Top 89 Quotes About Graciousness
#1. Graciousness is the fruit of someone who knows how badly they themselves need grace.
Tullian Tchividjian
#2. I've learned that in many cases, change is not a function of life's cruelty but instead a function of God's graciousness.
Shauna Niequist
#3. All that we know theologically must be "accessed" by our heart with all the joy, peace, self-control, love, durability, patience, and graciousness that it should produce in a human being.
Timothy Keller
#4. As a dinner guest I gratefully eat just about anything that's set before me, because graciousness among friends is dearer to me than any other agenda.
Barbara Kingsolver
#5. Deliberate with caution, but act with decision and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.
Charles Caleb Colton
#6. There is graciousness and a kind of urbanity in beginning with men by esteem and confidence. It proves, at least, that we have long lived in good company with others and with our selves.
Joseph Joubert
#7. I've been fortunate to live a very full professional life. Most of it has happened through God's graciousness and not from something I've imagined.
Oleta Adams
#8. And yet he held his tongue, wanting his farewell with Marina to be peaceable, not out of any magnanimity, but so that after Tor ruined her - he felt confident Tor would ruin her - and she was once more alone, she would think of Lucy's graciousness and feel the long-lingering sting of bitter regret.
Patrick DeWitt
#9. The joyful heart sees and reads the world with a sense of freedom and graciousness.
John O'Donohue
#10. By some special graciousness of fate I am deposited - as all good photographers like to be - in the right place at the right time. Go into it as young as possible. Bring all the asset you have and play to win.
Margaret Bourke-White
#11. We need to discover all over again that worship is natural to the Christian, as it was to the godly Israelites who wrote the psalms, and that the habit of celebrating the greatness and graciousness of God yields an endless flow of thankfulness, joy, and zeal.
J.I. Packer
#12. Love: understanding, honesty, humility, forgiveness, acceptance, patience, reverence, gratitude, graciousness, benevolence, compassion and integrity. Be Love.
Maximus Freeman
#13. [Sandra Day O'Connor] is a justice whose graciousness and sense of duty fuels her continued service, even agreeing to serve more than six months after her retirement date.
Patrick Leahy
#14. My own personality, which was molded by the furnace of time and circumstances ... strengthened by the touchstone of varied experiences, has changed a bit due to the benevolence and graciousness of people around me but I have never felt trapped in the nets of influence.
Balroop Singh
#15. Our girls have need of such an example of graciousness, elegance, refinement, and spirituality.
Maria Young Dougall
#16. Like families, competitors can bring out the worst as well as the best in each other. Like romance, competition has many faces, some of them ugly. In addition to showing me my grace and graciousness, the mirror of sports has reflected back to me my jealousy, pettiness, and arrogance.
Mariah Nelson
#17. Truthfulness takes you a mile. Graciousness takes you around the world.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#18. Beauty brings warmth, elegance and grandeur. Something in our souls longs deeply for that graciousness and delight. When we advert to the presence of beauty, the direction, rhythm and energy of our lives become different. The
John O'Donohue
#19. The art of British Columbia's native Indians played a big role in inspiring my creativity ... the simplicity of the images, the graciousness of the lines and curves, and the emotional impact of the bright simple primary colours.
Joe Average
#20. One must place one's principles in big things. For the small, graciousness will suffice.
Albert Camus
#21. 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
#22. To bear defeat with dignity, to accept criticism with poise, to receive honors with humility - these are marks of maturity and graciousness.
William Arthur Ward
#23. Custom is a mutable thing; yet we readily recognize the permanence of certain social values. Graciousness and courtesy are never old-fashioned.
Emily Post
#24. God's graciousness is not totally removed from any individual during this lifetime. In hell, it is.
R.C. Sproul
#25. Art itself is female - it is full of graciousness, cadence, color, rhythm. It's full of love and grace.
Juan Gabriel
#27. Your graciousness is what carries you. It isn't how old you are, how young you are, how beautiful you are, or how short your skirt is. What it is, is what comes out of your heart. If you are gracious, you have won the game.
Stevie Nicks
#28. Cynicism is intelectual dandyism, but graciousness in speech is an aphrodisiac. (Andy Spade)
Kate Spade
#29. I would recommend a free commerce both of matter and mind. I would let men enter their own churches with the same freedom as their own houses; and I would do it without a homily or graciousness or favor, for tyranny itself is to me a word less odious than toleration.
Walter Savage Landor
#30. Graciousness in serving and being served marks the lives of leaders who have made the largest impact on my life.
Sue Mallory
#31. My wife has been my greatest earthly inspiration. She excels in eloquence, the poetry of words, empathy and graciousness.
George W. Romney
#32. The lessons near and far have taught us that our truth is Kuwait, and our involvement with this fact is what created for us, with God's graciousness, our victory set.
Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah
#33. It may be that until now there has been no more potent means for beautifying man himself than piety: it can turn man into so much art, surface, play of colors, graciousness that his sight no longer makes one suffer.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#34. My fake Japanese was smooth enough to earn me the title of 'The Emperor of Pleasing Graciousness' in that country.
Wolfman Jack
#35. I too once belived in the heavier gauge string as a superior tone source. However, thanks to the graciousness of B.B. King I learned that a lighter-gauge string offers superior playing comfort ... try it, you may like it ...
Billy Gibbons
#36. If you think the most courageous and difficult thing you can do is stubbornly stand your ground, try graciously giving in.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#37. Time was when much of lawyering consisted (according to turn-of-the-century lawyer and statesman Elihu Root) in telling would-be clients that they are damned fool's, and should stop.
George F. Will
#38. Indeed, the key to all diplomacy was knowing when they were serious about their threats and when they were posturing. Nations were like individuals, requiring cultivation and the paying of respect.
H.W. Brands
#39. We are enjoined whenever we behold the gifts of God in others so to reverence and respect the gifts as also to honor those in whom they reside.
John Calvin
#40. He may have confused honor with with with ruthlessness.
T. J. Stiles
#42. She was never satisfied with anything less than perfection, but she was no grind. She was too interested in people.
Doris Kearns Goodwin
#44. The two grappled in the quiet of old-fashioned personal diplomacy.
Paul C. Nagel
#45. In America religion is the road to knowledge, and the observance of the divine laws leads man to civil freedom.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#47. The wings of the dove are as soft as they are swift. Gentleness is a sure result of the Sacred Dove's transforming power: hearts touched by His benign influence are meek and lowly henceforth and for ever.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#48. Civilization depends on, and civility often requires, the willingness to say, "What you are doing is none of my business" and "What I am doing is none of your business.
George F. Will
#49. Manners matter, asserts the professor. What provokes rebellion, he asserts, is not as often a theory out allowing for arbitrary power but be excessive, brusque use of it by a particular individual.
Robert J. Allison
#50. He loved his family, his friends, his writing, his painting; he knew their flaws, but they neither surprised nor embittered him.
Philip Zaleski
#51. Whenever relationships can't be restored, it's because someone is not willing to move forward in the promises of God.
Matt Chandler
#52. He was a product of a culture where it was generally counterproductive to hold grudges.
H.W. Brands
#53. Christ's vast benevolence must, from the very nature of things, have afforded Him the deepest possible delight, for benevolence is joy.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#54. Humility is the earmark of God's genuine servant.
Beth Moore
#55. He did something he rarely did. He decided not to see things from the other guy's point of view.
H.W. Brands
#56. A man who called everyone a damn fool is like a man who damns the weather. He only shows that he is not adapted to his environment, not that the environment is wrong.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
#57. If our counseling is truly Christ-centered, then the topic of forgiveness will inevitably come up in the journey toward growth and change.
James MacDonald
#58. A love for his child was so profound, it spilled over to all humanity.
John Howard Griffin
#59. A thousand little civilities create tenderness in time.
E. M. Forster
#60. The truth must dazzle gradually or every man be blind. Emily Dickinson
Eugene H. Peterson
#61. The author perceives nuances of Abigail Adams' character in the occasional errors she makes in readily quoting John Milton. Rather than giving the observer a reason to quibble, they are evidence that she had absorbed Milton's works enough to feel comfortable quoting them from memory.
David McCullough
#62. He was a generous but subtly demanding boss.
H.W. Brands
#63. We have less reason to be surprised or offended when we find others differ from us in opinions because we very often differ from ourselves.
Samuel Johnson
#65. Thank you to Giulia Fani, Joan Spence and my sister for the rooms and desks they loaned me.
Moez Surani
#67. We are not to look to what men in themselves deserve but to attend to the image of God which exists in all and to which we owe all honor and love.
John Calvin
#68. Here in France, you must practice the art of accomplishing much while appearing to accomplish little. (in the John Adams miniseries on HBO)
Benjamin Franklin
#69. The weak mind is irritated at a little: the strong mind bears it like a rock which moveth not, though a thousand breakers dash upon it, and cast their pitiful malice in spray upon its summit.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#70. Characters carrying the playwright's disapproval is a un-Shakespearian burden.
Harold Bloom
#71. Men raised in a culture of blood revenge do not change in a day.
Geraldine Brooks
#72. We see a first generation going through adolescence knowing their every misstep, all the awkward gestures of their youth, are being frozen in a computer's memory.
Sherry Turkle
#73. I will not believe that thou hast tasted of the honey of the gospel if thou canst eat it all thyself. True grace puts an end to all spiritual monopoly.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#75. The hard truth is, the life thing moments happen. They are the details, the surprises, the every now and again "dang it" moments that are necessary for you to be able to appreciate good times and accomplish greater things.
Jaha Knight
#77. She was torn between her customer service training and her youthful certitude.
Bill Bryson
#78. My prophetic task would be twofold: to stand up to him, and to stand by him. To awaken his conscience, and to salve the pain this would cause him.
Erik Larson
#79. Blessed is the man who has the gift of making friends; for it is one of God's best gifts. It involves many things, but above all, the power of going out of oneself, and seeing and appreciating whatever is noble and living in another man.
Thomas Hughes
#80. If he could be hard on kings and cabinets, he was invariably kind to his colleagues.
John Taliaferro
#81. She was an experimental child but compassionate with it.
Joe Cawley
#82. This was my first real lesson in politics ... If you are cast on a desert island with only a screwdriver, hatchet, and the chisel to make a boat with, why, go and make the best one you can. It would be better if you had a saw, but you haven't, so with men.
Theodore Roosevelt
#83. She grew more and more vexed with his dignified behavior. By a cruel irony, she was drawing out what was best in his disposition.
E. M. Forster
#84. If you happened to be born on third base, you didn't rub it in the face of the guy who wasn't even born in the stadium. Self-interest was generally checked at the door with your coat and hat.
Ron Suskind
#85. When strangers meet, great allowances should be made for differences in custom and training.
Frank Herbert
#86. Almost alone among successful politicians, he took slights personally.
Rick Perlstein
#87. Hospitality can be an expression of doctrine beyond the pulpit. Hospitality is the means by which the Church, from the ground level, models the gospel to others.
Matt Chandler
#88. The nonchalance irritated her more because it was not assumed.
Margaret Landon
#89. Too many people are too angry about language too much of the time. This time could be better spent listening, learning, and enjoying the vast variety of human language around them.
Robert Lane Greene
