Quotes about Gentleness
For attractive lips, speak words of kindness.
- Audrey Hepburn
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.
- Phillips Brooks
It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.
- Joseph Addison
Nothing is so strong as gentleness nothing so gentle as real strength
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law. GALATIANS 5:22—23 NIV
- Joyce Meyer
We need grace in our lives, and I'm not talking about heavenly grace. I'm talking about human grace. We should try and be warm and friendly.
- Letitia Baldrige
Every man, for the sake of the great blessed Mother in Heaven, and for the love of his own little mother on earth, should handle all womankind gently, and hold them in all Honor.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Music imitates (represents) the passions or states of the soul, such as gentleness, anger, courage, temperance, and their opposites.
- Aristotle
The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly.
- Henry David Thoreau
Souls do not wish to be bullied, but gently brought back; such is the nature of man.
- Francis de Sales
The product of a true, growing, gospel-centered nature is often gentleness.
- Timothy Keller
There is not a person we employ who does not, like ourselves, desire recognition, praise, gentleness, forbearance, patience.
- Henry Ward Beecher