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Quotes About Gentleness

Being violent is easy, too easy." He brushed it off. "Holding back, being gentle, restraining your strength when it's not needed, that takes—" "Character," she said. "Loads of it.
~ Joey W. Hill
Tell him... You think it's kinder not to, but it isn't.
~ Joey W. Hill
There is a courtesy of the heart it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.
~ Johann von Goethe
There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
God's children have a limitless supply of the fruit of the Spirit.
~ Henry R Brandt
I've never, ever, raised a fist to anybody in my life.
~ Robbie Williams
Walk lightly through life.
~ Guy Finley
Empty Spaces:After his father died he carried his life more gently & left an empty space for the birds & other creatures.
~ Brian Andreas
Those who have hardened, have a covenant with Death. Those who remain gentle are conjoined with Life.
~ Laozi
The essence of love is kindness.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
Make gentle the life of this world.
~ Dylan Thomas
I wanted to touch him like he was a bunny, a kitten, something so special and soft your fingertips can't leave it alone.
~ E. Lockhart
I wanted to touch him like he was a bunny, a kitten, something so special and soft your fingertips can't leave it alone. The universe was good because he was in it.
~ E. Lockhart
Be a little kinder than you have to." We are all silenced by that. It seems impossible to argue with. Then Johnny says, "Never eat anything bigger than your ass.
~ E. Lockhart
Always be a little nicer than you have to be
~ E. Lockhart
Be a little kinder than you have to." ? E. Lockhart, We Were Liars
~ E. Lockhart
Be a little kinder - Mirren
~ E. Lockhart
Be a little kinder than you have to
~ E. Lockhart
A thousand little civilities create tenderness in time.
~ E.M. Forster
Power gradually extirpates for the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
~ Edmund Burke
The gentle mind by gentle deeds is known. For a man by nothing is so well betrayed, as by his manners.
~ Edmund Spenser
For all that fair is, is by nature good;That is a sign to know the gentle blood.
~ Edmund Spenser
There are men that are birds, and their raiment is trembling feathers, for they show their souls to everyone and everything that is ungentle or untutored or evil or mockery is as a rude stone cast at them, and they suffer all day long, or as Paul remarks they are slain every moment.
~ Edward Dahlberg
It takes a tough man to make a tender chicken.
~ Anonymous