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Tag Name "Gentleness" (163)

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Gentleness brings victory to him who attacks, and safety to him who defends. Those whom Heaven would save, it fences round with gentleness.
Laozi
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Gentleness, Virtue, Wisdom, and Endurance, These are the seals of that most firm assurance Which bars the pit over Destruction's strength And if, with infirm hand, Eternity, Mother of many acts and hours, should free The serpent that would clasp her with his length These are the spells by which to reassume An empire o'er the disentangled doom.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Gentleness and repose are paramount to everything else in woman.
Michel de Montaigne
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Gentleness succeeds better than violence.
Jean de La Fontaine
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Gentleness is the great point to be obtained in the study of manners.
Nathaniel Parker Willis
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Gentleness is given to those who have learned that God will not have his kingdom triumph through the violence of the world, for such a triumph came through the meekness of a cross.
Stanley Hauerwas
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Gentleness towards self and others makes life a little lighter.
Deborah
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Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Gentleness is the outgrowth of benignity.
Hannah More
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Gentleness doesn't get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs.
Coco Chanel
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Gentleness in the gait is what simplicity is in the dress. Violent gestures or quick movements inspire involuntary disrespect.
Honore de Balzac
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The source of a true smile is an awakened mind. Smiling helps you approach the day with gentleness and understanding.
Nhat Hanh
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True spirit of Judo is nothing but the gentle and diligent free spirit. Judo rests on flexible action of mind and body. The word flexible however never means weakness but something more like adaptability and openmindedness. Gentleness always overcomes strength.
Kyuzo Mifune
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But when the Holy Spirit controls our lives, he will produce this kind of fruit in us: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Galatians 5:22
Nicholas Sparks
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When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it's bottomless, that it doesn't have any resolution, that this heart is huge, vast, and limitless. You begin to discover how much warmth and gentleness is there, as well as how much space.
Pema Chodron
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Patience and gentleness is power.
Leigh Hunt
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I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.
Leo Rosten
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Severity is allowable where gentleness has no effect.
Pierre Corneille
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An appearance of delicacy is inseparable from sweetness and gentleness of character.
Lydia Sigourney
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Now may the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the eternal high priest himself, the Son of God Jesus Christ, build you up in faith and truth and in all gentleness and in all freedom from anger and forbearance and steadfastness and patient endurance and purity.
Polycarp
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Civility does not ...mean the mere outward gentleness of speech cultivated for the occasion, but an inborn gentleness and desire to do the opponent good.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Nothing is so strong as gentleness.
Ralph Washington Sockman
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You need to be prepared for firm decisions and action, without losing gentleness towards those who obstruct or abuse you. It's as great a weakness to be angry with them as it is to abandon your plan of action and give up through fear.
Marcus Aurelius
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Sometimes its not the strength but gentleness that cracks the hardest shells.
Richard Paul Evans
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