Gentle Quotations | Page 3

I am gentle with myself, knowing that I am doing the best I can with the knowledge and understanding I have

Women must be very gentle with men as they, as well as women, seek to regain the lost wholeness for which they were destined.

Who's not a fan of Don Williams? He's the gentle giant.

To be gentle is the test of a lady.

To be gentle, tolerant, wise and reasonable requires a goodly portion of toughness.

Patience has nothing to do with suppression. In fact, it has everything to do with a gentle, honest relationship with yourself.

I'm a very gentle man, not unlike Gandhi.

True zeal is an ignis lambeus, a soft and gentle flame, that will not scorch one's hand.

Women are delicate creatures. Fragile. Gentle. Made by God to be sheltered from the harshness of this world.. Morgan MacDonnell

I’m a pretty gentle person so I don’t really have much of a thing of being a badass.

The strangest thing about life is not its frightful cruelty, but that it can be gentle.

It takes strength to be gentle and kind.

To those who err in judgment, not in will, anger is gentle.

Gentle time will heal our sorrows.

Real life seeks the gentle slopes at the back of Mount Improbable, while creationists are blind to all but the daunting precipice at the front.

If I wasn't hard, I wouldn't be alive. If I couldn't ever be gentle, I wouldn't deserve to be alive.

Oh sleep! it is a gentle thing, Beloved from pole to pole.

Those who have suffered much become very bitter or very gentle.

Every day a little life, a blank to be inscribed with gentle thoughts.

Gentle to others, to himself severe.

Gentle and low, an excellent thing in woman.

We must be gentle now we are gentlemen.

How gentle and tender ought we to be with others who are foolish when we remember how foolish we are ourselves

And for each unharmful gentle soul misplaced inside a jail...

Men's men: gentle or simple, they're much of a muchness

I think a compliment ought to always precede a complaint, where one is possible, because it softens resentment and insures for the complaint a courteous and gentle reception.

O Reader! had you in your mindSuch stores as silent thought can bring,O gentle Reader! you would findA tale in everything.

Love's gentle spring doth always fresh remain.

The quality of mercy is not strained; It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath. It is twice blessed- It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes.

Gentle dullness ever loves a joke.

PASTIME, n. A device for promoting dejection. Gentle exercise for intellectual debility.

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving much advise, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender han

Those that do teach young babes, Do it with gentle means and easy tasks; He might have chid me so; for, in good faith, I am a child to chiding

With gentle handTouch -- for there is a spirit in the woods.

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 that it will kill you too, but there will be no special hurry.

O sleep, O gentle sleep, nature's soft nurse, how have I frightened thee, that thou no more wilt weigh my eye-lids down and steep my senses in forgetfulness?

The bright old day now dawns again; the cry runs through the land, in England there shall be dear bread / in Ireland, sword and brand; and poverty, and ignorance, shall swell the rich and grand, so rally round the rulers with the gentle iron hand, of the fine old English Tory days; hail to the coming time!

Never seek to tell thy love, / Love that never told can be; / For the gentle wind does move / Silently, invisibly.

The world is grown so bad, that wrens make prey where eagles dare not perch.Since every Jack became a gentleman,There's many a gentle person made a Jack.

Implied / Subjection, but required with gentle sway / And by her yielded, by him best received; / Yielded with coy submission, modest pride, / And sweet reluctant amorous delay.

I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second is frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.

It is a good and gentle religion, but inconvenient.

The swallow is not ensnared by men because of its gentle nature. [Lat., At caret insidiis hominum, quia mitis, hirundo.]

These gentle historians, on the contrary, dip their pens in nothing but the milk of human kindness.

You will say that these are very small sins; and doubtless, like all young tempters, you are anxious to be able to report spectacular wickedness. But do remember, the only thing that matters is the extent to which you separate the man from the Enemy. It does not matter how small the sins are provided that their cumulative effect is to edge the man away from the Light and out into the Nothing. Murder is no better than cards if cards can do the trick. Indeed the safest road to Hell is the gradual one-the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.

The crowds in the big towns, with their mild, knobby faces, their bad teeth and gentle manners solid breakfasts and gloomy Sundays, smoky towns and winding roads, green fields and red pillar boxes.

Love is the gentle smile upon the lips of beauty.

A noble man is led by woman's gentle words.

A noble man is led far by woman's gentle words. [Ger., Ein edler Mann wird durch ein gutes Wort Der Frauen weit gefuhrt.]

I'd like to be remembered for being a good, kind, loving, gentle man who attempted to live wisely, and who cared a lot.

Women are amazing creatures-sweet, soft, gentle, and far more savage than we are.

A gentle sense of humor will be alert to detect anything that savors of a pious 'act' on the part of the penitent.

I am moved by fancies that are curled, around these images and cling, the notion of some infinitely gentle, infinitely suffering thing.

Be mild, and cleave to gentle things, thy glory and thy happiness be there.

Be gentle with your words - you can't take them back.