Quotes About Gentleness And Strength

#1. The truth is Fort Endeavor needs you." Confused, she shifted in her seat, darting a look at him. "I need you," he amended quietly. "Not just your services as scrivener. I need your goodness and gentleness and strength. Sometimes I think you're the only one I can trust, even above my own officers.

Laura Frantz

#2. The human hand has an amazing quality that nothing else has: tremendous efficiency of strength and yet total gentleness.

Francis A. Schaeffer

#3. I live alone in a house, so for me it's very good to just be able to re-charge and just disappear and escape from reality and that's usually when I write most of my lyrics and my songs. It's a very happy productive place.

Adam Young

#4. There was a period ... when I used to say, with as much ferocity as I could muster, 'I hate Henry James, and I wish he was dead.' Influence is perdition.

Cynthia Ozick

#5. Bob Hope was an entertainment colossus, shrewd and influential well beyond show business. Richard Zoglin's biography captures it all
the public and private Hope.

Tom Brokaw

#6. When we blend courage and compassion, assertiveness and gentleness, our essential strength and kindness support us in being where we are.

A.H. Almaas

#7. We do have some assistance from the World Bank but not from the IMF. We are not borrowing yet, but we are considering, in the future, borrowing from the Kuwait Fund to support our infrastructure development.

Jose Ramos-Horta

#8. From serenity comes gentleness, comes lasting strength.

Pam Brown

#9. Her hand had a lot of strength gained through the process of gentleness.

Richard Brautigan

#10. Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as true strength.

Ralph W. Sockman

#11. You have fire, you have soul. Your strength and resilience amaze me. Your gentleness and kindness humble me. Your beauty takes my breath away. If I could have only one thing in this life, it would be you.

Sarah Castille

#12. I'm really only responsible to make sure that one person is clapping at the end of my life. Because I feel like as a performer, a lot of times you live for everyone else's applause. That's a dangerous thing within the church or outside the church.

Jon Foreman

#13. I can't compare family to athletics.

Joe Namath

#14. A woman's strength is most potent when robed in gentleness.

Alphonse De Lamartine

#15. Nothing is so strong as gentleness. Nothing is so gentle as real strength.

Ralph W. Sockman

#16. A man never so beautifully shows his own strength as when he respects a woman's softness.

Douglas William Jerrold

#17. ...No man is foolish when his friend betrays him because a man's world is most serene when he has people to trust and call friends. After all, is it not often said that a friend is another self?

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

#18. The greatest strength a man can achieve is gentleness.

Monty Roberts

#19. I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.

Leo Rosten

#20. True spirit of Judo is nothing but the gentle and diligent free spirit. Judo rests on flexible action of mind and body. The word flexible however never means weakness but something more like adaptability and openmindedness. Gentleness always overcomes strength.

Kyuzo Mifune

#21. Sometimes its not the strength but gentleness that cracks the hardest shells.

Richard Paul Evans

#22. 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

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

Meir Kahane

#24. Our greatest strength lies in the gentleness and tenderness of our heart.

Rumi

#25. Trust was accumulated quickly, due primarily to the brute strength of the man's gentleness, his thereness. (p.36)

Markus Zusak

#26. Gentleness is strength under control. It is the ability to stay calm, no matter what happens.

Elizabeth George

#27. I want roles that challenge people to question where they are in life.

Maggie Gyllenhaal

#28. I have often thought him since, like the steam hammer, that can crush a man or pat an eggshell, in his combination of strength with gentleness

Charles Dickens

#29. Our zeal is always guided by charity. Everything is done with strength and gentleness.

Basil Moreau

#30. He was a quiet man who could command attention with a simple glance or nod, a man who possessed equal part strength and gentleness and wore them, not in layers, but blended like fine leather.

Allen Eskens

#31. I started understanding that my strength is my gentleness. A leader isn't a dictator, a leader is a servant.

Tony Gaskins

#32. When I finish an album and I find myself listening to it in the car, because it makes me feel a certain way, that's the time to try to let other people know about it.

Herb Alpert

#33. We are here for a reason, but we land up pursuing something else, and end up having something completely different, which we never intended to start with.

Priya Kumar

#34. Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.

Leo Buscaglia

#35. The first couple of times, he simply stayed - a stranger to kill the aloneness. A few nights after that, he whispered "Shhh, I'm here, its alright." After three weeks, he held her. Trust was accumulated quickly, due primarily to the brute strength of the man's gentleness, his thereness.

Markus Zusak

#36. Gentleness is a great strength.

Lailah Gifty Akita