Graciousness Quotes

Graciousness Quote of the day

To bear defeat with dignity, to accept criticism with poise, to receive honors with humility - these are marks of maturity and graciousness.

Deliberate with caution, but act with decision and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.

Art itself is female - it is full of graciousness, cadence, color, rhythm. It's full of love and grace.

Graciousness is the fruit of someone who knows how badly they themselves need grace.

One must place one's principles in big things. For the small, graciousness will suffice.

Custom is a mutable thing; yet we readily recognize the permanence of certain social values. Graciousness and courtesy are never old-fashioned.

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.

I've been fortunate to live a very full professional life. Most of it has happened through God's graciousness and not from something I've imagined.

Cynicism is intelectual dandyism, but graciousness in speech is an aphrodisiac. (Andy Spade)

God's graciousness is not totally removed from any individual during this lifetime. In hell, it is.

The lessons near and far have taught us that our truth is Kuwait, and our involvement with this fact is what created for us, with God's graciousness, our victory set.

In many cases, change is not a function of life's cruelty but instead a function of God's graciousness.

My wife has been my greatest earthly inspiration. She excels in eloquence, the poetry of words, empathy and graciousness.

Our girls have need of such an example of graciousness, elegance, refinement, and spirituality.

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

There is graciousness and a kind of urbanity in beginning with men by esteem and confidence. It proves, at least, that we have long lived in good company with others and with our selves.

[Sandra Day O'Connor] is a justice whose graciousness and sense of duty fuels her continued service, even agreeing to serve more than six months after her retirement date.

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.

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

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

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.

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

Humility is the earmark of God's genuine servant.

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

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.

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

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

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.

No low-trust society will ever produce sustained innovation.

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

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

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.

The nonchalance irritated her more because it was not assumed.

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.

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

He was a generous but subtly demanding boss.

A rose does not answer its enemies with words, but with beauty.

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.

She was an experimental child but compassionate with it.

Dinner is a cacophonous exercise of holy sanctification.

The two grappled in the quiet of old-fashioned personal diplomacy.

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

Almost alone among successful politicians, he took slights personally.

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

K-I-N-G Jesus is busy in every moment! (Kind hearted -Integrous - Noble - Gracious)" ~ © gfp '42™

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

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

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

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

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