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
My father died when I was seven, leaving a widow and five sons, ranging in age from five to seventeen. My mother was the most highly-disciplined and hardest working person I have ever known, and this, combined with her love and gentleness, enabled her to make a success of each of her children.
Arthur Lewis
Gentleness doesn't get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs.
Coco Chanel
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
But wealth is a great means of refinement; and it is a security for gentleness, since it removes disturbing anxieties.
Donald G. Mitchell
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 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
There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness.
Han Suyin
Gentleness corrects whatever is offensive in our manner.
Hugh Blair
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
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
There is a gentleness in Michigan that you just can't replicate.
Jennifer Granholm
My father's special gift? I think for one it was his gentleness. The way that he could offer a heart in any given situation.
John Carter Cash
The Saviour reigned in all their hearts, and they successfully copied the pattern of meekness and gentleness, which he had left them.
John Strachan
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
Whenever I think of my birthplace, Walton-on-Thames, my reference first and foremost is the river. I love the smell of the river; love its history, its gentleness. I was aware of its presence from my earliest years. Its majesty centered me, calmed me, was a solace to a certain extent.
Julie Andrews
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
Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.
Leo Buscaglia
If you're an advocate of gentleness, you're simplistic and naive. If you're an advocate of despair and hate, you're sophisticated.
I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.
Leo Rosten
Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.
I have always loved young women for their sensitive spiritual nature, gentleness, and special beauty.
Above all, it is not decency or goodness of gentleness that impresses the Middle East, but strength.
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.
Gentleness is the antidote for cruelty.
Let your enemies be disarmed by the gentleness of your manner, but at the same time let them feel, the steadiness of your resentment.
Force is legitimate where gentleness avails not.
Severity is allowable where gentleness has no effect.
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.
I want to make wines that harmonize with food - wines that almost hug your tongue with gentleness.
In mine opinion, love is fitter than fear, gentleness better than beating, to bring up a child rightly in learning.
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?
Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength.
When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
Try to exercise gentleness, kindness and humour, and you cannot go far wrong.
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.
