Graciousness Quotes

Soft power is quiet persistence.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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 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.

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

No low-trust society will ever produce sustained innovation.

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