Harshness Quotes

Harshness Quote of the day

Leadership means firmness, not harshness or bullying; understanding, not weakness; justice, not irresponsible freedom; humaneness, not intolerance; generosity, not selfishness; pride, not egotism.

Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds.

To friends and eke to foes true kindness show; No kindly heart unkindly deeds will do; Harshness will alienate a bosom friend. And kindness reconcile a deadly foe.

Arrogance is a mixture of impertinence, disobedience, indiscipline, rudeness, harshness, and a self-assertive nature.

Harshness to me is giving somebody false hopes and not following through. That's harsh. Telling some guy or some girl who've got zero talent that they have zero talent actually is a kindness.

How many women are there ... who because of their husbands' harshness spend their weary lives in the bond of marriage in greater suffering than if they were slaves among the Saracens?

It is impossible to treat a child too well. Children are spoiled by being ignored too much or by harshness, not by kindness.

Nietzsche was personally more philosophical than his philosophy. His talk about power, harshness, and superb immorality was the hobby of a harmless young scholar and constitutional invalid.

Quelque rigueur qui loge en votre coeur, Amour s'en peut un jour rendre vainqueur. That little harshness which resides in your heart, Love will vanquish someday.

Love is a feeling that comes into our hearts of our own choice for neither force nor harshness can limit the heart's freedom.

His very chains helped to deceive him about the harshness of his service.

The painful thing is that when we buy into disapproval,we are practicing disapproval. When we buy into harshness,we are practicing harshness.

Women are delicate creatures. Fragile. Gentle. Made by God to be sheltered from the harshness of this world.. Morgan MacDonnell

I am a woman, and even if I could proceed with harshness and rigidity, it would disgust me nonetheless.

It is pride which fills the world with so much harshness and severity. We are rigorous to offenses as if we had never offended.

The harshness and choice of words can cut deeply. Republicans need to show compassion and to be reasonable when talking to any ethnic group.

Without peace there can be no prosperity for any people, rich or poor. And yet, there can be no peace without erasing the harshness of the growing contrast between the rich and the poor.

Harshness is conquered by gentleness, hatred by love, lethargy by zeal and darkness by light.

Americans, it seems to me, tend to protect their children from the harshness of life, in their interest. That's not the way my people rear their children. They let them experience the world as it is.

The modern clercs have created in so-called cultivated society a positive romanticism of harshness. The have also created a romanticism of contempt.

Intolerance, discourtesy and harshness..... are taboo in all good society and are surely contrary to the spirit of democracy.

She could not ignore life. She had to live it and it was too brutal, too hostile, for her even to try to gloss over its harshness with a smile

Harshness is for the good of a boy, soft-heartedness will ruin him.

He that by harshness of nature rules his family with an iron hand is as truly a tyrant as he who misgoverns a nation.

I think Oprah's [winfrey] learned from me that it's OK to be harsh on people because in one's harshness you can see transformation happen right before your very eyes.

During your struggle society is not a bunch of flowers, it is a bunch of cactus.

If by years of patient suffering, God can manage to take the harshness out of my voice, then the time has been well-spent.

...when you're hard and unyielding your words score me with lines - I hate lines - I want curves - curves are happy like a snowman ...

the bleakest situations bring out the hospitality in all of us, but it's during the harshest we find out how strong we really are.

Speaking a painful truth should be done only in love - like wielding a sword with no hilt - it should pain oneself in direct proportion to the amount of force exerted.