Sanftmut / Gentleness Zitate auf Englisch

Zitat des Tages über Sanftmut / Gentleness:

There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness. Han Suyin

Gentleness corrects whatever is offensive in our manner.

Hugh Blair

Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.

Mahatma Gandhi

The Saviour reigned in all their hearts, and they successfully copied the pattern of meekness and gentleness, which he had left them.

John Strachan

Let your enemies be disarmed by the gentleness of your manner, but at the same time let them feel, the steadiness of your resentment.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

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

But wealth is a great means of refinement; and it is a security for gentleness, since it removes disturbing anxieties.

Donald G. Mitchell

In mine opinion, love is fitter than fear, gentleness better than beating, to bring up a child rightly in learning.

Roger Ascham

Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength.

Saint Francis de Sales

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

Severity is allowable where gentleness has no effect.

Pierre Corneille

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

There is a gentleness in Michigan that you just can't replicate.

Jennifer Granholm

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

Leo Rosten

Gentleness is the antidote for cruelty.

Phaedrus

If you're an advocate of gentleness, you're simplistic and naive. If you're an advocate of despair and hate, you're sophisticated.

Leo Buscaglia

When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.

Saint Francis de Sales

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

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

Leo Buscaglia

Force is legitimate where gentleness avails not.

Pierre Corneille

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

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.

Meredith Monk

Gentleness doesn't get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs.

Coco Chanel

There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness.

Han Suyin

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?

Saint Bernard

Try to exercise gentleness, kindness and humour, and you cannot go far wrong.

Sophie Winkleman