Quotes about Gentleness
You can attract more bees with a spoonful of sugar than a cupful of vinegar.
— Francis de Sales
Surely we ought to show them (animals) great kindness and gentleness for many reasons, but, above all, because they are of the same origin as ourselves.
— St. John Chrysostom
Kindness is better and can be more powerful than force. Kind words may unlock an iron door.
— Nicky Gumbel
In the man whose childhood has known caresses and kindness, there is always a fiber of memory that can be touched to gentle issues.
— George Eliot
Sometimes its not the strength but gentleness that cracks the hardest shells.
— Richard Paul Evans
Men take care not to make women weep, for God counts their tears.
— Thomas Monson
You need time for the grief to heal, for the memories to fade in sharpness, time to adjust your expectation for the future. Be gentle with yourself, you'll make it.
— Dee Henderson
Learning softeneth the heart and breedeth gentleness and charity.
— Mark Twain
For attractive lips, speak words of kindness.
— Audrey Hepburn
No man or woman can be strong, gentle, pure, and good, without the world being better for it and without someone being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.
— Phillips Brooks
It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.
— Joseph Addison
Nothing is so strong as gentleness nothing so gentle as real strength
— Ralph Waldo Emerson