Gentle Quotes

All the laws and legislation in the world will never heal this world like the loving hearts and arms of mothers and fathers. If every child could drift to sleep feeling wrapped in the love of their family - and God's love - this world would be a far more gentle and better place.

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

War is cruelty, and none can make it gentle.

The Haitian people are gentle and lovable except for their enormous and unconscious cruelty.

Throw away thy rod, throw away thy wrath; O my God, take the gentle path.

The anti-apartheid prisoners on the island, like so many in every age and nation, found that Shakespeare had a peculiar ability to gentle their condition. They used to gather clandestinely to read the plays; on one occasion, the book was passed around for each man to mark his favourite lines.

Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.

Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.

Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.

So I got a chance to meet a whole bunch of those old real, real rough but gentle men. They lived hard, but they lived good - in one sense, you know. But you had a lot of fun. Didn't make much money, but you had a lot of fun.

Well, look at what people are doing for returned veterans now. The wounded warriors. They're working hard to make the wounded veterans feel that they are loved and welcomed home, unlike Vietnam. It was not a very kind, gentle world then. I think we are kinder and gentler.

Use gentle means before you come to extremity, and whatever lesson you work him, and never take above half his strength, nor ride him till he is weary, but a little at a time and often.

Isn't it strange that its easier to be gentle with the feelings of people we care less about than those of our children, whom we love so much?

My wife is one of the best wimin on this Continent, altho' she isn't always gentle as a lamb with mint sauce.

No man or woman can be strong, gentle, pure, and good, without the world being better for it and without someone being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.

A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles.

Lord, give us the wisdom to utter words that are gentle and tender, for tomorrow we may have to eat them.

A gentleman has his eyes on all those present; he is tender toward the bashful, gentle toward the distant, and merciful toward the absent.

It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

It requires more strength to be gentle, so it's the everyday encounters of life that I think we've prepared children for and prepared them to be good to other people and to consider other people.

I was used to playing misled youth, rough-and-tumble guys. It was nice to get back to a big-hearted, warm and gentle soul, a guy who is destined for something a lot larger than he ever expected.

Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child.

No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.

It is no use speaking in soft, gentle tones if everyone else is shouting.

Why not just do something a little more on the gentle side?

The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.

Blue is the male principle, stern and spiritual. Yellow the female principle, gentle, cheerful and sensual. Red is matter, brutal and heavy and always the colour which must be fought and vanquished by the other two.

The only justice is to follow the sincere intuition of the soul, angry or gentle. Anger is just, and pity is just, but judgement is never just.

Culture makes all men gentle.

Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.