Top 100 Be Gentle Quotes
#1. You need time for the grief to heal, for the memories to fade in sharpness, time to adjust your expectation for the future. Be gentle with yourself, you'll make it.
Dee Henderson
#2. A strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be gentle, firm, thoughtful, and restrained. It can afford to extend a helping hand to others. It's a weak nation, like a weak person, that must behave with bluster and boasting and rashness and other signs of insecurity.
Jimmy Carter
#3. He knew you could never teach an animal anything if you struck it, or even shouted at it angrily. He must always be gentle, and quiet, and patient, even when they made mistakes. Star
Laura Ingalls Wilder
#4. 2 All of Me
Be Gentle My Friend
Be gentle with yourself,
forgive yourself for mistakes,
don't expect to be perfect
just get moving, and
keep putting one
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#5. Our motto is, 'Be gentle and subversive.'
Petra Kelly
#6. How do these people have any credibility? How do they get away with this? It's mind boggling that its gotten to a point where the EPA is dictating policy based on what is an obvious fraud, or if you want to be gentle about it, creates enough doubt to back off.
Joe Bastardi
#7. Isn't it strange that its easier to be gentle with the feelings of people we care less about than those of our children, whom we love so much?
Stephanie Martson
#8. Why don't you like to be gentle? Did you never have a pet to learn how to be nice? I can teach you to be gentle. It's not hard.
Pepper Winters
#9. The human heart is exquisitely fragile. Our judgments need to be gentle, our understanding deep, and our forgiveness wide.
Ron Rolheiser
#12. Strong men can always afford to be gentle. Only the weak are intent on giving as good as they get.
Elbert Hubbard
#13. When a woman births, not only is a baby being born but so is a mother.
How we treat her will affect how she feels about herself as a mother
and as a parent.
Be gentle. Be kind. Listen.
Ruth Ehrhardt
#14. When you meet someone, remember their outward appearance can be completely different from their insides. Be gentle.
Anne Bardsley
#16. Three circles. Perfect for asking. It was better to be gentle and polite. It was the worst sort of selfishness to force yourself upon the world.
Patrick Rothfuss
#17. Strong enough that I was no longer afraid to be gentle. Powerful enough that I could be vulnerable. Scarred enough that I could understand and
Karen Marie Moning
#19. Be patient with yourself. Be gentle with yourself. Know that all things are working in your favor. If you take one step toward the light of Spirit, Spirit will take five steps on your behalf.
Iyanla Vanzant
#20. I am not soft. I do not have that luxury. I am the wolf in girl's clothing; all snarls and claws. My mother once told me: be gentle, be kind. She forgot to mention that the world was full of beasts, and if I wanted to survive I would have to become one myself.
Nichole McElhaney
#21. One should be gentle with the ignorant, for they are the chosen of God.
Mark Twain
#22. The strangest thing about life is not its frightful cruelty, but that it can be gentle.
Storm Jameson
#23. Body and heart wide open, trusting him to be gentle and cherish her with his much stronger body. Recognizing what a gift that was, he kissed her tenderly in reassurance, fighting back the need raging inside him.
Kaylea Cross
#24. Be gentle...Many of the people who will come to see you are injured in spirit. They need to talk about things that have hurt them, or about things that they have done. Do not sit in judgement on them, but listen. Just listen.
Alexander McCall Smith
#25. Love me and you'll see! To be good, all I ever needed was to be loved. If you loved me, I'd be gentle as a lamb and you could do whatever you pleased with me.
Gaston Leroux
#26. Tis the gift to be gentle, 'tis the gift to be fair,
'Tis the gift to wake and breathe the morning air,
To walk every day in the path that we choose,
Is the gift that we pray we will never never lose.
Patricia Briggs
#27. She's a Portland girl. So I guess that makes us in-laws. Be gentle with me, yeah?
Kylie Scott
#28. When men declare their love for us, we should handle them with the utmost care, even if the feelings aren't mutual. For the sake of future marital happiness, or to leave their hearts intact for another woman down the pike, let's be gentle and trustworthy with their brave declarations.
Liz Curtis Higgs
#29. Be careful to be gentle, lest in removing the rust, you break the whole instrument.
Benedict Of Nursia
#30. What if each child was taught from the cradle to sing the song of peace...would the cynics not call it foolish, saying that to be gentle is to be weak? But I tell you that until we are as innocent and pure as doves, our journey will be long and the way dark. Raise doves, not wolves.
Joann Davis
#31. Be gentle with everyone you meet; we all have experienced pain, hurt, anger, and rejection. Be kind to everyone's spirit; you have no idea what healing your light can afford.
Grace Gealey
#32. You're going to take me now, Maddie, and warning, my dove, I'll not be gentle.
Kristen Ashley
#33. Others are able to mediate the gentleness of Christ to us when we are not able to be gentle with ourselves.
Adam S. McHugh
#34. You are called to be an instrument of wisdom in your teenager's life. To do so, you must be gentle, humble, patient, and persevering.
Paul David Tripp
#36. I know I talk a lot of shit ... but I'm serious." His warm thumb glides over my cheek and then across my bottom lip. "And since we can't be loud for your dad's sake, let me be gentle. Let me show you how much I care.
Skyla Madi
#37. Be gentle with everything in your life.
Bryan Kest
#38. Don't forget how to be gentle," she warned. "Don't let the hardness of the world steal the softness of your heart.
Laurie Halse Anderson
#39. The two of them prayed to Jesus that they might learn their lessons sooner rather than later, and that they would be gentle lessons rather than hard lessons.
Jane Smiley
#40. A female character can: Like babies, Be devoted to her lover, Cry, Be gentle, Be scared, Be uncertain, Take advice, and still be a YA heroine
Celine Kiernan
#42. Hey Jake. I got an idea.'
'Be gentle with it,' the Doc grinned. 'It's in a strange place.
Spider Robinson
#44. It's important to be gentle about my routines. I've learned that the hard way. When I'm really stressed out, I can take it out on my body and hurt myself. Sometimes I need to be as loving and soft with myself as possible. I've had to learn how to pay attention. It's a kind of mind-set.
Lisa Edelstein
#46. You have a good heart and you think the good thing is to be guilty and kind but it's not always kind to be gentle and soft, there's a genuine violence softness and kindness visit on people. Sometimes self-interested is the most generous thing you can be.
Tony Kushner
#47. Everyone is overcoming something, be gentle.
Nikki Rowe
#48. The words given voice inside the mind are not always clear, however; they can be gentle and elliptical, what the prophets call the bat qol, the daughter of the voice of God, she who speaks in whispers and half-seen images.
Laurie R. King
#49. Be gentle and kind with every one, and severe with yourself.
Teresa Of Avila
#50. It requires more strength to be gentle, so it's the everyday encounters of life that I think we've prepared children for and prepared them to be good to other people and to consider other people.
Bob Keeshan
#51. To be forceful was not the same as being powerful and to be gentle was not the same as being fragile ...
Deborah Levy
#52. If you know how it's to be treated unfairly, you will be gentle with others.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#53. Mothers and fathers must be gentle at least some of the time. Mothers and fathers must also be strict at least some of the time. Most of the time, though, most mothers and fathers must be mostly strict and gentle together.
Connie Kerbs
#54. Learn to be - gentle with them. Learn that ... that gentleness isn't ... weakness.
Joan D. Vinge
#55. Adjusting to life's changes may be difficult and something you may not be looking forward to experiencing. Be gentle with yourself and you will find clarity on all levels of encouragement in places and by people you least expect. Remember as it has been said before: This too shall pass!
Steven Cuoco
#56. We need women who are so strong they can be gentle, so educated they can be humble, so fierce they can be compassionate, so passionate they can be rational, and so disciplined they can be free.
Kavita Ramdas
#58. Remorse is as the heart in which it grows; If that be gentle, it drops balmy dews Of true repentance; but if proud and gloomy, It is the poison tree, that pierced to the inmost, Weeps only tears of poison.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#59. I wanted to reach out and stroke her, to be gentle and tender towards her. Take care of her.
James Lusarde
#60. The lawgiver ought to be gentle, lenient and humane. The lawgiver ought to be a skilled architect who raises his building on the foundation of self-love, and the interest of all ought to be the product of the interests of each.
Cesare Beccaria
#61. I've never played a video game," he said. "Don't worry," I teased. "I'll be gentle." He bent down and bit my ear lobe before whispering in Russian, "I won't.
Annie Bellet
#63. Nothing discloses real character like the use of power. It is easy for the weak to be gentle. Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power. This is the supreme test.
Robert G. Ingersoll
#64. The fourth gift is Compassion. May you be gentle with yourself and others. May you forgive those who hurt you and yourself when you make mistakes.
Charlene Costanzo
#65. You have to be gentle with the young, W. says. They're a gentle generation, like fauns, he says, and require a special tenderness. Their lives are going to be bad--very bad--and, at the very least, we should be tender with them, and not remind them of what is to come.
Lars Iyer
#66. He took her into his arms again, using all his strength to be gentle, and let his lips touch hers so lightly he could hardly feel it.
Morgan Llywelyn
#67. Be gentle with yourself. Think less and feel more. Be as happy as you can. You only have this moment.
Dan Millman
#68. Yes, we will quarrel incessantly and fight for dominance. And yes, there will be ravishes of passion, but there will also be gentle lulls. That is who we are together.
A.G. Howard
#69. Be gentle with him, Mercy. He's got a heart as big as Texas - he'll die for you without blinking. But he doesn't expect anyone to do the same for him.
Nalini Singh
#70. Whatever you do, be gentle. People might have forgiven your harsh words but they may never forget how it stabbed their heart at that time!
Mufti Ismail Menk
#71. That's my wish for our community, as it were, that during this very confusing and amazing time, we be gentle with ourselves, and with each other.
Thea Hillman
#72. What is good looking, as Horace Smith remarks, but looking good? Be good, be womanly, be gentle,-generous in your sympathies, heedful of the well-being of all around you; and, my word for it, you will not lack kind words of admiration.
John Greenleaf Whittier
#73. I'll say this one more time. I will be gentle. I will be slow. But you don't have the reins.
Joey W. Hill
#74. People offend you, irritate you, breathe contempt and malice against you; do not repay them in the same way, but be gentle, meek, and kind, respectful and loving towards those very persons who behave unworthily to you.
John Of Kronstadt
#75. I'm going to be gentle with you, Liz. We're going to treat this delicately. I'm going to let this happen slowly, let us fall slowly. But I am not asking too much of you.
Rachel Higginson
#76. Be gentle, kind and beautiful, yet firm and strong, both mentally and physically.
Keiko Fukuda
#77. Self-compassion is key because when we're able to be gentle with ourselves in the midst of shame, we're more likely to reach out, connect, and experience empathy.
Brene Brown
#78. Fuck you!"
She stalks back around my desk toward the door.
"Here? Now?" I look up at the ceiling, like I'm debating the prospect. "Well ... okay. But be gentle. My couch is a virgin.
Emma Chase
#79. He was good at this because he had a variety of speeds and levels. He could go slow and be gentle or he could go fast and be hungry. It usually started with one and then moved gradually (and never fast enough but definitely good enough) through the rest.
Kristen Ashley
#80. Education should be gentle and stern, not cold and lax.
Joseph Joubert
#81. Be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars. In the noisy confusion of life, keep peace in your soul.
Max Ehrmann
#82. Be gentle and forgiving with yourself, abandon any and all shame, and refuse to engage in any self-repudiation.
Wayne Dyer
#83. The Holy Spirit is like the wind. It can be gentle enough to stroke a leaf but hard enough to bend a tree. God provides us rest, but He'll also bring us an inch away from our breaking point. Both are done in love.
Alisa Hope Wagner
#84. The disposition of noble dogs is to be gentle with people they know and the opposite with those they don't know ... How, then, can the dog be anything other than a lover of learning since it defines what's its own and what's alien.
Plato
#85. I'm not going to be gentle, because we both know you don't want gentle. I'm going to torment you until you're stiff and aching - until even the whisper of my breath on your skin makes you moan.
Samanthe Beck
#86. It's so easy to laugh
It's so easy to hate
It takes guts to be gentle and kind
Morrissey
#87. I'll be gentle." Solemn words that made him want to smile. "I know you're a virgin. Psy don't have sex do they?"
"No." Intimate touch was forbidden in the PsyNet. "But I think I have the concept figured out.
Nalini Singh
#88. I want you, Zel. God knows how much I fucking want you." He dropped his eyes, glaring at his fists. "But I'm still struggling inside. I want to be gentle. To hold you and make love to you. But ... I won't be able to and I don't want to take you violently. Not today.
Pepper Winters
#89. Be persecuted, rather than be a persecutor. Be crucified, rather than be a crucifier. Be treated unjustly, rather than treat anyone unjustly. Be oppressed, rather than be an oppressor. Be gentle rather than zealous. Lay hold of goodness, rather than justice.
Isaac Of Nineveh
#90. Be gentle with your words - you can't take them back.
Willie Nelson
#91. I'm not gentle by nature, but I can be gentle by obedience. I'm not patient by nature, but I can be patient by obedience. I'm not peaceful by nature, but I can be peaceful by obedience.
Lysa TerKeurst
#94. Jeanne de Chantal, seventeenth-century founder of the Order of the Visitation, said, No matter what happens, be gentle with yourself.
Shane Claiborne
#95. I choose gentleness ... Nothing is won by force. I choose to be gentle. If I raise my voice may it be only in praise. If I clench my fist, may it be only in prayer. If I make a demand, may it be only of myself.
Max Lucado
#96. The thing about depression is that, if you're not the one who's actually suffering from it, there's very little you can do to be proactive. If someone in your family is depressed, all you can really do is send them to the shrink, get them their meds, be gentle, and wait.
Sarah Silverman
#97. Failure Is Not Permanent, So Is The Success. So, Don't Look Down Upon People Who Are Failed While You're Succeeded. Table Can Turn Anytime. Be Gentle To Every Creation, It Ain't Cost A Thing ...
Muhammad Imran Hasan
#98. You can't plan for what you can't see, so be gentle with your dreams!
Anuranjita Kumar
#99. If you EVER touch her again, you're a dead man! You got that? There'll be no lawsuit filed against you man, I'll just settle this old school. I don't know how you feel about having your fingers ripped off and shoved up your own arse, but let me tell you, I won't be gentle.
Shelly Pratt
#100. So be gentle with yourself; show yourself the same kindness and patience you might show a young child - the child you once were. If you won't be your own friend, who will be? If, when playing an opponent, you are also opposing yourself, you will be outnumbered.
Dan Millman
