#gentleness

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

— Leo Buscaglia

#cruel #expected #gentleness #only #strong

Force is legitimate where gentleness avails not. ↗

— Pierre Corneille

#force #gentleness #legitimate #where

Severity is allowable where gentleness has no effect. ↗

— Pierre Corneille

#effect #gentleness #severity #where

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

— Jennifer Granholm

#just #michigan #replicate #you

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

— Coco Chanel

#eggs #gentleness #get #happen #hen

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

— Lord Chesterfield

#feel #gentleness #manner #resentment #same

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

#comes #father #gentleness #how #i

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

#generosity #gentleness #possession #race #religion

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

#behave #courtesy #find #gentleness #heart

Gentleness is the antidote for cruelty. ↗

— Phaedrus

#cruelty #gentleness