Quotes About Gentleness

Let us be resolute in prosecuting our ends, and mild in our methods of so doing.

Affection almost slinks or seeps through our lives. It lives with humble, un-dress, private things: soft slippers, old clothes, old jokes, the thump of a sleepy dog's tail on the kitchen floor, the sound of a sewing machine

Conquer anger through gentleness, unkindness through kindness, greed through generosity, and falsehood by truth.

Being respectful towards others and a loving and caring nature are some qualities I admire.

Quiet is better than loud.

I want to be a person who makes a quiet difference.

My father was not a bully. I almost never heard him raise his voice to anybody.

It's okay to not be working all the time and to be gentle on yourself when you're not. When it feels like you're losing that inspiration - or you're in a rut, not making stuff, and your head gets all weird - be gentle on yourself. Just ease into things naturally. But you still have to ease into it: you still have to sit in the chair.

Especially when you've become the father of two daughters, you hope the world can be a more gentle place.

Stuart Murdoch is a really special human being - really creative, but also really kind and gentle.

My advice is don't scrub your makeup off your eyes; be gentle.

I like someone that I can actually talk to. I used to like quiet guys, but now, I like gentle and well-caring guys.

He was everything I didn't expect. I had just seen him in Get Carter' and he seemed so aggressive and ruthless. Instead, I found him charming and very gentle, someone whom I'd like to spend part of my life with. Michael was at that time still very much against marriage.

Gentleness is the antidote for cruelty.

Severity is allowable where gentleness has no effect.

Force is legitimate where gentleness avails not.

My father's special gift? I think for one it was his gentleness. The way that he could offer a heart in any given situation.

I have a heart of gold, but I'm really a marshmallow in my heart.

Be merciful to yourself, stop fighting yourself quite so much. Maybe what you are asking of yourself, what you're driving yourself to do or to be, what you put a gun to your own back to make yourself do, is something at this point you needn't have to think about doing. So, think back at the end of the day to the wars you're involved in. How are they going?

If you want to be holy, be kind.

There are three things that are important in human life. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. The third is to be kind.

In the end we are always rewarded for our good will, our patience, fair-mindedness, and gentleness with what is strange.

Precisely the least thing, the gentlest, lightest, the rustling of a lizard, a breath, a moment, a twinkling of the eye - little makes up the quality of the best happiness. Soft!

With thunder and heavenly fireworks must one speak to indolent and somnolent senses. But beauty's voice speaketh gently: it appealeth only to the most awakened souls