Definition of Gentleness

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Definition of Gentleness
	Gentleness The quality or state of being gentle, well-born, mild, benevolent, docile, etc.; gentility; softness of manners, disposition, etc.; mildness. Related Definitions: Being, Benevolent, Disposition, Docile, Gentility, Gentle, Mild, Mildness, Of, Or, Quality, Softness, State, The, Well-Born

Gentleness Quotations

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

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

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 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

Nothing is so strong as gentleness and nothing is so gentle as real strength.
Ralph W. Sockman

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

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

Force is legitimate where gentleness avails not.
Pierre Corneille

Severity is allowable where gentleness has no effect.
Pierre Corneille

Gentleness Translations

gentleness in Dutch is mildheid
gentleness in Italian is cortesia
gentleness in Latin is lenitas lenitudo
gentleness in Spanish is apacibilidad
gentleness in Swedish is mildhet, blidhet

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