Gentleness Quotes

Gentleness is the antidote for cruelty.

Let your enemies be disarmed by the gentleness of your manner, but at the same time let them feel, the steadiness of your resentment.

There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness.

I want to make wines that harmonize with food - wines that almost hug your tongue with gentleness.

Severity is allowable where gentleness has no effect.

Gentleness doesn't get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs.

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

That inner voice has both gentleness and clarity. So to get to authenticity, you really keep going down to the bone, to the honesty, and the inevitability of something.

Above all, it is not decency or goodness of gentleness that impresses the Middle East, but strength.

Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.

Force is legitimate where gentleness avails not.

Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.

There is a gentleness in Michigan that you just can't replicate.

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

In mine opinion, love is fitter than fear, gentleness better than beating, to bring up a child rightly in learning.

My parents split up when I was about 2. I realize more and more how much I'm like my father. My gentleness comes from my mother.

When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.

Good directors can bring certain things out of you, with their intensity or gentleness or sensitivity or understanding. They can make an actor feel he can do no wrong.

But wealth is a great means of refinement; and it is a security for gentleness, since it removes disturbing anxieties.

Gentleness corrects whatever is offensive in our manner.

The Saviour reigned in all their hearts, and they successfully copied the pattern of meekness and gentleness, which he had left them.

I place a high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent to have a lot, and to behave with anything other than courtesy in the old sense of the word - politeness of the heart, a gentleness of the spirit.