Top 100 Quotes About Gentleness
#1. Gentleness is given to those who have learned that God will not have his kingdom triumph through the violence of the world, for such a triumph came through the meekness of a cross.
Stanley Hauerwas
#2. the master of this person of an excellent disposition. And is remarkable in the ship for his gentleness,and the mildness of his disipline... added to his well known integrity and dauntless courage, made me desirious to engage him.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
#3. Sail forth into the sea of life, O gentle, loving, trusting wife, And safe from all adversity Upon the bosom of that sea Thy comings and thy goings be! For gentleness and love and trust Prevail o'er angry wave and gust; And in the wreck of noble lives Something immortal still survives.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#4. Gentleness is the ability to bear reproaches and slights with moderation, and not to embark on revenge quickly, and not to be easily provoked to anger, but be free from bitterness and contentiousness, having tranquility and stability in the spirit.
Aristotle.
#5. The Saviour reigned in all their hearts, and they successfully copied the pattern of meekness and gentleness, which he had left them.
John Strachan
#7. Ah, don't grieve, little falcon,' he said with that tenderly melodious gentleness with which old Russian women speak. 'Don't grieve, little friend: you suffer an hour, you live an age! So it is, my dear. And we live here, thank God, with no offense. There's bad people, and there's good
Leo Tolstoy
#8. He who can preserve gentleness amid pains, and peace amid worry multitude of affairs, is almost perfect.
Saint Francis De Sales
#9. Sometimes its not the strength but gentleness that cracks the hardest shells.
Richard Paul Evans
#10. In our interactions with others, gentleness, kindness, respectare the source of harmony
Gautama Buddha
#11. Art is neither a muscle nor a cure for ugliness. Ugliness has its own reasons and convictions to stay here. Art has a patience of a civilized, patience to withhold the gentleness of the civilization.
Ashutosh Gupta
#12. Joy is love exalted; peace is love in repose; long-suffering is love enduring; gentleness is love in society; goodness is love in action; faith is love on the battlefield; meekness is love in school; and temperance is love in training.
D.L. Moody
#13. Women show men beauty in things beyond their ambitions. Women tell men to stop and smell the roses.
Criss Jami
#14. Femininity is not just lipstick, stylish hairdos, and trendy clothes. It is the divine adornment of humanity. It finds expression in your qualities of your capacity to love, your spirituality, delicacy, radiance, sensitivity, creativity, charm, graciousness, gentleness, dignity, and quiet strength.
James E. Faust
#15. If you are leaving that sorrowful place with hate and anger against men, you are worthy of compassion; if you leave it with good will, gentleness and peace, you are better than any of us.
Victor Hugo
#16. When we have to reply to anyone who has insulted us, we should be careful to do it always with gentleness. A soft answer extinguishes the fire of wrath.
Alphonsus Liguori
#17. Above all, it is not decency or goodness of gentleness that impresses the Middle East, but strength.
Meir Kahane
#18. 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
#19. Robespierre, crippled and blind, has yet to be healed to the knowledge that service - his desire - is a deed of savage-speaking gentleness, not soft-spoken savagery.
Tanith Lee
#20. His behavior there was a perfect balance between gentleness and violence that gave her particular delight.
Paul Bowles
#21. Tenderness rounds out true triumph, gentleness lubricates genuine liberation: emotions that are not diagnostic of glory or passion in dreams.
Vladimir Nabokov
#22. With you, I find peace from pain - You are gentle and healing like the landscape - like rain ...
John Geddes
#23. Ah, so that must have been her mystery: she had discovered a trail into the forest. Surely that was where she went during her absences. Returning with her eyes filled with gentleness & ignorance, eyes made whole. An ignorance so vast that inside it all the world's wisdom could be contained & lost.
Clarice Lispector
#24. A motley crew of racist, sin-sick, spiritual zombies is now one body under Christ. And individually they are new creations walking in humility, gentleness, and patience
Gloria Furman
#25. The first is gentleness; the second is economy; and the third is shrinking from taking precedence of others.
Lao-Tzu
#26. Gentleness and kindness will make our homes a paradise upon earth.
C. A. Bartol
#27. The etiquette is higher consciousness, sensitivity, gentleness, gracefulness, intensity, power, and knowledge.
Frederick Lenz
#28. Kindness and gentleness never had a gender, and neither did empathy.
Rebecca Solnit
#29. When we appropriate God's great enablers-His grace and His peace-we can achieve gentleness and calmness even during hard times.
Kay Arthur
#30. Why do you need to know that? Because until you know that Jesus was prosperous, you won't be either. You may have His kindness, you may have His gentleness, you may have all His other attributes, but you'll never have His prosperity.
John Avanzini
#31. The product of a true, growing, gospel-centered nature is often gentleness.
Timothy Keller
#32. I'm nineteen tree rings and mashed acorns stop up my veins when I can't clot. Oh god, you beautiful person, I'll let you lick the salt off of my tattoos as if they were wounds, wounds made of ink and stories.
Taylor Rhodes
#33. The offender needs pity, not wrath; those who must needs be corrected, should be treated with tact and gentleness; and one must be always ready to learn better. 'The best kind of revenge is, not to become like unto them.'
Marcus Aurelius
#34. Learning to listen relationally, listen with cool heads and clear boundaries, listen with the quietness of the heart and the gentleness of the body, means having a self so developed it can afford to yield.
Terrence Real
#35. when a subject corrects his prelate, he ought to do so in a becoming manner, not with impudence and harshness but with gentleness and respect. . . .
Peter Kreeft
#36. Now may the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the eternal high priest himself, the Son of God Jesus Christ, build you up in faith and truth and in all gentleness and in all freedom from anger and forbearance and steadfastness and patient endurance and purity.
Polycarp
#37. Our greatest strength lies in the gentleness and tenderness of our heart.
Rumi
#38. Although our love is waning, let us stand by the lone border of the lake once more, together in that hour of gentleness. When the poor tired child, passion, falls asleep.
William Butler Yeats
#39. It is really so nice here-country-busy-busy with so many different kinds of things- ... I must say I feel far away in another world here- ... always we go to a new place ... the people have a kind of gentleness that isn't usual on the mainland.
Georgia O'Keeffe
#40. One day you will be able to look over all the disaster and heartbreak and feel ok with it, today mighten be the day but one day you will.
Nikki Rowe
#41. Of course, when I say that human nature is gentleness, it is not 100 percent so. Every human being has that nature, but there are many people acting against their nature, being false.
Dalai Lama
#42. Gentleness brings victory to him who attacks, and safety to him who defends. Those whom Heaven would save, it fences round with gentleness.
Laozi
#43. If I'm feeling hurt, sad, lonely, depressed, and then I shame myself for feeling that, then that's a black hole for me. I really have worked a lot to meet pain with both gratitude and gentleness.
Bellamy Young
#44. AugustineThe wounds of a friend are better than the kisses of an enemy. To love with sternness is better than to deceive with gentleness ... In Luke [14:23] it is written: "Compel people to come in!" By threats of the wrath of God, the Father draws souls to his Son.
Saint Augustine
#45. How could I have never told anyone what He had done for me? Nothing else had worked. Nothing had been able to break the chains that kept me living on the edge. Nothing ... except the gentleness of His touch.
Nikki Rosen
#46. Love is strong in its passion; affection is powerful in its gentleness.
Jules Michelet
#47. You need to be prepared for firm decisions and action, without losing gentleness towards those who obstruct or abuse you. It's as great a weakness to be angry with them as it is to abandon your plan of action and give up through fear.
Marcus Aurelius
#48. when i speak to you
i speak as though
i am offering a rose
in your hand.
Sanober Khan
#49. I want to do everything to you, all at once," he muttered. "I want to stroke you, fuck you, hold you down, lift you up, pin you, take you. I want you to take me. Lord and Lady, Sophie, I don't know that I have any gentleness in me tonight.
Thea Harrison
#50. Force I will meet with gentleness; impatience with patience.
Walter Russell
#51. There is generosity in giving, but gentleness in receiving.
Freya Stark
#53. Trust was accumulated quickly, due primarily to the brute strength of the man's gentleness, his thereness. (p.36)
Markus Zusak
#54. 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
#55. It was the love of love, the love of swallows up all else, a grateful love, a love of natural, of people, of animals, a love ingengering gentleness and goodness that moved meand that I saw in you
William Carlos Williams
#56. Try to exercise gentleness, kindness and humour, and you cannot go far wrong.
Sophie Winkleman
#57. I hope we can inaugurate a new humility in our use of religious language, which for me is the very proof that it is authentic.
Richard Rohr
#58. Time, of course, topples everyone in its path equally- the way that driver beats his old horse until it dies. But the thrashing we receive is one of frightful gentleness. Few of us even realize that we are being beaten.
Haruki Murakami
#59. Your body will heal itself, through gentle and peaceful cooperation with the inherent wisdom and intelligence within.
Bryant McGill
#60. As Queen Elizabeth II said after her annus horribilis: "There can be no doubt that criticism is good for people and institutions . . . but scrutiny can be just as effective if it is made with a touch of gentleness, good humor, and understanding.
Tim Clissold
#61. It is in deep solitude and silence that I find the gentleness with which I can truly love my brother and sister.
Thomas Merton
#62. It has been women who have breathed gentleness and care into the hard progress of humankind.
Queen Elizabeth II
#63. God's vision is a call to move forward into the future in the full operation of love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, gentleness, faithfulness, and self-control, with a fearlessness that could only come from him.
Sarah Bessey
#64. Teach them the quiet words of kindness, to live beyond themselves. Urge them toward excellence, drive them toward gentleness, pull them deep into yourself, pull them upward toward manhood, but softly like an angel arranging clouds. Let your spirit move through them softly.
Pat Conroy
#65. Gentle in manners and voice, and yet in the courtroom that gentleness burned itself away and left behind something brutal and cold.
Hanya Yanagihara
#66. Learning softeneth the heart and breedeth gentleness and charity.
Mark Twain
#67. I half-expect to check out, but I'm really there for it. It's not like at the dance, angry and forced. It's terrible in its gentleness and he's just wasting it on me.
Courtney Summers
#68. If you aim for only wealth, beauty, fame, & power, you aim too low. Humility, gentleness, gratitude, & service is aiming high.
LeCrae
#69. As all things eternal and primordial reappear, so all things mortal return to the earth. Honor, old age, probity, justice, constance, virtue, and gentleness are all gathered into the cold tomb.
Francis Quarles
#70. To be able to say 'sorry' to a woman- a sister, or a mother, is a most helpful thing, whether sorry or not. Still, for the sake of peace and gentleness at home just 'Sorry'which doesn't bind you to anything---but it turns away wrath! And soreness! And is like sunshine and hurts no one.
Catherine Bailey
#71. The components of happiness are quite simple. Happiness is gentleness, peace, concentration, simplicity, forgiveness, humor, fearlessness, trust, and now. In its true form each quality includes all the rest, for happiness is whole, and one feels whole when genuinely happy.
Hugh Prather
#72. 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
#73. Music imitates (represents) the passions or states of the soul, such as gentleness, anger, courage, temperance, and their opposites.
Aristotle.
#74. I lack the Lord's own gentleness of heart, for I see deliberate malice where he sees ignorance and weakness.
Anthony De Mello
#75. He framed her face with his calloused hands and looked down at her. His beautiful blue eyes searched her face and all her fears fled. In his eyes she saw everything she needed. Gentleness, kindness, passion and ... maybe, just maybe a hint of love.
Tamara Hoffa
#76. How can I teach your children gentleness and mercy to the weak, and reverence for life, which in its nakedness and excess, is still a gleam of God's omnipotence, when by your laws, your actions and your speech, you contradict the very things I teach?
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#77. Gentleness is strength under control. It is the ability to stay calm, no matter what happens.
Elizabeth George
#78. Never, never is it possible to reach someone if you become angry or bitter only love and gentleness can do it. Maybe not this time but maybe the next or the hundredth time.
Cesar Chavez
#79. Leave it to a dude to roll in with your technique, but use a jackhammer instead of jeweler's screwdrivers.
Roberto Hogue
#80. His blue eyes, lively and close-set, revealed the gentleness of a man who had read all of the books.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#81. You overrate my capacity of love. I don't posess half the warmth of nature you believe me to have. An unprotected childhood in a cold world has beaten gentleness out of me.
Thomas Hardy
#82. One negative side of grief is that it focuses us inward upon ourselves, often leading to lapses of patience and gentleness with those around us.
James R. White
#84. A profusion of pink roses being ragged in the rain speaks to me of all gentleness and its enduring.
William Carlos Williams
#85. She held the book in her hands, feeling a sense of awe, and lightly ran a finger over its cover as if it contained sacred writings.
Nikki Rosen
#86. How could this man - so capable of extreme violence against her - show such gentleness? BUT, she reminded herself, even Hitler loved his dogs."
- Charlotte, The Devil's Serenade
Catherine Cavendish
#87. They took turns kissing necks and ears and stubbled chins. He had never found or expected gentleness from Tucker, but here it was, his for the asking. His even if he didn't know how to ask.
Josh Lanyon
#88. Kind words cost no more than unkind ones ... and we may scatter the seeds of courtesy and kindliness around us at so little expense. If you would fall into any extreme let it be on the side of gentleness. The human mind is so constructed that it resists vigor and yields to softness.
Jeremy Bentham
#89. An appearance of delicacy is inseparable from sweetness and gentleness of character.
Lydia Sigourney
#90. The women that I met were exceptional, extraordinary - tremendous purity, tremendous gentleness, self-giving and power.
Frederick Lenz
#91. Gentleness shown once is mercy, shown twice is folly.
Naomi Novik
#92. You try to draw everything into the net of your faith, father, but you can't steal all the virtues. Gentleness isn't Christian, self-sacrifice isn't Christian, charity isn't, remorse isn't. I expect the cavemen wept to see another's tears.
Graham Greene
#93. It's not right that gentleness meet horror.
Yann Martel
#95. Yesterday I talked about cultivating precision, gentleness, and openess, and described how the meditation technique helps us to remember the qualities that we already possess.
Pema Chodron
#96. People think kindness is a soft, weak, submissive influence when in reality it is the most potent, persuasive force in existence.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#97. Love is the key. Joy is love singing. Peace is love resting. Patience is love enduring. Kindness is love's truth. Goodness is love's character. Faithfulness is love's habit. Gentleness is love's self-forgetfulness. Self-control is being the reins
Donald Grey Barnhouse
#98. He knew that men learned how to love; they weren't born with that capacity. He knew the qualities of a godd man included all the aspects that concerned Marco: loyalty, fidelity, ambition, and gentleness.
Adriana Trigiani
#99. To pray is to change. This is a great grace. How good of God to provide a path whereby our lives can be taken over by love and joy and peace and patience and kindness and goodness and faithfulness and gentleness and self-control.
Richard J. Foster
#100. The narrator analyzes that the maturing, passing away boy within him, had issued me a challenge as he passed the baton to the man in me: He had challenged me to have the courage to become a gentle, harmless man.
Pat Conroy
