Kindness & Gentleness Quotes

I will say that as I get older and calmer and quieter in my own self, the one quality in a woman that I find more and more attractive is kindness. A sense of adventure and humor is important too, but I truly find kindness and consideration for others to be the most attractive thing in anyone.

What Mr Rogers was offering to children were lessons we all need in our world right now: patience, kindness, acceptance and true self-reflection.

Kindness has converted more sinners than zeal, eloquence, or learning.

I may be kindly, I am ordinarily gentle, but in my line of business I am obliged to will terribly what I will at all.

When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.

Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.

The loving parts of your personality have no trouble loving. That is all they do. You experience the loving parts of as gratitude, appreciation, caring, patience, contentment and awe of life.

Kittens are wide-eyed, soft and sweet. With needles in their jaws and feet.

Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.

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.

Transparency, honesty, kindness, good stewardship, even humor, work in businesses at all times.

We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.

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.

It takes strength to be kind; it's not a weakness.

The cool kindliness of sheets, that soon smooth away trouble; and the rough male kiss of blankets.

When our neighbor's personality possesses harsh qualities, we show our love by not voluntarily provoking those qualities in any way. Past experience shows us what upsets a person, so in their presence we are careful not to do or say those things that cause anger. We are self-effacing.

Kindness is the essence of greatness and the fundamental characteristic of the noblest men and women I have known.

Manners are love in a cool climate.

Let us be kind to one another and be slow to anger.

Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.

It requires more strength to be gentle, so it's the everyday encounters of life that I think we've prepared children for and prepared them to be good to other people and to consider other people.

An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.

There is no substitute for kindness in the home. This lesson I learned from my father. He always listened to my mother's advice. As a result, he was a better, wiser, and kinder man.

Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.

I have witnessed the softening of the hardest of hearts by a simple smile.

Be kind, don't judge, and have respect for others. If we can all do this, the world would be a better place. The point is to teach this to the next generation.

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

The practice of patience toward one another, the overlooking of one another's defects, and the bearing of one another's burdens is the most elementary condition of all human and social activity in the family, in the professions, and in society.

Humility is attentive patience.

Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.

Kindness is really important to me in finding my own prince - so are patience and a sense of humor. Without those qualities he's no Prince Charming!

A gentle heart is tied with an easy thread.

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

The words of kindness are more healing to a drooping heart than balm or honey.

A warm smile is the universal language of kindness.

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

There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.

Only the gentle are ever really strong.

Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.

We win by tenderness. We conquer by forgiveness.

Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.

We must seek the loving-kindness of God in all the breadth and open-air of common life.

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

Kindness is wisdom.

A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles.

Remind yourself that the greatest technique for bringing peace into your life is to always choose being kind when you have a choice between being right or being kind.

The exercise of benevolence is joy to loving hearts: the more pain it costs, the more joy it is. Kind actions make us happy, and in such joy we find communion with the great heart of Jesus.

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience.

The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.

There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance.

There's nothing so kingly as kindness, and nothing so royal as truth.

Kindness and intelligence don't always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.

Kindness goes a long ways lots of times when it ought to stay at home.

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

Goodness is about character - integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like. More than anything else, it is about how we treat other people.

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.

A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

Traits like humility, courage, and empathy are easily overlooked - but it's immensely important to find them in your closest relationships.

If you have the chance to be exposed to a loving, understanding environment where the seed of compassion, loving kindness, can be watered every day, then you become a more loving person.

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