Gentleness Quotes...

"The best and simplest cosmetic for women is constant gentleness and sympathy for the noblest interests of her fellow-creatures. This preserves and gives to her features an indelibly gay, fresh, and agreeable expression. If women would but realize that harshness makes them ugly, it would prove the best means of conversion." - Berthold Auerbach

"Canopied with gentleness, thou shalt bless where others curse ; love where others hate ; forgive where others condemn ; yield where others strive ; give up where others grasp ; lose where others gain. And in their strength they shall be weak ; and in thy weakness thou shalt be strong ; yea, thou shalt mightily prevail." - James Allen

"Use a sweet tongue, courtesy, and tenderness, and thou mayst manage to guide an elephant with a hair." - Shaykh Muslih al-Din Sa’di Shirazi

"Mildness is far more successful in all its enterprises than violence; indeed, violence generally frustrates its own purpose, while mildness scarcely ever fails." - John Locke

"Better make penitents by kindheartedness than hypocrites by severity." - Saint Francis de Sales

"No one can fully estimate how great a factor in life is the possession of good manners, or timely thought-fulness with human sympathy behind it. They are the kindly fruit of a refined nature, and are the open sesame to the best of society. Manners are what vex or soothe, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us by a constant, steady, uniform, invincible operation like that of the air we breathe. Even power itself has not half the might of gentleness, that subtle oil which lubricates our relations with each other, and enables the machinery of society to perform its functions without friction." - Orison S. Marden

"The swallow is not ensnared by men because of its gentle nature." - Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso), Ars Amatoria

"Gentleness in the gait is what simplicity is in the dress. Violent gestures or quick movements inspire involuntary disrespect." - Honore de Balzac

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