Graciousness Quotes

The nonchalance irritated her more because it was not assumed.

The weak mind is irritated at a little: the strong mind bears it like a rock which moveth not, though a thousand breakers dash upon it, and cast their pitiful malice in spray upon its summit.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

A love for his child was so profound, it spilled over to all humanity.

John Howard Griffin

We are not to look to what men in themselves deserve but to attend to the image of God which exists in all and to which we owe all honor and love.

John Calvin

I'm annoyed by those who love mankind but are discourteous to people.

John Howard Griffin

No low-trust society will ever produce sustained innovation.

Thomas L. Friedman

The Internet has given us the illusion of intimacy. We read someone's books, articles, sermons, or watch their videos online, and we feel we know them, so why not share what we think is wrong? But that illusion of intimacy is just that – an illusion. It distracts us from the important principle of reaching out to them personally first, and making the sometimes difficult effort of keeping it private and saving the relationship.

Phil Cooke

After American titan and presidential father Joseph P. Kennedy suffered a stroke that impacted one side of his body, guests pretended not to notice the impact. Jackie Kennedy, however, held the impacted hand and kissed the affected side of his face, facing his disability and giving him the courage to do so.

Sally Bedell Smith

Civilization depends on, and civility often requires, the willingness to say, "What you are doing is none of my business" and "What I am doing is none of your business.

George F. Will

Christ's vast benevolence must, from the very nature of things, have afforded Him the deepest possible delight, for benevolence is joy.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

He loved his family, his friends, his writing, his painting; he knew their flaws, but they neither surprised nor embittered him.

Philip Zaleski

The author perceptively outlines what might be an underrated aspect of his subject and of many others whose public achievements are of note – a "gift for friendship". McCullough says Adams, despite his towering intellect and curmudgeonly demeanor, had a soft heart for other people and a genuine interest in their particulars.

David McCullough

She was never satisfied with anything less than perfection, but she was no grind. She was too interested in people.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

Manners matter, asserts the professor. What provokes rebellion, he asserts, is not as often a theory out allowing for arbitrary power but be excessive, brusque use of it by a particular individual.

Robert J. Allison

each year, she finds her friendships less volatile and easier, because she increasingly succeeds at looking past their flaws and disappointments and homing in on their pleasures and on what set them in motion to begin with. And she wonders why she didn’t do that sooner, why she gave in to so much fury and sorrow when she could have just let those emotions go.

Frank Bruno

If our counseling is truly Christ-centered, then the topic of forgiveness will inevitably come up in the journey toward growth and change.

James MacDonald

We are to be generous not just in the results of our work, but also IN our work.

Matt Perman

My prophetic task would be twofold: to stand up to him, and to stand by him. To awaken his conscience, and to salve the pain this would cause him.

Erik Larson

People HAVE used me. But it don't matter I don't let it change me. – Mohammed Ali

Davis Miller

Humility is the earmark of God's genuine servant.

Beth Moore

Graciousness in serving and being served marks the lives of leaders who have made the largest impact on my life.

Sue Mallory

Blessed is the man who has the gift of making friends; for it is one of God's best gifts. It involves many things, but above all, the power of going out of oneself, and seeing and appreciating whatever is noble and living in another man.

Thomas Hughes

We need to care about beauty and not just the utility of our products because people are not only rational but also emotional. We need to treat people as whole people. This means caring about purity and the emotional side of human nature, not just utility.

Matt Perman

Too many people are too angry about language too much of the time. This time could be better spent listening, learning, and enjoying the vast variety of human language around them.

Robert Lane Greene

We are enjoined whenever we behold the gifts of God in others so to reverence and respect the gifts as also to honor those in whom they reside.

John Calvin

The author perceives nuances of Abigail Adams' character in the occasional errors she makes in readily quoting John Milton. Rather than giving the observer a reason to quibble, they are evidence that she had absorbed Milton's works enough to feel comfortable quoting them from memory.

David McCullough

He did something he rarely did. He decided not to see things from the other guy's point of view.

H.W. Brands

We need to forgive the adolescent versions of ourselves, if only because we need the practice to forgive those who are maturing awkwardly in our lives.

Madam Secretary

When strangers meet, great allowances should be made for differences in custom and training.

Frank Herbert

He showed me the lowest. I had to surmise the highest.

John Howard Griffin

He may have confused honor with with with ruthlessness.

T.J. Stiles

We have less reason to be surprised or offended when we find others differ from us in opinions because we very often differ from ourselves.

Samuel Johnson

Soft power is quiet persistence.

Susan Cain

If he could be hard on kings and cabinets, he was invariably kind to his colleagues.

John Taliaferro

We see a first generation going through adolescence knowing their every misstep, all the awkward gestures of their youth, are being frozen in a computer's memory.

Sherry Turkle

The truth must dazzle gradually or every man be blind. Emily Dickinson

Eugene H. Peterson

Be civilized. Grudges are for Neanderthals. – Hubert Humphrey

David Pietrusza

The wings of the dove are as soft as they are swift. Gentleness is a sure result of the Sacred Dove's transforming power: hearts touched by His benign influence are meek and lowly henceforth and for ever.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

If you think the most courageous and difficult thing you can do is stubbornly stand your ground, try graciously giving in.

Richelle E. Goodrich

As a dinner guest I gratefully eat just about anything that's set before me, because graciousness among friends is dearer to me than any other agenda.

Barbara Kingsolver

Looking back on his adolescence from the vantage point of his mid-eighties, George H.W. Bush candidly admitted, "I might have been obsessed with bodies – boobs they are now called. But what seventeen-year-old kid was not? Guilty am I.

H.W. Brands

The trout fisher, like the landscape painter, haunts the loveliest places of the earth, and haunts them alone. Solitude and his own thoughts—he must be on the best terms with all of these; and he who can take kindly the largest allowance of these is likely to be the kindliest and truest with his fellow men.

Thomas Hughes

A man who called everyone a damn fool is like a man who damns the weather. He only shows that he is not adapted to his environment, not that the environment is wrong.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

In America religion is the road to knowledge, and the observance of the divine laws leads man to civil freedom.

Alexis de Tocqueville

We are not judges for ourselves until circumstances call us to act.

Abigail Adams

The life I've livedWhat more can one ask forApart from a grand exitSlit of the wristTotal bliss

Nomzamo Nhlumayo

He is as full of valor as of kindness. Princely in both.

William Shakespeare

She grew more and more vexed with his dignified behavior. By a cruel irony, she was drawing out what was best in his disposition.

E.M. Forster

Characters carrying the playwright's disapproval is a un-Shakespearian burden.

Harold Bloom

Gary Patton

Whenever relationships can't be restored, it's because someone is not willing to move forward in the promises of God.

Matt Chandler

Almost alone among successful politicians, he took slights personally.

Rick Perlstein

He was a product of a culture where it was generally counterproductive to hold grudges.

H.W. Brands

Dinner is a cacophonous exercise of holy sanctification.

Jen Pollock Michel

BLESSINGS ARE IMMEASURABLEYou canLose a childOr a parent,The love of your life,A good job,A game,A deal,A bet,An idea,Your favorite thing,Money,Your best friend,A moment,An opportunity,A chance,Your keys,Your mind,Your health,Your identity,Your virginity,Your religion,Your shirt,Your license,ID or Passport,Phone or phone number,Hope,Faith,Luck,Your pride,Or your house,And feel likeYou've lost everything,And keep on losing.StopCounting lossesAnd start counting your blessings.Only then,Will you discover that lossesAre easier to point outAnd countThan blessings,And that blessingsOutnumber your lossesFor they are trulyImmeasurable.It is only normal thatPeople count losses withTheir minds,And ignoreTo count blessingsWith the graciousnessOf their hearts.

Suzy Kassem

Blessings Are Immeasurable"You can lose A child Or a parent,The love of your life,A good job,A game,A deal,A bet,An idea,Your favorite thing,Money,Your best friend,A moment,An opportunity,A chance,Your keys,Your mind,Your health,Your identity,Your virginity,Your religion,Your shirt,Your license,ID or Passport, Phone or phone number,Hope,Faith,Luck,Your pride,Or your house,And feel like You've lost everything,And keep on losing. Stop Counting your losses,And start counting your Blessings. Only then will you discover That losses are always easier to point out and count Than blessings. And that your blessings will always outnumber Your losses, For they are truly Immeasurable.It is only normal thatPeople count losses with Their minds,And ignoreTo count blessingsWith the graciousnessOf their hearts.

Suzy Kassem

It is the most miserable thing to feel ashamed at home.

Charles Dickens

She was an experimental child but compassionate with it.

Joe Cawley

Time was when much of lawyering consisted (according to turn-of-the-century lawyer and statesman Elihu Root) in "telling would-be clients that they are damned fool's, and should stop.

George F. Will

He was a generous but subtly demanding boss.

H.W. Brands

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