Gentleness Quotes

Leave it to a dude to roll in with your technique, but use a jackhammer instead of jeweler’s screwdrivers.

~ Roberto Hogue

Nothing is so strong as gentleness. Nothing is so gentle as real strength.

~ Ralph W. Sockman

I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.

~ Leo Rosten

Her hand had a lot of strength gained through the process of gentleness.

~ Richard Brautigan

In social life we hardly stop to consider how much of that daring spirit which gives mastery comes from hardness of heart rather than from high purpose, or true courage. The man who succumbs to his wife, the mother who succumbs to her daughter, the master who succumbs to his servant, is as often brought to servility by a continual aversion to the giving of pain, by a softness which causes the fretfulness of others to be an agony to himself,—as by any actual fear which the firmness of the imperious one may have produced. There is an inner softness, a thinness of the mind's skin, an incapability of seeing or even thinking of the troubles of others with equanimity, which produces a feeling akin to fear; but which is compatible not only with courage, but with absolute firmness of purpose, when the demand for firmness arises so strongly as to assert itself.

~ Anthony Trollope

No, Zahra, dear, no! Gentleness isn’t weakness.’ Her hand, suspended in midair, trembled with emptiness and fell to her side. ‘How easy it is to be bitter or angry; that’s when you’re at your weakest! But when you choose to be kind, to forget your hurt, that’s when you find within the greatest strength of all.’ She smiled, oh, a smile of such ancient wisdom, her face shone with love. She waited, but when I wouldn’t smile back, she walked past me.

~ Judy Croome

Gentleness is strength under control. It is the ability to stay calm, no matter what happens.

~ Elizabeth George

The most effective form of creation is an act of cooperation, not force.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Whatever you do, be gentle. People might have forgiven your harsh words but they may never forget how it stabbed their heart at that time!

~ Mufti Ismail Menk

Trust was accumulated quickly, due primarily to the brute strength of the man's gentleness, his thereness. (p.36)

~ Markus Zusak

What I know about you, Henry,” he said. “Is that you, as big as you are, know how to walk gently on this earth.

~ Laura Anderson Kurk

He'd wanted to - he didn't know. Break bottles. Break windows, crash cars. Burn down the world. Find solace at the bottom of countless more bottles of wine, this time consumed in solitude. In the end he did none of these things; while he knew the shapes and forms of rage and grief, he had, in truth, nothing more than gentleness inside to sustain him.

~ Michael Montoure

The ability to be tough-minded remains useful; but by now, the fact that we are all in trouble in terms of both nature and culture can only be denied by those who become overly conservative and blindly reactionary. The more tender-hearted imagination that suggests we are all in this together and that there must be an underlying unity in life may be the only way to survive.

~ Michael Meade

As the aperture of your heart opens to love you will receive more of the light of compassion, acceptance, gentleness, grace and understanding.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Kindness is like a warm blanket of snow, softly covering and gently touching the heart.

~ Heather Wolf

Be gentle and kind all the time.

~ Heather Wolf

People think kindness is a soft, weak, submissive influence when in reality it is the most potent, persuasive force in existence.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

A man of worth is a man that sees the worth in others more than himself.

~ Shannon L. Alder

We don’t have the right to forgive people; it is not only about our kindness or gentleness, it is about keeping the justice stable.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

I hope you will grow up gentle and good, and never learn bad ways; do your work with a good will, lift your feet up well when you trot, and never bite or kick even in play.

~ Anna Sewell

We need to learn to dance more softly.

~ Nikki Rosen

She held the book in her hands, feeling a sense of awe, and lightly ran a finger over its cover as if it contained sacred writings.

~ Nikki Rosen

One day you will be able to look over all the disaster and heartbreak and feel ok with it, today mighten be the day but one day you will.

~ Nikki Rowe

Failure Is Not Permanent, So Is The Success. So, Don't Look Down Upon People Who Are Failed While You're Succeeded. Table Can Turn Anytime. Be Gentle To Every Creation, It Ain't Cost A Thing....

~ Muhammad Imran Hasan

Your body will heal itself, through gentle and peaceful cooperation with the inherent wisdom and intelligence within.

~ Bryant Mcgill

...with you, I find peace from pain - You are gentle and healing like the landscape—like rain...

~ John Geddes

Grace is neither gentleness nor fragility. Grace is treating yourself, others, and even inanimate objects with respect.

~ Kamand Kojouri

For certain he hath seen all perfectnessFor certain he hath seen all perfectness. Who among other ladies hath seen mine: They that go with her humbly should combine To thank their God for such peculiar grace. So perfect is the beauty of her face That it begets in no wise any sign Of envy, but draws round her a clear line Of love, and blessed faith, and gentleness. Merely the sight of her inakes all things bow: Not she herself alone is holier Than all: but hers, through her, are raised above. From all her acts such lovely graces flow That truly one may never think of her Without a passion of exceeding love.

~ Dante Alighieri

There are gentler and more graceful ways to interface with natural conflict.

~ Bryant Mcgill

There are graceful ways of accessing your purpose and success, with time, invitation, gentleness, cooperation and surrender.

~ Bryant Mcgill

On the inside, the copycats of the ruffians are more delicate than the copycats of prudes.

~ Criss Jami

Love is often gentle, desire always a rage.

~ Mignon Mclaughlin

...I hardly ever see your profile, but have I told you it's beautiful? - like the soft gentle lines of snow...

~ John Geddes

Nature's stern discipline enjoins mutual help at least as often as warfare. The fittest may also be the gentlest.

~ Theodosius Dobzhansky

When I look at the clues that indicate the nature of Jesus – born in a barn, questionable parents, spotty ancestry, common name, misdirected announcement, unattractive looks, reared in a bad neighborhood, owning nothing, surrounding himself with unattractive co-workers, and dying a shameful death – I find his whole approach unable to fit into the methods that automatically come to mind when I think about “winning the world.” His whole approach could easily be described as nonthreatening or nonmanipulative. He seemed to lead with weakness in each step of life. He had nothing in the world and everything in God and the Spirit.

~ Gayle D. Erwin

Be gentle and humble in heart.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I hope we can inaugurate a new humility in our use of religious language, which for me is the very proof that it is authentic.

~ Richard Rohr

when i speak to youi speak as thoughi am offering a rosein your hand.

~ Sanober Khan

SUMMERthe cattails swayand the bamboodances gently intothe brightness ofa happy day.

~ Tara Estacaan

A wise mother knows: It is her state of consciousness that matters. Her gentleness and clarity command respect. Her love creates security.

~ Vimala Mcclure