Gentleness Quotes

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

Strong, Weak, Cruel

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

Religion, Generosity, Race

There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness.
Han Suyin

Nothing, Stronger

Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength.
Saint Francis de Sales

Strength, Strong, Nothing

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

Work, Done, Happen

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

Heart, Find, Old

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

Strong, Learned, Weak

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

Time, Same, Resentment

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

Honesty, Down, Keep

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

Time, Try, Break

Gentleness corrects whatever is offensive in our manner.
Hugh Blair

Whatever, Manner, Offensive

Force is legitimate where gentleness avails not.
Pierre Corneille

Force, Legitimate, Avails

Severity is allowable where gentleness has no effect.
Pierre Corneille

Effect, Severity, Allowable

Gentleness is the antidote for cruelty.
Phaedrus

Cruelty, Antidote

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

Michigan, Replicate

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

Strength, Goodness, Above

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

Food, Almost, Hug

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

Good, Wrong, Actor

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

Left, Hearts, Pattern

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.
Justin Townes Earle

Mother, Father, Parents

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

Great, Means, Since

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

Love, Fear, Learning

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