Quotes About Gentleness

Hail, ye small, sweet courtesies of life! for smooth do ye make the road of it.

In the dark they are careful of each other, as if they know they are fragile, as if they know they can break.

The fourth gift is Compassion. May you be gentle with yourself and others. May you forgive those who hurt you and yourself when you make mistakes.

Iron hand in a velvet glove.

A kiss is the morning dew which stand up. (Un baiser, c'est la rosée - Du matin qui s'est levé)

Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, a touch that never hurts.

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tries, and a touch that never hurts.

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

She had curiously thoughtful and attentive eyes; eyes that were very pretty and very good.

May you have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

Your haughty religious people would have held their heads up to see me as I am tonight, and preached of flames and vengeance,' cried the girl. 'Oh, dear lady, why ar'n't those who claim to be God's own folks as gentle and as kind to us poor wretches as you, who, having youth, and beauty, and all that they have lost, might be a little proud instead of so much humbler?

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

With a weary and yet a pleased smile, and with an action as if he stretched his little figure out to rest, the child heaved his body on the sustaining arm, and seeking Rokesmith's face with his lips, said: 'A kiss for the boofer lady.

Oliver has long since grown stout and healthy; but health or sickness made no difference in his warm feelings to those about him, though they do in the feelings of a great many people. He was still the same gentle, attached, affectionate creature that he had been when pain and suffering had wasted his strength; and when he was dependent for every slight attention and comfort on those who tended him.

Dear, gentle, patient, noble Nell . . . .

Nobody was hard with him or with me. There was duty to be done, and it was done, but not harshly.

He was the meekest of his sex, the mildest of little men. He sidled in and out of a room, to take up the less space. He walked as softly as the Ghost in Hamlet, and more slowly.

There was something so natural and winning to Clara's resigned way of looking at these stores in detail, as Herbert pointed them out, -- and something so confiding, loving and innocent, in her modest manner of yielding herself to Herbert's embracing arm -- and something so gentle in her, so much needing protection.

Oh, dear lady, why ar'n't those who claim to be God's own folks as gentle and as kind to us poor wretches as you, who having youth, and beauty, and all that they have lost, might be a little proud instead of so much humbler?

El carácter que Dios desea que manifestemos lleva las cualidades distintivas de amor, gozo, paz, paciencia, benignidad, bondad, fe, mansedumbre y templanza (Gálatas 5.22-23).

Stay kind. It makes you beautiful.

Lady-bird! Lady-bird! pretty one, stay: Come sit on my finger, so happy and gay. With me shall no mischief betide thee; No harm would I do thee, no foeman is near: I only would gaze on thy beauties so dear, Those beautiful winglets beside thee.

With a butterfly kiss and a ladybug hug, Sleep tight little one, like a bug in a rug.

Patience is sister to meekness, and humility is its mother.