timothy Keller

Gentleness is a divine trait: nothing is so divine as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as real strength.

— Ralph Washington Sockman

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

— Meir Kahane

“There are graceful ways of accessing your purpose and success, with time, invitation, gentleness, cooperation and surrender.”

— Bryant McGill

I have become so great as I am because I have won men's hearts by gentleness and kindliness.

— Saladin

Harshness is conquered by gentleness, hatred by love, lethargy by zeal and darkness by light.

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Grace Metalious