Graciousness Quotes

She was torn between her customer service training and her youthful certitude.

~ Bill Bryson

He was a generous but subtly demanding boss.

~ H.w. Brands

Time was when much of lawyering consisted (according to turn-of-the-century lawyer and statesman Elihu Root) in telling would-be clients that they are damned fool's, and should stop.

~ George F. Will

She was an experimental child but compassionate with it.

~ Joe Cawley

It is the most miserable thing to feel ashamed at home.

~ Charles Dickens

Blessings Are ImmeasurableYou can lose A child Or a parent,The love of your life,A good job,A game,A deal,A bet,An idea,Your favorite thing,Money,Your best friend,A moment,An opportunity,A chance,Your keys,Your mind,Your health,Your identity,Your virginity,Your religion,Your shirt,Your license,ID or Passport, Phone or phone number,Hope,Faith,Luck,Your pride,Or your house,And feel like You've lost everything,And keep on losing. Stop Counting your losses,And start counting your Blessings. Only then will you discover That losses are always easier to point out and count Than blessings. And that your blessings will always outnumber Your losses, For they are truly Immeasurable.It is only normal thatPeople count losses with Their minds,And ignoreTo count blessingsWith the graciousnessOf their hearts.

~ Suzy Kassem

BLESSINGS ARE IMMEASURABLEYou canLose a childOr a parent,The love of your life,A good job,A game,A deal,A bet,An idea,Your favorite thing,Money,Your best friend,A moment,An opportunity,A chance,Your keys,Your mind,Your health,Your identity,Your virginity,Your religion,Your shirt,Your license,ID or Passport,Phone or phone number,Hope,Faith,Luck,Your pride,Or your house,And feel likeYou've lost everything,And keep on losing.StopCounting lossesAnd start counting your blessings.Only then,Will you discover that lossesAre easier to point outAnd countThan blessings,And that blessingsOutnumber your lossesFor they are trulyImmeasurable.It is only normal thatPeople count losses withTheir minds,And ignoreTo count blessingsWith the graciousnessOf their hearts.

~ Suzy Kassem

Dinner is a cacophonous exercise of holy sanctification.

~ Jen Pollock Michel

The hard truth is, the life thing moments happen. They are the details, the surprises, the every now and again “dang it” moments that are necessary for you to be able to appreciate good times and accomplish greater things.

~ Jaha Knight

The two grappled in the quiet of old-fashioned personal diplomacy.

~ Paul C. Nagel

He was a product of a culture where it was generally counterproductive to hold grudges.

~ H.w. Brands

Almost alone among successful politicians, he took slights personally.

~ Rick Perlstein

K-I-N-G Jesus is busy in every moment! (Kind hearted -Integrous - Noble - Gracious) ~ © gfp '42™

~ Gary Patton

Characters carrying the playwright's disapproval is a un-Shakespearian burden.

~ Harold Bloom

She grew more and more vexed with his dignified behavior. By a cruel irony, she was drawing out what was best in his disposition.

~ E.m. Forster

He is as full of valor as of kindness. Princely in both.

~ William Shakespeare

We are not judges for ourselves until circumstances call us to act.

~ Abigail Adams

In America religion is the road to knowledge, and the observance of the divine laws leads man to civil freedom.

~ Alexis De Tocqueville

A man who called everyone a damn fool is like a man who damns the weather. He only shows that he is not adapted to his environment, not that the environment is wrong.

~ Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

The trout fisher, like the landscape painter, haunts the loveliest places of the earth, and haunts them alone. Solitude and his own thoughts—he must be on the best terms with all of these; and he who can take kindly the largest allowance of these is likely to be the kindliest and truest with his fellow men.

~ Thomas Hughes

Looking back on his adolescence from the vantage point of his mid-eighties, George H.W. Bush candidly admitted, I might have been obsessed with bodies – boobs they are now called. But what seventeen-year-old kid was not? Guilty am I.

~ H.w. Brands

As a dinner guest I gratefully eat just about anything that's set before me, because graciousness among friends is dearer to me than any other agenda.

~ Barbara Kingsolver

If you think the most courageous and difficult thing you can do is stubbornly stand your ground, try graciously giving in.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

The wings of the dove are as soft as they are swift. Gentleness is a sure result of the Sacred Dove's transforming power: hearts touched by His benign influence are meek and lowly henceforth and for ever.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Be civilized. Grudges are for Neanderthals. – Hubert Humphrey

~ David Pietrusza

We see a first generation going through adolescence knowing their every misstep, all the awkward gestures of their youth, are being frozen in a computer's memory.

~ Sherry Turkle

The truth must dazzle gradually or every man be blind. Emily Dickinson

~ Eugene H. Peterson

If he could be hard on kings and cabinets, he was invariably kind to his colleagues.

~ John Taliaferro

Soft power is quiet persistence.

~ Susan Cain

He may have confused honor with with with ruthlessness.

~ T.j. Stiles

We have less reason to be surprised or offended when we find others differ from us in opinions because we very often differ from ourselves.

~ Samuel Johnson

He showed me the lowest. I had to surmise the highest.

~ John Howard Griffin

When strangers meet, great allowances should be made for differences in custom and training.

~ Frank Herbert

He did something he rarely did. He decided not to see things from the other guy's point of view.

~ H.w. Brands

We need to forgive the adolescent versions of ourselves, if only because we need the practice to forgive those who are maturing awkwardly in our lives.

~ Madam Secretary

The author perceives nuances of Abigail Adams' character in the occasional errors she makes in readily quoting John Milton. Rather than giving the observer a reason to quibble, they are evidence that she had absorbed Milton's works enough to feel comfortable quoting them from memory.

~ David Mccullough

We are enjoined whenever we behold the gifts of God in others so to reverence and respect the gifts as also to honor those in whom they reside.

~ John Calvin

Too many people are too angry about language too much of the time. This time could be better spent listening, learning, and enjoying the vast variety of human language around them.

~ Robert Lane Greene

We need to care about beauty and not just the utility of our products because people are not only rational but also emotional. We need to treat people as whole people. This means caring about purity and the emotional side of human nature, not just utility.

~ Matt Perman

Blessed is the man who has the gift of making friends; for it is one of God's best gifts. It involves many things, but above all, the power of going out of oneself, and seeing and appreciating whatever is noble and living in another man.

~ Thomas Hughes