Gentleness Quotes

The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.

If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.

Strong men can always afford to be gentle. Only the weak are intent on giving as good as they get.

We must not mistake kindness for weakness. Kindness isn't weak. Kindness is a certain type of strength.

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.

The opportunity to love a dog and to treat it with kindness is an opportunity for a lost and selfish heart to be redeemed. They are powerless and innocent, and it is how we treat the humblest among us that surely determines the fate of our souls

Courage is by no means incompatible with tenderness. On the contrary, gentleness and tenderness have been found to characterize the men, no less than the women, who have done the most courageous deeds.

Only the gentle are ever really strong.

Nothing in the world is as soft and yielding as water. Yet for dissolving the hard and inflexible, nothing can surpass it. The soft overcomes the hard; the gentle overcomes the rigid. Everyone knows this is true, but few can put it into practice. Therefore the Master remains serene in the midst of sorrow. Evil cannot enter his heart. Because he has given up helping, he is people's greatest help. True words seem paradoxical.

But remember, boy, that a kind act can sometimes be as powerful as a sword.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Force is legitimate where gentleness avails not.

The great mind knows the power of gentleness.

Knowledge is important, but only if we're being kind and gentle with ourselves as we work to discover who we are.

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

I will say I am itching for some babyface-ness in my life.

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

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

Alexander is as gentle after victory as he is terrible in the field.

As the mist leaves no scar On the dark green hill So my body leaves no scar On you and never will

'No Burden' is not necessarily ferocious.

Like the grasses showing tender faces to each other, thus should we do, for this was the wish of the Grandfathers of the World.

Men are only as great as they are kind.

Both gentleness and meekness are born of power, not weakness. There is a pseudo-gentlene ss that is effeminate, and there is a pseudo-meekness that is cowardly. But a Christian is to be gentle and meek because those are Godlike virtues... We should never be afraid, therefore, that the gentleness of the Spirit means weakness of character. It takes strength, God's strength, to be truly gentle.

Be kind. Be nice to yourself. You miss a shot, it's OK.