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Gentleness doesn't get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs. -- Coco Chanel
Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong. -- Leo Buscaglia
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Gentleness succeeds better than violence. -- Jean de La Fontaine
Gentleness is the antidote for cruelty. -- Phaedrus
Gentleness corrects whatever is offensive in our manner. -- Hugh Blair
There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness. -- Han Suyin
There is a gentleness in Michigan that you just can't replicate. -- Jennifer Granholm
Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength. -- Saint Francis de Sales
When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time. -- Saint Francis de Sales
I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong. -- Leo Rosten
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. -- Meredith Monk
Gentleness is a great strength. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Gentleness is the outgrowth of benignity. -- Hannah More
Gentleness towards self and others makes life a little lighter. -- Deborah Day
Gentleness towards self and others makes life a little lighter. -- Deborah Day
Gentleness and repose are paramount to everything else in woman. -- Michel de Montaigne
Gentleness and kindness will make our homes a paradise upon earth. -- C. A. Bartol
Gentleness is the great point to be obtained in the study of manners. -- Nathaniel Parker Willis
Gentleness stepped out of your smile; but:Suspicion cried out from your laughter. -- Kristian Goldmund Aumann
Gentleness is strength under control. It is the ability to stay calm, no matter what happens. -- Elizabeth George
Gentleness in the gait is what simplicity is in the dress. Violent gestures or quick movements inspire involuntary disrespect. -- Honore de Balzac
Spirit, Patience, Gentleness, All that can adorn and bless Art thou let deeds, not words, express Thine exceeding loveliness. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
Gentleness is a divine trait: nothing is so divine as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as real strength. -- Ralph Washington Sockman
Gentleness brings victory to him who attacks, and safety to him who defends. Those whom Heaven would save, it fences round with gentleness. -- Laozi
Love begets joy.Joy begets peace.Peace begets patience.Patience begets kindness.Kindness begets goodness.Goodness begets faithfulness.Faithfulness begets gentleness.Gentleness begets self-control. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Gentleness is an active trait, describing the manner in which we should treat others. Meekness is a passive trait, describing the proper Christian response when others mistreat us. -- Jerry Bridges
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
Drunkeness, she told us in a rare moment of confidence, is a sin against the fruit, the tree, the wine itself. Wine, distilled and nurtured from bud into fruit; it deserves reverance. Joy. Gentleness. (Page 194.) -- Joanne Harris
Gentleness and peacefulness regulate our proceedings; theirs are dictated by fury. We employ reason, they accumulate faggots. They preach nothing but love, and breathe nothing but blood. Their words are humane, but their hearts are cruel. -- Denis Diderot
Gentleness is the ability to bear reproaches and slights with moderation, and not to embark on revenge quickly, and not to be easily provoked to anger, but be free from bitterness and contentiousness, having tranquility and stability in the spirit. -- Aristotle
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
The power of gentleness is irresistible. -- Henry Martyn
Nothing is so strong as gentleness. -- Ralph Washington Sockman
Severity is allowable where gentleness has no effect. -- Pierre Corneille
Your gentleness shall force More than your force move us to gentleness. -- William Shakespeare
Try to exercise gentleness, kindness and humour, and you cannot go far wrong. -- Sophie Winkleman
Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. To these I commit my day. -- Max Lucado
Above all, it is not decency or goodness of gentleness that impresses the Middle East, but strength. -- Meir Kahane
I want to make wines that harmonize with food - wines that almost hug your tongue with gentleness. -- Robert Mondavi
The true problem of living is to keep our hearts sweet and gentle in the hardest conditions and experiences. -- Bill Vaughan
But wealth is a great means of refinement; and it is a security for gentleness, since it removes disturbing anxieties. -- Donald G. Mitchell
The swallow is not ensnared by men because of its gentle nature. [Lat., At caret insidiis hominum, quia mitis, hirundo.] -- Ovid
Jesus never mistreated anyone just because they mistreated Him. He confronted them in a spirit of gentleness and then continued to love them. -- Joyce Meyer
Is not birth, beauty, good shape, discourse, Manhood, learning, gentleness, virtue, youth, liberality, and such like, the spice and salt that season a man -- William Shakespeare
Let your enemies be disarmed by the gentleness of your manner, but at the same time let them feel, the steadiness of your resentment. -- Lord Chesterfield
Let your enemies be disarmed by the gentleness of your manner, but at the same time let them feel, the steadiness of your resentment. -- Lord Chesterfield
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. -- Robert De Niro
Of course, when I say that human nature is gentleness, it is not 100 percent so. Every human being has that nature, but there are many people acting against their nature, being false. -- Dalai Lama
If zeal had been appropriate for putting humanity right, why did God the Word clothe himself in the body, using gentleness and humility in order to bring the world back to his Father? -- Isaac of Nineveh
Who is there that can adequately gauge the greatness of the humility, gentleness, self-surrender, revealed by the Lord of majesty in assuming human nature, in accepting the punishment of death, the shame of the cross? -- Saint Bernard
A man must have something to grumble about; and if he can't complain that his wife harries him to death with her perversity and ill-humour, he must complain that she wears him out with her kindness and gentleness. -- Anne Bronte
A Christian reveals true humility by showing the gentleness of Christ, by being always ready to help others, by speaking kind words and performing unselfish acts, which elevate and ennoble the most sacred message that has come to our world. -- Ellen G. White
I try to come at fitness and nutrition from a perspective of gentleness and what will make me feel good afterwards. I try to stay out of the mindset of needing to fix myself. I do whatever seems fun to me. -- Taylor Schilling
Femininity is not just lipstick, stylish hairdos, and trendy clothes. It is the divine adornment of humanity. It finds expression in your qualities of your capacity to love, your spirituality, delicacy, radiance, sensitivity, creativity, charm, graciousness, gentleness, dignity, and quiet strength. -- James E. Faust
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. -- Fran Lebowitz
I choose gentleness... Nothing is won by force. I choose to be gentle. If I raise my voice may it be only in praise. If I clench my fist, may it be only in prayer. If I make a demand, may it be only of myself. -- Max Lucado
The best and simplest cosmetic for women is constant gentleness and sympathy for the noblest interests of her fellow-creatures. This preserves and gives to her features an indelibly gay, fresh, and agreeable expression. If women would but realize that harshness makes them ugly, it would prove the best means of conversion. -- Berthold Auerbach
The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen. -- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men. -- Laozi
Patience and gentleness is power. -- Leigh Hunt
Nothing is stronger than gentleness. -- Abraham Lincoln
Let gentleness my strong enforcement be. -- William Shakespeare
There is nothing stronger than gentleness. -- John Wooden
Force is legitimate where gentleness avails not. -- Pierre Corneille
From serenity comes gentleness, comes lasting strength. -- Pam Brown
Who said to kill does not require gentleness? -- Nawal El Saadawi
Who said to kill does not require gentleness? -- Nawal El Saadawi
The great mind knows the power of gentleness. -- Robert Browning
More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness -- Charlie Chaplin
Force I will meet with gentleness; impatience with patience. -- Walter Russell
Learning softeneth the heart and breedeth gentleness and charity. -- Mark Twain
Better make penitents by gentleness than hypocrites by severity. -- Saint Francis de Sales
Don't underestimate kindess, gentleness and patience in a man. -- Sumiko Tan
The greatest strength a man can achieve is gentleness. -- Monty Roberts
There is generosity in giving, but gentleness in receiving. -- Freya Stark
There is nothing in the world stronger than gentleness. -- Han Suyin
A woman's strength is most potent when robed in gentleness. -- Alphonse de Lamartine
Kindness and gentleness never had a gender, and neither did empathy. -- Rebecca Solnit
The product of a true, growing, gospel-centered nature is often gentleness. -- Timothy Keller
I was surprised at her gentleness, her willingness to give in. -- Lucy Christopher
With all women gentleness is the most persuasive and powerful argument. -- Theophile Gautier
Oh! that gentleness! how far more potent is it than force! -- Charlotte Bronte
Who can wrestle against Sleep? - Yet is that giant very gentleness. -- Martin Farquhar Tupper
Love is strong in its passion; affection is powerful in its gentleness. -- Jules Michelet
The etiquette is higher consciousness, sensitivity, gentleness, gracefulness, intensity, power, and knowledge. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Our greatest strength lies in the gentleness and tenderness of our heart. -- Rumi
Happiness is gentleness, peace, concentration, simplicity, forgiveness, humor, fearlessness, trust, and now. -- Hugh Prather
Sometimes its not the strength but gentleness that cracks the hardest shells. -- Richard Paul Evans
An appearance of delicacy is inseparable from sweetness and gentleness of character. -- Lydia Sigourney
With gentleness overcome anger. With generosity overcome meanness. With truth overcome deceit. -- Gautama Buddha
In our interactions with others, gentleness, kindness, respectare the source of harmony -- Gautama Buddha
There's nothing more important on our spiritual path than developing gentleness to oneself. -- Pema Chodron
The master tools of success are invitation, patience, time, gentleness, cooperation and surrender. -- Bryant McGill
The master tools of success are invitation, patience, time, gentleness, cooperation, and surrender. -- Bryant H. McGill
I have seldom, if ever, seen money and gentleness go hand in hand. -- Grace Metalious
The human heart becomes softened by hearing of instances of gentleness and consideration. -- Plutarch
Nothing is so strong as gentleness. Nothing is so gentle as real strength. -- Ralph W. Sockman
Ten greatest gifts; love, joy, peace, patience, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Our zeal is always guided by charity. Everything is done with strength and gentleness. -- Basil Moreau
O for the gentleness of old Romance, the simple planning of a minstrel's song! -- John Keats
. . . gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force. -- Hermann Hesse
Harshness is conquered by gentleness, hatred by love, lethargy by zeal and darkness by light. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Perhaps this is in the end what most marriages are - gentleness, memory, and habit. -- Storm Jameson
Being aggressive, you can accomplish some things, but with gentleness, you can accomplish all things. -- Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche
I have always loved young women for their sensitive spiritual nature, gentleness, and special beauty. -- Margaret D. Nadauld
The women that I met were exceptional, extraordinary - tremendous purity, tremendous gentleness, self-giving and power. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
It has been women who have breathed gentleness and care into the hard progress of humankind. -- Queen Elizabeth II
In the husband wisedome, in the wife gentlenesse. [In the husband wisdom, in the wife gentleness.] -- George Herbert
The extraordinary gentleness of the adult male with his young dispels all the King Kong mythology. -- Dian Fossey
Trust was accumulated quickly, due primarily to the brute strength of the man's gentleness, his thereness. (p.36) -- Markus Zusak
He who can preserve gentleness amid pains, and peace amid worry multitude of affairs, is almost perfect. -- Saint Francis de Sales
The greatest strength are rooted in love, joy, peace, patient, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self control. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
There are graceful ways of accessing your purpose and success, with time, invitation, gentleness, cooperation and surrender. -- Bryant McGill
When gratitude replaces judgment, peace spreads throughout your body, gentleness embraces your soul, & wisdom fills your mind. -- Neale Donald Walsch
I have become so great as I am because I have won men's hearts by gentleness and kindliness. -- Saladin
Use a sweet tongue, courtesy, and gentleness, and thou mayest manage to guide an elephant by a hair. -- Saadi
There is not a person we employ who does not, like ourselves, desire recognition, praise, gentleness, forbearance, patience. -- Henry Ward Beecher
Music imitates (represents) the passions or states of the soul, such as gentleness, anger, courage, temperance, and their opposites. -- Aristotle

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