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Quotes About Gentleness

Kindness beautifies your words.Love sweetens your words.Wisdom empowers your words.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Be gentle and humble in heart.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
...one cannot actively help a woman to give birth. The goal is to avoid disturbing her unnecsessarily.
~ Michel Odent
It has been women who have breathed gentleness and care into the hard progress of humankind.
~ Queen Elizabeth II
We need women who are so strong they can be gentle, so educated they can be humble, so fierce they can be compassionate, so passionate they can be rational, and so disciplined they can be free.
~ Kavita Ramdas
T stands for being nice. T stands for manners. T stands for being polite.
~ Mr. T
In countries where there is a mild climate, less effort is expended on the struggle with nature and man is kinder and more gentle.
~ Anton Chekhov
If content with himself and mankind, a man is never harsh or curt.
~ Giacomo Leopardi
It is difficult to tell how much men's minds are conciliated by a kind manner and gentle speech.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
I'd like to be remembered for being a good, kind, loving, gentle man who attempted to live wisely, and who cared a lot.
~ Leo Buscaglia
Strong men can always afford to be gentle. Only the weak are intent on giving as good as they get.
~ Elbert Hubbard
Is not birth, beauty, good shape, discourse, Manhood, learning, gentleness, virtue, youth, liberality, and such like, the spice and salt that season a man
~ William Shakespeare
The Wise Man is square but not sharp, honest but not not malign, straight but not severe, bright but not dazzling.
~ Laozi
I think that a man should be caring.
~ Little Richard
Daddy was real gentle with kids. That's why I expected so much out of marriage, figuring that all men should be steady and pleasant.
~ Loretta Lynn
Tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.
~ Aeschylus
The faint old man shall lean his silver head To feel thee; thou shalt kiss the child asleep, And dry the moistened curls that overspread His temples, while his breathing grows more deep.
~ Bear Bryant
The gentle mind by gentle deeds is known, For a man by nothing is so well betrayed As by his manners.
~ Edmund Spenser
Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.
~ Tenzin Gyatso
There's No Redeeming Value in Harshness
~ Terrence Real
There is no redeeming value whatsoever in harshness. Harshness does nothing that loving firmness doesn't do better.
~ Terrence Real
Aspire to a lower level of harm.
~ Terri Guillemets
In 2 Samuel 22: 36 David said of the Lord, ... thy gentleness hath made me great. David was a great warrior, but he declared that it wasn't his boldness, assurance or strength that made him great; rather, it was God's gentleness. This is the character trait that will gain victories for the leader and the one who serves him as armorbearer.
~ Terry Nance
Cats love to sleep softly.
~ Theocritus