Gracious Quotes

273 quotes by 231 authors

And you know, when you've experienced grace and you feel like you've been forgiven, you're a lot more forgiving of other people. You're a lot… — Rick Warren
I am very humble, and I am very gracious and very grateful for everything that happens to me and about me and around me. — Lil Wayne
When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired,… — William Wordsworth
Although they are unfailingly gracious, evangelicals are not so good at respecting professional boundaries. — Hanna Rosin
No one asks how or what I am doing. They could not care less. Weâ€™re all looking glasses, we girls, existing only to reflect their… — Libba Bray
There are a few people out there with whom you fit just so, and, amazingly, you keep fitting just so even after you have growth… — Lauren F. Winner
Charisma is the numinous aura around a narcissistic personality. It flows outward from a simplicity or unity of being and a composure and controlled vitality.… — Camille Paglia
She looked at a silver birch: it would have a soft, showery voice and would look like a slender girl, with hair blown all about… — C.S. Lewis
there is a God, there always has been. I see him here, in the eyes of the people in this [hospital] corridor of desperation. This… — Khaled Hosseini
We have nothing to fear and a great deal to learn from trees, that vigorours and pacific tribe which without stint produces strengthening essences for… — Marcel Proust
Almost every day brings opportunities to perform unselfish acts for others. Such acts are unlimited and can be as simple as a kind word, a… — James E. Faust
I wish I could leave you certain of the images in my mind, because they are so beautiful that I hate to think they will… — Marilynne Robinson
Christian contentment is that sweet, inward, quiet, gracious frame of spirit, which freely submits to and delights in God's wise and fatherly disposal in every… — Jeremiah Burroughs
It is very easy to shun someone who is deliberately cruel, and everyone loathes a man who is brutal and vicious. Such people have a… — Sharon Shinn
Trials are medicines which our gracious and wise Physician prescribes because we need them; and he proportions the frequency and weight of them to what… — Isaac Newton
Be pretty if you can, be witty if you must, but be gracious if it kills you. — Elsie de Wolfe
Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, Puts on his pretty look, repeats… — William Shakespeare
There was something terribly enthralling in the exercise of influence. No other activity was like it. To project one's soul into some gracious form, and… — Oscar Wilde
Well then," Roen said briskly, "are you sleeping?" "Yes." "Come now. A mother can tell when her son lies. Are you eating?" "No," Brigan said… — Kristin Cashore
I might be an assassin, but never let it be said I wasn't as gracious a hostess as the next gal. — Jennifer Estep

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