Quotes about Gentleness

The best man is like water. Water is good it benefits all things and does not compete with them. It dwells in lowly places that all disdain. This is why it is so near to Tao.

God tempers the wind, said Maria, to the shorn lamb.

Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, a touch that never hurts.

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tries, and a touch that never hurts.

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

May you have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

Your haughty religious people would have held their heads up to see me as I am tonight, and preached of flames and vengeance,' cried the girl. 'Oh, dear lady, why ar'n't those who claim to be God's own folks as gentle and as kind to us poor wretches as you, who, having youth, and beauty, and all that they have lost, might be a little proud instead of so much humbler?

I have often thought him since, like the steam hammer, that can crush a man or pat an eggshell, in his combination of strength with gentleness

Nobody was hard with him or with me. There was duty to be done, and it was done, but not harshly.

Oh, dear lady, why ar'n't those who claim to be God's own folks as gentle and as kind to us poor wretches as you, who having youth, and beauty, and all that they have lost, might be a little proud instead of so much humbler?

This pure young feeling, this gentle and forbearing feeling of each towards the other, brought with it its reward in a softening light that seemed to shine on their position. The relations between them did not look wilful, or capricious, or a failure, in such a light; they became elevated into something more self-denying, honorable, affectionate, and true.

Be tough minded but tenderhearted.